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• Fixed GDB support for debugging across DLL boundaries
• Upgrade to busybox-w32 FRP-4716
  • New jn command for creating Win32 junctions
  • New environment variable $BB_OVERRIDE_APPLETS
  • Improved ls metadata listings
  • Improved which command
  • Use existing $HOME on login shell startup
  • date command now supports nanoseconds (%N)
  • Improved unix-style executable path handling
• Omit the BusyBox link and unlink commands (redundant, conflicts with MSVC toolchain)
• Reduce noise from gendef

Included software:

• GCC 12.1.0
• busybox-w32 FRP-4716
• GDB 10.2
• Mingw-w64 10.0.0
• GNU Make 4.2
• Vim 8.2
• Universal Ctags 20200824
• NASM 2.15.05
• binutils 2.38

Notes about builds:

• -mini: excludes C++
• -fortran: includes Fortran (gfortran)
• -i686: pure 32-bit, Windows XP compatible, min. req. Pentium 4

• Upgrade to GCC 12.1.0

Included software:

• GCC 12.1.0
• busybox-w32 FRP-4621
• GDB 10.2
• Mingw-w64 10.0.0
• GNU Make 4.2
• Vim 8.2
• Universal Ctags 20200824
• NASM 2.15.05
• binutils 2.38

Notes about builds:

• -mini: excludes C++
• -fortran: includes Fortran (gfortran)
• -i686: pure 32-bit, Windows XP compatible, min. req. Pentium 4

• Upgrade to GCC 11.3.0
• Correct the Binutils sysroot path

Included software:

• GCC 11.3.0
• busybox-w32 FRP-4621
• GDB 10.2
• Mingw-w64 10.0.0
• GNU Make 4.2
• Vim 8.2
• Universal Ctags 20200824
• NASM 2.15.05
• binutils 2.38

Notes about builds:

• -mini: excludes C++
• -fortran: includes Fortran (gfortran)
• -i686: pure 32-bit, Windows XP compatible, min. req. Pentium 4

• Upgrade to Mingw-w64 10.0.0
• Upgrade to Binutils 2.38
• Upgrade to busybox-w32 FRP-4621-gf3c5e8bc3
  • Improved handling for shell interrupts
  • Fixed ln regression
  • Improved ANSI escapes
  • Improved ls file permissions
  • Configurable Content-Type in wget
  • New -samefile option in find
  • New -K option in timeout
• Fix Windows XP support (broken in w64evkit 1.11.0)
• GCC no longer checks registry for installation paths
• Removed BusyBox man command (never worked in w64devkit)

Included software:

• GCC 11.2.0
• busybox-w32 FRP-4621
• GDB 10.2
• Mingw-w64 10.0.0
• GNU Make 4.2
• Vim 8.2
• Universal Ctags 20200824
• NASM 2.15.05
• binutils 2.38

Notes about builds:

• -mini: excludes C++
• -fortran: includes Fortran (gfortran)
• -i686: pure 32-bit, Windows XP compatible, min. req. Pentium 4

• Upgrade to Mingw-w64 9.0.0
• Upgrade to busybox-w32 FRP-4487-gd239d2d52
• Job control enabled in the shell
• Improved /dev/null handling
• ANSI escapes fixed in Cygwin and MSYS2 terminals
• Better support for building w64devkit with Podman

Included software:

• GCC 11.2.0
• busybox-w32 FRP-4487
• GDB 10.2
• Mingw-w64 9.0.0
• GNU Make 4.2
• Vim 8.2
• Universal Ctags 20200824
• NASM 2.15.05
• binutils 2.37

Notes about builds:

• -mini: excludes C++
• -fortran: includes Fortran (gfortran)
• -i686: pure 32-bit, Windows XP compatible, min. req. Pentium 4

• Distribution .zip is now a few MB smaller
• Removed activate.bat: replaced by w64devkit.exe
• Removed lto-dump.exe: very large, niche tool not worth its weight
• New environment variables: W64DEVKIT, W64DEVKIT_HOME
• Added arch-prefixed aliases for the toolchain (i.e. x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc)
• Re-introduced Fortran support (src/variant-fortran.patch)
• Added i686 support, including Windows XP (src/variant-i686.patch)
• Expanded README documentation
• Upgraded to GMP 6.2.1
• Faster w64devkit build

Included software:

• GCC 11.2.0
• BusyBox 1.34.0
• GDB 10.2
• Mingw-w64 8.0.2
• GNU Make 4.2
• Vim 8.2
• Universal Ctags 20200824
• NASM 2.15.05
• binutils 2.37

Notes about builds:

• -mini: excludes C++
• -fortran: includes Fortran (gfortran)
• -i686: pure 32-bit, Windows XP compatible, min. req. Pentium 4

• Update to GCC 11.2.0
• Upgrade to Binutils 2.37
• Upgrade to busybox-w32 FRP-4264-gc79f13025
  • New programs: bc, crc32, free, nproc, sync, uptime
  • Add Bash-style process substitution (i.e. <(...)) to the shell
  • Improve shell stability
  • ANSI escape support for printf

Included software:

• GCC 11.2.0
• BusyBox 1.34.0
• GDB 10.2
• Mingw-w64 8.0.2
• GNU Make 4.2
• Vim 8.2
• Universal Ctags 20200824
• NASM 2.15.05
• binutils 2.37

Notes about builds:

• "-mini" does not include C++
• "-fortran" includes a Fortran compiler (gfortran)
• "-i686" is a pure 32-bit build (experimental)

• Include Mingw-w64 gendef tool
• sh: Disable tab-completion on empty input
• Always run gvim in the "background"
• Upgrade GDB to 10.2
• Shrink release .zip by a few MBs

Included software:

• GCC 11.1.0
• BusyBox 1.33.0
• GDB 10.2
• Mingw-w64 8.0.2
• GNU Make 4.2
• Vim 8.2
• Universal Ctags 20200824
• NASM 2.15.05
• binutils 2.36.1

• GCC 11.1.0
• BusyBox 1.33.0
• GDB 10.1
• Mingw-w64 8.0.2
• GNU Make 4.2
• Vim 8.2
• Universal Ctags 20200824
• NASM 2.15.05
• binutils 2.36.1

Changes:

• New console launcher: w64devkit.exe
• Fixes to Markdown mode in Vim 8.2
• Upgrade GCC to 11.1.0
• Upgrade Mingw-w64 to 8.0.2

• GCC 10.2.0
• BusyBox 1.33.0
• GDB 10.1
• Mingw-w64 7.0.0
• GNU Make 4.2
• Vim 8.2
• Universal Ctags 20200824
• NASM 2.15.05
• binutils 2.36.1

Changes:

• All BusyBox commands come pre-"installed" via command aliases
• Alt-based keybindings now work in sh (per BusyBox upgrade)
• ASLR now supported and mandatory (per Binutils 2.36)
• New command alias: c99 => cc -std=c99
• New command alias: mingw32-make => make
• Upgrade Binutils to 2.36.1
• Upgrade NASM to 2.15.05
• Upgrade busybox-w32 to FRP-3812-g12e14ebba

Notes about builds:

• "-mini" does not include C++
• GFortran is incompatible with Binutils 2.36, so no Fortran compiler this release