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Cygwin 1.7 Released

Posted by timothy on from the christmas-present dept.

jensend writes "The 1.7 branch of Cygwin, the Unix-like environment for Windows, has reached stable status after about 3 1/2 years of effort. Among many other changes, this release drops support for Windows 9x. Since the NT API and NT-based versions of Windows are more capable and somewhat less of a mismatch with POSIX (for instance, they include a security model), this has allowed for code path simplifications, better performance (particularly noticeable with pipe I/O), better security, and better POSIX compatibility."

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  1. Re:Do we finally have unicode support? by dj_tla · · Score: 0, Redundant

    From the 1.7 release announcement:

    - Default character set is now UTF-8, but other character sets are supported via an improved internationalization support.

    Full of what's new / changed.