Cygwin Time Machine Cygwin Time Machine Information Cygwin Time Machine Please Help! Go HERE to see if you might be able to help out the project! NOTE: Please remember to use the '-X' option when running setup!! (See update 08/05/2008 for details). Also note that you must run Setup from a command line in order to specify this option. UPDATE: 02/01/2024: cygwin 3.5.0-1 release I'm happy to announce update of the first Cygwin 3.5 release ========================================================================== IMPORTANT DEPRECATION NOTES ========================================================================== - Cygwin 3.4.10 was the LAST major version supporting - Windows 7 / 8 - Windows Server 2008 R2 / 2012 - Cygwin 3.5.0 runs on - Windows 8.1 / 10 / 11 - Windows Server 2012 R2 / 2016 / 2019 / 2022 - and (hopefully) all upcoming releases of Windows. ========================================================================== See here: https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin-announce/2024-February/011524.htmll UPDATE: 01/17/2024: Upcoming desupport notice concerning Cygwin. We're planning to release Cygwin 3.5 end of this month (Jan 2024) if nothing serious crops up. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- One major change in this release is dropping Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Server 2008 R2, and Windows Server 2012 from the list of supported operating systems. For those of you still running one of these old systems (despite them all being unsupported and unpatched by the vendor), we will keep the last 3.4 release (3.4.10) available for quite some time. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- The minimum supported OS version when running Cygwin 3.5 will be Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2. See here: https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin-announce/2024-January/011483.htmll UPDATE: 12/04/2022: Upcoming desupport notice concerning Cygwin. - Cygwin 3.4 is the FIRST major version dropping support for - 32 bit Windows including WOW64 on 64 bit Windows. - Windows Vista - Windows Server 2008 - Cygwin 3.4 is the LAST major version supporting - Windows 7 - Windows Server 2008 R2 - Windows 8 - Windows Server 2012 - Cygwin 3.5, which will probably be release at some point in late 2023, will run on - Windows 8.1 - Windows 10 - Windows 11 - Windows Server 2012 R2 - Windows Server 2016 - Windows Server 2019 - Windows Server 2022 There are no plans to deprecate support for 64 bit systems starting with Windows 8.1 / Windows Server 2012 R2 any time soon. See here: https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin-announce/2022-December/010821.html UPDATE: 11/28/2022: Cygwin HAS drop support for 32-bit Windows! Yes, Cygwin is now 64-bit only! See here: https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2022-November/252542.html Here is the circa URL for the last 32-bit release of Cygwin: http://ctm.crouchingtigerhiddenfruitbat.org/pub/cygwin/circa/2022/11/23/063457 The last 32-bit version of Setup is 2.924. Copies of Setup can be found here: setup-x86-2.924.exe OLD UPDATE: 10/29/2021: Cygwin is dropping support for Windows Vista & Windows Server 2008. See here: https://sourceware.org/pipermail/cygwin-announce/2021-October/010271.html The last major version of Cygwin to support Windows Vista & Windows Server 2008 will be 3.3.X (currently 3.3.1-1). NB: Cygwin is also dropping support for 32-bit Windows after this release. That, like all other versions of Cygwin, can be found here at the Time Machine. Here are the tentative circa URLs (these are not finalized yet): 32-bit: http://ctm.crouchingtigerhiddenfruitbat.org/pub/cygwin/circa/2021/10/28/175116 64-bit: http://ctm.crouchingtigerhiddenfruitbat.org/pub/cygwin/circa/64bit/2021/10/28/174906 These will be updated to eventually be the final circa. The last tentative version of Setup to support Windows Vista & Windows Server 2008 is 2.909. Copies of Setup can be found here: 32-bit: setup-x86-2.909.exe 64-bit: setup-x86_64-2.909.exe OLD UPDATE: 05/04/2020: The site has been restored. Please report any issues to me. OLD UPDATE: 03/20/2020: The site suffered a non-recoverable disk failure (Thanks Amazon Web Services! :-() causing a complete loss of the archive. Fortunately, I have a complete copy, but it will take a few weeks to get it restored. Sorry for the inconvenience! OLD UPDATE: 10/24/2017: Changes to Setup (v2.882) and setup.ini. As of v2.882, Setup supports having multiple "versions" of a given package, and the generation program that creates setup.ini will now be adding multiple [prev] and [test] sections for each package that has multiple versions tagged as such. As a result, older Setup versions may not work with this latest format change. People using the Time Machine will need to be a little bit sensitive to accessing circa after this date. OLD UPDATE: 03/16/2017: The Cygwin Time Machine has moved! It's new home is the crouchingtigerhiddenfruitbat.org domain. Go there for details. In a few weeks the old webserver will automatically re-direct you to the new site. Sadly, I can't do that for the FTP server, so you will have to mentally redirect yourself. :) OLD UPDATE: 10/14/2016: A helpful user alerted me to a problem with the 64-bit circa of The Last Version Of Cygwin That Supports Windows XP. It's since been corrected. If you were trying to pull that circa and getting "bad" or missing packages, please pull the setup.{xz|bz2|ini} files again and try install again. You may need to delete the setup.* files from your local Download directory. Please report any problems you may still encounter there after. OLD UPDATE: Cygwin has dropped support for Windows XP. See here: https://sourceware.org/pipermail/cygwin-announce/2015-August/006392.html The last version of Cygwin that supports Windows XP is 2.5.2-1. That, like all other versions of Cygwin, can be found here at the Time Machine. Here are the circa URLs: 32-bit: http://ctm.crouchingtigerhiddenfruitbat.org/pub/cygwin/circa/2016/08/30/104223 64-bit: http://ctm.crouchingtigerhiddenfruitbat.org/pub/cygwin/circa/64bit/2016/08/30/104235 The last version of Setup to support XP is 2.874. Copies of Setup can be found here: 32-bit: setup-x86-2.874.exe 64-bit: setup-x86_64-2.874.exe UPDATE: There have been some reports of the newer versions of Setup hanging on downloading large files (>23MB) when run on Windows XP. If you encounter such problems, please contact me and I'll supply you with an older Setup that may help alleviate this problem. UPDATE: Cygwin is in it's v2.X lifetime now and the Setup program is now two programs: setup-x86.exe for 32-bit or setup-x86_64.exe for 64-bit. If you find the latest Setup is unable to access the Time Machine, please email me (see Contact below). I have an archive of many of the older versions of Setup that may work for you instead. UPDATE: Cygwin has dropped support for Windows 2000 and Windows XP pre-SP3, as of version 1.7.19. The last version of Cygwin that supports Windows 2000 is 1.7.18. That, like all other versions of Cygwin, can be found here at the Time Machine. Here is the circa URL: 32-bit: http://ctm.crouchingtigerhiddenfruitbat.org/pub/cygwin/circa/2013/06/04/121035 The corresponding version of Setup for this release is 2.774. Copies of Setup can be found here: 32-bit: setup-2.774.exe OLD UPDATE: As of 3/23/2013, the Time Machine is now recording 64bit Cygwin! This is still in it's early dev stages, so be patient. Also, I don't have a reference for setup64.exe yet, so check the Cygwin website for now. OLD UPDATE: As of 1/1/2010, Cygwin 1.7 is now the main branch for Cygwin. You should be using the latest setup program from the Cygwin main website. It can access any of the 1.7 or 1.5 releases (well, at least it should work :-). Cygwin also has a snapshot of the last 1.5 release (see the Cygwin Legacy note below for details if you wish to use the official last 1.5 release from the Cygwin website). You will need to use the special setup-legacy installer for that. Or, you can just use the latest setup and point it to the Time Machine which has the same snapshot available. OLD UPDATE: As of 12/23/2009, Cygwin has taken that giant leap forward with it's next major revision: 1.7! It's now the default release for Cygwin!! The Time Machine contains all of the intermediate test circa snapshots (ie: "release-2") in case you want them. Additionally, there's a "legacy" release of Cygwin (1.5) being maintained (for the time being). The Time Machine also contains the circa snapshots of this as well and will continue to snapshot it. See here for some details. OLD UPDATE: As of 08/05/2008, Cygwin has added a security signature as part of setup.ini (ie: setup.ini.sig). This is to satisfy a security vulnerability (CVE-2008-3323) discovered concerning setup's loading of setup.ini (a Man-in-the-Middle type of attach). You can read here for details. The Time Machine does not currently archive this signature (but may in the future). So, in the mean time, when running setup.exe and downloading from the Time Machine, you will need to specify the '-X' option to disable the lookup of the signature. OLD UPDATE: Cygwin is taking a giant leap forward with it's next major revision: 1.7! But it's still experimental as of yet. So, it's off in it's own special release area (release-2). In honor of this, the Time Machine is now archiving this special release area and providing circa snapshots. See here for some details. OLD UPDATE: As of 4/21/2005, the Time Machine has be reformatted! What does this mean? Previously the circa of Cygwin was created based on the date & time I archived setup.ini. Since all archive revisions of setup.ini were linear and progressive in time and somewhat close to the actual release of that revision of setup.ini, this mostly worked. However, since I've been receiving older versions of setup.ini (Thank You to all who have contributed!) I no longer have a correlation between the timestamp within setup.ini and the date & time I archived it. So, something had to be done. I've changed the creation process so that now all circa are based on the actual setup-timestamp within each revision if setup.ini. What does that mean? Well, for starters, it gives it a direct correlation between the timestamp and the circa directory hierarchy. That's a good thing. However, since this nolonger has relation to the previously generated circas, the master index and all circa indexes are now different. That's a not-so-good thing. What's that mean? Well, if you previously found a timestamp in the master index and used the provided web link to get that circa of cygwin, well, the web link has now changed. However, in the interests of providing a consistent service, I've left, intact, the previous circa directory hierarchy for those who have already used the Time Machine. !!AHEM!! "Dead Simple Instructions" It's fairly simple to use the Time Machine. The Time Machine hyperlink (shown in the following instructions) is a series of Cygwin snapshots from many points in the past displayed in a table format. If you click on the Circa hyperlink, you'll see a list of the packages as they existed at that point in time. You will be able to search for your package using this Circa hyperlink (see the following numbered instructions). If you have a partial package installation already and find you need other packages from that time period. Check the setup.ini that should be stored with the packages in your local download area. Near the top should be a 'setup-timestamp' entry. Find that number in the Time Machine table. Use the FTP hyperlink and you'll be able to grab the rest of the packages from that same snapshot. If you don't find your timestamp in the list. Don't Panic! It's very possible that I do have the packages that make it up. Since each setup.ini is a snapshot in time, it's very possible that the Time Machine has collected all the packages before, during, and after that time frame, just not that specific setup.ini time stamp. Thus, all you need to…