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Author: ChrisDenton

posts/2024-02-15-Windows-7.md

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-title: "New Windows 7 targets and tier 1 deprecation"
+title: "Updated baseline standards for Windows targets"
 author: Chris Denton
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 The minimum requirements for Tier 1 toolchains targeting Windows will increase with the 1.77 release (scheduled for March 21, 2024).
-Windows 10 will now be the minimum supported version.
+Windows 10 will now be the minimum supported Rust version for the `*-pc-windows-*` targets.
 These requirements apply both to the Rust toolchain itself and to binaries produced by Rust.
 
 Two new targets have been added with Windows 7 as their baseline: `x86_64-win7-windows-msvc` and `i686-win7-windows-msvc`.
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 ## Why are the requirements being changed?
 
-Prior to now, Rust claimed tier 1 support for Windows 7 and 8 but they did not meet the requirements.
-In particular they lacked automatic testing and are no longer supported by their vendor.
-With other software also dropping Windows 7 support, including developer tools such as git, it's becoming increasingly untenable to claim Rust offers first class support.
+Prior to now, Rust had Tier 1 support for Windows 7 and Windows 8 but these targets no longer meet our requirements.
+In particular, these targets could no longer be tested in CI and not supported by their vendor.