Hi Cygwin friends and users,
after an exceptionally long time of development and testing we're proud to release Cygwin's next major version 1.7.1. This release is a big leap from the former Cygwin releases in a couple of ways. For the full list we urge you to read the new User's Guide, which you can now find in the usual place: http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ There's a "What's new" section at http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ov-new1.7.html The most important changes are: - The mount table is no longer stored in the registry. Rather, it's stored in /etc/fstab and /etc/fstab/$USER. See http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#mount-table - Support for pathnames beyond the former 260 chars border. PATH_MAX is now set to 4096, but Cygwin will try to support even longer paths up to the Windows maxium of 32767 Unicode chars, - Multiple Cygwin installations can co-exist on a machine, as long as you keep them separate. - Support for IPv6. - Default character set is now UTF-8, but other character sets are supported via an improved internationalization support. See http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/setup-locale.html - Support for new authentication methods which are supposed to improve changing the user context without password. - No more support for Windows 95, Windows 98 and Windows Me. ====================================================================== IMPORTANT NOTES for those who upgrade from an existing Cygwin 1.5.25 installation: You *must* upgrade to the latest setup.exe from our main web page at http://cygwin.com/ Moving the mount table from the registry to /etc/fstab works only automatically for system mount points. User mount points have to be taken care of manually, using the /usr/bin/copy-user-registry-fstab script. See http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#mount-table ====================================================================== Have fun, Corinna *** CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO *** If you want to unsubscribe from the cygwin-announce mailing list, look at the "List-Unsubscribe: " tag in the email header of this message. Send email to the address specified there. It will be in the format: cygwin-announce-unsubscribe-you=3d3dyourdomain....@cygwin.com If you need more information on unsubscribing, start reading here: http://cygwin.com/lists.html#unsubscribe-simple Please read *all* of the information on unsubscribing that is available starting at this URL. -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
