All,
I'm currently looking at adding the Windows specific binary
distributions to Maven Central as a result of PR #609 [1].
That got me thinking whether Windows 32-bit was still supported.
Some quick research found that:
- The only currently supported 32-bit version of Windows is Windows 10
which reaches EOL on 2025-10-14
- OpenJDK only provides 64-bit Windows releases for Java 20
- Oracle only provides 64-bit Windows releases for Java 9 onwards
- The Java 21 EA releases only include 64-bit builds for Windows
- The latest Temurin release for 32-bit Windows is Java 19
- The latest Azul release for 32-bit Windows is Java 17
Given the above, I think we can safely:
- plan to stop providing 32-bit Windows builds after 2025-10-14
- remove 32-bit Windows builds from Tomcat 11
Given that the only remaining supported 32-bit Windows operating system
is a consumer one (the last Windows server OS to support 32-bit was
Sever 2008) do we want to drop 32-bit support from any other products
and/or versions? I'm thinking about Tomcat Native, Connectors (mod_jk &
ISAPI redirector), and the earlier Tomcat versions.
Personally, I'm leaning towards not making any further changes until
after 2025-10-14 but what does everyone else think?
Thoughts?
Mark
[1] https://github.com/apache/tomcat/pull/609
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