On Thu, Jun 15, 2023 at 11:31 AM Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org> wrote: > > 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?
+1, end of 2025 sounds very generous for 32 bit. Rémy > Mark > > > [1] https://github.com/apache/tomcat/pull/609 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@tomcat.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@tomcat.apache.org
