2.5.0

• Upgrade to busybox-w32 FRP-5857
  • Now behaves properly under Windows opt-in CFG policy
• New tools: widl and uuidgen
• peports: new -m flag to print the machine type (#271)

Included software: GCC 15.2.0, busybox-w32 FRP-5857, GDB 16.2, Mingw-w64 13.0.0, GNU Make 4.4.1, Vim 9.0, Universal Ctags 6.0.0, Binutils 2.45, and minor dependencies

• Releases are self-extracting 7-zip archives, extractable with any 7z-capable utility, including 7zr.exe in scripts
• The "x86" release is Windows XP compatible, but requires at least a Pentium 4 processor (SSE2)

2.4.0

• Update to GCC 15.2.0
• Update to Binutils 2.45
• w64devkit.ini: new path style option (#235)
• Mingw-w64 (patch): C23 support in stddef.h (1d0ed34)
• Vim (patch): scalable font in default configuration (ff695fc)
• GNU Make (patch): fix for shell paths with spaces (b49df4c)
• Minor UI fixes for peports (#263) and xxd (5473972)

Included software: GCC 15.2.0, busybox-w32 FRP-5579, GDB 16.2, Mingw-w64 13.0.0, GNU Make 4.4.1, Vim 9.0, Universal Ctags 6.0.0, Binutils 2.45, and minor dependencies

• Releases are self-extracting 7-zip archives, extractable with any 7z-capable utility, including 7zr.exe in scripts
• The "x86" release is Windows XP compatible, but requires at least a Pentium 4 processor (SSE2)

2.3.0

• Upgrade to Mingw-w64 13.0.0
• Fix relocatable toolchain patch affecting 2.2.0 (#212)

Included software: GCC 15.1.0, busybox-w32 FRP-5579, GDB 16.2, Mingw-w64 13.0.0, GNU Make 4.4.1, Vim 9.0, Universal Ctags 6.0.0, Binutils 2.44, and minor dependencies

• Releases are self-extracting 7-zip archives, extractable with any 7z-capable utility, including 7zr.exe in scripts
• The "x86" release is Windows XP compatible, but requires at least a Pentium 4 processor (SSE2)

2.2.0

• Upgrade: GCC 15.1
• Upgrade: Binutils 2.44
• Upgrade: busybox-w32 FRP-5579
• Upgrade: GDB 16.2
• Upgrade: u-config 0.34.0
• Default to a quiet, trapping std::terminate (#215)
  • Uncaught C++ exceptions now trap in GDB
• Directory hierarchy flattened, architecture subdir removed
• Restore C++ <stacktrace> support (#200)
• Vim xxd replaced with rexxd
• GCC patched to fix misaligned SIMD spills (AVX, AVX2, etc.)

Included software: GCC 15.1.0, busybox-w32 FRP-5579, GDB 16.2, Mingw-w64 12.0.0, GNU Make 4.4.1, Vim 9.0, Universal Ctags 6.0.0, Binutils 2.44, and minor dependencies

• Releases are self-extracting 7-zip archives, extractable with any 7z-capable utility, including 7zr.exe in scripts
• The "x86" release is Windows XP compatible, but requires at least a Pentium 4 processor (SSE2)

2.1.0

• Upgrade: busybox-w32 FRP-5467
• Upgrade: Binutils 2.43
• Upgrade: GDB 15.2
• Upgrade: u-config 0.33.2
• busybox-w32 (x64): Enable UTF-8 handling (3cacd96)
• as: -mbig-obj by default (c9c9c07)
• GCC (x86): __stdcall function prologue 16-byte aligns the stack (6a54545)
• ld: more precise --export-all-symbols (9969888, partially upstreamed)
• xxd: backport -n NAME option for -i (e1d3826)

Included software: GCC 14.2.0, busybox-w32 FRP-5467, GDB 15.2, Mingw-w64 12.0.0, GNU Make 4.4.1, Vim 9.0, Universal Ctags 6.0.0, Binutils 2.43

• Releases are self-extracting 7-zip archives, extractable with any 7z-capable utility, including 7zr.exe in scripts
• The "x86" release is Windows XP compatible, but requires at least a Pentium 4 processor (SSE2)

2.0.0

• New distribution format: self-extracting 7-zip archive
• Fortran compiler (gfortran) now enabled in all builds
  • Only two release builds going forward: 64-bit (x64) and 32-bit (x86)
• Greatly improved support for native GNU Autoconf builds (#50)
  • Builds that support Mingw-w64 should mostly work "out of the box"
• New command: peports
• PE import ordinal hints now zero by default
• Fix hangs in command aliases [b772569] (#140)
• Update to GCC 14.2
• Upgrade to Mingw-w64 12.0.0
• Upgrade to busybox-w32 FRP-5398
• Upgrade to GDB 15.1
• Removed NASM and Cppcheck

Included software: GCC 14.2.0, busybox-w32 FRP-5398, GDB 15.1, Mingw-w64 12.0.0, GNU Make 4.4.1, Vim 9.0, Universal Ctags 6.0.0, Binutils 2.42

• Releases are self-extracting 7-zip archives that can also be extracted using any 7-zip-capable utility
• The "x86" release is Windows XP compatible, but requires at least a Pentium 4 processor (SSE2)

1.23.0

• Upgrade to GCC 14.1
• Upgrade to GDB 14.2
• Upgrade to Binutils 2.42
• Upgrade to u-config 0.33.1

Included software: GCC 14.1.0, busybox-w32 FRP-5301, GDB 14.2, Mingw-w64 11.0.1, GNU Make 4.4.1, Vim 9.0, Universal Ctags 6.0.0, NASM 2.15.05, binutils 2.42, Cppcheck 2.10.

• -fortran: includes Fortran (gfortran)
• -i686: pure 32-bit, Windows XP compatible, min. req. Pentium 4

1.22.0

• New title configuration in w64devkit.ini [#115, 5e2021c]
• New command: vc++filt
• New runtime library: -lmemory (memset, memcpy, memmove, memcmp, strlen) [a5bc6c8]
• New runtime library: -lchkstk [43bf1e5]
• Binutils gprof command restored [#109]
• LTO disabled in the toolchain
• Upgrade to Binutils 2.41
• Upgrade to GNU Make 4.4.1
• Upgrade to busybox-w32 FRP-5301
• Upgrade to u-config 0.33.0

Included software: GCC 13.2.0, busybox-w32 FRP-5301, GDB 13.1, Mingw-w64 11.0.1, GNU Make 4.4.1, Vim 9.0, Universal Ctags 6.0.0, NASM 2.15.05, binutils 2.41, Cppcheck 2.10.

• -fortran: includes Fortran (gfortran)
• -i686: pure 32-bit, Windows XP compatible, min. req. Pentium 4

1.21.0

• Upgrade to busybox-w32 FRP-5181
  • New shell variable: BB_OVERRIDE_APPLETS
  • Improved diff handling of CRLF
  • Numerous upstream BusyBox fixes
• Patch libstdc++ to fix RTTI issues with -std=c++23 (#86)
• Slight improvements to w64devkit-specific binaries
• New c99 command: cc -std=c99 alias
• Upgrade to Mingw-w64 11.0.1

This release is dedicated to the memory of Bram Moolenaar.

Included software: GCC 13.2.0, busybox-w32 FRP-5181, GDB 13.1, Mingw-w64 11.0.1, GNU Make 4.4, Vim 9.0, Universal Ctags 6.0.0, NASM 2.15.05, binutils 2.40, Cppcheck 2.10.

• -fortran: includes Fortran (gfortran)
• -i686: pure 32-bit, Windows XP compatible, min. req. Pentium 4

1.20.0

• Upgrade to GCC 13.2
• Upgrade to busybox-w32 FRP-5007
  • Improved CTRL+c interrupts, esp. in interactive shells like GDB
  • Improved console/terminal handling, esp. in ConEmu

Included software: GCC 13.2.0, busybox-w32 FRP-5007, GDB 13.1, Mingw-w64 11.0.0, GNU Make 4.4, Vim 9.0, Universal Ctags 6.0.0, NASM 2.15.05, binutils 2.40, Cppcheck 2.10.

Notes about builds:

• -fortran: includes Fortran (gfortran)
• -i686: pure 32-bit, Windows XP compatible, min. req. Pentium 4