The time has finally come. I’ve been busy the past few months so all you get are a few bug fixes in another maintenance release. Also Visual Studio 2026 was released and its toolchain only support Windows 10 and newer. Likewise Cython is planning to soon drop support for Python 3.8 which is the last Python version to support Windows 7. Or to put it simply: Windows 7 is now getting much harder to support. The number of Windows 7 users is also much smaller now and just like the removal of 32 bit x86 builds this streamlines the build process quite a bit.

If anyone decides to produce legacy compiles tell me and I’ll link them but I suspect the market for those are very limited. I think that’s it. The upside is that clang-cl probably can be used to compile the next release and make it a bit faster.