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NEWS: add entry for CLANG32 removal
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lazka committed Sep 23, 2024
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This page lists important changes or issues affecting MSYS2 users. We also post them to [Twitter](https://twitter.com/msys2org) and [Mastodon](https://fosstodon.org/@msys2org), including some not-so-important things :)

### 2024-09-23 - Starting to drop the CLANG32 environment

9 months ago we started to reduce the number of packages for the 32-bit
environments. Now we are starting to drop the CLANG32 environment. This means
that we will no longer add new packages for this environment and will remove the
existing ones over the next months. If this is affecting you, please let us
know.

While CLANG32 has some unique features in the context of MSYS2, such as being
the only environment to use UCRT for 32-bit and the LLVM toolchain, it has seen
very little use in our download statistics, and we don't think it's worth
supporting any longer.

If you are in need for a 32-bit LLVM toolchain, consider using [LLVM
MinGW](https://github.com/mstorsjo/llvm-mingw) instead.

### 2024-07-28 - MSYS2 support in setuptools v70.0.2

Setuptools v70.0.2 now supports mingw Python and MSYS2 natively. This eliminates
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