• Manual pages for every program in the kit
  • BusyBox man enabled, with a new nroff formatter in place of groff
  • less -R passes colors and text attributes through
• x86 code defaults to 64-bit time_t and SSE2 floating point math
  • C11 threads support both time_t ABIs
  • libstdc++ system_clock no longer overflows in 2038, on x64 too
• New command: zipinfo (tugz)
• Large address aware x86 binutils, GCC, GDB, zstd, and tugz
• zstd decompresses windows up to 2GiB by default on x64
• Smaller NSIS installers, and NSISdl downloads work [#423]
• Changes to busybox-w32 behaviors
  • A bare drive such as C: means that drive's current directory
  • Login shells no longer change to $HOME
• Upgrade to busybox-w32 FRP-6354
  • New command: ping
• Upgrade to tugz 1.3.0
  • gzip and zip ~2x faster
• Upgrade to u-config 0.35.0
• Upgrade to dcmake 1.8.0
  • Newly added light theme
• Upgrade to Quilt.cpp 0.69.4

• New command: zip (Info-ZIP compatible, from tugz)
  • gzip, gunzip, zcat, and unzip replaced with tugz
• New command: make2compdb (JSON Compilation Database) [#392]
• GDB Unicode improvements
  • Correct OutputDebugStringW display (Windows 10 and later)
  • TUI displays UTF-8 text
• Shell history limit raised to 16k entries, default 1k
• Upgrade to GDB 18.1
• Upgrade to Ccache 4.14.1
• Upgrade to CMake 4.4.4
• Upgrade to NSIS 3.13
• Upgrade to Quilt.cpp 0.69.3

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

• The x64 release is now multilib, targeting both x64 and x86 (#412)
  • i686-w64-mingw32 aliases select the 32-bit target
  • makensis can emit 32-bit installers (Target x86-unicode)
  • Under -m32 the default _WIN32_WINNT is Windows XP
• The toolchain no longer needs its bin/ on PATH
• Smaller C++ binaries, pulls in less of libstdc++
• Ccache output fixes for Windows consoles (#413)
  • Colors work in consoles without virtual terminal processing
  • Diagnostics keep Unicode outside the active code page
• GDB now allows a zero repeat count in artificial arrays
• Upgrade to Ccache 4.14
• Upgrade to CMake 4.4.3

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

Bugfix release, no new features.

• Upgrade to GCC 16.2
• Upgrade to CMake 4.4.2
• Binutils windmc fixes
  • Accept a BOM and use it to detect input encoding (#408)
  • Bring facility numbering to parity with mc.exe

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

• New command: makensis (NSIS)
• New command: aas-sign (code signing)
• Upgrade to Binutils 2.47
  • bigobj no longer default, upgraded as needed
  • weak symbols are now supported properly
  • Thanks to @oltolm and @Peter0x44 for upstream fixes
• Upgrade to busybox-w32 FRP-6075
  • bash.exe shell alias removed
• Upgrade to CMake 4.4.0
• Upgrade to GDB 17.2
• Upgrade to ccache 4.13.6
• Added C11 threads (#388)
  • Independent of winpthreads
  • Requires at least Windows 7

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

• Upgrade to GCC 16.1.0 [#375]
  • libstdc++ now uses native Windows TLS (ABI break)
• Releases are now 100% code-signed
  • Every .exe and .dll carries an Authenticode signature
• Upgrade to Ccache 4.13.4
• Upgrade to CMake 4.3.2
• Upgrade to dcmake 1.7.1
• Upgrade to Expat 2.8.0
• Upgrade to MPC 1.4.1

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

• Release packaging is now code-signed
  • Releases are now built using GitHub Actions
• Tools and runtimes are now optimized for speed
• New utility: dcmake (CMake debugger)
• New commands: zstd and unzstd
  • Transparent .tar.zst support added to busybox-w32
• New command: recycle (send paths to the recycle bin)
• New command: quilt (source control)
• ctags and vim gained QML support
• Upgrade to Mingw-w64 14.0.0
• Upgrade to CMake 4.3.1
• Upgrade to Ccache 4.13.2

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

• New tools: CMake and Ninja (d8ee5fc) [>= Windows 7]
  • Includes ccmake TUI (#339)
  • CMake defaults to the w64devkit toolchain
• New tool: Ccache (#327) [>= Windows 7]
• Upgrade to Binutils 2.46
• Upgrade to GDB 17.1
• Upgrade to Universal Ctags 6.2.1

Included software: GCC 15.2.0, busybox-w32 FRP-5857, GDB 17.1, Mingw-w64 13.0.0, GNU Make 4.4.1, Vim 9.0, Universal Ctags 6.2.1, Binutils 2.46, CMake 4.2.3, Ninja 1.13.2, and 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)

• 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)

• 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)