Windows 7

[m.holmes (mycroft holmes)]

Hello,

I have a small group of machines with syncthing installed. It’s an heterogeneous collection, which includes Windows10, raspberry pi’s, several NAS from different manufacturers and -unfortunately- two Windows2008R2 servers.

Since all installations were self-updating, after the release of 1.27.2 (the one with upgraded go, ), I found the two W2K8 machines basically in a death loop constantly trying to start syncthing.exe (which crashes on startup).

As these two are not crucial and I didn’t have time to look at the issue, I simply uninstalled syncthing.

is there an “official” way of making it run on Windows7/2K8? Of course, I could just turn off auto-update and reinstall an older version, but I’m a bit scared by compatibility with the rest of the machines… Not that I’m aware of breaking changes in syncthing, but I thought it’s better to ask.

thanks in advance MH

[bt90]

An older version is your only option. Compatibility shouldn’t be an issue for the foreseeable future, though.

[tomasz86 (Tomasz Wilczyński)]

You can still compile the current version using Go 1.20, preferably with automatic upgrades disabled. It will work on Windows 7 forever.