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 Users are encouraged to use the latest version unless a specific feature or requirement that warrants using an older version of the software. Version specific instructions and installation notes are provided below.
-:'''Note:''' As of version 8.3.0, '''Octave no longer produces or supports 32-bit versions'''. An alternative source for 32-bit Windows binaries of Octave is using [[Octave for Microsoft Windows#GNU Octave in MSYS2|MSYS2]].
+:'''Note:''' As of version 8.3.0, '''The Octave project no longer distributes binaries for 32-bit versions of Windows'''. An alternative source for 32-bit Windows binaries of Octave is using [[Octave for Microsoft Windows#GNU Octave in MSYS2|MSYS2]].
 :'''Note:''' As of version 4.4.1, '''Octave no longer supports Windows XP'''. There may be some workarounds to get Octave installed and running in command line mode (see Bug {{bug|54662}}), but maintainers cannot provide support and troubleshooting for this beyond what has already been documented.
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 The easiest way to install GNU Octave on Microsoft Windows is by using [http://hg.octave.org/mxe-octave/ MXE] builds.  For the current release, both 32-bit and 64-bit installers and zip archived packages (.zip and .7z formats) can be found at https://octave.org/download under the Windows tab.
-* For executable (.exe) installers: the user can simply run the downloaded file and follow the on-screen installation prompts.  It is recommended that the installation path does not include non-ASCII characters.  The directory {{Path|%USERPROFILE%\GNU Octave\Octave-X.y.z}} is recommended to ease installing additional packages at a later date.  Shortcuts to the program will be created automatically and the post-install script will be run automatically. But with some systems, you may have to run the {{Path|post-install.bat}} file before running Octave the first time to reduce plot delays due to the Windows font cache and make the pre-installed packages visible to the system.
+* For executable (.exe) installers: the user can simply run the downloaded file and follow the on-screen installation prompts.  It is recommended that the installation path does not include non-ASCII characters. Shortcuts to the program will be created automatically and the post-install script will be run automatically. But with some systems, you may have to run the {{Path|post-install.bat}} file before running Octave the first time to reduce plot delays due to the Windows font cache and make the pre-installed packages visible to the system.
 * For the 7z/zip archives:
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 *'''Maintainer:''' Marco Atzeri
-*'''Latest release:''' 2022-01-06
+*'''Latest release:''' 2024-01-26
 *Latest packages:
-:octave-6.4.0-1
+:octave-8.4.0-1
-:Its announce on cygwin mailing list [https://sourceware.org/pipermail/cygwin-announce/2022-January/010389.html]
+:Its announce on cygwin mailing list [https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin-announce/2024-January/011503.html]
-:Octave Forge packages have each a cygwin package.
+:Most of the Octave Forge packages have each a cygwin package.
-:Its announce on cygwin mailing list [https://sourceware.org/legacy-ml/cygwin-announce/2017-01/msg00078.html]
 : Full cygwin package list is available here [https://cygwin.com/packages/]
-: At 2017-04-06, 64 forge packages were available.
+: At 2024-01-26, 51 forge packages were available.
 *To install :
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 * To build GNU Octave from cygwin source package, you need to install "cygport" and the relevant development libraries
 :<syntaxhighlight lang="bash">
-tar -xf octave-6.4.0-1-src.tar.xz
+tar -xf octave-8.4.0-1-src.tar.xz
 cygport octave.cygport almostall
 </syntaxhighlight>