- Sadly, upstream vscode made some changes in 1.85.0 that use the native Nodejs
fetch module, instead of the npm package node-fetch. This module is only available in Nodejs 17.5 and above. Since both the project, as well as Electron 22 use Node 16, I am making this the last Codium release with my custom nt6.patch patch to use Electron 22 and thus allow it to run on Windows NT 6.x.x systems (7/8/8.1). This change also means that it will no longer run on Debian 8 or Ubuntu 14.04. So....
(New) System Requirements: Windows 10 or later, Ubuntu 16.04 or later, Debian 9 or later, MacOS 10.14 or later.
HOWEVER there is a promising project called supermium-electron, and they already have a beta for Electron 28 running on Win 7 > https://github.com/win32ss/supermium-electron/releases/tag/v28-testing. If this project ever reaches stable status, I might re-add NT 6.x.x support. Also, if anyone wants to send in a patch via PR to revert back to using the node-fetch npm package, I could also do it that way.
UPDATE: Good news! I was able to get vscode working again on win 7! So this is not the last release for older oses like win7/8/8.1 and ubuntu 14.04/debian 8.
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Fixed announcements to use my branding and to fetch announcements from my repo instead of Vscodium's (consequently you will see a warning about win7 with a link to these release notes). Also don't worry, any upstream VSCode or VSCodium announcements will still also be displayed.