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ee1128ead846698db5e5633f193883837f2fbc64 doc: update stack-clash-protection comment re mingw-w64 (fanquake)
bf47448f152316145d9abb9b8abc3b564194fe46 test: drop check for Windows < 10 (fanquake)
35b898c47f8af6807c4a5f404af165c663c81a99 release: target Windows 10 or later (fanquake)
398754e70bc96b86ad0327fbe70fafdf27bb4e35 depends: target Windows 10 when building for mingw-w64 (fanquake)
Pull request description:
Follows up to https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/31048#discussion_r1803165670.
We definitely cannot claim that Bitcoin Core is "supported and extensively tested on" on Windows 7.
Note that #30997 is also increasing the minimum required Windows version (for the GUI) to 10.
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