0.16.21 release

[briansmith]

We should do a 0.16.21 release that enables aarch64-pc-windows-msvc to work. I created a "b/0.16" branch to accept PRs for this.

Unfortunately there were a lot of changes between 0.16.20 and the main branch before the aarch64-pc-windows-msvc support was added, and also there were multiple PRs involved in adding the aarch64-pc-windows-msvc support. @svenpaulsen @awakecoding seem to know exactly what needs to be done already so maybe they can tell us, or perhaps submit a PR against the new b/0.16 branch? If we can get such a PR then I will do the release soon.

I do have an aarch64-pc-windows-msvc target (Surface Pro X) to test this on.

/cc @svenpaulsen @awakecoding @Alovchin91

[briansmith]

Of course, CI also needs several changes to pass on this branch. I will work on those.

[briansmith]

PR #1552 updates the CI configuration on the b/0.16 branch so that everything works except clippy, which I'm intending to just ignore.

[svenpaulsen]

PR opened here #1554. Happy to help!

[ArchangelX360]

Hello 👋🏼! Any ETA on the release?

[Alovchin91]

Just a heads up: support for Windows 11 on Parallels on Apple Silicon Macs is now official:

• https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/16/23602718/microsoft-windows-11-apple-mac-m1-m2-support-parallels-virtual-machines

• https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/options-for-using-windows-11-with-mac-computers-with-apple-m1-and-m2-chips-cd15fd62-9b34-4b78-b0bc-121baa3c568c

[carlocorradini]

Any update? 😰

[zh-jq-b]

Could this #1531 and #1595 be backported to 0.16 branch? So we can remove the dependency on winapi.

[ifsheldon]

since RISC-V support was merged recently, I guess a new release is needed for that?

[briansmith]

0.17.0 was released. It seems like most projects are going to be able to update to 0.17.0 without any significant effort, so I'm not intending to do this.