[jdk8u-dev] RFR: 8371334: [8u] GHA: installation of VS2010 hangs

[Zdenek Zambersky]

On Wed, 5 Nov 2025 12:08:09 GMT, Zdenek Zambersky <zzambers at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Installation of VS2010 hangs. As result Windows x86 (32-bit) jobs in GitHub CI timeout and get cancelled.
> 
> After some debugging, it turns out, that issue is caused by missing PowerShell 2, required by VS2010 installer. See screenshot:
>  <img width="1024" height="768" alt="screen-10" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/3698b0bc-0d35-40e8-bbb3-1aa4c5445ac4" />
> 
> PowerShell 2.0 was deprecated and recently stopped being shipped by on windows. Microsoft says following on it's [page](https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/powershell-2-0-removal-from-windows-fe6d1edc-2ed2-4c33-b297-afe82a64200a):
> 
> 
>> PowerShell 2.0 will be removed in a later release starting in August 2025 for Windows 11, version 24H2 and a September 2025 release for Windows Server 2025. All later releases for Windows 11 and Windows Server 2025 will not include PowerShell 2.0.
> 
> 
> Fortunately they still provide archive to install it manually. This PR does that.
> 
> **Testing:**
> - build still fails on windows x86 due to recent changes to jdk 8 code. It can be fixed in followup PR.
> - MacOS build job got canceled because [MacOS 13 is deprecated in GHA](https://github.com/actions/runner-images/issues/13046) (this is separate issue not related to this)
> - security infra failures are unrelated

Follow-up PR with fixes of build errors on VS2010: https://github.com/openjdk/jdk8u-dev/pull/713

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk8u-dev/pull/712#issuecomment-3492055076