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

[Severin Gehwolf]

On Wed, 5 Nov 2025 16:02:40 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 their [page](https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/powershell-2-0-removal-from-windows-fe6d1edc-2ed2-4c33-b297-afe82a64200a):
>> 
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>>> 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

@zzambers Please apply for approval to make progress on the GHA issues. Thanks!

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk8u-dev/pull/712#issuecomment-3515848879