doc: Mention Windows XP end of support in release notes #8240

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   laanwj commented at 2:30 PM on June 22, 2016: member

   Closes #7681, part of #7678

2. laanwj added the label Docs and Output on Jun 22, 2016
3. in doc/release-notes.md:None in 59cbe7eda9 outdated

     23 | +an OS initially released in 2001. This means that not even critical security
     24 | +updates will be released anymore. Without security updates, using a bitcoin
     25 | +wallet on a XP machine is irresponsible at least.
     26 | +
     27 | +In addition to that, with 0.12.x there have been varied reports of Bitcoin Core
     28 | +randomly crashing on Windows XP. It is [https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/7681#issuecomment-217439891](not clear)
   

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   MarcoFalke commented at 2:35 PM on June 22, 2016:

   Nit: Format is [name](http://foo.bar)

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   laanwj commented at 2:59 PM on June 22, 2016:

   Yes will fix that, thanks, always get those swapped

4. laanwj added this to the milestone 0.13.0 on Jun 22, 2016
5. in doc/release-notes.md:None in 59cbe7eda9 outdated

     24 | +updates will be released anymore. Without security updates, using a bitcoin
     25 | +wallet on a XP machine is irresponsible at least.
     26 | +
     27 | +In addition to that, with 0.12.x there have been varied reports of Bitcoin Core
     28 | +randomly crashing on Windows XP. It is [https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/7681#issuecomment-217439891](not clear)
     29 | +what the source of these crashes is, but it is likely that upstream
   

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   fanquake commented at 2:05 AM on June 23, 2016:

   nit s/is/are

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   sipa commented at 2:50 PM on June 24, 2016:

   @fanquake 'is' looks correct here. 'the source' is singular.

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   fanquake commented at 2:05 AM on June 23, 2016: member

   ACK post nits being fixed.

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   paveljanik commented at 2:10 PM on June 24, 2016: contributor

   ACK post nits being fixed.

8. doc: Mention Windows XP end of support in release notes

   Closes #7681.

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9. laanwj force-pushed on Jun 24, 2016
10. laanwj merged this on Jun 25, 2016
11. laanwj closed this on Jun 25, 2016

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