Wine development release 5.0-rc1 is now available for Linux FreeBSD and macOS

The Wine development release 5.0-rc1 is now available.

This is the first release candidate for the upcoming Wine 5.0. It marks the beginning of the yearly code freeze period. Please give this release a good testing to help us make 5.0 as good as possible.

What's new in this release:

• Gecko update, with support for running from a global location.
• Unicode data updated to Unicode version 12.1.
• Initial version of the MSADO (ActiveX Data Objects) library.
• Update installation support in the WUSA (Windows Update Standalone) tool.
• More progress on the kernel32/kernelbase restructuring.
• Support for signing with ECDSA keys.
• Various bug fixes.

The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.

Bugs fixed in 5.0-rc1 (total 37):

  12406  Microsoft Document Explorer 2008 crashes when using MS Help 2 URL from command line (ieframe's WebBrowser COM object doesn't support aggregation)
  13020  wintetris 1.01 background color wrong sometimes
  21249  Midtown Madness 2 (v1.1NoCD):  memMemoryAllocator::FindHeap failed on ptr 2056d18
  26757  Multiple Microsoft installers need implementation of Windows Update Standalone Installer 'Wusa.exe' to support '.msu' packages (.NET Framework 4.5.x/4.6.x/Win Vista+, IE8/Win Vista+, IE10/Win7 mode)
  37793  FIFA Online 3 launcher crashes on startup ('SEC_RESERVE' attribute has no effect for file mapping objects that are backed by physical files)
  38817  FXCM Trading Station II installer reports 'OLE error 80004001' when running as 'Windows Vista' or higher ('ITaskbarList3::ThumbBarSetImageList' is a stub)
  38830  Symenu 4.11 (.NET 2.0 app) crashes on startup with Wine-Mono
  39643  DM Genie 2.x (VB6 app) fails on startup with 'Automation error. ... Check the Scripting function Skill Bonus'
  39692  64-bit dlls/msdaps/row_server_p.c generates build warnings (discarded "const" qualifier)
  40489  wbemprox does not support ASSOCIATORS query
  41639  Wine with freetype 2.7 causes font rendering issues
  42046  VSDC Video Editor. Crashes in ole32 when opening.
  42051  Costume Quest 2 crashes when using DX11 renderer
  43447  Geometry Wars 3 doesn't spawn a window
  43644  Disk free space incorrect on file systems with more than 2TB free
  43817  Multiple .NET applications (Chime, DxO Photolab 2 trial) crash, need  RegisterApplicationRecoveryCallback  to return S_OK
  44456  Multiple Windows 7+ games and applications crash due missing 'kernel32.dll' -> 'kernelbase.dll' load-time dependency (64-bit Football Manager 2017, IP Camera Viewer 4.x)
  44842  Listview returns item data fields when called for unset subitems
  44883  warframe crashes with builtin xaudio2, needs IXAudio2::CommitChanges
  46196  Beat Hazard 2: Crashing if no GeoID is set, missing country code and flag.
  46262  Beat Hazard 2: Small window size after minimizing
  46535  Exception FindFirstFileExW_rep in ntdll, by Mod Organizer (Skyrim)
  46842  C# 'double.TryParse( String.Empty, out number)' incorrectly succeeds with .NET Framework 4.0 and WinVer set to 'Windows 7'
  47126  GCC 9.x compilation warnings for Wine 4.7
  47459  ListBox LB_SETSEL doesn't scroll to newly selected item
  47960  chcp.com does not exist
  48077  UPlay fails to start : "Error at hooking API NtProtectVirtualMemory" (UPlay's hooking engine can't handle ENDBR32 instruction inserted at non-hotpatch API entries due to distro build environments '-fcf-protection')
  48082  Visual C++ Express 2005 needs shell32.PathResolveW implementation (or fake success)
  48153  Mono's ProcessTest.Start1_FileName_Whitespace test fails
  48185  Applications crashing with "Not enough memory to run application"
  48211  Regression: midl.exe fails to execute MIDL engine
  48234  Multiple ODBC applications using Bulk Copy Program (BCP) API need 'odbcbcp.dll' (Odin Diet)
  48240  Build error in cabinet/bcrypt gnutls.c in current git
  48242  IXMLDOMDocument_load() paths aren't URL-unescaped (Microsoft Document Explorer 2008 startup error)
  48245  wbemlocator parse_resource contains non-null terminated string, causing garbage output in trace logs
  48271  Qt5 dropdown menu and combobox does not show on click
  48277  dotnet30sp1 fails to install

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