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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