Wine 5.0's first release candidate
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Wine Announcement
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 (see below for details): - 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 from the following locations: https://dl.winehq.org/wine/source/5.0/wine-5.0-rc1.tar.xz http://mirrors.ibiblio.org/wine/source/5.0/wine-5.0-rc1.tar.xz Binary packages for various distributions will be available from: https://www.winehq.org/download You will find documentation on https://www.winehq.org/documentation You can also get the current source directly from the git repository. Check https://www.winehq.org/git for details. Wine is available thanks to the work of many people. See the file AUTHORS in the distribution for the complete list.
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Wine 5.0-RC1 Released With Unicode 12.1 Support, Initial ActiveX Data Objects Library
Making it into Wine 5.0-rc1 is an updated Mozilla Gecko revision, Unicode 12.1 support, an initial MSADO ActiveX Data Objects library implementation, updating the installation support within the WUSA (Windows Update Standalone_ utility, continued Kernel32/Kernelbase restructuring, support for signing with ECDSA keys, and the usual variety of bug fixes.
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