Alexandre Julliard has announced the release of the sixth release candidate for the upcoming Wine 6.0.

The Wine development release 6.0-rc5 is now available.

What's new in this release (see below for details):
  - Bug fixes only, we are in code freeze.

The source is available from the following locations:

  https://dl.winehq.org/wine/source/6.0/wine-6.0-rc5.tar.xz
  http://mirrors.ibiblio.org/wine/source/6.0/wine-6.0-rc5.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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Bugs fixed in 6.0-rc5 (total 21):

  21987  Acrobat 7 tryout installer complains: "This Postscript Driver or Windows Platform (Win9x/Me) not supported" (winspool.drv missing level 8/global default printer settings handling)
  38166  Heroes of Might and Magic V performance issue: severe fps drop on certain maps
  41593  Molot VST 0.3.1 UI: some knobs are not rendered
  43852  Monkey Island Special Edition Collection: White screen and crash when starting Monkey1.exe
  44243  Spire and Serum VST plugins using Direct2D render very slowly
  44367  Multiple applications need d2d FillEllipse/DrawEllipse implementation (OP-X PRO II VST)
  44454  Windows Media Encoder 9 refuses to install
  44574  Microsoft Office 2013 client area is rendered black (Direct2D)
  45096  MPC-HC 1.7.13 displays a message box: "Error creating EVR Custom renderer", "DXVA2CreateDirect3DDeviceManager9 failed"
  47770  Waves Central plugin installation fails
  47824  Remote Life 1.2 demo terminates with 'Cannot load library nw_elf.dll'
  48142  shell32:appbar tests fail on some Windows 10 machines
  49010  ilok license manager: doesn't connect to the activation server as in 4.0.2
  49356  Saya No Uta (a.k.a. The Song of Saya) crashes when launching
  49771  ntdll:exception causes an unhandled segmentation fault
  50241  Vertical Text in NL5 schematic doesn't display correctly
  50304  Control-C exits winedbg instead of stopping the inferior
  50397  dlls/d3dcompiler_43/tests/hlsl_d3d11.c: error: unknown field ‘Texture2D’ specified in initializer
  50408  wineboot crash to due getaddrinfo() returning NULL ai_canonname
  50420  Divinity: Original Sin - Enhanced Edition crashes on startup
  50423  dlls/devenum/mediacatenum.c: | function ‘property_bag_Read’ | error: unknown field ‘cPins2’ specified in initializer

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Changes since 6.0-rc4:

Akihiro Sagawa (1):
      readme: Update Japanese translation.

Alex Henrie (1):
      winebus: Remove redundant preprocessor check for libsdl2.

Alexandre Julliard (1):
      Update copyright info for 2021.

Alistair Leslie-Hughes (1):
      include: Add DBACCESSORFLAGSENUM/DBBINDSTATUSENUM values.

Anton Baskanov (1):
      winegstreamer: Unmap and unref the buffer and release the sample before returning.

Byeong-Sik Jeon (1):
      po: Update Korean translation.

Damjan Jovanovic (1):
      ws2_32: Deal with getaddrinfo() returning NULL ai_canonname despite AI_CANONNAME.

Dean M Greer (2):
      readme: Update OS X requirements.
      configure: Remove Xcode 3.x check.

Esme Povirk (1):
      user32/tests: Don't kill explorer to test shell window.

Jacek Caban (2):
      condrv: Don't requre write access for IOCTL_CONDRV_CTRL_EVENT ioctl.
      conhost: Ignore CONTROL_C_EXIT exceptions in Unix mode.

Jefferson Carpenter (1):
      ntdll/tests: Clear AC flag in align check test.

Lauri Kenttä (1):
      readme: Update Finnish translation.

Michael Stefaniuc (1):
      msscript.ocx/tests: Use wide-char string literals.

Nikolay Sivov (1):
      readme: Update Russian translation.

Paul Gofman (2):
      ntdll: Use WINAPI calling convention for stub_entry_point().
      user32: Add stub for SetDisplayConfig().

Qijia Liu (1):
      winedbg: Remove arm_disasm_branchreg.

Sveinar Søpler (1):
      readme: Update Norwegian translation.

Zebediah Figura (3):
      httpapi/tests: Avoid some test failures with newer Windows 10.
      devenum: Avoid initializing nameless unions in designated initializers.
      server: Pass the correct size to sockaddr_from_unix() (Valgrind).

Zhiyi Zhang (1):
      winex11.drv: Check that there are connected outputs before using XRandR 1.4.