The release of Wine 8.0's second release candidate, which includes a number of bug fixes, was announced by Alexandre Julliard.

Wine release 8.0-rc2

The Wine development release 8.0-rc2 is now available.

What's new in this release:
- Bug fixes only, we are in code freeze.

The source is available at:

https://dl.winehq.org/wine/source/8.0/wine-8.0-rc2.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 8.0-rc2 (total 50):

- #31927 ws2_32:sock fails intermittently - 'Test succeeded inside todo block: GetQueuedCompletionStatus returned 0'
- #42797 ICU64 for VICE: No highlighted read/write-colors in Memory-window.
- #46500 Cogpack - Exercises can't be run - Error 380 - Invalid property value
- #46538 Unreal Tournament (UT99): mouse clicks in main menu work only once
- #49394 CED1401 USB function driver needs ntoskrnl.exe.KeInsertQueueDpc()
- #49517 Warframe crashes during loading before menu with wined3d, gives popup
- #50013 MyPhoneExplorer 1.8.15 crashes
- #50043 Kholat from GOG does not launch anymore
- #50315 Silent Hill 2 failed to install -installshield extraction error
- #50468 winedbg fails to load symbols for non PE builtin dlls
- #52334 Performance has degraded in multiple games (WoW 1.12.1, Kane & Lynch: Dead Men Demo)
- #52394 "Control panel" -> "Add/Remove Programs" in builtin wine explorer is not working
- #52564 dxgi:dxgi times out in test_find_closest_matching_mode() on cw-gtx560
- #52708 libs/xslt/libxslt/attributes.c:136:9: error: variadic functions must use the base AAPCS variant
- #52779 Construction Set Extender crash with an Assertion Error in wine 7.5
- #52873 oleaut32:typelib fails in Wine in Hindi
- #52964 kernel32:locale - test_CompareStringA() fails on Wine in Hindi
- #52997 Integration of D3D12 support with a PE build of vkd3d causes a crash in Steam Overlay.
- #53028 gamepad buttons stopped working correctly
- #53099 wineserver (gcc -O0) crash when exiting LiLi USB Creator
- #53300 Controller response delayed
- #53384 Hogia Hemekonomi Unexpected error on first start
- #53406 Had been running 7.10 Fedora version no problem, but today updated to 7.12 broke??
- #53485 Cursor is missing in Visio 2003 when editing text
- #53503 QuickBooks Pro 99 page faults with print preview or attempting to print
- #53525 dinput:hid - test_hid_multiple_tlc() sometimes fails with testsigning turned on
- #53550 Some Catalan locales not properly handled
- #53595 Iran Timezone is not detected correctly
- #53623 Resident Evil 7 has broken rendering in DX11 mode
- #53625 In function ‘get_gnutls_cipher’ ... error: ‘GNUTLS_CIPHER_AES_128_CFB8’ undeclared
- #53744 WM_SETTEXT between ANSI programs treating LPARAM as Unicode causing name corruption
- #53756 configure fails in 32-bit gcc checking pthread_create using -Wl,--disable-stdcall-fixup
- #53884 Project Ignis: EDOPro corrupted textures on resizing
- #53894 user32:sysparams - test_WM_DISPLAYCHANGE() times out on Windows 7+
- #53911 DC++ can't retrieve file list from another user
- #53912 Static initialization in Winelibs may hang the loader as of Wine 7.21
- #53918 Building with external PE libraries fails when static libraries are also installed
- #53941 Chicken Tournament crashes on start
- #53976 ntoskrnl.exe:ntoskrnl - test_pnp_devices() fails on Windows 7
- #53977 amstream:amstream qedit:mediadet mf:transform mfmediaengine:mfmediaengine quartz:filtergraph winmm:mci wmp:media wmvcore:wmvcore mf:mf mfplay:mfplay qasf:asfreader broken on Debian Testing
- #53980 httpapi:httpapi sometimes crashes testing overlapped I/O with the v2 server in Wine
- #53990 Serious Sam 2 crashes with OpenGL renderer
- #54000 user32:win - test_mouse_input() gets an unexpected 0x60 message on Windows 11
- #54060 Compilation fails with gcc 4.8.4 (Error: junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `"')
- #54085 windows.devices.enumeration:devices - test_DeviceAccessInformation() sometimes crashes on Windows 10
- #54094 kernel32:process - test_services_exe() sometimes fails due to an invalid buffer size in Windows
- #54096 Non-PE builds broken since "ntdll: Move the .so module initialization to winecrt0."
- #54101 unimplemented function MSVCP70.dll.?_Lock@?$basic_streambuf@DU?$char_traits@D@std@@@std@@QAEXXZ
- #54105 taskschd:scheduler fails on Windows 10 1607+
- #54121 8.0-rc1 build fails with errors in bcrypt in Ubuntu 18.04

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Changes since 8.0-rc1:

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

Alex Henrie (4):
include: Add _recalloc.
joy: Correct spelling of "overridden".
dswave: Don't force a calling convention on internal functions.
po: Update Catalan translation.

Alexandre Julliard (14):
winecrt0: Include windef.h to get definitions needed on FreeBSD.
winegcc: Add -ldl when linking .so files.
oleaut32: Fix A<->W conversion when storing names in typelibs.
kernel32/tests: Fix a string comparison test in utf-8 locales.
d3d9/tests: Mark a few more message tests as flaky.
winebuild: Use new ELF tag ids also on 64-bit.
winebuild: Disable relay for non-standard fastcall parameters.
winegcc: Check for Mingw-style .dll.a import libraries.
ntdll: Match a timezone change happening at 23:59:59 with the following day.
d3d8/tests: Mark a zero-size pixel test as todo.
d3d9/tests: Mark a zero-size pixel test as todo.
d3d9/tests: Mark some of the depth bias tests as todo.
d3d8/tests: Don't require WM_MOVE on window reactivation.
d3d8/tests: Make sure that the window has focus before testing loss of focus.

Eric Pouech (14):
d3dx9/tests: Avoid a GCC warning (-Wsizeof-array-div).
rpcrt4: Pass a common header to RPCRT4_BuildCommonHeader.
rpcrt4: Fix GCC12.2 warnings.
kernel32/tests: Fix a debugger test failing on Windows.
ntdll: Fix export and calling convention of RtlUlonglongByteSwap().
ntdll/tests: Add tests for RtlU(long|short)ByteSwap().
ntdll: Implement RtlU(short|long)ByteSwap() using fastcall bits.
kernel32/tests: Fix failing debugger test on Win7.
kernel32/tests: Improve loading of debugger's test children results.
kernel32/tests: Handle some variations in process start debug events.
kernel32/tests: Test that control characters can be read & stored.
conhost: Don't print control characters for Unix tty.
kernel32/tests: Silence a failing test on Win10+.
kernel32/tests: Skip some console tests on w1064v1909.

Fabian Maurer (2):
user32/tests: Ignore undocumented Win11 message.
urlmon: Pass correct parameter to realloc and simplify code (Coverity).

Gabriel Ivăncescu (6):
mshtml: Fix document fragment's inner window leak.
mshtml: Fix previous EventObj leak.
jscript: Release converted args after invoking.
jscript: Fix array ref leak when setting element.
jscript: Fix refcount trace's long type format specifier.
jscript: Fix JSCaller Release refcount.

Gerald Pfeifer (4):
winebus.sys: Fix the build without HAVE_SYS_INOTIFY_H.
libwine: Only define exe_link when needed.
wmc: Avoid uninitialized variable in init_argv0_dir.
winebus.sys: Declare a variable only when used.

Hans Leidekker (1):
bcrypt: Add PSS compatibility defines.

Huw D. M. Davies (10):
winemac: Fix printf format warnings in clipboard.c.
winemac: Fix printf format warnings in display.c.
winemac: Use a designated initializer to silence a compiler warning.
winemac: Fix printf format warnings in event.c.
winemac: Fix LONG vs int mismatch.
winemac: Fix printf format warnings in keyboard.c.
winemac: Fix printf format warnings in mouse.c.
winemac: Fix printf format warnings in window.c.
winemac: Fix remaining printf format warnings.
ntdll: Only compile get_current_teb() on linux.

Jacek Caban (5):
win32u: Call init_window_call_params after WH_CALLWNDPROC hook in call_window_proc.
win32u: Convert inter-process messages to Unicode.
win32u/tests: Add inter-process message tests.
urlmon/tests: Use gitlab.winehq.org host in can_do_https.
shell32: Always set last error in Shell_NotifyIconW.

Michael Stefaniuc (3):
dmime: Split the segment object creation into a separate helper.
dmime: Implement the IDirectMusicSegment8_Clone() method.
dmcompos: Return a valid pointer from ComposeSegmentFromTemplate().

Paul Gofman (9):
bcrypt: Do not error out for GNUTLS_ECC_CURVE_SECP384R1 in key_export_ecc().
bcrypt: Use SecureZeroMemory() to zero magic values before free.
bcrypt: Return correct error from key_asymmetric_encrypt() if key is missing.
bcrypt: Set pubkey from privkey in key_asymmetric_import().
bcrypt/tests: Test BCRYPT_PAD_NONE encryption result in test_rsa_encrypt().
winhttp: Check for NULL lpszAutoConfigUrl in WinHttpGetProxyForUrl().
winhttp: Handle state in a single switch in receive_response().
winhttp: Only read server reply in send_request() if the whole request is sent.
ddraw/tests: Release ddraw after device in test_texture_wrong_caps().

Piotr Caban (4):
winspool/tests: Fix test failures on Windows 11.
shell32: Store NameSpace registry path in global variable.
shell32: Add partial ControlPanel GetAttributesOf implementation.
shell32: Fix SHChangeNotify test failures.

Robert Wilhelm (1):
vbscript: Fix spelling in a FIXME message.

Ryan Hendrickson (1):
wined3d: Recognize AMD as a vendor string.

Rémi Bernon (23):
winevulkan: Skip asserts for some critical functions.
winevulkan: Skip traces for some critical functions.
winevulkan: Return void for some critical functions.
user32/tests: Don't expect WM_DISPLAYCHANGE with the default display mode.
user32/tests: Use %d to print last_bpp instead of %u.
hidclass.sys: Make sure a desktop is created for the driver process.
dinput/tests: Unregister rawinput devices after tests.
dinput/tests: Remove old physical joystick tests.
dinput/tests: Avoid using INFINITE timeouts.
dinput/tests: Use semaphores to count and notify rawinput messages.
dinput/tests: Add a device count parameter to hid_device_(start|stop).
dinput/tests: Wait for each device interface to start / stop.
user32/tests: Test EnableMouseInPointer behavior.
user32/tests: Test IsMouseInPointerEnabled behavior.
user32/tests: Test GetPointerInfo behavior with EnableMouseInPointer.
user32/tests: Move old GetPointerType tests into test_GetPointerInfo.
user32/tests: Test GetPointer(Frame)Info(History) behavior.
dinput/tests: Factor async await together with some new helpers.
dinput/tests: Test windows.gaming.input infinite effect duration.
dinput/tests: Test dinput force feedback effect envelope removal.
Revert "qasf: Register ASF Reader filter media type."
opengl32/tests: Test wglChoosePixelFormatARB flags filters.
winex11: Check pixel format flags in X11DRV_wglChoosePixelFormatARB.

Shaun Ren (2):
mfmediaengine: Change media_engine_Shutdown FIXME to TRACE.
mfmediaengine: Pause the session in media_engine_Pause.

Sven Baars (2):
win32u: Account for 16-bit instances in find_class().
wined3d: Do not explicitly check 3D depth/stencil capabilities in wined3d_check_device_format().

Torge Matthies (1):
ntdll: Make sure xmm6-xmm15 are always restored in unix call dispatcher.

Zebediah Figura (21):
win32u: Downgrade the NtOpenFile ERR to a WARN in add_device().
include: Add CONFIGFLAG_* definitions.
ntoskrnl/tests: Ignore CONFIGFLAG_FINISH_INSTALL on the child device.
ws2_32/tests: Add tests for state inherited by accept().
server: Inherit address reuse flags in accept_socket().
server: Inherit the SO_SNDBUF value in accept_socket().
server: Inherit the SO_RCVBUF value in accept_socket().
server: Inherit the SO_SNDTIMEO value in accept_socket().
server: Inherit the SO_RCVTIMEO value in accept_socket().
wined3d: Require depth bias clamp to create a feature level 10.0 device.
wined3d: Disable wide line support.
wined3d: Require precise occlusion queries to create a feature level 9.2 device.
wined3d: Require pipeline statistics queries to create a feature level 10.0 device.
wined3d: Require vertex pipeline image stores and atomics to create a feature level 11.1 device.
wined3d: Always bind to GL_ELEMENT_ARRAY_BUFFER if the bind flags include WINED3D_BIND_INDEX_BUFFER.
win32u: Set the width and height when creating a caret from an existing bitmap.
httpapi: Allow passing NULL size to HttpReceiveHttpRequest().
httpapi: Allow passing NULL size to HttpReceiveRequestEntityBody().
httpapi/tests: Test passing NULL size to request reading functions.
d3d9/tests: Test GenerateMipSubLevels() on a managed texture.
d3d9: Upload the relevant texture in d3d9_texture_gen_auto_mipmap().

Ziqing Hui (7):
mf/tests: Test GetOutputType for WMV decoder.
mf/tests: Test info headers returned by GetOutputType for WMV decoder.
mf/tests: Shorten test messages.
mf/tests: Introduce check_dmo_set_input_type.
mf/tests: Use one input type for GetOutputType tests.
mf/tests: Test SetOutputType for WMV decoder.
mfplat/tests: Add MEDIASUBTYPE_RGB* and NV11 image size tests.