The fifth and likely final release candidate for Wine 8.0, which includes nine bug fixes, has been made public by Alexandre Julliard.

Wine release 8.0-rc5

The Wine development release 8.0-rc5 is now available. This is expected to be the last release candidate before the final 8.0.

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-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 8.0-rc5 (total 9):

- #26822 Double click the icon in the title bar should close the window
- #32643 getsockopt() does not indicate WSAEFAULT when setting optlen too small
- #45542 WeGame hangs after login.
- #50351 Slow text rendering in dofus linked to fnIMLangFontLink2_GetCharCodePages calling WideCharToMultiByte with CP_UNICODE
- #51227 urlmon:url breaks the wininet:http test on Windows 10 1709+ (7 failures)
- #51906 Multiple games fail to play videos (War Mongrels, The Medium, Sherlock Holmes Chapter One)
- #53408 Dark Souls: Remastered has slow performance with OpenGL renderer
- #53761 Broken rendering in Mafia III: Definitive Edition
- #54283 dinput:force_feedback - test_windows_gaming_input() sometimes crashes on Windows

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Changes since 8.0-rc4:

Alexandre Julliard (1):
tools: Always fall back to argv[0] to find the tools directory.

Brendan Shanks (1):
kernel32/tests: Test GetFileType() with additional types of handles.

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

Eric Pouech (3):
kernel32/tests: Extend share right for debugger's black box tests.
kernel32/tests: Merge two debug event loops in test_debugger().
kernel32/tests: Filter spurious thread creation debug events.

Fan WenJie (1):
winebuild: Only set thumb_mode on ARM targets.

François Gouget (4):
d3d12/tests: Allow a broken Windows 10 1709 hresult.
nsi: Return an error if NsiAllocateAndGetTable() fails to allocate the tables.
nsi: Add some margin to the tables size in NsiAllocateAndGetTable().
win32u: Document the font_lock handling in font_EnumFonts().

Gabriel Ivăncescu (1):
notepad: Fix uninitialized upper 64-bits of `pos` in DoFind.

Jactry Zeng (1):
po: Update Simplified Chinese translation.

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

Robert Wilhelm (1):
vbscript/tests: Fix chr() tests with double-byte character sets.

Santino Mazza (2):
iphlpapi/tests: Test for Ipv4Enabled and Ipv6Enabled flags.
iphlpapi: Set Ipv4Enabled and Ipv6Enabled flags accordingly.

Tim Clem (2):
user32/tests: Test GetRawInputBuffer header fields more thoroughly.
win32u: Correct GetRawInputBuffer alignment under WoW64.