Alexandre Julliard : Wine release 5.0-rc1

Fri Dec 13 15:27:43 CST 2019

Module: website
Branch: master
Commit: c5a937c85c16215e8d556d1b368451766ebf8c3a
URL:    https://source.winehq.org/git/website.git/?a=commit;h=c5a937c85c16215e8d556d1b368451766ebf8c3a

Author: Alexandre Julliard <julliard at winehq.org>
Date:   Fri Dec 13 22:27:40 2019 +0100

Wine release 5.0-rc1

Signed-off-by: Alexandre Julliard <julliard at winehq.org>

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+<news>
+<date>December 13, 2019</date>
+<title>Wine 5.0-rc1 Released</title>
+<body>
+<p> The Wine development release 5.0-rc1 is now available.</p>
+<p> 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.</p>
+<p> <a href="{$root}/announce/5.0-rc1">What's new</a> in this release:
+<ul>
+  <li>Gecko update, with support for running from a global location.</li>
+  <li>Unicode data updated to Unicode version 12.1.</li>
+  <li>Initial version of the MSADO (ActiveX Data Objects) library.</li>
+  <li>Update installation support in the WUSA (Windows Update Standalone) tool.</li>
+  <li>More progress on the kernel32/kernelbase restructuring.</li>
+  <li>Support for signing with ECDSA keys.</li>
+  <li>Various bug fixes.</li>
+</ul>
+<p>The source is <a href="//dl.winehq.org/wine/source/5.0/wine-5.0-rc1.tar.xz">available now</a>.
+Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective <a href="{$root}/download">download locations</a>.
+</p></body></news>


