The new Release Candidate 5 of Wine 3.0 It has already been released, but unlike other RCs the truth is that it has been a fairly quiet development in terms of bug fixes found in the famous compatibility layer for Unix / Linux environments to be able to install native Windows operating system software in them, and now also in this third version you can also choose to install these native Windows apps also on Android, So your "Andy" will be able to run much more software, benefiting from what until now only affected BSD, Linux, macOS, Solaris ... and that's thanks to the new features that the project guys have implemented as a novelty.
The errors are increasingly rareThis is normal as new version RCs are released, since development will soon be completely frozen to launch the final version of Wine 3.0 that we will see very soon. In fact, the implementation of improvements in the code has already stopped and it has simply been to revisions and corrections of the bugs and problems that may be found in this new version. You can collaborate if you download the RC5 project and install it to test if there are new imperfects to profile.
But it seems that Wine 3.0 RC5 is quite solid and stablee so the great work that the developers have done has paid off and they will have more time to focus solely on stability, something that is very good to get more than decent software. We will most likely see Wine 3.0 Final before the end of January, so it is very good news for those who follow the project closely and need to check all the news that it brings us and that we already talked about in LxA.
For those who are wondering what errors have been corrected in Wine 3.0 RC5 with respect to the RC4 that we saw a few days ago say that 9 bugs have been addressed. One of them was related to the Slingplayer 2.0 configuration wizard that crashed and crashed Wine, two other problems found in regedit, a bug that seriously degraded performance, CHM viewer navigation elements, errors in several installations of MS Office 2010 and 2013 , Eclipse crashed at startup, as did Alice: Madness Returns, and finally the ProtectionID tool crashed the Wine server.