Thanks to everyone for testing! The positive responses give us confidence that 5.10 is ready for release. There will be an official announcement in a few days.
not sure if anybody else faced this problem but installing RC1 Windows11 got me a malware alert both in .exe and RawTherapee.exe and Kaspersky removed both the files. - just FYI
I have installed the first release candidate on Windows 11 and I run the Kaskpersky suite as well.
No problem on my setup…
As an aside, generally, on Windows, whenever I try some open source software, before installing, I even test it with VirusTotal 1. Nowdays I have stopped doing so because there are always plenty of “false positive”…