Pre-Release 5.13.0-rc1

This is a release candidate for 5.13.0. It has been pushed to the "Beta" track for updates!

This release contains a significant refactoring away from ctypes code for interacting with the Windows API,
establishment of a Common Code file and plugin, adds a timestamp check to discovered events, and more!

This release adds the new plugins/common_coreutils.py plugin and common_utils.py core file. Developers
can use this as an example of how to call one plugin from another.

This release also removes the check for WiX-based installer versions of EDMC prior to 5.9.1.

Changes and Enhancements

• Adds a check to the timestamp of all events before passing to Plugins
• Adds the new --skip-timecheck argument to disable the new timestamp checker
• Adds the ability to have EDMC iterate over all known CMDRs to keep Frontier Auth valid
• Adds the option to disable the Windows SysTray
• Adds some new options to the SysTray right-click menu
• Adds PowerPlayMerits and PowerPlayRank event support
• Adds a warning if the updater fails to initialize
• Updates the WinSparkle Updater
• Updates a number of type hints
• Updates a number of dependencies
• Updates a few internal references for stations for consistency
• Updates a confusing error when the CAPI API is out of date
• Updates the example journal_entry function in PLUGINS.md for current type hints
• Improves the detection of Wine for program compatibility
• Improves the detection of the current language for translation compatibility
• Minor efficiency and readability updates
• Reduces duplicate code by refactoring to common code files
• Removes the old check for WiX based installers to improve performance
• Removes a few unused functions that aren't part of the public API
• Refactors a significant amount of ctypes code to utilize pywin32
• Removes a number of assert statements for future compatibility

Bug Fixes

• Fixes a bug where Inara Station and System links were broken
• Fixes a bug where directory paths starting with ~ would not be processed by the journal lock
• Fixes (and redoes) the Hotkey functionality on Windows
• Fixes a few typos
• Fixes a few calls from config.get() to their proper `get_x()

Plugin Developers

• nb.Entry is deprecated, and is slated for removal in 6.0 or later. Please migrate to nb.EntryMenu
• nb.ColoredButton is deprecated, and is slated for removal in 6.0 or later. Please migrate to tk.Button
• Calling internal translations with _() is deprecated, and is slated for removal in 6.0 or later. Please migrate to importing translations and calling translations.translate or translations.tl directly
• Translations as the translate system singleton is deprecated, and is slated for removal in 6.0 or later. Please migrate to the translations singleton
• help_open_log_folder() is deprecated, and is slated for removal in 6.0 or later. Please migrate to open_folder()
• update_feed is deprecated, and is slated for removal in 6.0 or later. Please migrate to get_update_feed()