diff --git a/staging/VERSION b/staging/VERSION
index 515026d4..391abbe5 100644
--- a/staging/VERSION
+++ b/staging/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Wine Staging 9.5
+Wine Staging 9.6
diff --git a/staging/upstream-commit b/staging/upstream-commit
index d119fdd8..384e7251 100644
--- a/staging/upstream-commit
+++ b/staging/upstream-commit
@@ -1 +1 @@
-a2c20d0e93290b3f998ad78c7aeaed8028aee2da
+8a3b0d7bc317aada750769af8f82762c7001acad