By the way, the 5th edition is now available on Forward Chess. They have a special: only $11.99. I just got it, great deal!

We'll have an extended excerpt (Spielmann-Rubinstein, St Petersburg 1909) in the July Chess Life, along with a discussion of the revision process, what it was like to work with Dvoretsky and what it's like to work on the book after his death, etc.

I asked Russell if I could share some of what he sent me about the changes - I have a copy of the new edition I'm looking it, but his summaries are better - and he said yes. From those materials:

1.      The fifth edition (DEM5) has 440 pages, 16 more than the fourth edition. The increase reflects the new material which has been added. Actually, the new material is more than 16 pages, as all the prior forewords and introductions have been removed, except for Dvoretsky’s “From the Author” from the first edition. A new foreword by Kramnik and a new introduction by Müller are each one page.
2.      There is a new forward by Vladimir Kramnik. 
3.      The revision has been done by German GM Karsten Müller. With the passing of Mark Dvoretsky, Karsten has been generally recognized as the premier endgame analyst and theoretician in the world today.
4.      American GM Alex Fishbein assisted Karsten.
5.      There have been new developments in several areas of theory (e.g., Bishop Endgames), and these were added.
6.      Karsten and Alex have gone through the existing text of DEM4 very carefully, making minor changes and corrections throughout. New diagrams have been added, some have been removed. The complex indexing systems put in place by Dvoretsky have been modified accordingly.
7.      The blue text in previous editions has been replaced by normal text highlighted with a light gray background.

Most important changes from Müller

More Vancura type defenses in rook endings by L'Ami and Giri

The whole Kantorovich / Stecker discussion is now better structured by Alex Fishbein (e.g. new defenses by Aagaard and L'Ami)

New amazing discoveries in the famous Spielmann vs Rubinstein rook endgame. The god of rook endings Rubinstein has made one mistake: 12...Re7?

The discussion of the Philidor position (9-17a This diagram was added) is now clearer with more diagrams as it is so important. Philidor's second defensive method (I usually call it Karstedt's defense in my works) is now clearer.

(We keep Dvoretsky's terms but add other terme, e.g. for shouldering, whic I call bodycheck in my works. So we add the term so that readers are not confused when the study DEM and later one of my books or DVDs)

In the knight endgame chapter there were many new discoverys, e.g. in the very famous Lasker vs Nimzovich (3-7) and we put the 4 vs 3 case on the kingside now only as good winning chances (not as usually winning as previously) and highlighted also drawing scenarios

Bähr's rule in Dvorestky's formulation (1-126) is now clearer formulated and the exceptions mentioned. This by the way was not easy to do. Almost like formulationg and proving a mathematical theorem. Here Alex and I had long discussions until we were both satisfied.

Like with Mark we always reaced a solution we all could agree on.

Rausers's drawing zone (4-2) is introduced in its full form to make it clearer

Thank you for sharing the last edition 

It just occured to me that 6-man tablebases must have been available to Dvoretsky back in 2010/11, so everything with 6 pieces or less (pawns included) in the 3rd edition should be flawless!?

Looks like a nice way to split up my study of technical endgames in any case.

Jeg har min copy of the 4th Edition right in front of me now, and it has the blue ink for the important concepts, with contrast on its black ink. I am not sure exactly what is wrong, because I can klarly see the blue ink and the black ink separated.

I did. Thanks, I saw the review you were talking about and saw that my question was answered (the answer was no).

Anyone have it?

I can't imagine too much has changed since the 3rd edition. However, if the blue ink is actually blue this time, I may pick up a copy eventually.

The blue print in the first edition was a stroke of genius...when I received my 3rd edition copy and the blue print and black print were virtually the same, I was extremely disappointed.