CodeWeavers has Released CrossOver 16 for Linux and MacOS

SAINT PAUL, Minn (December 12, 2016) — CodeWeavers, Inc., developer of CrossOver the easiest, fastest way to run Windows software on Mac and Linux announced today the release of CrossOver 16. With CrossOver 16, you can run thousands of Windows software titles, without the need for a Windows OS license.

CrossOver 16 supports Microsoft Office 2013 on both MacOS and Linux. This brings the convenience, ease, and interoperability of the full featured, modern Office suite to our Linux and MacOS customers.

CrossOver 16 is the first version of CrossOver to support 64-bit Windows applications, with automatic install recipes for a few popular titles already. CrossOver 16 also incorporates code from the upcoming Wine 2.0 release, the open-source technology that allows Windows applications to be run on Unix. The net effect is that CrossOver 16 users will be able to run many more Windows applications, with enhancements to their performance and graphics.

CrossOver 16 is immediately available at www.codeweavers.com.

About CodeWeavers

Founded in 1996 as a general software consultancy, CodeWeavers focuses on the development of Wine the core technology found in all of its CrossOver products. The company’s goal is to bring expanded market opportunities for Windows software developers by making it easier, faster and more painless to port Windows software to Linux. CodeWeavers is recognized as a leader in open-source Windows porting technology, and maintains development offices in Minnesota, the United Kingdom and elsewhere around the world. The company is privately held.

Change Log For CrossOver Mac and Linux :

16.0.0 CrossOver - December 13, 2016

• Application Support:
  • CrossOver now supports Microsoft Office 2013!
  • Microsoft Office 2013 can be activated with either an Office 365 subscription or a product key.
• Core Technology Improvements:
  • CrossOver 16 is based on Wine 2.0, with thousands of improvements to Windows compatibility across the board.
  • CrossOver now supports 64-bit Windows applications, with new bottle templates and 64-bit dependency management.
• Bug Fixes:
  • Quicken 2014-2016 updates will now apply automatically during installation.
  • Fixed a bug which prevented saving very large files in Microsoft Excel 2010
  • Fixed a bug which prevented opening hyperlinks from documents in Microsoft Office 2010.
  • Shell folder links will now be updated when importing bottles into CrossOver from an archive file.
  • Fixed an audio bug which could cause Blizzard games to emit unwanted noises from the speaker.
  • Fixed a bug in Tencent QQ which caused the application to hang when adding a new contact.
  • Rollercoaster Tycoon 2 will display correctly again.

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Wine Staging 2.0 RC3 Adds AES-GCM Support and Fixes DOOM 2016 Multiplayer Mode

The Wine Staging development team announced the release and immediate availability of the third Release Candidate (RC) build of the upcoming Wine-Staging 2.0 open-source implementation of Windows on Unix.

Coming hot on the heels of Wine 2.0 RC3, which added a handful of improvements to various Windows apps and games, including Unreal Tournament 3, Streamline, Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II, The Magic School Bus Explores the Solar System, Chuckie Egg: The Next Batch 1.2, and WinAuth 3.5.1, Wine-Staging 2.0 Release Candidate 3 is here to add a basic implementation of AES-GCM support in bcrypt, promising to fix the multiplayer mode for the DOOM 2016 video game.

"This release implements the Galois/Counter Mode (GCM) for AES in bcrypt.dll which fixes the multiplayer mode of DOOM (2016). This feature requires a Wine build linked against GnuTLS 3.0 or higher, which should be available on most modern distributions," reads the release announcement. "To verify this, you can check the output of wine --check-libs and search for the line referring to libgnutls. If the ABI version (the part behind .so) is 28 or higher, you are ready to play DOOM online."

The gdiplus.dll component received various improvements, other than that, Wine-Staging 2.0 RC3 promises to add various improvements to the gdiplus.dll component that contains multiple libraries supporting the "GDI Window manager" in Microsoft Windows operating systems. Of course, all the bugs that have been fixed upstream in the third Release Candidate of Wine 2.0 are also present in this new development build of Wine-Staging 2.0, so we recommend checking out the Wine 2.0 RC3 (link above) if you're curious to know what's changed or improved.

Meanwhile, if you want to test drive Wine-Staging 2.0 right now, you can download the Release Candidate 3 build and compile it yourself on your favorite GNU/Linux distribution. Please try to keep in mind that this is still a pre-release version, not suitable for use in production machines, which means that it might contain bugs. If you encounter any, don't hesitate to report them on the official Wine bug tracker. The final releases of Wine 2.0 and Wine-Staging 2.0 should be out early next year.

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The WineHQ Wine development release 2.0-rc3 is now available for Linux and Mac

The WineHQ Wine development release 2.0-rc3 is now available for Linux and Mac

What's new in this release:

• Bug fixes only, we are in code freeze.

The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.

 Bugs fixed in 2.0-rc3 (total 15):

  18081  warhammer dawn of war ii crashes
  38207  Unreal Tournament 3 uninstaller fails when invoking from 'wine uninstaller' (removes wrong entries)
  38555  The Magic School Bus Explores the Solar System hangs  during installation
  39661  Font width incorrect in wineconsole
  40429  regression: "mscoree set config path for default app domain" makes .NET app not working
  40845  Uninstaller does not remove missing applications from the list
  41378  wineboot silently ignores unknown WINEARCH
  41476  Cannot paste in WinAuth 3.5.1 (32-bit)
  41609  Uninstaller entries are not removed from the registry when the uninstaller says they will be
  41732  wineconsole: changing to emacs mode requires restart
  41733  wineconsole: crashes in emacs mode when pasting (Ctrl+Y) empty buffer
  41744  Streamline crashes on launch
  41869  Wine is not compiling: undefined reference to 'HIDIOCSFEATURE'
  41909  Calling TBM_SETPOS after TBM_SETRANGEMIN/TBM_SETRANGEMAX does not draw slider control properly
  41993  Chuckie Egg: The Next Batch v1.2 no longer works

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Experimental 64 bit Wine OS X packages ready for testing

Hi all,

Recently there were multiple requests to provide experimental OS X 64 bit packages. I decided to give it a try and updated our build system and cross compiling tool-chain during the last days. Luckily the whole idea turned out to be less difficult than I thought, and I can now present you the first 64-bit Wine packages for testing. It would be great to have some testers to find out if I made a mistake during the packaging and to evaluate how good the OS X 64 bit support already works, despite the GS segment / TEB problem.

You can find the Wine-Staging 2.21 development build. I didn't use the WineHQ url because those packages are really in a very early stage, so I would like to have some more testers first before we push it to the users. The pkg installer will now provide you with an option to enable 64 bit support.

Regards,
Michael Müller

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