The WineHQ Wine development release 2.3 is now available for Linux and Mac

The WineHQ Wine development release 2.3 is now available for Linux and Mac

What's new in this release:

• Obsolete wineinstall script removed.
• More Direct3D command stream work.
• A few more Shader Model 5 instructions.
• Better underline rendering in DirectWrite.
• Improved ODBC support on 64-bit.
• Various bug fixes.

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 2.3 (total 41):

  13249  Putty 0.60: Yes/No/Cancel dialog moving with keyboard arrows
  20215  Extra mouse buttons do not work in Firefox
  23187  DeferWindowPos behaves wrong when invalid HWND
  25700  MessageBox does not display last word if string contains '&' (ampersand)
  33423  Cultures 3 multiplayer hangs while creating a game
  33717  regedit: Sorting registry keys on refreshing
  37070  Missing polygons on 3D objects in Revenant (ddraw:d3d_device7_GetClipStatus iface, clip_status stub)
  37390  Word 2007: crashes when choosing a font
  37976  Poedit 1.7.4 crashes on unimplemented function msvcr120.dll.??0_ReentrantBlockingLock@details@Concurrency@@QAE@XZ
  38354  Multiple games and applications need msvcr120.dll._except1 (Audacity 2.1.0, Tera Online)
  39895  MalwareBytes Anti-malware software needs msvcr100.dll.lldiv implementation
  40488  Revenant crashes when starting a new game
  40948  Multiple apps need api-ms-win-crt-locale-l1-1-0.dll.__initialize_lconv_for_unsigned_char
  40956  unimplemented function msvcr110.dll._Lock_shared_ptr_spin_lock when starting Zoner Photo Studio 18
  41394  3DMark2001se 'Car chase' speed regression on mesa/nouveau
  41408  Multiple applications crash on unimplemented function msvcp140.dll.??0task_continuation_context@Concurrency@@AAE@XZ
  41682  SPG-Verein 3.2 fails to install, needs advapi32.LookupSecurityDescriptorPartsA
  41725  Unimplemented function api-ms-win-crt-math-l1-1-0.dll._except1 (Starcraft 2 main menu, Firefox)
  41907  Necropolis: Unimplemented copy from WINED3D_LOCATION_TEXTURE_RGB to WINED3D_LOCATION_TEXTURE_RGB for depth/stencil buffers
  41928  Mortal Kombat X needs msvcr110.dll._get_dstbias
  42001  SC2 unimplemented function ucrtbase.dll._except1
  42129  Steam client - unimplemented function mfreadwrite.dll.MFCreateSourceReaderFromMediaSource
  42138  bug when running reaktor 6: "Unhandled exception: unimplemented function concrt140.dll.??0_ReentrantBlockingLock@details@Concurrency@@QAE@XZ called in 32-bit code (0x7b43bf1c)."
  42240  Kontact 5.6 needs concrt140.dll.??0_ReentrantBlockingLock@details@Concurrency@@QEAA@XZ
  42381  Final Fantasy V crashes
  42405  Drawn lines are too long.
  42426  ReportTool, part of SteuerSparErklaerung 2017 (german tax app) crashes on unimplemented function wlanapi.dll.WlanRegisterNotification
  42463  ZmLearn crash at startup: "Assertion 'm->state == STATE_PASSIVE' failed at pulse/mainloop.c:787, function pa_mainloop_prepare(). Aborting."
  42465  winhttp set_cookies() violates RFC6265 string comparison rules
  42469  GetOpenFileName should expand environment variables in lpstrInitialDir
  42483  Build for Ubuntu Precise fails because MPG123_IGNORE_INFOFRAME is undeclared
  42487  Free Devanagari font Samanata crashes during GPOS processing
  42490  Assertion failure when clicking boxes in altWinDirStat
  42504  Computemark 2.1 runs with Wine 2.2 but black benchmark window..
  42506  STALKER Shadow of Chernobyl crashes on startup
  42507  Final Fantasy XI Online: Intermittent crashes.
  42509  The Witcher 3 hangs the system on startup
  42511  winnt.h: invalid conversion from 'void*' to 'volatile char*'
  42516  Kholat hangs on splash screen
  42547  winex11.drv compilation fails on systems without XInput2 support
  42567  Acid Pro Trial 7.0e  fails to install

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The WineHQ Wine development release 2.2 is now available for Linux and Mac

The WineHQ Wine development release 2.2 is now available for Linux and Mac

What's new in this release:

• Windows version set to Windows 7 for new prefixes.
• More steps towards the Direct3D command stream.
• Still more Shader Model 5 instructions.
• Initial support for double-buffered theme painting.
• Various bug fixes.

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 2.2 (total 35):

  13365  Missing text in IFC Markets Terminal Graphics
  14939  Black & White: DXTC to ARGB converter not implemented
  17495  Open dialog crashes if the desktop folder is at a Unicode path that cannot be represented in the current locale
  18477  Need For Speed Most Wanted crashes after accepting video settings changes
  19888  Venom Codename: Outbreak - initial menu screen is black (no menu items)
  25625  Implement PROPSHEET_InsertPage
  26603  iMesh 10 crashes at startup (needs wmvcore.dll.WMCreateReaderPriv)
  32414  Samsung TV SDK 3.5.2 Emulator crashes on startup (needs 'Shell Image Data Factory', CLSID '{66e4e4fb-f385-4dd0-8d74-a2efd1bc6178}')
  33318  3DMark2001 SE: upgrading to Wine 1.5.27 reduces performance score by 20%
  36213  valgrind shows some possible leaks under crypt32/tests/sip.c
  36247  VHD Attach v3.90 (.NET app) needs virtdisk.dll
  36341  valgrind shows some possible leaks under crypt32/tests/base64.c
  36365  valgrind shows a TON of leaks in ieframe/tests/webbrowser.c
  36395  valgrind shows a possible leak in inetcomm/tests/mimeole.c
  36557  valgrind shows some invalid writes in ieframe/tests/webbrowser.c
  36662  valgrind shows a few memory leaks in ws2_32/tests/sock.c
  37398  Urban Assault black screen when using software renderer and DDSCAPS_SYSTEMMEMORY
  37399  Urban Assault black screen when using software renderer (palette problem)
  38485  New Marvel Heroes 2015 Launcher crashes on unimplemented function dhcpcsvc.dll.DhcpRequestParams
  39048  MIDI Clock Messages are Corrupted Between Wine and ALSA
  39655  Enemy Front crashes almost immediately after launch
  39910  PDF XChange Editor annotations formatting not displayed after saving
  40952  improper escaping of quotes in command line
  41206  Artemis 2.4.0 crashed upon start
  41448  Civilization II Unhandled page fault on read access
  41648  AmiBroker 6.00 fails, when run, with raise_exception Unhandled exception
  41753  Steep (Ubisoft) needs iphlpapi.dll.GetUnicastIpAddressEntry
  41830  Updating group box text causes garbage
  41926  Zafehouse demo crashes with Call from 0x7b43c14c to unimplemented function ddraw.dll.GetSurfaceFromDC, aborting
  41971  Hitman Absolution crashes at startup at WineD3D on Windows
  42094  winamp needs unimplemented function ntoskrnl.exe.IoStopTimer
  42355  Artifacts in GTAIV appear and disappear when driving
  42361  DX Library: PlaySoundFile() doesn't play MP3 files with specific extra headers
  42365  Unimplemented function msvcr120.dll.fesetenv
  42367  KiriKiri Z based games: main screen doesn't update.

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The WineHQ Wine development release 2.1 is now available for Linux and Mac

The WineHQ Wine development release 2.1 is now available for Linux and Mac

What's new in this release:

• Many fixes that were deferred during code freeze.
• More Shader Model 5 instructions.
• A number of improvements to MIME message handling.
• Line breaking improvements in DirectWrite.
• HID bus service now running by default.
• Direct2D rendering improvements.
• Various bug fixes.
• Source release tarballs now use xz compression.

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 2.1 (total 62):

  12714  SimCity 2000: crashes when saving or opening a file.
  14897  DirectDraw games (Jojo's Fashion Show 2: Las Cruces demo, The Chosen: Well of Souls) try to lock surface with invalid dwSize
  17923  No music in X-COM: UFO Defense
  18631  regedit gives wrong error when renaming keys
  20026  Metal Fatigue crashes on file enumeration (Game saves, skirmish maps)
  23547  Railroad Tycoon 2: Platinum (Steam) crashes when setting resolution to 800x600
  24112  Xara Designer Pro 6 demo crashes when you select 'continue trial'
  25516  Sims 3 flickering white textures
  26264  Tanktics won't start
  26531  Frogger crashes upon exiting game
  27580  Wine Notepad command line parser eats the first 2 letters when the path starts with / (it should only do this for valid command line options)
  28982  Application Zero no Kiseki crashes when it tries to play 44100Hz Stereo WAVE music
  30308  Property sheet fails to display Page Title
  31113  Civilization V crashes after specific amount of game turns
  32627  MiroVideoConverter setup gives error "Internal error occurred"
  34171  Actua Soccer 2 API error when loading game from menu
  34960  Civilization V crashes when loading game
  35155  PDF-Xchange Viewer chrashes when a lot of documents opened
  35993  Graphical Glitches in Agarest Generations of War
  36501  Dyn Updater v4.1.10 'DynUpConfig' tool crashes on startup ('Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration' WMI class 'Description' property missing)
  37034  Stars!: Crashes on startup
  38192  Harry Potter 7 Part 2 crash at begins
  38773  msvcr100/110/120 is missing reader_writer_lock (required for MSVC 2013)
  39180  Witcher 3 Wild hunt Wine 1.7.50 not working
  39920  Nanocad 5.: file open/import dialog does not open
  40133  No Limits 2 help system needs GetOverhangMetrics()
  40392  ComicRack 0.9.x (.NET 4.5 app) hangs/crashes on startup when executing WMI query
  40592  wininet:http test regression
  40629  Noto Nastaliq Urdu font crashes notepad during shaping
  40938  UE4 games (Ether One Redux, Into the Stars) crash while loading with "BackBuffer->GetResource() has 3 refs, expected 1" error
  41052  Failure to create D3D9 device on i915
  41175  Firefox tooltips are partly black
  41324  Everspace (UE4) requires bfi opcode
  41579  Rush for Berlin Gold crashes after the intro videos
  41623  Odallus The Dark Call crashes while starting if a force feedback enabled controller is plugged in
  41706  Adam Standalone demo:  Backend can't handle opcode ubfe
  41747  HYPACK 2016 crashes trying to set "AllowXsltScript" and "AllowDocumentFunction" properties
  41905  The Solus Project: Backend can't handle opcode bfrev
  42022  The Magic School Bus Explores The Solar System needs msvideo.dll16.DRAWDIBPROFILEDISPLAY
  42023  The Magic School Bus Explores The Solar System crashes on launch; appears to be missing some files
  42078  Dungeons & Dragons: Chronicles of Mystara needs d3dx11_43.dll.D3DX11CreateShaderResourceViewFromMemory
  42093  Git for Windows 2.7.0 needs unimplemented function rstrtmgr.dll.RmShutdown
  42096  Steam -> RPGMaker 2003 needs unimplemented function KERNEL32.dll.BaseFlushAppcompatCache
  42141  Star Ruler 2 black screen on macOS and FreeBSD
  42159  Sega Bug crashes immediately
  42163  Sid Meier's Railroads! crash loading multiplayer lobby
  42166  Custom application needs mf3216.dll (32-bit to 16-bit metafile converter)
  42187  Radeon R9 285 GPU incorrectly recognized
  42206  Gauntlet character screen background is corrupted.
  42212  WOLF RPG Editor: Division by zero when winegstreamer is enabled
  42218  mshtml/tests/dom crashes in xul while running test_doc_elem
  42220  secur32/tests/ntlm crashes in ntlm_EncryptMessage due to null pointer
  42221  ws2_32/tests/sock fails with "TransmitFile header buffer did not match!"
  42225  MSRX v2015a (magnetic stripe reader app) crashed on plugplay:hidraw_set_feature_report Output feature buffer too small
  42244  QQ 2013 needs ntoskrnl.exe.IoCreateFile
  42245  QQ 2013 needs ntoskrnl.exe.KeClearEvent
  42257  Warpath 21st Century does not have sound
  42299  Ecue Lighting Suite installer fails to start, needs ntdll.NtLoadKey2
  42303  Magic: The Gathering Online 4.0 crashes when entering the battle
  42306  One Note Free Retail installer crashes in xmllite
  42312  ShellView does not display items attributes
  42315  Piriform Speccy 1.3 needs setupapi.dll.CM_Get_Child_Ex

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The WineHQ Wine stable release 2.0 is now available for Linux and Mac

The WineHQ Wine stable release 2.0 is now available for Linux and Mac

The Wine team is proud to announce that the stable release Wine 2.0 is now available.
This release represents over a year of development effort and around 6,600 individual changes. The main highlights are the support for Microsoft Office 2013, and the 64-bit support on macOS.
It also contains a lot of improvements across the board, as well as support for many new applications and games. See the release notes below for a summary of the major changes.

This is the first release made on the new time-based, annual release schedule. This implies that some features that are being worked on but couldn't be finished in time have been deferred to the next development cycle. This includes in particular the Direct3D command stream, the full HID support, the Android graphics driver, and message-mode pipes.

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

 

What's new in Wine 2.0
======================


*** Text and fonts

- More DirectWrite features are implemented, including:
  - Drawing of underlines.
  - Renderer sees drawing effect associated with text segment.
  - Support for color fonts in COLR/CPAL format.
  - Initial font fallback support, builtin data for some of CJK ranges.
  - Support for Wine-specific font replacement registry settings.
  - Improved font metrics resolution in case of incomplete or
    ambiguous font data.
  - Support for EUDC font collection based on current registry
    settings.

- Font embedding in PDF files is supported.

- The RichEdit control supports bulleted and numbered lists.

- Bold glyphs can be synthesized also for bitmap fonts.

- Character tables are based on version 9.0.0 of the Unicode Standard.


*** Graphics

- Window, bitmap and GDI DC render targets are implemented in Direct2D.

- A wide range of optimizations make the DIB engine noticeably faster.

- GDI graphic paths are reimplemented for better compatibility; they
  are also supported with enhanced metafiles.

- Gradients are supported in GDI enhanced metafiles.

- Metafiles are better supported in GdiPlus.

- The macOS graphics driver supports a high-resolution ("Retina")
  rendering mode. It can be enabled by setting "RetinaMode" to "Y"
  under HKCU\Software\Wine\Mac Driver.


*** User interface

- The clipboard support is reimplemented for better compatibility;
  copy & paste of HTML text is also improved. Drag & drop works more
  smoothly.

- In desktop mode, the taskbar displays running applications and
  allows switching between them.

- Version 4 of the system tray notification protocol is implemented.

- In desktop mode, some less common display resolutions like 640x400
  and 1280x960 are supported.

- More user interface elements scale correctly with high-DPI screens.


*** Direct3D

- More Direct3D 10 and 11 features are implemented, including:
  - Several more shader model 4 and 5 shader instructions.
  - Several more resource formats.
  - Integer vertex shader inputs.
  - Typeless resources.
  - sRGB read/write support.
  - Depth and stencil clears.
  - Depth-only draws.
  - Array textures.
  - Index buffer offsets.
  - Unordered access views.
  - Primitive restart.

- The WineD3D graphics card database recognizes more graphics
  cards. When available, the GLX_MESA_query_renderer GLX extension is
  used to provide more accurate information about the graphics card.

- The (system) memory layout of texture resources more closely matches
  Windows. This affects applications that write beyond the bounds of a
  MIP-level, like for example League of Legends.

- The implementation of non-maskable multisample anti-aliasing is more
  correct. In particular, when the ARB_internalformat_query extension
  is available, only quality levels corresponding to specific sample
  counts supported by the OpenGL implementation are reported to the
  application.  Previously, reporting a large number of non-maskable
  multisample anti-aliasing quality levels would break some
  applications.

- Direct3D 11 feature levels are supported.

- Retrieving a GDI device context from DXGI surfaces is
  implemented. This is used for rendering to DXGI surfaces using GDI.

- More DXGI swapchain methods are implemented, particularly those
  relating to switching display modes and switching to and from
  fullscreen.

- When ARB_clip_control and ARB_viewport_array are both supported,
  position fixups are slightly more efficient.

- The APPLE_client_storage extension is no longer used. It caused more
  problems than it solved.

- New HKCU\Software\Wine\Direct3D registry keys:
  - "CheckFloatConstants" (REG_SZ).
    Setting this to "enabled" enables additional run-time bounds
    checking on relatively addressed shader constant access. This
    helps some (broken) applications, but comes at a performance cost.
  - "MaxShaderModelHS", "MaxShaderModelDS" and "MaxShaderModelCS" (REG_DWORD).
    These limit the maximum supported shader model for hull, domain,
    and compute shaders respectively, analogous to the existing
    "MaxShaderModelVS", "MaxShaderModelGS", "MaxShaderModelPS"
    keys. Note that these shader types are new in shader model 5, so
    setting this to anything lower than 5 will effectively disable
    them.
  - "SampleCount" (REG_DWORD).
    Setting this registry key will force the multisample anti-aliasing
    sample count to the specified value for swapchain render
    targets. This allows anti-aliasing to be forced on applications
    that do not otherwise support anti-aliasing themselves, but may
    have no effect or break the application depending on the specific
    application.


*** DirectDraw

- Retrieving a GDI device context from a DirectDraw surface is
  implemented in a more accurate way. In particular, retrieving a GDI
  device context for a "client memory" surface will retrieve a GDI
  device context that's backed by that same client memory.

- A number of fixes related to vertex transformation in early
  DirectDraw versions have been made.


*** D3DX

- The support for the D3DX 9 effect framework is more complete, in
  particular:
  - There is initial support for preshaders.
  - Many more effect states are correctly applied.

- D3DX 10 and 11 asynchronous data loaders are implemented.

- The d3dx9 DLLs no longer forward to d3dx9_36, but are built from the
  same source instead.

- The d3dcompiler DLLs no longer forward to d3dcompiler_43, but are
  built from the same source instead.


*** Sound and video

- GStreamer version 1.0 is supported for audio and video streams.

- DirectSound supports downmixing from 5.1 and 4.0 formats to stereo.


*** Internet and networking

- The Web Services API is supported. The XML reader and writer are
  implemented, along with support for serializing many common data
  types. Basic support for making SOAP calls is also included. This
  enables Microsoft Office 2013 online activation.

- The Gecko engine is updated to the version from Firefox 47.

- IDN name resolution is supported.

- Various SHA hashes are supported using GnuTLS.

- Looking up the host address prioritizes non-loopback interfaces,
  which fixes a number of networked games.

- XML writing is faster for large files.

- Winsock supports the IP_DONTFRAGMENT socket option.

- Long URLs are handled correctly.

- JavaScript performance is improved. JSON is also supported.


*** Internationalization

- There is proper support for the Persian locale.

- Uniscribe better supports right-to-left languages.

- Japanese Hiragana, Katakana and full-width/half-width character
  mapping is implemented.


*** 64-bit support

- 64-bit applications are supported on macOS.

- The Mono engine has 64-bit support.

- C++ exceptions are handled correctly on x86-64, including nested
  exceptions and collided unwinds.

- The debug registers are supported on x86-64.


*** Built-in applications

- The 'winebrowser' helper application supports multiple arguments to
  invoke the host browser or mailer.

- The 'reg' command-line registry utility supports the 'query'
  command, all registry data types, and has more robust command line
  handling.

- The 'winhlp32' help viewer properly displays tables and images.

- The 'wineconsole' tool better supports East-Asian fonts. Color
  handling is also improved.


*** Build environment

- Import libraries can optionally be built as static libraries
  similarly to Windows, instead of .def files. This avoids the need
  for a separate .def.a library file.

- The IDL compiler supports "midl_pragma warning" directives.

- Cross-compilation with the Mingw-w64 Clang and ARM toolchains is
  supported.


*** Kernel

- A new driver architecture is in place for supporting HID devices.
  This follows the Windows model, with platform-specific bus drivers
  and HID minidrivers. It will be used in future releases to unify
  support for HID devices, and potentially also for USB device
  support.

- Loading multiple kernel drivers inside the same user-mode process is
  supported. This is used for HID drivers.

- A directory cache is implemented, to allow returning files in the
  expected order and avoid relying on platform-specific system calls.

- Many more API Set libraries (the oddly-named api-ms-win-* dlls) are
  implemented.

- Interrupt 0x2d (used for debugger checks) is emulated.


*** Miscellaneous

- Read interval timeouts are supported for serial ports.

- Variables starting with 'QT_' are filtered from the Unix environment
  since they may have unwanted effects on Qt-based Windows
  applications.

- Support for joystick button mapping and force feedback effects is
  improved.

- Many stream classes are implemented in MSVCIRT, the old I/O stream
  C++ runtime.

- Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) implements some more WBEM
  classes.

- Most remaining OpenMP functions are implemented.

- Uninstallation support in MSI is improved.


*** New external dependencies

- libudev is used for HID device support.

- GStreamer version 1.0 is used instead of version 0.10.

- GnuTLS version 2.10 or higher is required for the SHA hashing
  functions to be supported.


*** Configuration changes

- A number of DLLs are now built separately from a common source,
  instead of forwarding to a master DLL. This means that native DLL
  overrides need to be set on the specific version of the DLL being
  loaded, instead of the master one. This applies to the d3dx9_*,
  d3dcompiler_*, xaudio2_*, xapofx1_* and x3daudio1_* DLLs.


*** Release numbering

- Starting with 2.0, version numbering will change: stable release
  updates will follow the existing scheme: 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.0.3, etc.
  but the developemnt branch will drop the intermediate number: the
  releases will be numbered 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, etc. leading to the next
  stable release, which will be called 3.0.

--
Alexandre Julliard
julliard@winehq.org

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The WineHQ Wine development release 2.0-rc6 is now available for Linux and Mac

The WineHQ Wine development release 2.0-rc6 is now available for Linux and Mac

Barring last minute regressions, this is expected to be the last release candidate for 2.0.
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-rc6 (total 21):

  11179  NO$GBA 2.6a debugger GUI buttons are not stacked
  19862  CodeCreatures crashes.
  28672  VirtualDub: crash when using directx for display panes
  33859  Visual Web Developer Express 2008 crashes when clicking "Browse" (bug in PropertySheet common control)
  34127  FIFA 2000 demo crashes after 'Press Any Key'
  35669  Space Giraffe: text between levels (and on level selection screen) is corrupted / unreadable
  36525  Ctrl+C does not copy in the Battle.net chat scrollback
  38305  SMARegisTry Backup installer: corrupted window title
  38845  Battle.net launcher shows white screen with WINEPREFIX Windows version > 'Windows XP' (builtin 'd3dcompiler_46.dll' is not mature enough)
  38850  crypt32/tests: chain test fails on Debian Jessie
  39642  Battle.net crashes when you try to resize the window when "allow the window manager to decorate the windows" is unchecked.
  40096  Pendulumania: Black screen
  40781  KSP Trajectory Optimization Tool (using MATLAB Runtime (MCR)) "Could not successfully parse URI string"
  41001  64-bit Core Temp 1.x kernel driver 'ALSysIO.sys' crashes on unimplemented function ntoskrnl.exe.RtlUnwindEx
  41218  curl 7.50: HTTPS fails with InitializeSecurityContext failed: SEC_E_INVALID_TOKEN
  41290  DirectShow applications: MP3 playback is broken if winegstreamer is disabled
  42020  Tompi Jones fails creating user profile
  42211  redefinition of typedef 'REFERENCE_TIME'
  42228  bcrypt:bcrypt test regression (test_aes)
  42229  advapi32:eventlog test regression (privilege issue in test_start_trace)
  42243  3DMark11 installer crashes with access violation in Freetype because font data is released too early

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The WineHQ Wine maintenance release 1.8.6 is now available for Linux and Mac

The WineHQ Wine maintenance release 1.8.6 is now available for Linux and Mac

What's new in this release:

• Fix a regression introduced in 1.8.5 (#41627)
• Various bug fixes.
• A few more cards added to the GPU description table.

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 1.8.6 (total 35):

  27671  ComboFix fails to install
  29661  wineboot unable to create win32 prefix if the directory already exists
  29916  ElsterFormular cannot make use of default PDF viewer (e. g. Okular)
  30368  AMD Radeon 6480g detected as ATI Radeon 3200
  30673  Smart Cutter 1.9.4 crashes when the button OPEN is pressed
  32694  NVIDIA GTX 690 not in the list of recognized cards.
  33636  wine cmd: invalid behaviour of '&' operator
  35025  Max Payne 2 Demo: checkboxes in options dialog have missing window styles
  35658  Anthem Room Correction 2 v1.0.1 reports 'Unknown COM error 0x80004001' (needs IAudioEndpointVolume::GetVolumeRange method implementation)
  36101  Wow Hangs at login screen when coming from battle.net launcher (only with gxapi Opengl)
  39447  Unimplemented function hid.dll.HidP_TranslateUsagesToI8042ScanCodes
  39734  ProtectDisc Driver 11: acedrv11.sys crashes
  40448  Final Fantasy XI: Missing character models, potential black screen and crashes
  40540  ReadIntervalTimeout is ignored if there is data in the buffer when ReadFile is called and no data arrives after that
  40746  Microsoft Expression Web 4 crashes when opening site, needs rpcrt4.dll.NdrAsyncServerCall
  40861  Kingsoft Office 2012 needs ntoskrnl.exe.IoAttachDevice
  40999  Epic Games Launcher needs ws2_32.InetNtopW
  41021  Zombie Army trilogy needs msvcr100.dll._fpieee_flt
  41050  Age of Mythology: Extended Edition needs api-ms-win-crt-stdio-l1-1-0.dll.__stdio_common_vswscanf
  41090  Multiple games (Starcraft 2, UE4 games) require vcruntime140.dll.__intrinsic_setjmp
  41142  gcc6: server build warnings
  41224  WineD3D8 crashes on Windows with GTAVC and i915-class video
  41284  dbghelp_dwarf: parse_cie_details unknown CIE version 4 (clang/mesa/valgrind)
  41308  iconfig.exe needs msvcr120.??0_Condition_variable@details@Concurrency@@QAE@XZ
  41343  Ellisys Visual USB needs unimplemented function newdev.dll.DiInstallDriverA
  41389  ComboFix fails to install: complains about missing HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\hivelist
  41405  Hornbill Supportworks Client 7.6.0: crashes with ExtFloodFill when open 'Incident Details' pane
  41428  The Forest: Terminal gets spammed with errors if Steam is running
  41570  Xenia emulator needs unimplemented function api-ms-win-core-rtlsupport-l1-1.RtlLookupFunctionEntry called in 64-bit code
  41602  Videos do not play in Age of Empires
  41627  MS Word 2010 crash when exiting on Wine stable 1.8.5.
  41640  add rx 480 into directx.c
  41642  S3CC921 programmer app needs ntoskrnl.exe.KeSetTimerEx
  41651  WScript object name on wine is case sensitive which should not be the case (vbscript)
  41705  Build fails in dpnet: redefinition of typedef 'SOCKADDR'

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Status update for Microsoft Office 2013 on Linux with CodeWeavers CrossOver

Back on November 12th 2015 I posted about Microsoft Office 2013 running on Linux with CodeWeavers upcoming CrossOver 15 release. Unfortunately, I got a little ahead of myself and thought Office 2013 would be supported by now. But due to the complexity of supporting such a large piece of software like a office suite it's taken a little longer then what I expected.

Here is a quick overview of Microsoft Office 2013 status on Linux once again.

  Microsoft Office 2013 (code named Office 15) is a version of Microsoft Office, a productivity suite for Microsoft Windows. It is the successor to Microsoft Office 2010 and the predecessor to Microsoft Office 2016. It includes extended file format support, user interface updates and support for touch among its new features. Office 2013 is suitable for IA-32 and x64 systems and requires Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 or a later version of either. A version of Office 2013 comes included on Windows RT devices. Mainstream support ends on April 10, 2018. Extended support ends on April 11, 2023.

Development on this version of Microsoft Office was started in 2010 and ended on October 11, 2012, when Microsoft Office 2013 was released to manufacturing. Microsoft released Office 2013 to general availability on January 29, 2013. This version includes new features such as integration support for online services (including OneDrive, Outlook.com, Skype, Yammer and Flickr), improved format support for Office Open XML (OOXML), OpenDocument (ODF) and Portable Document Format (PDF) and support for multi-touch interfaces.

Microsoft Office 2013 comes in twelve different editions, including three editions for retail outlets, two editions for volume licensing channel, five subscription-based editions available through Microsoft Office 365 program, the web application edition known as Office Web Apps and the Office RT edition made for tablets and mobile devices. Office Web Apps are available free of charge on the web although enterprises may obtain on-premises installations for a price. Microsoft Office applications may be obtained individually; this includes Microsoft Visio, Microsoft Project and Microsoft SharePoint Designer which are not included in any of the twelve editions.


So, What has changed sense November 2015? Office 2013 can now log into MSN and download templates just like on Windows. DirectWrite has also seen many improvements over the past six months. It looks like most of the UI bugs have been fixed now. The installation and overall stability will have improved and I would hazard to say the registration has improved.

Carom Wills the Quality Assurance representative at CodeWeavers posted a few days back a screen-shot of Word 2013 logged into MSN, just look at the top right corner and you will see Cody Weaver as the user.

 Specs :

Distro : Ubuntu Linux 14.04.3 LTS
CrossOver Release : 15.2 pre release build
Microsoft Office : Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2013

You can go to MSDN and download Microsoft Office Professional Plus and get a free 60 day trial here. After you have registered and got the download it's time to run the install with CrossOver Linux 15 on your Linux Computer. Keep in mind this will install and run on any of the popular modern Linux distributions, Ubuntu is in no way a requirement.

Word 2013 on Linux with CrossOver

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CodeWeavers has released CrossOver 15 for Linux and Mac

CODEWEAVERS LAUNCHES CROSSOVER 15
Update includes latest Wine 1.8 and new user interface

SAINT PAUL, Minn (December 8, 2015)  CodeWeavers, Inc., developer of CrossOver the easiest, fastest way to run Windows software on Mac and Linux announced today the release of CrossOver 15. With CrossOver 15, you can run thousands of Windows software titles, without the need for a Windows OS license.

CrossOver 15 incorporates the latest release of Wine, the open-source technology that allows Windows applications to be run on Unix. Wine 1.8 incorporates more than a year worth of improvements since the last major release of Wine. This includes better support for PulseAudio, better video decoding, improved OLE embedding, and many other improvements. The net effect is that CrossOver 15 users will be able to run many more Windows applications, with enhancements to their performance and graphics.

CrossOver 15 also contains notable improvements to its graphical user interface. The Mac GUI has been enhanced with a new tool for installing Windows software, improving and simplifying this process. This completes the overhaul of the Mac GUI that was begun with CrossOver 14. The Linux GUI has also been completely re-written to offer substantial improvements in simplicity, a more modern feel, and more congruency with the Mac GUI.

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.

CrossOver 15 Changelog :

 15.0.0 CrossOver - December 8, 2015

• Mac OS X:
  • The User Interface of CrossOver's Software Installer has been redone. Installing applications with CrossOver is simpler than ever before.
  • CrossOver now includes a High Resolution Mode to allow compatible Windows applications to take full advantage of Macs with Retina displays.
  • CrossOver now requires OS X 10.8 or greater. CrossOver 15 will not run on OS X 10.7 or earlier versions.
• Linux:
  • CrossOver now uses PulseAudio for sound if it is available on the system.
  • CrossOver has a completely redone User Interface on Linux.
• Application Support:
  • Quicken 2016 now runs in CrossOver.
• General Improvements:
  • Wine 1.8 brings thousands of updates to CrossOver's core compatibility with Windows applications.
  • Dual screen Linux setups will run Microsoft Office better than before.

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Wine 1.8-rc2 has been Released

The WineHQ Wine development release 1.8-rc2 is now available.

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 1.8-rc2 (total 45):

   5627  Install can not find WORDPAD for README
   6176  Rhino 3D v3 (CAD app) crashes on startup (OpenGL/DIB driver needs to return max index for NULL PIXELFORMATDESCRIPTOR)
   9095  DM Genie 2.x fails on startup with 'ITypeInfo_fnInvoke failed to convert param 1 to VT_VARIANT|VT_ARRAY|VT_BYREF from VT_I2|VT_BYREF'
   9435  MDI child window outside main window gives scrollbars
  18378  NFS 4 Road Challenge: Installation of 4.50 patch fails
  20948  Eclipse (Europa) Links from Welcome window do not work
  22417  Roblox fails to start games, reports 'RobloxApp(13): Unknown error 0x800703E6'
  22691  Drag-and-drop doesn't work in CDBurnerXP 4.2+ audio disc mode
  24208  Eclipse (Europa) - html-based Welcome window is blank
  24473  IRPF Bolsa software doesn't work
  24747  MP3VCR 0.4.17 (VB6 app) crashes when clicking 'presets' button or doing other actions (change skin, load radio station)
  25064  Solo on Keyboard 9.0.5: Clicking on HTML page no effect.
  28029  Gunz launcher runs explorer instead of the game's launcher
  28589  Poor performance in Diner Dash 5
  31537  Encore 5 crashes when opening .enc files
  31629  Diner Dash 2: Moving mouse causes graphics to jump around
  31998  Avseq crashes in menu when multisampling enabled in Wine
  32006  Multiple games and applications need 'IDXGIOutput::GetDesc' method implementation (Direct3D10 SDK samples, Need for Speed Most Wanted 2012)
  33258  Visio 2010 and Office 2010 can't be installed in the same prefix
  33720  user32:menu
  33736  Excel Viewer 2007: "Open" button does not work on Vista+
  34175  Shift-backspace doesn't work as backspace in cmd
  35418  some drawing operations in Mixcraft 6 are very slow with client-side graphics enabled
  35422  Dashlane (password and forms-fill manager) fails to install
  35610  The of user32:msg tests fail in the Hebrew locale
  35655  3Dmark 2000 shows considerable performance drop after Wine 1.7.13 (expensive GetPixelFormat() called too frequently)
  35734  Pokemon Zeta 1.3.28 crashes on startup (ASProtect SKE v2.72)
  35975  Comanche 3 shows only gray screen
  36081  mshtml/dom test crashes
  36086  Installation of Half-Life Opposing Force fails due to file "ereg.dll" being read-only
  36900  Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds Clone Campaigns: no video (regression)
  36932  BreezeBrowser: cannot expand directories in file browser
  36970  Blue Iris 3.x (video surveillance software) crashes after 30 seconds
  37358  FEAR 1: Installer says "wrong serial" even if entered correctly
  37859  BOINC 6.x/7.x take a long time to "start" when launched from boincmgr
  37939  Keyboard doesnt work for Project IGI 2
  37944  Origin's updater crashes before finishing the download process
  38669  IBM Endpoint Manager (IEM) Console 9.1 installer hangs at 'Evaluating launch conditions' stage
  39039  Popup tooltips missing and buttons don't work on mageia.org/en/downloads/
  39247  user32:sysparams fails in a Japanese locale
  39445  Drag and drop in Foxit Reader doesn't work anymore
  39536  Multiple games render black/garbled screen when anti-aliasing enabled (Guild Wars, Eve Online, Gear Grinder)
  39635  Hungarian Excel Viewer 2007: "Open" dialog on Win8 does not refresh correctly
  39648  MTA: San Andreas 1.5: failure to process 64-bit FairplayKD.sys driver IRPs due to incorrect alignment/packing of I/O manager structures
  39665  dinput: MotoGP 3 demo fails to accept key presses to control the driver.

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Microsoft Office 2013 on Linux with CodeWeavers CrossOver

Microsoft Office 2013 (code named Office 15) is a version of Microsoft Office, a productivity suite for Microsoft Windows. It is the successor to Microsoft Office 2010 and the predecessor to Microsoft Office 2016. It includes extended file format support, user interface updates and support for touch among its new features. Office 2013 is suitable for IA-32 and x64 systems and requires Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 or a later version of either. A version of Office 2013 comes included on Windows RT devices. Mainstream support ends on April 10, 2018. Extended support ends on April 11, 2023.

Development on this version of Microsoft Office was started in 2010 and ended on October 11, 2012, when Microsoft Office 2013 was released to manufacturing. Microsoft released Office 2013 to general availability on January 29, 2013. This version includes new features such as integration support for online services (including OneDrive, Outlook.com, Skype, Yammer and Flickr), improved format support for Office Open XML (OOXML), OpenDocument (ODF) and Portable Document Format (PDF) and support for multi-touch interfaces.

Microsoft Office 2013 comes in twelve different editions, including three editions for retail outlets, two editions for volume licensing channel, five subscription-based editions available through Microsoft Office 365 program, the web application edition known as Office Web Apps and the Office RT edition made for tablets and mobile devices. Office Web Apps are available free of charge on the web although enterprises may obtain on-premises installations for a price. Microsoft Office applications may be obtained individually; this includes Microsoft Visio, Microsoft Project and Microsoft SharePoint Designer which are not included in any of the twelve editions.

In the upcoming release of CodeWeavers CrossOver Linux 15 we will see many new and exciting changes over the current CrossOver 14 edition that's available now. Don't get me wrong CrossOver 14 is a nice release and runs many productivity applications and games that we care about today.

CrossOver Linux 15 is a whole new ball game, it will come with Microsoft Office 2013 functionality, the beginnings of DirectX 10 and 11 support, a newly refreshed and modern Graphical User Interface (GUI) and incorporate just over a full years worth of Wine from WineHQ changes into the release. And most likely will ship with the upcoming Wine 1.8 stable release or a variant of that release.

Not only will we get a newly updated Graphical User Interface (GUI) we will also get a totally new version of Wine with many DirectX 10 and 11 enhancements. So the day of playing DirectX 10 and 11 games on Linux is soon approaching. I can only imagine the effects on work productivity as we will be like children in a candy store once again.

So on to the main article, this isn't a how-to or user guide but simply a news post. CrossOver 15 is still under extremely heavy development and testing. This news post is to inform everyone of a small sample of whats soon coming our way.

Specs :

Distro : Ubuntu Linux 14.04.3 LTS
CrossOver Release : 15.0 pre release build
Microsoft Office : Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2013

You can go to MSDN and download Microsoft Office Professional Plus and get a free 60 day trial here. After you have registered and got the download it's time to run the install with CrossOver Linux 15 on your Linux Computer. Keep in mind this will install and run on any of the popular modern Linux distributions, Ubuntu is in no way a requirement.

CodeWeavers CrossOver 15 Software Installer

CodeWeavers CrossOver 15 Software Installer Office 2013

Starting the Office 2013 install on Linux

Microsoft Office Professional Plus License Agreement

Choose your Office 2013 installation

Office 2013 install has finished

Now the real fun begins, time to run Microsoft word 2013 for the first time on Linux.

Microsoft Word 2013 is now running on Linux, Thank You CodeWeavers!

PowerPoint 2013 running on Linux with CrossOver Linux.

Hello from PowerPoint 2013 on Linux with CrossOver Linux.

Microsoft Excel 2013 on Linux with CrossOver Linux.

Microsoft Outlook 2013 on Linux with CrossOver Linux.

Microsoft Publisher 2013 on Linux with CrossOver Linux.

Wow, was that fun or what? and this is just a small sample of what's to come in the upcoming CrossOver Linux 15 release. If you want to help support future Wine development and CodeWeavers just go over to CodeWeavers online store and pick up your copy of CrossOver for Mac or Linux. When you use promo code ( TOM23 ) you will receive a instant 20% discount and help support future development. I know you want to play some DirectX 10 and 11 games on your Linux or Mac computer.

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Two Weeks in CrossOver Microsoft Office 2013 installs and launches

It's been another busy two weeks in Testing Land:

We spent time reading through and updating our Fedora documentation to ensure we mention dnf instead of yum, where appropriate. During this review we consolidated some of our Linux sound troubleshooting pages and flagged out-of-date pages so they will no longer show up in Google searches.

Our bi-weekly testing cycle with Wine 1.7.46 did not reveal any new regressions within CrossOver.

We retested bugs with Excellerate and created a basic CrossTie for the application.

The developer of Virtual DJ Studio 7 stopped by our site to leave feedback:


His words inspired us to create a CrossTie of Virtual DJ Studio and try it out on El Capitan.


For CrossOver 15 development, we added the extension .cxlog to all log files collected on Linux systems. This has been in place on the Mac side for a long time, and has been a much-requested feature to implement on Linux by those who use both platforms. We also tested a new feature on CrossOver Linux that will allow users to clean out the cache of installer files CrossOver downloads. A request to add this feature to CrossOver Mac is now in place.

We retested and gave feedback on the design of our registration dialog. While working on this portion of the product, we reviewed all the old bugs in our tracker regarding the registration dialog and determined that it is more precise to say 'activation code' and 'unlock' rather than 'register' and 'serial code'. (And yes, we actually argue about these things, vigorously, at the lunch table.)

We verified the names that application windows receive on launch in CrossOver and outlined what still needs work. We identified steps that lead to an odd error message in CrossOver Linux and resolved that issue for CrossOver 15. During this testing, we identified conditions that make installation unusually slow in CrossOver and we're exploring ways to resolve the issue.

We confirmed the resolution of a crash during installation on Linux systems.

In rather major news, we ran our first successful tests of Microsoft Office 2013! The most interesting part is that this series of testing was done with Wine and not CrossOver. While the code that allows for this testing to be completed is not yet in Wine, our developers believe their patches are relatively clean and they are upstreaming each patch as soon as it is ready. The Wine community should see this work begin trickling into the main Wine tree on a daily and weekly basis. As our work is completed, Microsoft Office 2013 will come closer and closer to installing on Mac and Linux systems with mainstream Wine and its derivatives.

That said, we should note that not all Microsoft Office 2013 installers are functional. As with previous versions of Office, there are various flavors of the Office installer that will need work. This includes downloadable versions, cd installers, live updaters, and various distributors. We cannot possible test every installation version of Office 2013.

And now a breakdown of what we saw in each application this week:

Word 2013 launches but typing is invisible. The document portion of Word appears blank though text is being typed. (Marketing jokes that invisible text may not actually be all that big a deal; but Testing thinks that it is.)

Excel 2013 launches and hangs. This result was inconsistent, in that it was possible to launch Excel 2013 on some systems and do data entry, but not on others.

Access 2013 launches and is somewhat functional. This is the most functional application in Office 2013 thus far, which has surprised us. Access has not been exceptionally functional in Office 2007 or 2010, and flaws in its functionality have traditionally kept us from stating that Access was usable with CrossOver. The largest problem in our testing was that toolbars were slow to render.

Outlook 2013 launches and hangs. We have tested this application many different ways but have not had great success with it yet.

Publisher 2013 launches and works to an extent. It is possible to draw a shape and complete some work. Eventually it crashes.

For the first time, we installed El Capitan on one of our Macs. This allowed us to confirm that CrossOver maintains functionality in the latest beta Mac operating system. Of course, this may change as updates come to El Capitan but as of today, CrossOver works. In addition, we did basic testing on some of our ported titles like Pirate101, Wizard101, World of Tanks, RootsMagic 7, and Electric Quilt 7.


Of course, we're also interested in testing reported problems and general functionality in our ported applications. Some of these included:

Electric Quilt 7 has been plagued by a keyboard layout issue. Few users are affected by this bug, but those who see it experience a crash. We are working with the developer to implement a proposed solution.

World of Warships has graphical issues on OSX with various GPUs. We are actively working to resolve the issues so the Mac beta of this title can go live.

World of Tanks has had numerous reports of the red and green flicker within the garage. We were able to identify the cause and fix it. In addition, we enabled the option to switch to the HD client. This build is staged, tested, and ready to go to Wargaming.

For Wizard101, we tested potential workarounds for the UK and US servers to live side-by-side on a single system. At the present time, users playing on both servers have to completely uninstall and reinstall the separate clients to gain access to the desired server.

For RootsMagic 7, we identified steps to reproduce a crash. Then we contacted customers who have reported a crash to compare their notes with our findings and ended up identifying an additional crash (because why settle for just one?) Both issues are now undergoing work by our development team.

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