Wine 1.3.27 Released

The Wine development release 1.3.27 is now available.
What's new in this release:

• Support for multisampling in Direct3D.
• New version of the Gecko engine.
• Improvements to the network proxy handling.
• Better write support in MSXML.
• Side-by-side manifests for built-in libraries.
• 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 1.3.27:

2841 Missing Minimize Button
5883 Printing does not work for ole visual basic 6
6278 PITy crashes on exit
6399 Crash with debugging tools of Gameboy Advance emulator "Visualboy Advance"
6687 Visual Basic crashes when running a program and pressing a button in it
8354 Mouse is constantly recentered is some games
8724 Total Annihilation: PCM mute/unmute/change in WineOSS
10245 Half-life 2 font issue with 0.9.48 (works 0.9.40)
10340 Pro evolution soccer 2008
12818 Age of Mythology GOLD crashes when exiting the game
12912 Torque Game Builder: Blanks the screen.
13070 Deus Ex 1.1 - Invisible War fails to launch new game
13085 TH06: No FPS limit in fullscreen mode
14377 Crusader Kings: Instant crash when using bride ledger (and some other ledgers)
14762 GeforceFX series: fullscreen PP effect issues / RECT texcoord fixup
17040 Portal crashes when facing towards the exit on the first level
18873 Civilization IV beyond the sword crashing at startup
20413 AtcWindows - sound broken
20758 Missing nul termination in string passed to callback of RtlQueryRegistryValues()?
21102 Hitman 2: Silent Assassin fails to draw intro cinematic
21492 Creating new/opening existing project fails in WinterMute Engine
21785 The Westerner: no background in menu + errors when loading
21805 The game "Which" has incorrect rendering with whitewashed visuals
21814 The game "Which" fails to load a d3dxof object file
21850 Sonic & Knuckles Collection's game window can't be decorated by window managers
22261 Love: "device already allocated" handling - requires patching winealsa.drv or using esound backend
22722 Wine running out of address space (MacOS)
23870 Text not displayed in King's Bounty: the Legend
23871 Stuttering animation in Devil May Cry 4
23952 Fullscreen DirectX applications with enabled DRI won't start
25047 NFS Porsche: Some car paints aren't rendered properly
25065 NFS Porsche: Video track isn't played in intro
25067 NFS Porsche: Background slides are flickering in main menu
26090 graphics output broken in commercial app "Stoe X-Area Recipe"
26796 Deadlock and crash in "gstdemux.c: GSTImpl.csFilter"
26890 winecfg fails to update configuration
27155 averasell crashes on load
27326 DiRT 3 game fails to launch (SecuROM 8.x and SecuROM Data File Activation 2.x/Product Activation)
27834 Photosynth installer crashes in msi
27903 IBExpert crashes on start after upgrading wine (IBExpert was Platinum before)
27920 ComboBoxEx doesn't process WM_ENABLE properly
27924 NVIDIA GeForce GTX560 Ti not being detected
27932 Starcraft II does not render correctly, eventually crashes
27950 fr08 graphical demo crashes on startup
27954 X-Lite 4 installer aborts after failing to start FontCache3
27955 Warspear Online sound stops after a while (Pulseaudio + patched alsa-plugins)
27962 regression stops Age of Wonders from working
27966 iexplore crash whenever click on any links
27984 Starcraft 2 Editor: Renaming an item in the trigger tree suggests it's displayed text and not the item name.
27988 ibexpert can't start since wine 1.3.25
27990 Freespace 2 launcher: buttons not drawn correctly
28003 The Elder Scrolls III Morrowind: object positions are changed
28006 RC Cars demo installer fails to start (installer complains about inadequate processor features)
28015 Rome Total War crashes at startup
28026 chromium crash if --no-sandbox hasn't set
28046 Process Explorer crashes
28069 Skype 5.5: Fails to launch after installation from msi with: Failed to get proc address for DnsFree (DNSAPI.dll)
28084 Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II segfaults when Display Hardware Acceleration is enabled
28088 Wine can play audio despite of disabled sound drivers
28105 NFS Porsche: Crash after changing graphics options
28137 Bloxx It crashes
28146 GODS:Lands of Infinity changes the gamma to an overly bright level
28180 Operation Flashpoint crashes with sound enabled

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Wineskin 2.4 has been released

Wineskin 2.4 update is available. You should see it available in Wineskin Winery, as well as the manual install version at the MediaFire download location
Only a few changes in this version

• Mapping user folders is much more customizable now
• Fixed the bug where Override->Fullscreen pushed the picture down slightly
• Option added to set "Focus Follows Mouse" for WineskinX11, instead of always being on

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