Wine 1.0 Released

Written by Nick Koch

Tuesday, 17 June 2008 11:48

Well it has finally come to pass after long hours and lots of hard work...

The Wine team is proud to announce that Wine 1.0 is now available. This is the first stable release of Wine after 15 years of development and beta testing. Many thanks to everybody who helped us along that long road!

While compatibility is not perfect yet, thousands of applications have been reported to work very well. Check http://appdb.winehq.org to see the details for your favorite applications.

You can find out more about this release in the announcement. Check out our download page for packages for your distribution.

Bugs fixed in 1.0:

3838 The Punisher demo crashes after the introduction movies
3898 Counter-Strike 1.6 performance issue
4755 X Error of failed request: BadDrawable (X_PolyFillRectangle) when switching to Virtual Desktop
6315 Starlancer draws ships as white when direct3d is enabled
7268 Oni not opening after install
8185 can't login in Skype 3.1 on wine/kubuntu 7
8634 antialiasing disabled in gtasa menu
9555 Wine crash when I click help in Stata 10
9589 Static / Scratchy Sound with OSS in Call of Duty
9903 WinRAR with NXServer - black icons
10009 QIP: window z-order is still wrong
10268 Robot Wars: Arena of Destruction crashes while quitting (causing resolution to stay 640 x 480)
10322 Eve-online (video memory misaddressed?)
10700 Dragon Naturally Speaking 9 needs gdiplus.GdipDrawArcI, gdiplus.GdipCreatePen2, ...
11011 Call of Duty 1.0 doesn't run after install.
11104 Dance Praise 2: Does not respond to input
12415 Can not leave fullscreen Warcraft 3x (Regression)
12963 Moto Racer 2 works with wine 0.9.60 and crashes with wine 0.9.61
13271 The demo of the punisher fails to install
13740 winebrowser gets wrong URL, problem with unicode