The Wine development release 1.2-rc1 is now available.

This is the first release candidate for Wine 1.2. It marks the beginning of the code freeze period. Please give this release a good testing to help us make 1.2 as good as possible.

Whats new in this release:

• Many new toolbar icons.
• Support for alpha blending in image lists.
• Much more complete shader assembler.
• Support for Arabic font shaping and joining.
• A number of fixes for video rendering.
• Font antialiasing configuration through fontconfig.
• Improved handling of desktop link files.
• 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 1.2-rc1:

   4654  ebasePro 2.12 doesn't start properly--missing plugin
   4805  Direct music loader release
   5616  Wanted: testing framework for bundled Winelib programs
   6341  WEB.DE Messenger crashes
   6533  Type mismatch 13 Error shows up in a VB-App.
   7594  Wine window scrolling is broken
   7797  Knight Rider runs extremely slowly
   7950  DirectX strange render window cutoff in Candytron both Party and Final version
   8287  Custom toolbar skin makes Irfan View 4.00 crash at start up
   9263  Guild Wars terribly slow
   9958  OleLoadPicturePath() should initialize COM apartment on its own if not previously done.
  10583  Fonts: Subpixel hinting, No RGB or BGR
  11892  GdipCreateBitmapFromFile & GdipCreateBitmapFromStream give upside down bitmap
  11896  Civilization4.exe crashes because of unimplemented functions in msvcp71
  12590  Yahoo widget engine 4.5, blank box, not being able to do anything
  12869  Rollcage Stage II demo crashes
  13278  Qtracker crashes
  13579  Adobe Acrobat Standard 7 -- using menus on first startup causes X to freeze
  14079  Dungeon Siege installation impossible
  14195  EINTR in WS_select
  14262  Wordview bullet in doc is not the same
  14710  OleLoadPicturePath loads image in windows but not in wine, could cause access violation in some circumstances
  14861  SetDIBits crashes with overlapping src/dst rectangles on the same bitmap
  14891  Bitmaps with offset bits do not display correctly
  15329  Unable to install Sony Picture Utility, Failed to load DLL Localesetting
  15928  EasyPlot doesn't work
  15969  Unsigned v1.2.1.93 installer crashes near the end of installation on first run
  16602  Citrix ICA16 Client installer crashes after extraction
  17058  Crayon Physics Deluxe - fullscreen doesn't work properly
  17113  Electronic dictionary application
  17166  Implement BiDi mirroring
  17712  Installshield doesn't like spaces in uninstall shortcuts
  17811  T-Online Browser: Bitmaps invisible (GdipCloneBitmapAreaI is a stub)
  17860  Microsoft Office 2007 crashes on specific powerpoint file in gdi32/enhmetafile
  18059  Unity Indie Trial exits because attrib.exe is missing
  18291  Quicktime uninstaller shortcut fails
  18625  Everest Poker startup text slightly off-centre
  18757  Album software Foto de Klijne crashes on startup
  18982  Word 2007 tab stop selection is invisible
  18993  Shadows and selection circles z-fight in World of Warcraft
  19234  Emperor fails to change resolution or be fullscreen
  19848  Arma 2: Crash on startup
  19877  Zeta Minibrowser crashes (because of stubbed CreateHardLinkW)
  20204  enhanced metafile retrieval fails and crashes clipboard test
  20210  Roller Coaster Tycoon 3 Expansions: Crashes to desktop while loading.
  20533  Random black artifacts while playing The Settlers - 10th Anniversary - Demo
  20676  winedbg minidumps can not be loaded by WinDbg
  21287  Miranda appearance is broken in many ways
  21376  The Bat! - Access Violations on attachement view
  21443  CryptSignHash() fails when CryptCreateHash() ALG_ID is set to CALG_SSL3_SHAMD5
  21829  Kurso3 hangs in the end of install
  21978  Gestan does not install
  22114  Supreme Commander 2: User interfaces flickers and some UI elements are missing
  22140  Unexpected bold font in CDBurnerXP Pro 3
  22162  Knights of the Old Republic: Cursor Doesn't Show
  22211  HTML-Kit Tools trial exits silently while displaying its splash screen
  22252  Rhiannon installer hangs: possibly caused by a regression
  22272  CDBurnerXP crashes if a data disc is inserted
  22284  Osmos: mouse pointer disappears in the menus
  22290  PlayOnline viewer can't be resized in windowed mode
  22334  Hearts of Iron III - missing texture on initial window
  22353  Application written in VB6 crashes when setting the .colwidth property of a msflexgrid
  22356  Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II - weapons flicker
  22435  Wine un-highlights selected text when right button is clicked
  22443  AutoCAD 2008: Icons have pinky background in "filter applied" drop down menu
  22444  AutoCAD 2008: No icons in drop down menu
  22453  Office 2007 text is not visibily highlighted
  22455  Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic does not start
  22457  Disabled toolbar icons are black
  22463  mouse cursor display broken
  22535  King's Bounty Armored Princess graphics glitches
  22543  winedbg crashes on startup in combination with crysis
  22601  .NET Framework 2.0 installer displays crash dialog, fails with "function failed" error message
  22624  multithread app using GDI and directx may cause deadlock
  22625  No card selector available for GL vendor 3 and card vendor 8086
  22632  Blitzkrieg game crashes when using 'Save' option
  22646  Modern Warfare 2: Fog and smoke rendered incorrectly
  22650  Time of Defiance login attempt results in WSAIoctl unsupported WS_IOCTL cmd (9800000c)
  22653  Serif WebPlus X2 does not install
  22657  3DMark 2001se - Car Chase - High Detail shows black screen
  22666  wine64: does not create a proper WINEPREFIX when -O0 is used, breaks winetest
  22676  Total Commander icons do not appear in the task bar
  22694  Spiceworks crashes during install
  22699  Swapchain_blit enhancement introduces y-axis inversion
  22704  Dungeon Keeper 2 shows X-cursor
  22709  crypt32 doesn't support wildcard certificates with alternate name extension
  22717  duplicate symbols in ldt.c ... bad inline asm
  22735  Resize of PlayOnline viewer's window makes it's content upside down
  22746  CDBurnerXP 3.0.x uses a wrong/invisible cursor on its mode selection screen
  22750  ControlSpy message parameters listboxes don't have frames
  22755  Installer program of "de rouck" freezes
  22758  MS Office 2007: riched20 assertion failure in CDKey registration screen
  22792  VLC Media Player crashes on first run