The Wine Staging release 1.9.21 is now available

The Wine Staging release 1.9.21 is now available for Linux and Mac.

What's new in this release:

• Initial GIF encoder in windowscodecs.
• Support for METHOD_OUT_DIRECT ioctls.
• Implementation of SetFileCompletionNotificationModes.
• Ignore queued xaudio2 AL buffers after Stop.
• Vulkan wrapper improvements.
• Various bug fixes.

The SetFileCompletionNotificationModes improvements make it possible to use the Steam Webbrowser in Windows 7 mode on Linux. You still need to pass -no-cef-sandbox as parameter to Steam though.

In addition, Wine Staging users will also benefit from the following changes merged in the development branch:

• Initial version of the HID minidriver.
• Support for lists in the RichEdit control.
• System tray improvements.
• 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.

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