Wine development release 4.17 is now available for Linux FreeBSD and macOS

The Wine development release 4.17 is now available.

What's new in this release:

• New version of the Mono engine with upstream fixes.
• Support for DXTn compressed textures.
• Initial version of the Windows Script runtime library.
• Support for XRandR device change notifications.
• Support for generating RSA keys.
• Stubless proxies support on ARM64.
• 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 4.17 (total 14):

  24701  Vampire the Masquerade bloodlines hanging with Out of adapter memory
  35561  Some MSYS2 commands generate a stackdump (queued user APC not executed)
  36313  valgrind shows a possible leak in propsys/tests/propstore.c
  39026  Wrong key mapping in virtualdub
  39934  AppCAD graphics corruption
  43842  Cached Authorization cause wrong username/password to be used
  44394  Game “Civilization 4” is aborted because of unhandled exception.
  46404  Shed installer - text overflow in browse-for-folder dialog
  47706  ntdll: Compiler warnings regression on x86_64 [stable]
  47736  __ASM_CFI not working on mac
  47752  commit "winex11.drv: Wake up the display on user input." introduced severe performance issues with atomic modesetting kernel drivers
  47766  PathAllocCanonicalize treats path segments start with dots wrong.
  47769  Royal Quest: fails to start with LdrInitializeThunk "gaxomofy.dll" failed to initialize, aborting
  47779  iCloud refuses to install: "Your computer is missing Media features."

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Proton 4.11-5 has been released

 Proton 4.11-5 has been released

• Fix a crash caused by certain input devices that was introduced in Proton 4.11-4.
• Fix games running in virtual desktops and semi-transparent windows, both problems introduced in Proton 4.11-4.
• Performance optimization when using a controller on amdgpu driver.
• Improvement to fsync implementation when WINEFSYNC_SPINCOUNT is set.

Link to source code

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Proton 4.11-4 has been released

 Proton 4.11-4  has been released

• Improve behavior of PlayStation 4 controllers and controllers connected by Bluetooth.
• More improvements to mouse capture and window focus loss behavior.
• Farming Simulator 19 is now playable.
• Fix some graphics issues in A Hat in Time and Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3.
• Update DXVK to v1.3.4
• Update D9VK to 0.21-rc-p.
• Update FAudio to 19.09.

Link to source code

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WineTricks 20190912 has been released

Winetricks is an easy way to work around problems in Wine.

It has a menu of supported games/apps for which it can do all the workarounds automatically. It also allows the installation of missing DLLs and tweaking of various Wine settings.

This version can be downloaded here.

 

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Wine development release 4.16 is now available for Linux FreeBSD and macOS

The Wine development release 4.16 is now available.

What's new in this release:

• More reliable mouse grabbing in games.
• Better cross-compilation support in WineGCC.
• Improved compatibility with Windows debuggers.
• 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 4.16 (total 16):

  22038  Art of Murder Cards of Destiny: some character models are plain white
  26215  Super Meat Boy shows grey textures for some objects
  41258  UE4 applications crash with "Assertion failed: Count >= 0" (Epic Games Launcher, Paragon)
  44338  cmd: Brackets are no deliminiter in the condition part of the if command.
  45560  Windows Sysinternals 'psping' v2.x tool, part of 'PsTools' crashes when trying to ping host (needs 'iphlpapi.ParseNetworkString')
  46149  Multiple applications need ntdll.dll.RtlIpv4StringToAddress{A,W,ExA,ExW} implementation (Processhacker 2.x, Icinga 2 'check_ping')
  46421  μTorrent has squares in it's update-dialog
  46549  Multiple .NET 4.x applications and games using 'System.Net.HttpListener' class crash due incomplete httpapi implementation (PUBG Lite Launcher, SeeSnake HQ)
  46983  type command in cmd.exe with two files and stdout redirect, behavior is different
  47476  Rhinoceros 6 (.NET 4.x app) fails to verify online-license: System.EntryPointNotFoundException: Unable to find an entry point named 'HttpCloseRequestQueue' in DLL 'httpapi.dll'
  47524  Hearthstone black screen
  47629  PotPlayer 1.7: Crash when trying to play any file
  47675  Wine builtin 'services.exe' uses invalid wait object for delayed autostart services
  47693  ExHIBIT (Sample Project): Can't select menu item in the title screen
  47709  Zoom Edit&Share 5.0.0.0: installer crashes starting with wine-3.19
  47732  This is bad bug in wine.

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Lutris 0.5.3 has been released

Lutris helps you install and play video games from all eras and from most gaming systems. By leveraging and combining existing emulators, engine re-implementations and compatibility layers, it gives you a central interface to launch all your games.

The client can connect with existing services like Humble Bundle, GOG and Steam to make your game libraries easily available. Game downloads and installations are automated and can be modified through user made scripts.

Download this version of Lutris from here.

Changelog :

• Added D9VK option.
• Added options to hide right and left panels.
• Added support for Discord Rich Presence (option is only available if you
  have python-pypresence installed).
• Added option to launch Wine console.
• Added option to hide Lutris on game launch.
• Added lazy loading for some UI components that fetch data from Lutris.
• WINE_LARGE_ADDRESS_AWARE is now set to 1 when DXVK or D9VK is enabled
  (only works with lutris-provided builds) to workaround crashes in 32-bit games.
• Lutris should now be minimized when launching games from shortcuts.
• An error is now displayed when Lutris fails to install a runner.
• Added Ubuntu's AMDVLK path to Vulkan ICD loader search.
• State of right panel is now refreshed after adding/removing shortcuts.
• Working directory no longer defaults to /tmp
• Switched PC-Engine module from pce to pce_fast.
• Fixed crash due to invalid GOG credentials.
• Fixed UI bug that would sometimes result in “No File Provided” error messages.
• Fixed bug that would lead to path warnings when prompted to select files.
• Fixed crashes due to unexpected data from xrandr.
• Fixed bug that could make antialiasing not function in some games.
• Fixed sorting for games that start with a lowercase letter.
• Fixed bug that would cause user session to end when launching games on Linux Mint.
• Fixed bug with process monitor that could cause games to not launch.
• Fixed bug that would not let user execute some options and launch external
  executables when a game is still running and ESYNC is enabled.
• Fixed issues with restoration of original .dll files when disabling DXVK/D9VK.
• Fixed crashes due to inability to read GPU driver information.
• Fixed crash when working directory isn’t defined.
• Fixed stuck game importing due to failure to load icons.
• Fixed library loading issues on Gentoo.
• Fixed wine sandboxing on non-english systems.
• Fixed various issues with locales.
• Made various changes and improvements for libretro runner.
• Made various changes and improvements for future Flatpak support.
• Made minor changes to wording in UI.
• Updated Zdoom icon
• Updated Lutris logo (improvements by @Scout339)

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