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Sunday, March 19, 2023

Wine development release 8.4 is now available for Linux FreeBSD and macOS

The Wine development release 8.4 is now available.

What's new in this release:

  • Initial step of the Wayland graphics driver.
  • Cleanups in IME support.
  • A number of test fixes.
  • 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 8.3 (total 29):

 - #24256  3D Sexvilla 2: extremely long loading times
 - #34011  Path of Exile stutters constantly
 - #37146  Untis 2015 (.NET 4.0 app) crashes on startup with Wine-Mono
 - #37495  Multiple PC/SC applications need winscard.SCardEstablishContext implementation (AusweisApp2 1.x german identity card app, SmartCard test apps, Seneka EBDYS client, Aruba Key)
 - #39113  Multiple PC/SC applications need winscard.SCardListReaders implementation (Aruba key, SmartCard test apps)
 - #43224  Freelist scan can result in O(n) time when allocating
 - #45756  Button not clickable when dpi setting changed in Office 2007 Installer
 - #49113  Wine heap performs badly when multiple threads are concurrently allocating or freeing memory
 - #51259  6.0.1 Introduces error causing Wavelab to close when loading presets
 - #52506  Setup of game "What's the Secret?" fails to create icon
 - #53094  ntdll:rtlstr test crashes on win32 arch with hi-IN locale
 - #53176  KeePassXC needs Windows.Security.Credentials.KeyCredentialManager (UWP)
 - #53504  Sacred:unhandled exception in Wine 7.14
 - #53728  Escape from Tarkov needs DisplayConfigGetDeviceInfo(DISPLAYCONFIG_DEVICE_INFO_GET_TARGET_NAME) implementation
 - #54112  rouvy : fails to update with server, unimplemented function bthprops.cpl.BluetoothRegisterForAuthenticationEx
 - #54149  shlwapi:ordinal - test_SHFormatDateTimeA() fails on the mixed locales configuration
 - #54338  Swift crashes due to unimplemented api-ms-win-core-realtime-l1-1-1.dll.QueryUnbiasedInterruptTimePrecise function
 - #54432  Missing ntdll.RtlAddressInSectionTable() implementation causes all GraalVM Native Image exes to crash on load
 - #54475  Hardwar UIM6.0 crashes in 8.0, doesn't in 6.0.3
 - #54534  dbghelp:dbghelp - The test_loaded_modules() enumeration fails on Windows 10 1607
 - #54559  riched20:editor - test_EM_GETSELTEXT() fails in the Hindi locale on Windows
 - #54562  The 64-bit oleaut32:usrmarshal crashes in Wine
 - #54564  Rich Edit crashes when Ctrl+Right is pressed at past the final paragraph
 - #54565  riched20:richole - subtest_InsertObject() fails in the Hindi locale on Windows
 - #54570  Saints Row: The Third heavy rain causes heavy fps reductions
 - #54581  SpeedCommander 20 installer crashes on unimplemented function SHELL32.dll.Shell_GetCachedImageIndexW
 - #54582  kernel32:locale - test_NLSVersion() fails on Windows 10 22H2
 - #54583  kernel32:locale - The non-breaking space GetNumberFormatEx() test fails on Windows 11
 - #54584  kernel32:locale - The NtGetNlsSectionPtr() test fails on Windows 11

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Tuesday, March 7, 2023

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Friday, March 3, 2023

Wine development release 8.3 is now available for Linux FreeBSD and macOS

The Wine development release 8.3 is now available.

What's new in this release:

  • Support for the Low Fragmentation Heap.
  • Smard card support using PCSC-Lite.
  • Bundled Zydis library for more correct disassembly.
  • 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 8.3 (total 29):

 - #24256  3D Sexvilla 2: extremely long loading times
 - #34011  Path of Exile stutters constantly
 - #37146  Untis 2015 (.NET 4.0 app) crashes on startup with Wine-Mono
 - #37495  Multiple PC/SC applications need winscard.SCardEstablishContext implementation (AusweisApp2 1.x german identity card app, SmartCard test apps, Seneka EBDYS client, Aruba Key)
 - #39113  Multiple PC/SC applications need winscard.SCardListReaders implementation (Aruba key, SmartCard test apps)
 - #43224  Freelist scan can result in O(n) time when allocating
 - #45756  Button not clickable when dpi setting changed in Office 2007 Installer
 - #49113  Wine heap performs badly when multiple threads are concurrently allocating or freeing memory
 - #51259  6.0.1 Introduces error causing Wavelab to close when loading presets
 - #52506  Setup of game "What's the Secret?" fails to create icon
 - #53094  ntdll:rtlstr test crashes on win32 arch with hi-IN locale
 - #53176  KeePassXC needs Windows.Security.Credentials.KeyCredentialManager (UWP)
 - #53504  Sacred:unhandled exception in Wine 7.14
 - #53728  Escape from Tarkov needs DisplayConfigGetDeviceInfo(DISPLAYCONFIG_DEVICE_INFO_GET_TARGET_NAME) implementation
 - #54112  rouvy : fails to update with server, unimplemented function bthprops.cpl.BluetoothRegisterForAuthenticationEx
 - #54149  shlwapi:ordinal - test_SHFormatDateTimeA() fails on the mixed locales configuration
 - #54338  Swift crashes due to unimplemented api-ms-win-core-realtime-l1-1-1.dll.QueryUnbiasedInterruptTimePrecise function
 - #54432  Missing ntdll.RtlAddressInSectionTable() implementation causes all GraalVM Native Image exes to crash on load
 - #54475  Hardwar UIM6.0 crashes in 8.0, doesn't in 6.0.3
 - #54534  dbghelp:dbghelp - The test_loaded_modules() enumeration fails on Windows 10 1607
 - #54559  riched20:editor - test_EM_GETSELTEXT() fails in the Hindi locale on Windows
 - #54562  The 64-bit oleaut32:usrmarshal crashes in Wine
 - #54564  Rich Edit crashes when Ctrl+Right is pressed at past the final paragraph
 - #54565  riched20:richole - subtest_InsertObject() fails in the Hindi locale on Windows
 - #54570  Saints Row: The Third heavy rain causes heavy fps reductions
 - #54581  SpeedCommander 20 installer crashes on unimplemented function SHELL32.dll.Shell_GetCachedImageIndexW
 - #54582  kernel32:locale - test_NLSVersion() fails on Windows 10 22H2
 - #54583  kernel32:locale - The non-breaking space GetNumberFormatEx() test fails on Windows 11
 - #54584  kernel32:locale - The NtGetNlsSectionPtr() test fails on Windows 11

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