Wine development release 8.12 is now available for Linux FreeBSD and macOS

The Wine development release 8.12 is now available.

What's new in this release:

• Initial support for painting windows in the Wayland driver.
• Command stream performance improvements in WineD3D.
• 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 8.12 (total 31):

 - #7767   Zero G Software 'InstallAnywhere' installers crash or silently exit (Rosetta Stone, Reading Counts, World Religions, Parashara's Light Professional 7.0.1)
 - #9378   Combat Mission Shock Force DEMO: 'Could not initialize OpenGL graphics.'
 - #17868  tools/widl.c: warning: initialization discards qualifiers from pointer target type
 - #38938  SlingPlayer 1.5 crashes when moving the main window
 - #47089  32-bit Winamp 5.80 installer crashes in 64-bit WINEPREFIX after pressing 'Next'
 - #49772  Memory safety issues in widl
 - #53085  Free Video Converter complains about being unable to install .Net 2.0
 - #53086  Free Video Converter needs certutil.exe
 - #53907  SierraChart Freezes when allocating more than one account
 - #54257  Missing support for Windows 2003 (5.2) in OleAut version detection
 - #54532  msidb.exe: page fault on read access to 00000007 when importing a .idt file
 - #54978  vbscript fails to compile Sub when End Sub on same line
 - #54996  msys2: gpg.exe fails because "NtSetInformationFile Unsupported class (64)" / FileDispositionInformationEx
 - #55053  Prometheus exporter for Windows needs DISPATCH_PROPERTYGET support in object_Invoke
 - #55062  Starcraft II Graphics Only Work When Window is Out of Focus
 - #55096  Moving loader to PIE removed loaded modules chain view from debuggers
 - #55099  Excel 2016 crashes on date cell formatting
 - #55101  DesignDoll Declaring An Error After Loading All Component In Splash Screen
 - #55110  quartz:vmr7 & quartz:vmr9 sometimes exit prematurely in Wine
 - #55114  secur32:schannel - The 32-bit test_connection_shutdown() crashes on Windows <= 8
 - #55120  kernel32:debugger - test_debug_loop_wow64() gets wrong ntdll count in the new WoW mode
 - #55124  Can't run Flutter SDK (cmd.exe doesn't support redirecting stderr for a block)
 - #55126  Flutter application needs Windows.Devices.Geolocation.Geolocator
 - #55128  dbghelp:dbghelp & dbghelp:path - Call to SymSetExtendedOption() prevents running on Windows 7, 8 & 10 <= 1607
 - #55137  Missing support for SCARD_AUTOALLOCATE
 - #55141  virtual desktop not rendering with some dual monitor setups (regression: 8.10 -> 8.11)
 - #55144  Error when I run Navigraph FMS Data Manager
 - #55146  Virtual desktop is fullscreen regardless of the desktop size setting in winecfg
 - #55160  Loading Bay / Harry Potter Magic Awakened: Unable to install
 - #55194  oleaut32:vartest - test_VarImp() fails in Wine
 - #55201  Wine fails to build with clang-11.0.1 due to recent nameless unions/structs VARIANT changes

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