Wine development release 8.18 is now available for Linux FreeBSD and macOS

The Wine development release 8.18 is now available.

What's new in this release:

• Bundled FluidSynth library for DirectMusic.
• More window management in the Wayland driver.
• More effect support in Direct3D 10.
• 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 8.18 (total 44):

 - #32574  Patrician 4 fails to start (Error in 'App::Initialize')
 - #41645  Unreal Tournament 2004 crashes
 - #43017  Unreal Tournament 2004/UT2004.exe crashes due to "intel_do_flush_locked failed: Cannot allocate memory"
 - #43185  "Battle Bugs" game in unresponsive once game starts
 - #44275  Shadow of Memories demo hangs at graphic setting screen
 - #44276  Poor resolution change handling with Shadow of Memories demo
 - #48905  Inner Chains Launches to Black Screen With Mouse Cursor
 - #52641  Feeding Frenzy 2 crashes while loading
 - #53276  comctl32:edit & user32:edit - test_paste() sometimes fails to access the clipboard on Windows
 - #54069  ddraw:ddraw7 - test_texture_wrong_caps() sometimes fails on Windows 8+
 - #54156  comctl32:edit & user32:edit - test_paste() sometimes gets an empty string on Windows
 - #54420  preloader warning "failed to reserve range" macOS Ventura
 - #54430  user32:menu - test_menu_input()'s test 0 sometimes fails on Windows 7
 - #54441  windows.media.speech:speech - test_Recognition() sometimes gets unexpected recognizer state on Windows 10
 - #54699  Motorola Ready For Assistant does not start, RoOriginateLanguageException in Windows.Networking
 - #54744  explorerframe:taskbarlist - test_ITaskbarList() sometimes gets E_NOTIMPL on Windows
 - #54783  cryptowinrt:crypto - test_Credentials_Statics() sometimes gets unexpectedly high refcount in Wine
 - #54791  explorerframe:nstc - test_events() sometimes gets unexpected events on Windows 7
 - #55108  xaudio2_8:xaudio2 fails on Windows 10+
 - #55211  Print file not truncated before new print job is started with same target file
 - #55236  scrrun:dictionary - The 64-bit test_hash_value() gets bad hashes on Windows
 - #55241  The 64-bit winmm:capture & winmm:wave crash on Windows 8
 - #55245  ntdll:om - The 32-bit test_all_kernel_objects() gets an access violation on the w8 VM
 - #55272  The 64-bit ntdll:exception crashes on Windows 10 1607 & 1709
 - #55273  ntdll:wow64 - The 64-bit test_cpu_area() gets bad offsets on Windows 10 1607 & 1709
 - #55528  Vitis 2020.1 can't find its libraries (cmd.exe bug with nested one-line if statement that sets PATH)
 - #55606  Finale 27 printing - incorrect linecap
 - #55627  secur32:negotiate & secur32:ntlm crash from a NULL dereference on macOS
 - #55631  ntdll:file - test_file_rename_information fails on Windows 10 1607 and older
 - #55632  ntdll:file - test_file_link_information() fails on Windows 10 1709 and older
 - #55634  Genshin Impact uses very long URLs
 - #55648  ntdll:wow64 - test_peb_teb() crashes on macOS
 - #55652  A FindResourceW() call prevents windows.applicationmodel:model from running on Windows 8
 - #55656  user32:dialog - test_IsDialogMessage() fails in the hi-u8 and mx-MX locales on Windows
 - #55658  msinfo32 fails to start on macOS / wow64 (was psapi:psapi_main - test_EnumProcessModules*() fails on macOS)
 - #55670  Wordpad is no longer able to print multiple copies of a page
 - #55674  64-bit wineserver/wine-preloader hangs on macOS 14.
 - #55686  msvcr120:msvcr120 - test_StructuredTaskCollection() sometimes fails in Wine
 - #55696  msvfw32:mciwnd - The 64-bit test_MCIWndCreate() crashes in Wine
 - #55701  Sniper Elite 5 launcher opens Wine Internet Explorer instead of Options window
 - #55708  cpython 3.12.0 fails to run on wine, needs unimplemented function propsys.dll.VariantToString
 - #55713  mspaint.exe crashes with:  Unhandled exception: unimplemented function propsys.dll.PropVariantToUInt32WithDefault
 - #55732  kernel32:loader - The 64-bit test_import_resolution() fails in Wine
 - #55733  ntdll:file - test_file_rename_information_ex() fails on Windows 10 1607 & 1709

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