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Thursday, July 6, 2017
Putty for Mac 50% off sale
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Tuesday, May 30, 2017
Putty for Mac 8.0 has been released
Putty is one of the Best Terminal Emulators available today. It Supports different types of Network Protocols such as SSH, FTP, SCP, Telnet etc. In Windows it is used as SSH Client to connect to Your Linux server or for some other purpose But what will you do if you are on Mac? You might be thinking , Is there any Software like Putty for Mac Available? The answer is Yes! With the help of some other Software’s we can Use putty on MacOS although Putty is used widely on Windows Platform. Official Versions of Putty are available on Unix like Platforms, and now it’s widely available for Mac systems running OSX 10.9.5 or higher.
SSH is available by default in Mac and Linux or Unix. Although you can use terminal for SSH connections still there are some benefits in using Putty such as Other clients don’t keep connections alive whereas Putty does. Also it is cool to use Putty as your SSH client if you are doing some CISCO Stuffs, transferring files, managing files on a server or whatever.
The cost of Putty 8.0.0 is only $15.00. Anyone who has purchased Putty in the past three months is entitled to a free upgrade. Putty comes with three months of upgrades and of course a 14-day money back guarantee.
Supported Protocols:
- Telnet
- FTP
- SSH
- SCP
About Wine Reviews:
There is a multitude of software developed only for the Windows operating system and even when software vendors port their applications to another platform, generally it lacks features that the Windows version contains. The only solution these developers face is to have access to both systems for testing which leads to increased infrastructure demands, and wasted project resources. Our goal is to have native ports of essential Windows tools and applications made available for MacOS users.
Version 8.0.0 New Features:
- Added Certificates from Apple to fix the security warnings
- Added a dialog box when closing multiple windows
- Fixed a crash when you open a new session if you're in the configuration screen or the terminate session dialog box.
- Fixed a bug in pTerm for 10.11.6 and older OSX installs
- Fixed a couple more dynamic lib linking bugs
- Fixed yet another crash in Browse
- Fixed a couple windowing bugs
- Other small random bug fixes
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Sunday, April 30, 2017
Save 70% off CodeWeavers CrossOver Mac and CrossOver Linux
Update 05/01/17
This sale has now been re-activated, CrossOver Mac and Linux is available in our FastSpring store.
Friday, March 24, 2017
CodeWeavers has Released CrossOver 16.2.0 for Linux and MacOS
CrossOver 16.2 is the first version of CrossOver which supports Microsoft Outlook 2013. We have also made improvements to our compatibility with the rest of the Microsoft Office 2013 suite, including fixes for problems which caused some users to be unable to register.
CrossOver 16.2 also has several improvements for Quicken users who had seen problems with Quicken updates not applying cleanly.
CrossOver 16.2 has a full merge of the final release of Wine 2.0. This final, stable release of Wine means widespread improvements in compatibility with Windows applications. It is the latest step in the continuous improvement of our core compatibility layer technology.
CrossOver 16.2 also has bug fixes which improve behavior in the older Microsoft Office 2010 suite; improvements to games performance; and several fixes for macOS users in the areas of window management performance and clipboard support.
Mac customers with active support entitlements will be upgraded to CrossOver 16.2 the next time they launch CrossOver. Linux users can download the latest version from https://www.codeweavers.com/
Change Log For CrossOver Mac and Linux :
16.2.0 CrossOver - March 23, 2017
- Application Support:
- CrossOver now supports Outlook 2013.
- Bugs with Quicken updates have been fixed.
- Connection issues with Outlook 2010 have been fixed.
- Bugs activating Office 2013 in some circumstances have been fixed.
- Wine Update:
- CrossOver 16.2.0 includes the final release of Wine 2.0.
- Performance Enhancements and Other Improvements:
- We have made improvements to our Performance Enhanced Graphics which should improve performance with a variety of games.
- Windowing behavior on macOS will be faster and more reliable in some circumstances, including cases where productivity-style applications make use of OpenGL.
- Bugs with copy / paste have been fixed on macOS.
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Sunday, March 5, 2017
The WineHQ Wine development release 2.3 is now available for Linux and Mac
What's new in this release:
- Obsolete wineinstall script removed.
- More Direct3D command stream work.
- A few more Shader Model 5 instructions.
- Better underline rendering in DirectWrite.
- Improved ODBC support on 64-bit.
- Various bug fixes.
Bugs fixed in 2.3 (total 41):
13249 Putty 0.60: Yes/No/Cancel dialog moving with keyboard arrows
20215 Extra mouse buttons do not work in Firefox
23187 DeferWindowPos behaves wrong when invalid HWND
25700 MessageBox does not display last word if string contains '&' (ampersand)
33423 Cultures 3 multiplayer hangs while creating a game
33717 regedit: Sorting registry keys on refreshing
37070 Missing polygons on 3D objects in Revenant (ddraw:d3d_device7_GetClipStatus iface, clip_status stub)
37390 Word 2007: crashes when choosing a font
37976 Poedit 1.7.4 crashes on unimplemented function msvcr120.dll.??0_ReentrantBlockingLock@details@Concurrency@@QAE@XZ
38354 Multiple games and applications need msvcr120.dll._except1 (Audacity 2.1.0, Tera Online)
39895 MalwareBytes Anti-malware software needs msvcr100.dll.lldiv implementation
40488 Revenant crashes when starting a new game
40948 Multiple apps need api-ms-win-crt-locale-l1-1-0.dll.__initialize_lconv_for_unsigned_char
40956 unimplemented function msvcr110.dll._Lock_shared_ptr_spin_lock when starting Zoner Photo Studio 18
41394 3DMark2001se 'Car chase' speed regression on mesa/nouveau
41408 Multiple applications crash on unimplemented function msvcp140.dll.??0task_continuation_context@Concurrency@@AAE@XZ
41682 SPG-Verein 3.2 fails to install, needs advapi32.LookupSecurityDescriptorPartsA
41725 Unimplemented function api-ms-win-crt-math-l1-1-0.dll._except1 (Starcraft 2 main menu, Firefox)
41907 Necropolis: Unimplemented copy from WINED3D_LOCATION_TEXTURE_RGB to WINED3D_LOCATION_TEXTURE_RGB for depth/stencil buffers
41928 Mortal Kombat X needs msvcr110.dll._get_dstbias
42001 SC2 unimplemented function ucrtbase.dll._except1
42129 Steam client - unimplemented function mfreadwrite.dll.MFCreateSourceReaderFromMediaSource
42138 bug when running reaktor 6: "Unhandled exception: unimplemented function concrt140.dll.??0_ReentrantBlockingLock@details@Concurrency@@QAE@XZ called in 32-bit code (0x7b43bf1c)."
42240 Kontact 5.6 needs concrt140.dll.??0_ReentrantBlockingLock@details@Concurrency@@QEAA@XZ
42381 Final Fantasy V crashes
42405 Drawn lines are too long.
42426 ReportTool, part of SteuerSparErklaerung 2017 (german tax app) crashes on unimplemented function wlanapi.dll.WlanRegisterNotification
42463 ZmLearn crash at startup: "Assertion 'm->state == STATE_PASSIVE' failed at pulse/mainloop.c:787, function pa_mainloop_prepare(). Aborting."
42465 winhttp set_cookies() violates RFC6265 string comparison rules
42469 GetOpenFileName should expand environment variables in lpstrInitialDir
42483 Build for Ubuntu Precise fails because MPG123_IGNORE_INFOFRAME is undeclared
42487 Free Devanagari font Samanata crashes during GPOS processing
42490 Assertion failure when clicking boxes in altWinDirStat
42504 Computemark 2.1 runs with Wine 2.2 but black benchmark window..
42506 STALKER Shadow of Chernobyl crashes on startup
42507 Final Fantasy XI Online: Intermittent crashes.
42509 The Witcher 3 hangs the system on startup
42511 winnt.h: invalid conversion from 'void*' to 'volatile char*'
42516 Kholat hangs on splash screen
42547 winex11.drv compilation fails on systems without XInput2 support
42567 Acid Pro Trial 7.0e fails to install
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Wednesday, March 1, 2017
The WineHQ Wine maintenance release 1.8.7 is now available for Linux and Mac
What's new in this release:
- Various bug fixes.
- A few more cards added to the GPU description table.
- Turkish translation updates.
Bugs fixed in 1.8.7 (total 38):
11808 winefile: broken horizontal scrolling
17196 Text Editor Cursor can be scrolled outside editor
19862 CodeCreatures crashes.
30355 DVDSubEdit 1.52 crashes on startup, broken TBM_SETRANGEMAX handling
30385 Multiple applications need support for shell32.SHGetKnownFolderPath KF_FLAG_DEFAULT_PATH option (Windows Live Essentials 2011 web installer, MediaMonkey 4.1.x in Vista+ mode)
31222 Hitman: Blood Money crashes when changing screen resolution
32682 Multiple .NET 4.0 applications fail to load the pen cursor (IDC_PEN, 32631, 0x7F77 missing)
33859 Visual Web Developer Express 2008 crashes when clicking "Browse" (bug in PropertySheet common control)
34127 FIFA 2000 demo crashes after 'Press Any Key'
34465 process hacker 2.31 crashes in toolbar code
35495 sharing violation and prompt for copy /B file1+file2 file1
37762 Runaway & Runaway 2: wrong colors
38207 Unreal Tournament 3 uninstaller fails when invoking from 'wine uninstaller' (removes wrong entries)
39509 OneDrive for Business installer crashes in Win8 mode (user32.dll 'SetCoalescableTimer' stub missing)
39661 Font width incorrect in wineconsole
39714 Halo some sounds in cut scenes don't play
40112 kernel32:time regression
40243 Korg Nano editor USB MIDI driver won't install, requires Administrator Privileges
40247 Wine returns the loopback IP as first item in GetIpAddrTable causing some licensed programs to fail due to invalid MAC address
40845 Uninstaller does not remove missing applications from the list
40978 Wrong colors on i915 and similar GPUs in GTA Vice City
41001 64-bit Core Temp 1.x kernel driver 'ALSysIO.sys' crashes on unimplemented function ntoskrnl.exe.RtlUnwindEx
41055 "Texture ... does not have a drawable" on i915 with D3D8
41141 gcc6: d3drm build warnings
41218 curl 7.50: HTTPS fails with InitializeSecurityContext failed: SEC_E_INVALID_TOKEN
41252 Helldivers gives this error when trying to run on MacOS
41476 Cannot paste in WinAuth 3.5.1 (32-bit)
41508 Menu infinitely loops, the application hangs.
41572 Windows API crash (GetTimeZoneInformationForYear)
41599 Battle.net and Hearthstone play loud static when receiving messages
41732 wineconsole: changing to emacs mode requires restart
41733 wineconsole: crashes in emacs mode when pasting (Ctrl+Y) empty buffer
41898 ToCA Race Driver 3 needs ntoskrnl.exe.RtlCopyMemory
41909 Calling TBM_SETPOS after TBM_SETRANGEMIN/TBM_SETRANGEMAX does not draw slider control properly
42090 Highway Pursuit constantly emits loud noise when sound effects enabled
42110 regression: commit "xinput1_3 prefer builtin dll" aliens versus predator classic 2000 (steam) fails to launch
42187 Radeon R9 285 GPU incorrectly recognized
42211 redefinition of typedef 'REFERENCE_TIME'
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Putty for Mac FAQ version 7
(Q) What is Putty for Mac?
(A) Putty is one of the Best Terminal Emulators available today. It Supports different types of Network Protocols such as SSH, FTP, SCP, Telnet etc. In Windows it is used as SSH Client to connect to Your Linux server or for some other purpose But what will you do if you are on Mac? You might be thinking , Is there any Software like Putty for Mac Available? The answer is Yes! With the help of some other Software's we can Use putty on Mac although Putty is used widely on Windows Platform. Official Versions of Putty are available on Unix like Platforms, and now it's widely available for Mac systems running OSX 10.11 or higher. Please see the FAQ entry about running Putty on OSX 10.8, 10.9 and 10.10 below.
(Q) I get this error when installing ( Error : LaunchServices: Could not store lsd-identifiers file at /private/var/db/lsd/com.apple.lsdschemes.plist ) is this a Putty error / bug?
(A) No, it's a Mac OS X bug :) See : https://discussions.apple.com/
(Q) Can I install Putty on OSX 10.12 Sierra?
(A) YES! See : http://osxdaily.com/2016/09/27
(Q) How do I expand the Putty window it is very small by default?
(A) Unfortunately at this time, Putty for Mac does not support resizing an established connection.
What you can do is create another session for your application and set a custom Window size for it by changing the Columns and Rows and then save that for future usage of that application.
I know it is not optimal and hopefully we will be able to support resizing sometime in the future.
(Q) Can I install and run Putty on OSX 10.8.x 10.9.x and 10.10.x or 10.13 High Sierra?
(A) YES! please see this post about PuTTY running on OS X 10.10 and this post about PuTTY running on 10.13 High Sierra.
(A) If you try to open an app that is not registered with Apple by an identified developer you get a warning dialog. This doesn’t necessarily mean that something’s wrong with the app. For example, some apps were written before developer ID registration began.
- In the Finder, locate the app you want to open.Don’t use Launchpad to do this. Launchpad doesn’t allow you to access the shortcut menu.
- Press the Control key and click the app icon, then choose Open from the shortcut menu.
- Click Open.The app is saved as an exception to your security settings, and you can open it in the future by double-clicking it just as you can any registered app.
Follow the above instructions and Putty should run as expected.
(Q)Where can I purchase Putty for Mac and how much does it cost?
(A) Putty for Mac cost just $15.00 and can be purchased here.
Friday, February 17, 2017
The WineHQ Wine development release 2.2 is now available for Linux and Mac
What's new in this release:
- Windows version set to Windows 7 for new prefixes.
- More steps towards the Direct3D command stream.
- Still more Shader Model 5 instructions.
- Initial support for double-buffered theme painting.
- Various bug fixes.
Bugs fixed in 2.2 (total 35):
13365 Missing text in IFC Markets Terminal Graphics
14939 Black & White: DXTC to ARGB converter not implemented
17495 Open dialog crashes if the desktop folder is at a Unicode path that cannot be represented in the current locale
18477 Need For Speed Most Wanted crashes after accepting video settings changes
19888 Venom Codename: Outbreak - initial menu screen is black (no menu items)
25625 Implement PROPSHEET_InsertPage
26603 iMesh 10 crashes at startup (needs wmvcore.dll.WMCreateReaderPriv)
32414 Samsung TV SDK 3.5.2 Emulator crashes on startup (needs 'Shell Image Data Factory', CLSID '{66e4e4fb-f385-4dd0-8d74-a2efd1bc6178}')
33318 3DMark2001 SE: upgrading to Wine 1.5.27 reduces performance score by 20%
36213 valgrind shows some possible leaks under crypt32/tests/sip.c
36247 VHD Attach v3.90 (.NET app) needs virtdisk.dll
36341 valgrind shows some possible leaks under crypt32/tests/base64.c
36365 valgrind shows a TON of leaks in ieframe/tests/webbrowser.c
36395 valgrind shows a possible leak in inetcomm/tests/mimeole.c
36557 valgrind shows some invalid writes in ieframe/tests/webbrowser.c
36662 valgrind shows a few memory leaks in ws2_32/tests/sock.c
37398 Urban Assault black screen when using software renderer and DDSCAPS_SYSTEMMEMORY
37399 Urban Assault black screen when using software renderer (palette problem)
38485 New Marvel Heroes 2015 Launcher crashes on unimplemented function dhcpcsvc.dll.DhcpRequestParams
39048 MIDI Clock Messages are Corrupted Between Wine and ALSA
39655 Enemy Front crashes almost immediately after launch
39910 PDF XChange Editor annotations formatting not displayed after saving
40952 improper escaping of quotes in command line
41206 Artemis 2.4.0 crashed upon start
41448 Civilization II Unhandled page fault on read access
41648 AmiBroker 6.00 fails, when run, with raise_exception Unhandled exception
41753 Steep (Ubisoft) needs iphlpapi.dll.GetUnicastIpAddressEntry
41830 Updating group box text causes garbage
41926 Zafehouse demo crashes with Call from 0x7b43c14c to unimplemented function ddraw.dll.GetSurfaceFromDC, aborting
41971 Hitman Absolution crashes at startup at WineD3D on Windows
42094 winamp needs unimplemented function ntoskrnl.exe.IoStopTimer
42355 Artifacts in GTAIV appear and disappear when driving
42361 DX Library: PlaySoundFile() doesn't play MP3 files with specific extra headers
42365 Unimplemented function msvcr120.dll.fesetenv
42367 KiriKiri Z based games: main screen doesn't update.
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Tuesday, February 7, 2017
CodeWeavers has Released CrossOver 16.1.0 for Linux and MacOS
The big news in CrossOver 16.1 is that we now support Quicken 2017. We know many of our customers use Quicken and CrossOver to do their taxes this time of year. With CrossOver 16.1, you can use the latest version of Quicken.
We have also fixed a number of other bugs since our last major release. Notably, we have fixed a problem with Microsoft Office 2013 installations in certain locales. We also addressed a problem which could prevent Microsoft Office 2010 from completing online activation.
Mac customers with active support entitlements will be upgraded to CrossOver 16.1 the next time they launch CrossOver. Linux users can download the latest version from CodeWeavers site.
CrossOver 16.1.0 is immediately available at www.codeweavers.com.
About CodeWeavers
Founded in 1996 as a general software consultancy, CodeWeavers focuses on the development of Wine the core technology found in all of its CrossOver products. The company’s goal is to bring expanded market opportunities for Windows software developers by making it easier, faster and more painless to port Windows software to Linux. CodeWeavers is recognized as a leader in open-source Windows porting technology, and maintains development offices in Minnesota, the United Kingdom and elsewhere around the world. The company is privately held.
Change Log For CrossOver Mac and Linux :
16.1.0 CrossOver - February 6, 2017
- Application Support:
- CrossOver now supports Quicken 2017.
- Bug Fixes:
- Fixed a bug which prevented Microsoft Office 2013 from installing in the Spanish locale.
- Fixed a problem which could prevent Microsoft Office 2010 from completing online activation.
- Fixed a bug in the CrossOver preferences pane which prevented the preference for recording usage statistics from being properly displayed.
The WineHQ Wine development release 2.1 is now available for Linux and Mac
What's new in this release:
- Many fixes that were deferred during code freeze.
- More Shader Model 5 instructions.
- A number of improvements to MIME message handling.
- Line breaking improvements in DirectWrite.
- HID bus service now running by default.
- Direct2D rendering improvements.
- Various bug fixes.
- Source release tarballs now use xz compression.
Bugs fixed in 2.1 (total 62):
12714 SimCity 2000: crashes when saving or opening a file.
14897 DirectDraw games (Jojo's Fashion Show 2: Las Cruces demo, The Chosen: Well of Souls) try to lock surface with invalid dwSize
17923 No music in X-COM: UFO Defense
18631 regedit gives wrong error when renaming keys
20026 Metal Fatigue crashes on file enumeration (Game saves, skirmish maps)
23547 Railroad Tycoon 2: Platinum (Steam) crashes when setting resolution to 800x600
24112 Xara Designer Pro 6 demo crashes when you select 'continue trial'
25516 Sims 3 flickering white textures
26264 Tanktics won't start
26531 Frogger crashes upon exiting game
27580 Wine Notepad command line parser eats the first 2 letters when the path starts with / (it should only do this for valid command line options)
28982 Application Zero no Kiseki crashes when it tries to play 44100Hz Stereo WAVE music
30308 Property sheet fails to display Page Title
31113 Civilization V crashes after specific amount of game turns
32627 MiroVideoConverter setup gives error "Internal error occurred"
34171 Actua Soccer 2 API error when loading game from menu
34960 Civilization V crashes when loading game
35155 PDF-Xchange Viewer chrashes when a lot of documents opened
35993 Graphical Glitches in Agarest Generations of War
36501 Dyn Updater v4.1.10 'DynUpConfig' tool crashes on startup ('Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration' WMI class 'Description' property missing)
37034 Stars!: Crashes on startup
38192 Harry Potter 7 Part 2 crash at begins
38773 msvcr100/110/120 is missing reader_writer_lock (required for MSVC 2013)
39180 Witcher 3 Wild hunt Wine 1.7.50 not working
39920 Nanocad 5.: file open/import dialog does not open
40133 No Limits 2 help system needs GetOverhangMetrics()
40392 ComicRack 0.9.x (.NET 4.5 app) hangs/crashes on startup when executing WMI query
40592 wininet:http test regression
40629 Noto Nastaliq Urdu font crashes notepad during shaping
40938 UE4 games (Ether One Redux, Into the Stars) crash while loading with "BackBuffer->GetResource() has 3 refs, expected 1" error
41052 Failure to create D3D9 device on i915
41175 Firefox tooltips are partly black
41324 Everspace (UE4) requires bfi opcode
41579 Rush for Berlin Gold crashes after the intro videos
41623 Odallus The Dark Call crashes while starting if a force feedback enabled controller is plugged in
41706 Adam Standalone demo: Backend can't handle opcode ubfe
41747 HYPACK 2016 crashes trying to set "AllowXsltScript" and "AllowDocumentFunction" properties
41905 The Solus Project: Backend can't handle opcode bfrev
42022 The Magic School Bus Explores The Solar System needs msvideo.dll16.DRAWDIBPROFILEDISPLAY
42023 The Magic School Bus Explores The Solar System crashes on launch; appears to be missing some files
42078 Dungeons & Dragons: Chronicles of Mystara needs d3dx11_43.dll.D3DX11CreateShaderResourceViewFromMemory
42093 Git for Windows 2.7.0 needs unimplemented function rstrtmgr.dll.RmShutdown
42096 Steam -> RPGMaker 2003 needs unimplemented function KERNEL32.dll.BaseFlushAppcompatCache
42141 Star Ruler 2 black screen on macOS and FreeBSD
42159 Sega Bug crashes immediately
42163 Sid Meier's Railroads! crash loading multiplayer lobby
42166 Custom application needs mf3216.dll (32-bit to 16-bit metafile converter)
42187 Radeon R9 285 GPU incorrectly recognized
42206 Gauntlet character screen background is corrupted.
42212 WOLF RPG Editor: Division by zero when winegstreamer is enabled
42218 mshtml/tests/dom crashes in xul while running test_doc_elem
42220 secur32/tests/ntlm crashes in ntlm_EncryptMessage due to null pointer
42221 ws2_32/tests/sock fails with "TransmitFile header buffer did not match!"
42225 MSRX v2015a (magnetic stripe reader app) crashed on plugplay:hidraw_set_feature_report Output feature buffer too small
42244 QQ 2013 needs ntoskrnl.exe.IoCreateFile
42245 QQ 2013 needs ntoskrnl.exe.KeClearEvent
42257 Warpath 21st Century does not have sound
42299 Ecue Lighting Suite installer fails to start, needs ntdll.NtLoadKey2
42303 Magic: The Gathering Online 4.0 crashes when entering the battle
42306 One Note Free Retail installer crashes in xmllite
42312 ShellView does not display items attributes
42315 Piriform Speccy 1.3 needs setupapi.dll.CM_Get_Child_Ex
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Wednesday, February 1, 2017
Uneeqs Awesome macOS software Bundle #4
– Calendar 366 - The complete menu bar calendar for events and reminders.
• Quick menu bar access (hotkey)
• Complete menu bar calendar app
• Sync with OS X' account & calendar settings
• 3 themes: Light / Dark / Darkest
– CrossOver Mac - CrossOver runs thousands of different Windows programs on Mac.
• No Windows license needed
• No Windows operating system required
• Microsoft Office 2013 Support
• 64-bit Support
– DEvonSphere Express - DEVONsphere Express keeps track of related emails, articles on the same subject, and similar web pages.
• Find other items related to what you're working on
• Search like Spotlight on steroids
• Context-aware; always focuses on what you do
• Runs as a menu extra, always available
– Easy Barcode - Barcodes make life easier, the way that they can hold a lot of information in such a small space.
• Very easy to use with wizard-style help options, 3 steps to complete your bar code design, and no need to learn anything else.
• 30+ bar code templates to choose from, including QR Code with logo, Code 39, Code 128, Interleaved 2 of 5, UPC/EAN, Data Matrix, etc. Support ISBN or book code extend 2 or 5 digits.
• You can set to barcode data, barcode color, whether to display any auxiliary text, text font, or color.
• Barcode height, width, horizontal and vertical space can also be set by you.
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• Doesn’t freeze your system while cleaning
• Enable auto-clean and forget about slowdowns
• Tracks the most memory-consuming apps
– MP3 Converter - MP3 Converter encodes more than 200 audio and video formats to MP3 in one click. Get quality MP3 effortlessly.
• 200+ input audio and video formats.
• True batch processing.
• Automatic or custom output MP3 format.
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– Narrator - Voice synthesis made easy for your Mac.
• Have Narrator read it out loud for you
• Export speech directly to iTunes
• Choose different voices, rates, pitches, inflections and volumes for each character you assign, giving your text a wide range of expressiveness.
• Silent read-along options for stage directions or for you to read out your own parts.
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• Easy management: When a folder is dragged into the application, Photo Size Optimizer will work on it immediately.
• Supports 70 types of image formats for resizing.
• The program solicits whether to overwrite the original files while exporting.
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Wednesday, January 25, 2017
The WineHQ Wine stable release 2.0 is now available for Linux and Mac
This release represents over a year of development effort and around 6,600 individual changes. The main highlights are the support for Microsoft Office 2013, and the 64-bit support on macOS.
It also contains a lot of improvements across the board, as well as support for many new applications and games. See the release notes below for a summary of the major changes.
This is the first release made on the new time-based, annual release schedule. This implies that some features that are being worked on but couldn't be finished in time have been deferred to the next development cycle. This includes in particular the Direct3D command stream, the full HID support, the Android graphics driver, and message-mode pipes.
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*** Text and fonts
- More DirectWrite features are implemented, including:
- Drawing of underlines.
- Renderer sees drawing effect associated with text segment.
- Support for color fonts in COLR/CPAL format.
- Initial font fallback support, builtin data for some of CJK ranges.
- Support for Wine-specific font replacement registry settings.
- Improved font metrics resolution in case of incomplete or
ambiguous font data.
- Support for EUDC font collection based on current registry
settings.
- Font embedding in PDF files is supported.
- The RichEdit control supports bulleted and numbered lists.
- Bold glyphs can be synthesized also for bitmap fonts.
- Character tables are based on version 9.0.0 of the Unicode Standard.
*** Graphics
- Window, bitmap and GDI DC render targets are implemented in Direct2D.
- A wide range of optimizations make the DIB engine noticeably faster.
- GDI graphic paths are reimplemented for better compatibility; they
are also supported with enhanced metafiles.
- Gradients are supported in GDI enhanced metafiles.
- Metafiles are better supported in GdiPlus.
- The macOS graphics driver supports a high-resolution ("Retina")
rendering mode. It can be enabled by setting "RetinaMode" to "Y"
under HKCU\Software\Wine\Mac Driver.
*** User interface
- The clipboard support is reimplemented for better compatibility;
copy & paste of HTML text is also improved. Drag & drop works more
smoothly.
- In desktop mode, the taskbar displays running applications and
allows switching between them.
- Version 4 of the system tray notification protocol is implemented.
- In desktop mode, some less common display resolutions like 640x400
and 1280x960 are supported.
- More user interface elements scale correctly with high-DPI screens.
*** Direct3D
- More Direct3D 10 and 11 features are implemented, including:
- Several more shader model 4 and 5 shader instructions.
- Several more resource formats.
- Integer vertex shader inputs.
- Typeless resources.
- sRGB read/write support.
- Depth and stencil clears.
- Depth-only draws.
- Array textures.
- Index buffer offsets.
- Unordered access views.
- Primitive restart.
- The WineD3D graphics card database recognizes more graphics
cards. When available, the GLX_MESA_query_renderer GLX extension is
used to provide more accurate information about the graphics card.
- The (system) memory layout of texture resources more closely matches
Windows. This affects applications that write beyond the bounds of a
MIP-level, like for example League of Legends.
- The implementation of non-maskable multisample anti-aliasing is more
correct. In particular, when the ARB_internalformat_query extension
is available, only quality levels corresponding to specific sample
counts supported by the OpenGL implementation are reported to the
application. Previously, reporting a large number of non-maskable
multisample anti-aliasing quality levels would break some
applications.
- Direct3D 11 feature levels are supported.
- Retrieving a GDI device context from DXGI surfaces is
implemented. This is used for rendering to DXGI surfaces using GDI.
- More DXGI swapchain methods are implemented, particularly those
relating to switching display modes and switching to and from
fullscreen.
- When ARB_clip_control and ARB_viewport_array are both supported,
position fixups are slightly more efficient.
- The APPLE_client_storage extension is no longer used. It caused more
problems than it solved.
- New HKCU\Software\Wine\Direct3D registry keys:
- "CheckFloatConstants" (REG_SZ).
Setting this to "enabled" enables additional run-time bounds
checking on relatively addressed shader constant access. This
helps some (broken) applications, but comes at a performance cost.
- "MaxShaderModelHS", "MaxShaderModelDS" and "MaxShaderModelCS" (REG_DWORD).
These limit the maximum supported shader model for hull, domain,
and compute shaders respectively, analogous to the existing
"MaxShaderModelVS", "MaxShaderModelGS", "MaxShaderModelPS"
keys. Note that these shader types are new in shader model 5, so
setting this to anything lower than 5 will effectively disable
them.
- "SampleCount" (REG_DWORD).
Setting this registry key will force the multisample anti-aliasing
sample count to the specified value for swapchain render
targets. This allows anti-aliasing to be forced on applications
that do not otherwise support anti-aliasing themselves, but may
have no effect or break the application depending on the specific
application.
*** DirectDraw
- Retrieving a GDI device context from a DirectDraw surface is
implemented in a more accurate way. In particular, retrieving a GDI
device context for a "client memory" surface will retrieve a GDI
device context that's backed by that same client memory.
- A number of fixes related to vertex transformation in early
DirectDraw versions have been made.
*** D3DX
- The support for the D3DX 9 effect framework is more complete, in
particular:
- There is initial support for preshaders.
- Many more effect states are correctly applied.
- D3DX 10 and 11 asynchronous data loaders are implemented.
- The d3dx9 DLLs no longer forward to d3dx9_36, but are built from the
same source instead.
- The d3dcompiler DLLs no longer forward to d3dcompiler_43, but are
built from the same source instead.
*** Sound and video
- GStreamer version 1.0 is supported for audio and video streams.
- DirectSound supports downmixing from 5.1 and 4.0 formats to stereo.
*** Internet and networking
- The Web Services API is supported. The XML reader and writer are
implemented, along with support for serializing many common data
types. Basic support for making SOAP calls is also included. This
enables Microsoft Office 2013 online activation.
- The Gecko engine is updated to the version from Firefox 47.
- IDN name resolution is supported.
- Various SHA hashes are supported using GnuTLS.
- Looking up the host address prioritizes non-loopback interfaces,
which fixes a number of networked games.
- XML writing is faster for large files.
- Winsock supports the IP_DONTFRAGMENT socket option.
- Long URLs are handled correctly.
- JavaScript performance is improved. JSON is also supported.
*** Internationalization
- There is proper support for the Persian locale.
- Uniscribe better supports right-to-left languages.
- Japanese Hiragana, Katakana and full-width/half-width character
mapping is implemented.
*** 64-bit support
- 64-bit applications are supported on macOS.
- The Mono engine has 64-bit support.
- C++ exceptions are handled correctly on x86-64, including nested
exceptions and collided unwinds.
- The debug registers are supported on x86-64.
*** Built-in applications
- The 'winebrowser' helper application supports multiple arguments to
invoke the host browser or mailer.
- The 'reg' command-line registry utility supports the 'query'
command, all registry data types, and has more robust command line
handling.
- The 'winhlp32' help viewer properly displays tables and images.
- The 'wineconsole' tool better supports East-Asian fonts. Color
handling is also improved.
*** Build environment
- Import libraries can optionally be built as static libraries
similarly to Windows, instead of .def files. This avoids the need
for a separate .def.a library file.
- The IDL compiler supports "midl_pragma warning" directives.
- Cross-compilation with the Mingw-w64 Clang and ARM toolchains is
supported.
*** Kernel
- A new driver architecture is in place for supporting HID devices.
This follows the Windows model, with platform-specific bus drivers
and HID minidrivers. It will be used in future releases to unify
support for HID devices, and potentially also for USB device
support.
- Loading multiple kernel drivers inside the same user-mode process is
supported. This is used for HID drivers.
- A directory cache is implemented, to allow returning files in the
expected order and avoid relying on platform-specific system calls.
- Many more API Set libraries (the oddly-named api-ms-win-* dlls) are
implemented.
- Interrupt 0x2d (used for debugger checks) is emulated.
*** Miscellaneous
- Read interval timeouts are supported for serial ports.
- Variables starting with 'QT_' are filtered from the Unix environment
since they may have unwanted effects on Qt-based Windows
applications.
- Support for joystick button mapping and force feedback effects is
improved.
- Many stream classes are implemented in MSVCIRT, the old I/O stream
C++ runtime.
- Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) implements some more WBEM
classes.
- Most remaining OpenMP functions are implemented.
- Uninstallation support in MSI is improved.
*** New external dependencies
- libudev is used for HID device support.
- GStreamer version 1.0 is used instead of version 0.10.
- GnuTLS version 2.10 or higher is required for the SHA hashing
functions to be supported.
*** Configuration changes
- A number of DLLs are now built separately from a common source,
instead of forwarding to a master DLL. This means that native DLL
overrides need to be set on the specific version of the DLL being
loaded, instead of the master one. This applies to the d3dx9_*,
d3dcompiler_*, xaudio2_*, xapofx1_* and x3daudio1_* DLLs.
*** Release numbering
- Starting with 2.0, version numbering will change: stable release
updates will follow the existing scheme: 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.0.3, etc.
but the developemnt branch will drop the intermediate number: the
releases will be numbered 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, etc. leading to the next
stable release, which will be called 3.0.
--
Alexandre Julliard
julliard@winehq.org
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Friday, January 20, 2017
The WineHQ Wine development release 2.0-rc6 is now available for Linux and Mac
Barring last minute regressions, this is expected to be the last release candidate for 2.0.
What's new in this release:
- Bug fixes only, we are in code freeze.
Bugs fixed in 2.0-rc6 (total 21):
11179 NO$GBA 2.6a debugger GUI buttons are not stacked
19862 CodeCreatures crashes.
28672 VirtualDub: crash when using directx for display panes
33859 Visual Web Developer Express 2008 crashes when clicking "Browse" (bug in PropertySheet common control)
34127 FIFA 2000 demo crashes after 'Press Any Key'
35669 Space Giraffe: text between levels (and on level selection screen) is corrupted / unreadable
36525 Ctrl+C does not copy in the Battle.net chat scrollback
38305 SMARegisTry Backup installer: corrupted window title
38845 Battle.net launcher shows white screen with WINEPREFIX Windows version > 'Windows XP' (builtin 'd3dcompiler_46.dll' is not mature enough)
38850 crypt32/tests: chain test fails on Debian Jessie
39642 Battle.net crashes when you try to resize the window when "allow the window manager to decorate the windows" is unchecked.
40096 Pendulumania: Black screen
40781 KSP Trajectory Optimization Tool (using MATLAB Runtime (MCR)) "Could not successfully parse URI string"
41001 64-bit Core Temp 1.x kernel driver 'ALSysIO.sys' crashes on unimplemented function ntoskrnl.exe.RtlUnwindEx
41218 curl 7.50: HTTPS fails with InitializeSecurityContext failed: SEC_E_INVALID_TOKEN
41290 DirectShow applications: MP3 playback is broken if winegstreamer is disabled
42020 Tompi Jones fails creating user profile
42211 redefinition of typedef 'REFERENCE_TIME'
42228 bcrypt:bcrypt test regression (test_aes)
42229 advapi32:eventlog test regression (privilege issue in test_start_trace)
42243 3DMark11 installer crashes with access violation in Freetype because font data is released too early
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Wednesday, January 18, 2017
New Putty for Mac Video SSH made easy
SSH is available by default in Mac and Linux or Unix. Although you can use terminal for SSH connections still there are some benefits using putty such as Other clients don’t keep connections alive whereas Putty does. Also it is cool to use Putty as your SSH client if you are doing some CISCO Stuffs, transferring files, managing files on a server or whatever.
Putty for Mac only cost $15.00 and can be easily purchased here.
Saturday, January 14, 2017
The WineHQ Wine development release 2.0-rc5 is now available for Linux and Mac
What's new in this release:
- Bug fixes only, we are in code freeze.
Bugs fixed in 2.0-rc5 (total 28):
7372 Can't copy and paste between native apps (e.g., Open Office, Firefox, Gimp) and some Wine apps (affects Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Powerpoint, Excel)
9875 moving dialogs shows artifacts on window behind it
11835 Adobe Acrobat Pro 6 / Acrobat Reader 6.01 -- Comments don't work
11847 Adobe Acrobat Pro 6 / Acrobat Reader 6.01 -- How To window does not work
15845 Silverlight configuration tab "Application storage" causes freeze (while iterating isolated storage)
16528 RAdmin Send Message Feature Doesn't Work
29832 Mario Forever crashes
30355 DVDSubEdit 1.52 crashes on startup, broken TBM_SETRANGEMAX handling
33066 resident evil 6 pc benchmark Black screen
33860 Visual Web Developer Express 2008 displays only "file system" in Browse window
34465 process hacker 2.31 crashes in toolbar code
36187 valgrind shows lots of warnings for comctl32/tests/listview.c when running in a virtual desktop
36554 valgrind shows a definite leak in ieframe/tests/intshcut.c
37458 Regedit: Left click on a selected key activates renaming mode
37576 Google Sketchup 7 and 8: 2D Drawing File Export Broken
37762 Runaway & Runaway 2: wrong colors
38030 Adobe Lightroom 5.7 - Classic window dialog size increase at each opening
38216 Wrong screen in Civilization V
38449 valgrind shows a couple leaks in shell32/tests/shelldispatch.c test_namespace()
38847 valgrind shows a definite leak in winmm/tests/wave.c
39905 Ogar Server crashes while starting
40537 ddraw:ddraw1 causes Windows XP to crash
41058 Absent model in 3d scene in SexyBeach3 game
41188 Trove game wants msvcp140.dll._Cnd_init_in_situ
42009 Mentor Graphics DK Design Suite crashes on clipboard copy
42067 Disney Universe doesn't scale gamescreen properly
42110 regression: commit "xinput1_3 prefer builtin dll" aliens versus predator classic 2000 (steam) fails to launch
42194 Magic: The Gathering Online 4.0 fails to connect to login server
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Monday, January 9, 2017
World Wine News issue 405
Wine 2.0 Release Work
The past weeks have been relatively quiet without any fancy developments. Developers are focusing on bugfixes for the upcoming Wine 2.0 release. In late December Alexandre posted an update to the release plans to wine-devel :
Folks,
Since there was (understandably) very little activity this week, I'm going to skip today's release. I'll release rc4 next Friday; after that, there will probably be a couple more release candidates, since I'm hoping that we can make some more progress on bug fixing once people are back from the holidays. That will put the final 2.0 probably in the second half of January.
Happy New Year to everyone!
User mode instruction prevention
We were alerted to some potentially interesting development from the Linux Kernel developers: The Kernel will be making use of a new feature of Intel CPUs called User-Mode Instruction Prevention (UMIP) . It allows the kernel to disallow non-system code from using certain CPU instructions that expose low-level information that could be used in exploiting code execution vulnerabilities. With UMIP enabled these instructions will cause an exception, which the kernel can either forward to the application (which will then by default crash) or the kernel can handle it in more elaborate ways and e.g. return dummy values to the application.
Ricardo Neri asked which way Wine would prefer:
If running in protected mode, always propagate the GP fault to the user space via a sigsegv. If running in vm86 mode, trap the GP fault within the kernel and give the userspace fake values for the aforementioned resources (most likely zeros).
Also, UMIP will be able to be disabled via a kernel command-line parameter at boot.
I would like to inquire about the current use of these instructions and whether it would be catastrophic for wine to lose access to them.
Note: vm86 is what people would roughly call „DOS mode“. It is not used by Wine nowadays because we invoke DOSBox for real mode executables. It is used by DOSEMU to run DOS applications without CPU emulation. The Windows equivalent is called NT Virtual DOS Machine .
Alexandre said that there were Windows applications that called these instructions, and that Wine has the infrastructure to handle these new exceptions itself and give the applications approriate values. It would require users to update Wine when the feature is enabled in the kernel though.
Ricardo then proposed that the kernel itself could provide fake values. The most obvious value would be to set any returned pointer to NULL.
Alexandre was not entirely happy with this solution:
That wouldn't work, because we'd have no way of knowing that this was an attempted IDT access and not a normal null pointer. We rely on SIDT returning a unique address that we can recognize once we get an access violation fault for it.
Ricardo‘s then proposed a patch that returned the address of a dummy variable in the kernel. Wine could detect this is an access to the IDT and handle it as it saw fit. However, this would expose kernel information again :
Nak. This is a trivial KASLR bypass. Just give them hardcoded values. For x86_64, I would suggest 0xfffffffffffe0000 and 0xffffffffffff0000.
Using these hardcoded values that are guaranteed to point into kernel addresses and thus cause a recognizable fault when accessed that Wine can handle. From Wine‘s point of view it is as good as the real Interupt Descriptor Table address that the CPU would return without UMIP, so old Wine versions should continue to work with UMIP-enabled kernels.
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Tuesday, November 1, 2016
Q4Wine 1.3.3 has been released for Linux and Mac OSX
Q4Wine was initially written by Alexey S. Malakhov aka John Brezerk. General idea comes from WineTools scripts which were initially written by Frank Hendriksen.
General features are:
- Can export Qt color theme into wine colors settings;
- Can easy work with different wine versions at same time;
- Easy creating, deleting and managing prefixes (WINEPREFIX);
- Easy controlling for wine process;
- Autostart icons support;
- Easy cd-image use;
- You can extract icons from PE files (.exe .dll);
- Easy backup and restore for managed prefixes;
- Winetriks support;
- And more: Explore it!;
Fixed:
- Problem opening file dialog to mount ISO BUG-86;
Monday, October 31, 2016
The WineHQ Wine development release 1.9.22 is now available for Linux and Mac
What's new in this release:
- macOS clipboard support adapted to the new design.
- Initial implementation of bitmap rendering in Direct2D.
- More WebServices implementation.
- A few more steps towards HID support.
- Various bug fixes.
Bugs fixed in 1.9.22 (total 25):
11910 Multiple games need msvcirt.dll.??0istrstream@@QAE@PADH@Z (Tron 2.0, NOLF2, Schizm 2)
16925 Star Trek: Borg does not run, needs msvcrt20.dll.??0ostrstream@@QAE@PADHH@Z
20569 Winamp's next page in the shoutcast radio/tv list doesn't respond
22671 Gestan crashes due to unimplemented msvcirt.dll.??0istrstream@@QAE@PAD@Z
24519 Fractal Time!: cannot select an area in the generated image to zoom in
26994 Microsoft reader crashes due to unimpl msvcirt.dll.?rdbuf@ostrstream@@QBEPAVstrstreambuf@@XZ
27553 Reservoir Dogs: no videos and black menu right after starting
29174 L2German.net: Lineage II installer crashes
29412 Right click on system tray icon not work
31338 Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne (Steam) shows white screen and nothing else
32672 Rainbow Six: Only the sky is rendered
35025 Max Payne 2 Demo: checkboxes in options dialog have missing window styles
35281 KCleaner hangs up in system tray
35452 Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II (Steam) crashes on startup, reporting 'Failed to verify content catalog integrity'
35630 New ReactOS shell crashes on unimplemented function shell32.dll.723 a.k.a. SHCreateSessionKey
36205 TrySim v5.0 demo doesn't exit cleanly (crashes/hangs on exit)
36690 Rockman 7FC has issues with Shade Man Easter Egg
37410 Might & Magic Heroes IV crashes on startup
39364 LFS.exe (Live for Speed) crash on copy/paste (Ctrl+C) operation on chat history
41449 Power DVD 15 (Cyberlink) needs unimplemented function SHELL32.dll.SHRemoveLocalizedName
41492 Failure to compile: redefinition of typedef ‘EVENT_FILTER_DESCRIPTOR’
41565 WMI error in object Win32_ComputerSystemProduct, property UUID
41570 Xenia emulator needs unimplemented function api-ms-win-core-rtlsupport-l1-1.RtlLookupFunctionEntry called in 64-bit code
41572 Windows API crash (GetTimeZoneInformationForYear)
41575 Copy/Cut and paste do not work as of wine 1.9.21
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Sunday, October 23, 2016
CrossOver Mac and CrossOver Linux sale going on now
CrossOver Mac and CrossOver Linux can get your Windows productivity applications and PC games up and running on your Mac or Linux machine quickly and easily. CrossOver runs the Windows software that you need on Mac and Linux at home, in the office, or at school without purchasing a Windows license, without rebooting your computer, and without having to use a virtual machine. And CrossOver can run a wide range of Windows games and entertainment applications.
A brief overview of CrossOver Mac.
Provides you with an easy to install environment for running a huge selection of Windows applications on your Mac
The best thing about CrossOver Mac is that you can enjoy various Windows software on your Mac at home, in the office or at work without purchasing a Windows license.In other words, you do not have to go to the trouble of installing a Windows virtual machine or creating a Boot Camp partition on which you can install a Windows copy. The fact that you do not need to reboot your system to logon on a different operating system or share your resources with a Windows virtual machine translates into a faster and smoother application usage.
Extensive list of supported Windows programs and support for running a multitude of others that haven't yet been tested
CrossOver Mac comes with support for a long list of Windows programs and games, you can visit CrossOver Mac’s support page and view What Runs on CrossOver. Additionally, you can access the CrossOver Software Installer and search for the desired application using the built-in search form.
Powerful and handy tool that enables you to use virtually any Windows program on a Mac
CrossOver Mac is easy-to-use and kind to your Mac’s resources, and provides a simple and clean user interface. From CrossOver Mac’s main window you can choose between two simple options: “Install Windows Software” and “Run Installed Software”.
About CrossOver Mac
CrossOver Mac is a commercial product that provides Mac OSX users with an easy way to install various applications and games that run only on the proprietary Microsoft Windows operating systems. Technically, the application is a GUI (Graphical User Interface) front-end for the well known Wine software, which provides a set of APIs and libraries to emulate several Microsoft Windows OSes on top of your Mac operating system.
Features at a glance
By default, the program comes with support for a very large selection of Windows applications, allowing users to install and use them without the need for a Microsoft Windows license. However, this does not mean that you won’t have to own a specific software license. It is distributed as a binary packages that supports Mac OSX 10.8 or higher.
Supported Windows applications
Considering the fact that CrossOver is just a simple user interface for Wine, it comes with support for all the applications that can be installed by the latter, such as the entire Microsoft Office 2010/2007/2003/XP/2000/97 suite, including Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Outlook, and Microsoft Access.Among some other Windows-only applications that can be installed by this software, we can mention Internet Explorer, MicrosoftProject, Adobe Photoshop, Lotus Notes, Microsoft Visio, Quicken, FrameMaker, Shockwave Director, QuickTime, Windows Media Player, as well as numerous games.
Saturday, October 22, 2016
The Wine Staging release 1.9.21 is now available
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.
-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.
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