Wine development release 4.6 is now available for Linux FreeBSD and macOS

Wine development release 4.6 is now available for Linux FreeBSD and macOS

The Wine development release 4.6 is now available.

What's new in this release:

• Beginnings of a Vulkan backend for WineD3D.
• Support for loading Mono libraries from a shared location.
• Libwine.dll no longer needed when using Wine DLLs on Windows.
• Regression tests compiled directly to PE format.
• Support for the Split Button Common Control.
• Complex structs support in the typelib marshaller.
• Video capture ported to Video4Linux version 2.
• Initial version of the Debug Engine DLL.
• 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 4.6 (total 50):

   8036  The Spirit Engine's save/load functionality does not work
  14415  Monkey Island 3 demo slow
  15232  Button in simple OpenGL application gets overdrawn
  18099  No keyboard response in Super Mario 3 remake
  20082  SIV (System Information Viewer) v4.00 SIVDRIVER crashes (IRP_MJ_CREATE and IRP_MJ_CLOSE dispatch routines not called)
  20123  Addition of Windows Vista/7 Split Button Support
  21161  Still Life 2 Demo: Black and broken textures
  21403  Shiva Editor/Evochron: Mercenary refuse to run with built-in dinput/dinput8.dll
  24429  fifaconfig.exe: save function don`t work when Wine uses Mono 2.6 instead of dotnet20
  27629  Pride of Nations Demo: crashes before entering game
  28140  Theatre of War 3: Korea demo 1.2.0 crashes on startup (hook engine can't cope with GOT/PIC register load code at API entry, needs DECLSPEC_HOTPATCH for kernel32.SizeofResource and kernel32.FindClose)
  32086  LBA2 black screen above diagonal from bottom left to upper right
  33845  Warframe (Steam) updater fails to replace 'Launcher.exe', reports sharing violation
  33904  Face Noir demo crashes on start without native d3dx9_36 ('D3DXLoadSkinMeshFromXof' must return 'ID3DXSkinInfo' interface even with no skinning info present)
  34237  Jenkins 1.526 service (.NET 2.0 app) fails to install with Wine-Mono
  37784  wine-mono does not appear in "wine uninstaller" list on a 64-bit prefix
  38307  Last Half of Darkness: Beyond the Spirit's Eye crashes at start
  40544  Ultimate Unwrap Pro v3.50.14 x64 demo: Fails to run
  42103  VSCode.exe v1.8.1 crash
  42572  Older directx games (Revenant) have black character models
  43270  Exact Audio Copy does not detect plugins
  43356  Mass Effect (1) Steam freezes since Steam Update from 8th of July 2017
  43411  Older directx games (The Sims, Revenant) - Screen not redrawing properly (needs Set/GetClipStatus implementation)
  45325  Ubisoft detection tool dont recognize correctly cpu
  45844  Battleye's BEDaisy.sys requires correct KeGetCurrentThread implementation
  45854  Magic the Gathering demo graphical glitch with virtual desktop
  45878  Aruba digital signature crashes on missing hid.dll.HidD_FlushQueue
  46019  Multiple NSIS 2.x based installers fail due to invalid module handle passed to 'kernel32.FreeLibrary', causing code dll unmapped as data dll (Adobe Digital Editions 4.5.x, ConceptDraw Office 4)
  46115  Cursor in unity games moving down and to the right one pixel on any mouse interaction
  46187  Windows PowerShell Core 6.2 Preview 2 for ARM32 crashes due to unhandled trap_no 0 (write watch access causes SIGSEGV)
  46189  Windows PowerShell Core 6.2 Preview 2 for ARM32 crashes due to ntdll 'set_cpu_context' not restoring Thumb mode during return from exception handling
  46205  Multiple kernel drivers need implementation of 'ntoskrnl.ObReferenceObjectByHandle' for 'PsThreadType' (PETHREAD)
  46316  Hauppauge Capture version 36187 crashes during install
  46711  Since 3.3 other HID devices than Joysticks not supported anymore
  46713  School days HQ occasional divide by zero
  46800  LINE (Powered by Naver): LINE v5.12.XXX series crashes after few seconds
  46804  StarForce v3 kernel driver service 'sfhlp02' crashes in driver entry point due to 'ntoskrnl.exe.IoCreateSynchronizationEvent' stub
  46829  Wizard101 crashes after playing the game after awhile.
  46863  If prefix contains "windows" drive information not available in 64-bit prefix
  46898  SIMATIC WinCC V15.1 Runtime installer fails in Windows 7 mode, reporting "The Microsoft security update KB3033929 was not found on your system." ('ksecdd.sys' missing with version resource)
  46902  SIMATIC WinCC V15.1 Runtime installer: S7Inst64.exe sub-installer crashes on unimplemented function msvcr110.dll._wcsnset_s
  46903  SIMATIC WinCC V15.1 Runtime installer: AdHocSigner.exe tool crashes on unimplemented functions mssign32.dll.SignerSignEx and SignerFreeSignerContext
  46917  d3d8/9 visual tests fail on i965
  46923  X-Tension, X-Beyond The Frontier: Dynamic light breaks after opening up a menu
  46928  Atelier Firis config tool doesn't show up when launched through Steam
  46939  propvarutil.h: missing extern "C"
  46954  Relay trace causes crash in wine_dbgstr_wn helper due to invalid string pointer access
  46968  ksecdd.sys is not copied when creating/updating WINEPREFIX (SIMATIC WinCC V15.1 Runtime installer)
  46979  Winecfg hangs (winedevice.exe 100% CPU usage) when removing an assigned drive
  46991  debug.h warning: "conversion from 'WCHAR' to 'char', possible loss of data" on line 293

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Lutris 0.5.2 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 :

• Avoid a crash if the lutris config file is corrupted
• Install Asian fonts by default on Wine prefix creation
• Add Vulkan ICD loaders in system options
• Add SampleCount option to Wine (allows enabling antialiasing in old games)
• Replace joystick panel with Wine config panel (which contains the joypad panel)
• Display warning when installing games on NTFS drives
• Display warning if Vulkan is not fully installed
• Use ldconfig to determine library paths
• Disable steamwebhelper in Wine Steam to prevent spamming logs with errors
• Various bug fixes

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CodeWeavers has Released CrossOver 18.5.0 for Linux and MacOS

I am very pleased to announce that CodeWeavers has just released CrossOver 18.5.0 for both macOS and Linux.

CrossOver 18.5 now supports OneNote 2016 on Linux.

Change Log For CrossOver Mac and Linux :

18.5.0 CrossOver - March 21, 2019

• Core Technology Improvements:
  • CrossOver 18.5 includes an update to Wine 4.0.
  • Reimplementation of XAudio2 using the FAudio library.
• Linux:
  • Preliminary support for OneNote 2016.
  • Restored support for the latest release of Office 365.
• Bug Fixes:
  • Fixed a bug disrupting the activation status of Office 2010 bottles upgraded from CrossOver 17.x and earlier.
  • Fixed a bug that caused Office 2010 to attempt and fail configuration on every launch.
  • Fixed an audio regression that prevented sound from working for some game titles.

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Proton 4.2-2 has been released

 Proton 4.2-2 has been released

• Corrected command line parameters for some games, including Wadjet Eye games like Blackwell Epiphany.
• Fixed some games failing or crashing in certain locales like Turkish.
• Updated FAudio to 19.03-25-g8105923.
• Fixed a crash when alt-tabbing out of Deus Ex.
• Restored previous .NET installer functionality.

 

Link to source code

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