The Wine development release 5.8 is now available.
What's new in this release:
- Support for Plug & Play device notifications.
- More support for building with Clang in MSVC mode.
- Still more progress on the WineD3D Vulkan backend.
- Initial implementation of a GIF encoder.
- Vulkan spec update.
- 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 5.8 (total 44):
17233 Zanzarah game opens a black fullscreen window and then crashes (needs support for IDirectDraw7::EnumSurfaces 'DDENUMSURFACES_CANBECREATED')
32337 ABBYY FineReader 11 trial version crashes when trying to activate the production (RichEdit control incorrectly returns failure for EM_SETREADONLY)
34495 Total War: Shogun 2 (Steam): character models are fixed sideways with NVIDIA drivers
37388 GTA IV fails to launch (using XLiveLess)
38495 Origin crashes when launching a game
39534 Bad Mojo Redux crashes on start (ddraw1_vtbl and ddraw_surface1_vtbl need to be writable)
39649 Anno 1701 doesn't show images in ANNOpedia when anti-aliasing enabled
40311 Processing of 'DeviceIoControl' calls doesn't corresponds to specification
40820 Karaoke DVD Burner v1.0 crashes when attempting to 'Create and Burn' (missing 'CLSID_FileWriter', clsid '{8596E5F0-0DA5-11d0-BD21-00A0C911CE86}')
40894 Warcraft 3: Crash on starting the game
42313 64-bit Process Hacker 2.39.124 crashes when attempting to inspect any process
42326 Darsksiders Warmastered Edition crashes on startup
42555 Units are invisible in Shogun: Total War battle map
43454 Multiple installers and applications crash on unhandled exception 0x000006ba inside NdrAsyncClientCall (ABBYY FineReader 12 Professional)
43765 RSpec-Explorer windows are sometimes unresponsive to keyboard and mouse input
44216 The 4Th coming crashes
45377 StreetFighter V Arcade Edition (Steam) custom protection scheme requires pids/tids to be multiples of four
45774 Multiple games and applications show black screen or have broken user interface rendering (Ragnarok Online kRO, Microsoft Expression Design 4)
45839 Qt 5.8 SDK installer needs 'IFileSystem.MoveFile' method implementation for maintenance tool creation step
46377 The Bat!: weird behaviour of program icon on the KDE taskbar
46949 DDraw games using older windowed mode wrappers such as DirectX Windower Embedded v2.3/D3D Windower v1.x crash (ddraw_palette_vtbl and ddraw_surface{1,2,3,4,7}_vtbl need to be writable)
47621 Command link buttons in task dialog are displayed in wrong style
47623 Acronis Disk Director 12 installer fails in 'MsiFltSrvInstall64' custom action (Acronis Storage Filter Management Driver 'fltsrv.sys')
47690 Notepad++ shows no ligatures for Fira Code font, when used with DirectWrite backend
47999 Gif pictures stored in PE files are not loaded into HTML web pages via Res protocol
48308 KERNEL32.dll.SetEnvironmentStringsW function needed for GoG Galaxy 2 beta
48586 d3d tests broke on cw-gtx560-64 due to recent user32/tests changes
48738 cmd.exe crashes when running certain batch files
48857 Tokyo Xanadu eX+: game crashes when trying to play videos with builtin quartz
48920 Can't quit Legends of Runeterra by closing virtual desktop window (stack overflow) (5.6 regression)
48927 Heap buffer underflow in TiffFrameDecode_ReadTile when decoding 1x1 4bpp RGBA image
48984 Riot Vanguard (Riot Games) 'vgk.sys' crashes on unimplemented function ntoskrnl.exe.{vswprintf_s,swprintf_s}
48985 Riot Vanguard (Riot Games) 'vgk.sys' crashes on unimplemented function ntoskrnl.exe.ZwFlushBuffersFile
48987 Riot Vanguard (Riot Games) 'vgk.sys' crashes on unimplemented function ntoskrnl.exe.{wcscat_s,wcscpy_s}
49005 Listview header occasionally fails to redraw when list is scrolled vertically
49011 Multiple games and applications cause wineserver crash in Wine 5.7
49034 Enlarge list width in font selection dialog
49043 iLok License Manager daemon 'LDSvc.exe' crashes on startup (PACE copy protection spuriously fails to get/set thread context of newly created threads)
49064 Riot Vanguard (Riot Games) v0.3.3 'vgk.sys' crashes on unimplemented function ntoskrnl.exe.RtlDuplicateUnicodeString
49068 'Access violation in riched20.dll' with certain GOG.com installers
49086 Blindwrite 7.0 'ezplay.sys' crashes in driver entry point
49087 Blindwrite 7.0 'ezplay.sys' needs ntoskrnl.exe.RtlCopyMemoryNonTemporal
49088 Acronis Storage Filter Management Driver 'fltsrv.sys' crashes on unimplemented function 'ntoskrnl.exe.IoIs32bitProcess'
49090 The Witcher: Enhanced Edition: tooltips, object descriptions are wrongly displayed
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