Wine 1.7.53 from WineHQ has been Released

The Wine development release 1.7.53 is now available from WineHQ .
What's new in this release:

• Support for the various versions of XAudio.
• More implementation of the Web Services DLL.
• Improved OLE object embedding.
• Various code cleanups in Direct3D.
• New MAINTAINERS file and Signed-off-by requirement to improve the patch review process.
• 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 1.7.53 (total 61):

  13659  dogfood: xchat-2.8.4-1 does not install (quoting between CreateProcessW and  wmain)
  16294  Activeworlds client 4.2 doesn't think IE is installed
  21000  Tomb Raider III crashes in msadp32
  21813  Gamestudio A7 trial sub-installer fails ('msiexec.exe' doesn't handle '/passive' command line option for unattended/basic ui mode)
  23254  Cortex EDI The Electronic Biller installer window is unresponsive to mouse input
  23583  Multiple Antivirus software installers fail due to unimplemented Filter Manager FLTMGR.SYS (Kaspersky Anti-Virus, Ad-Aware, Avira Antivir, AVG Free, QQ)
  23799  Rawdump fails to detect drive(s)
  24043  Lost Planet 2 Benchmark needs XAudio2 '{3eda9b49-2085-498b-9bb2-39a6778493de}' XAudio2_6.dll
  25046  Multiple games need XAudio2 '{4c9b6dde-6809-46e6-a278-9b6a97588670}' XAudio2_5.dll (C4 engine)
  25171  Many DirectX10+ games need IDXGIAdapter::CheckInterfaceSupport method implementation
  26112  ntdll/env tests show a couple uninitialized value warnings in valgrind
  26345  Woody Two Legs demo menu items are unreadable
  26833  Multiple games need XAudio2 '{03219e78-5bc3-44d1-b92e-f63d89cc6526}' XAudio2_4.dll (Avatar demo, C4 demo, Iconoclasts)
  27735  Variance Shadow Maps Demo needs unimplemented function d3dx10_43.dll.D3DX10CreateEffectFromMemory
  27775  Picasa 3.8 crashes due to IWiaDevMgr->EnumDeviceInfo stub
  29738  Wininet custom headers
  31369  Cypress PSoC Designer installer crashes with Wine-Mono
  32163  Adobe Illustrator / Photoshop CS6 wants gdiplus.dll.GdipCreateEffect
  32786  Happy Foto Designer 5.4 crashes on startup, reporting 'invalid pointer operation'
  33400  Photoscape 3.6.3 corrupts files when saving in jpeg format
  33757  XenCenter 5.5 crashes while starting
  34167  PhysX installer strikethrough text of licence agreement
  34483  Sentinel Protection Installer v7.6.6: Sentinel System Driver installer repair mode fails due to missing newdev.dll 'InstallSelectedDriver' function
  34841  Multiple applications crash on unimplemented function msvcr90.dll.__CxxExceptionFilter (Garmin BaseCamp 4.1.2, Visual Studio 2008 installer)
  34863  Etrom: The Astral Essence doesn't run (Mac OS X only bug)
  35052  The Lost Crown No Longer Works under 1.6.1
  35093  Vkt7Easy2.exe crashes on shutdown
  35197  Torrents Downloader 0.1 fails to start (unsupported flags passed to CoInternetSetFeatureEnabled should be ignored, not returning error)
  35375  Multiple applications need Vista+ API COMCTL32.dll.380 a.k.a. 'LoadIconMetric' (Solidworks 2013 systray monitor, Microsoft One/SkyDrive)
  35432  Wine builtin 'services.exe' crashes during prefix startup (service timeout, APC corrupts stack)
  35657  Multiple applications crash on unimplemented function msvcr110.dll.__CxxExceptionFilter (Anthem Room Correction 2 v1.0.1, ImpotRapide 2013)
  35964  gdip_format_string can segfault if format is NULL
  36519  Amazon Cloud Player fails to install
  36549  Multiple applications and games crash on unimplemented Win7 API 'GetThreadGroupAffinity' and 'SetThreadGroupAffinity' (Trion's Trove, Watchtower Library 2014)
  36847  Multiple games need XAudio2 '{4c5e637a-16c7-4de3-9c46-5ed22181962d}' XAudio2_3.dll (Prototype)
  36894  implement FlashWindowEx
  37542  Lotus Approach: scrolling in field boxes is broken (lParam argument of WM_SIZE message not ignored)
  37618  Battle.net agent spams console with 'wbemprox:enum_class_object_Next timeout not supported' every 4 seconds
  38062  .NET 2.0/3.x/4.x applications and games using System.Net.NetworkInformation NetworkAddressChangedEventHandler crash on startup
  38516  Winhttprequest setoption doesn't work
  38869  Multiple games (Torchlight 1-2, Evil Genius) have rendering issues with open source drivers when GLSL enabled
  38911  valgrind shows uninitialized memory in dlls/amstream/amstream.c:ddrawstreamsample_create()
  39133  Open File dialog fails with Filterforge 4.0
  39157  The Silent Age intro fade-in/fade-out effect shows as palette
  39213  advapi32:security fails if privileges not high enough
  39251  From Dust crashes on unimplemented function xapofx1_5.dll.CreateFX
  39258  Flock! crashes when loading the menu, needs XAudio2 '{e21a7345-eb21-468e-be50-804db97cf708}' XAudio2_1.dll
  39272  Homeworld Remastered crashes on unimplemented function msvcp110.dll._FExp
  39281  Temple of Elemental Evil (GOG.com) shows black screen during video playback
  39300  Watchmen: The End is Nigh needs XAudio2 '{fac23f48-31f5-45a8-b49b-5225d61401aa}' XAudio2_0.dll
  39304  Nail'd demo needs XAudio2 '{b802058a-464a-42db-bc10-b650d6f2586a}' XAudio2_2.dll
  39307  SkySaga installer doesn't show required disk space (msi builtin 'PrimaryVolumeSpaceRequired' property missing)
  39317  Blazing Angels Squadrons of WWII Demo requires x3daudio1_0.dll
  39318  Saw: The Video Game requires xapofx1_2.dll
  39322  Saw: The Video Game crashes with unimplemented function x3daudio1_5.dll.X3DAudioInitialize
  39341  Dino Crisis 1 Demo  -- only black screen is shown
  39356  PlanCad-L v14.03 crashes on exit (_seh_longjmp_unwind4 must pass jump buffer cookie by address)
  39360  Arvoch Alliance demo stops loading: 'File error: aster.x' (needs native msvcr71.dll)
  39376  Kontakt 5.0 standalone or VST in FL Studio 11 crash with Windows version set to 'Windows 8' (needs kernel32.GetCurrentProcessorNumberEx stub)
  39399  NinjaTrader 7 (.NET 3.5 app) reports 'ProcessorNameString not found' (name attribute missing in 'Win32_BIOS' table)
  39422  Intel MPI 5.1.1 mpiexec.hydra.exe crashes on unimplemented function KERNEL32.dll.CancelSynchronousIo

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PlayOnLinux Review Playing Windows Games Was Never Easier

PlayOnLinux is a well-known app that allows its users to install and run games and applications that have been released only for the Windows platform, without breaking any laws.

There is no denying that Windows has a large number of applications and games at its disposal and that some of those are actually pretty good. In fact, up until just a couple of years ago, most of the games were only released for Windows systems and occasionally for Mac OS. That has changed somewhat, but not all that much. Quite a few titles are still Windows-only, and people are still looking for old software.

Some of you will say that we already have Wine and that Crossover is doing a great job, and you would be right to some extent. The problem is that Wine is only friendly if the game is working out of the box, which doesn't happen all that often. Also, Crossover is a commercial application, and not everyone will be inclined to buy it, although it's extremely good. Keep in mind that many of the Wine developers are actually working for Codeweavers, the developers of Crossover.

PlayOnLinux is using Wine, and that is not really a secret, but its makers have gone a step further. They have also implemented a GUI that helps users get a much better understanding of what's going on and that makes the entire installation process mostly automated. You still have access to some of the most complex stuff, but it's possible that you won't need to.

Installation

I tested PlayOnLinux in Ubuntu 15.10 (Wily Werewolf), which technically is not a stable release just yet. I didn't have any problems with the application itself, but Wine decided to put up some resistance. Fortunately, PlayOnLinux is actually smart enough to install and use newer versions of Wine, even if dependencies are broken on the distro.

There is no official PPA for Ubuntu, but the developers do provide a DEB file and it installs just fine. If you want to use a third-party PPA, the guys from Noobslab have one in place. In any case, here is how you install the application by using the DEB file. Download the file, open a terminal where the file is located, and enter the following commands (root will be required):

sudo dpkg -i PlayOnLinux_4.2.9.deb
sudo apt-get install -f

PlayOnLinux also needs Wine, so we'll have to install that as well. As I was saying earlier, I had problems installing Wine 1.7 in Ubuntu 15.10, so I had to settle with Wine 1.6. This is not a major problem since PlayOnLinux can download and use other versions of Wine. Open a terminal and enter these commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install wine1.7

If you can get 1.7 to work, you can also install the 1.6 version.

Usage

PlayOnLinux is not a difficult-to-use application, and it has something for everyone. If you don't want to do anything complicated, then you just hit the Install button and look there for the application or game that you want. Those are basically profiles, which have been put together by people from the community.

Let's say that you want to play Bioshock. You select the game from the list, and PlayOnLinux will download some packages like Mono or Wine 1.4 (confirmed to work with Bioshock), and you get to a step where you are asked what kind of installation it is - from a file stored locally, from a DVD-ROM, or from Steam. I have that game on Steam, so I'll select that one. I will also have to download some proprietary fonts, but the application will take care of that as well.

I also have to install Steam, since I can't just use the Steam for Linux. The process will take a while because I have to download Bioshock, but as you can see, everything works smoothly. This was the scenario for something that was already available, but I also installed one of my favorite RTS games, the old Blitzkrieg, and that's not listed. The procedure is not much different, and I used my GOG.com copy. It went pretty much the same way, and I didn't have any issue.

It's also worth pointing out that you can also customize the application itself, quite a great deal, and you also access to the Wine installation as well. For example, I usually set Wine to work in a window and not in full screen. If something goes wrong (it happens sometimes), you can lock up your system with no way of shutting the application.

Another cool feature is the PlayOnLinux Vault that lets users save successful installations for later, with compression or without. This way, when you have a new installation of an OS, you just restore that package, and you don't have to do everything from scratch.

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WineBottler 1.7.52 has been released now runs on OS X El Capitain

WineBottler 1.7.52 is a major update which sports some thrilling new features.

Runs on OS X El Capitan

Probably the most important feature is the update to run on OS X El Capitan. In Apples proven one-two-combination, after the visual fixes in OS X Yosemite, we could expect a major cleanup in OS X El Capitan. Apple did this with security on its mind, so the proverb “There is the Easy Way and Then There is the Right Way” smacked the lazy dev in the face, once again.

First, Apple got rid of LD_LIBRARY_PATH and DYLD_FALLBACK_LIBRARY_PATH. Forcing us to “otool -L” and “install_name_tool -change” thru all the bins and libs of Wine to use proper @rpath relative paths for all Wine related libraries. The result is, of course, a correct linking through out the app – thank you Apple. I guess somebody has to kick you once a while to come up with proper solutions.

Then Apple implemented App Transport Security which forces us to use secure connections for interactions between Apps and web services – or to disable it. For now it is disabled in WineBottler, but I’m working hard on offering SSL connections to get this right. After all it is all about security and privacy.

Further there where some GUI/multithreading glitches (Toolbar and FilePicker dialog) that lead to crashes on El Capitan and the new Codesigning requirements that have been sorted out.

Saves up to 92% harddrive-space

Yep, this one sounds to good to be true… right? But here we go:
A clean Wine prefix weights in about 35mb. But Wine requires big add ons like gecko (for Webservices, 50mb) and mono (for .net Apps, 200mb) by default. They might not be needed by your app, but blow up an empty prefix up to 300mb. These two add ons can now be excluded: down 84%.

Further we added an option, to remove the “c:\users” directory when shipping an app. Wine will automatically add new users, when the app is run on a clients Mac.

Then you can automatically remove installer files (.msi) from your prefix before shipping – if they are no longer needed.

Lastly, we have optimized how WineBottler runs your prefixes. To this point, WineBottler will copy a prefix from the App to the folder ~/Application Support. This approach allows us to install Apps to restricted System folders, or Codesign them, without breaking the signature or having to give read and write access to the app, since the App works in the users Applications Support folder. We stick to that design, but we no longer copy, but link the files to ~/Application Support. Changes files will break the link and replace it with the new file. Unchanged files will only take up some bites, instead of a complete copy, saving nearly 50% of disk-space. THIS FEATURE IS STILL VERY NEW AND IN TESTING! So I’m more than happy to hear from you.

New Wine and mono version

Finally we included the current latest and greatest Wine: Wine changelog.

Thank you very much!

For your ongoing interest and support for this project. All dough I can’t answer all the mails, I’m always interested in feedback and suggestions. Thank you very much.



As usual: head over to winebottler.kronenberg.org and grab your copy .

enjoy
Mike