Wine development release 4.0-rc1 is now available for Linux FreeBSD and macOS

Wine development release 4.0-rc1 is now available for Linux FreeBSD and macOS

This is the first release candidate for the upcoming Wine 4.0. It marks the beginning of the code freeze period. There have been many last minute changes, so please give this release a good testing to help us make 4.0 as good as possible.

What's new in this release:

• Preloader implemented on mac OS.
• Mouse cursor support on Android.
• Updates to the timezone database.
• Vulkan support updated to the latest spec.
• Stream I/O support in WebServices.
• Better palette support in WindowsCodecs.
• Synchronization objects support for kernel drivers.
• 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 4.0-rc1 (total 43):

   5402  Multiple MFC-based apps crash during non-modal child dialog control creation with active window being zero (Canon PhotoStitch 3.1.13, Flexible Renamer v8.4)
  16845  Radio buttons not being checked on focus
  23750  SpongeBob SquarePants: Diner Dash 2 - mouse has pink background
  28810  d3dx9_36/tests/mesh.ok: D3DXLoadMeshTest fails under valgrind
  29183  Heavy corruption when rendering edit control with WM_PRINTCLIENT and possibly invalid HDC
  33117  Can't load Bach41.ttf with CreateFontIndirect
  35367  Multiple applications crash due to Wine ole32 code not taking implicit MTA into account (Cyberlink Powerdirector 8, PDFXChange Editor 5.5)
  37863  Halo only works using Nvidia graphics
  38228  Wildstar game failed to download :  `winhttp:session_set_option 0` and `wine client error:41b: pipe: Too many open files`
  40031  Singularity: In Steam the game is still running after quit
  40880  Commandos 3: Destination Berlin demo has sound issues
  40971  Zombie Army Trilogy crashes before the menu
  41404  WPS Office 10.1.0.5775 unhandled exception on installation
  41488  ProfitChart RT crashes at startup
  42010  ReactOS Calc does not show dots in radio buttons.
  42255  Xenia emulator needs ntdll.dll.RtlAddGrowableFunctionTable implementation
  42474  Multiple applications crash on unimplemented function api-ms-win-core-path-l1-1-0.dll.PathCchCombineEx (Python 3.6, AutoFlashGUI, RenderDoc)
  42582  Murdered: Soul Suspect has messed up rendering
  43584  Hitman: Absolution needs dxgi_output_GetGammaControlCapabilities
  43745  Graywalkers Purgatory demo has wrong models rendering
  43889  Gradient is inverted when using gdiplus
  44015  Steam - fails to load UI since Wine 2.20 (due to dwrite commit)
  44177  Guitar Pro 5: Long freezes during draw process of dashed lines (P.M. or let ring markers)
  44588  Many kernel drivers need support for kernel synchronization objects (event, semaphore, mutex) (BattleEye's 'bedaisy.sys', Franson VSerial service 'bizvserialnt.sys')
  44897  Multiple applications using Crashpad/Chromium/CEF in Win7+ mode crash on unimplemented function ntdll.RtlGetUnloadEventTraceEx (Steam client)
  44999  Python 3.6.5 crashes due to unimplemented function api-ms-win-core-path-l1-1-0.dll.PathCchCanonicalizeEx.
  45431  Multiple D3D11 games deadlock in IDXGISwapChain::ResizeTarget while trying to resize window (Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy, Dragon Age: Inquisition)
  45453  Guild Wars 2: Launcher crashes with assertion "jobThreads && (jobThreads <= hardwareThreads)"
  45627  mdac28 fails to install (SetupDefaultQueueCallbackW copy error 32 L"C:\\users\\austin\\Temp\\IXP000.TMP\\msdaorar.dll")
  46093  GRLevel3 2.52 fails to start, hangs indefinitely
  46099  Star Citizen not loading after implementation of WaitOnAddress() in wine
  46140  .NET applications using 'WebRequest' API with MS .NET Framework crash when IPv4/6 is disabled in Linux kernel
  46142  Games launched through Windows Steam no longer launch.
  46161  Wine: Wrong GnuTLS usage?
  46168  dotnet35sp1 installer has an error under wow64
  46172  Multiple applications from Windows 7-10 crash on unimplemented function slc.dll.SLGetLicensingStatusInformation
  46173  Used e-Sword successfully a few months ago, but when I try now I get a Program Error.
  46179  Multiple Windows 10 ARM{32,64} apps need 'kernel32.dll.GetCurrentThreadStackLimits' to get stack start address
  46180  wineserver does not release atom on unregistering window classes
  46186  LoadImageA searches images in the wrong directory
  46210  explorer /desktop leaks atoms from DDE interface
  46229  server/ptrace: NetBSD debug register storage
  46235  Opening ADODB.Connection results in: Method '~' of object '~' failed

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CodeWeavers has Released CrossOver 18.1.0 for Linux and MacOS

I am very pleased to announce that CodeWeavers has just released CrossOver 18.1.0 for both macOS and Linux.

CrossOver 18.1 now supports Visio 2016 on Linux.

For macOS users, CrossOver 18.1 contains a number of important bug fixes. We have resolved a bug which prevented game downloads and the Steam Store page from working on the latest Steam release. CrossOver 18.1 also addresses an issue some macOS users experienced running recent versions of Quicken on CrossOver 18. Those who experienced crashes or launch failures when using Quicken 2016-2018 should see full functionality on CrossOver 18.1.

Finally, CrossOver 18.1 restores controller support for Steam on both macOS and Linux.

macOS customers with active support entitlements will be upgraded to CrossOver 18.1 the next time they launch CrossOver.  Linux users can download the latest version from CodeWeavers .

Change Log For CrossOver Mac and Linux :

18.1.0 CrossOver - December 4, 2018

• macOS:
  • Fixed a bug that prevented Quicken from launching for some users.
  • Fixed a bug that caused the latest Quicken 2016 Mondo Patch to fail during installation.
  • Fixed a bug that prevented game downloads and the Steam Store page from working on the latest Steam release.
  • Restored controller support for Steam.
• Linux:
  • Support for Visio 2016.
  • Restored controller support for Steam.

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WineTricks 20181203 has been released

Winetricks is an easy way to work around problems in Wine.

It has a menu of supported games/apps for which it can do all the workarounds automatically. It also allows the installation of missing DLLs and tweaking of various Wine settings.

This version can be downloaded here.

 

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The Wine maintenance release 3.0.4 is now available for Linux macOS and FreeBSD

The Wine maintenance release 3.0.4 is now available for Linux macOS and FreeBSD

What's new in this release:

• Added a lot of icons in Shell32
• 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 3.0.4 (total 47):

  20961  RegEditX 2.x/3.x reports 'Internal error: could not find RegEdit window' on startup (Wine's builtin 'regedit.exe' needs to provide 'RegEdit_RegEdit' window class name)
  22255  Total Commander: Deleting the 1st or 2nd character in an edit box deletes all of them
  22333  Total Commander: Application freezes when the current directory field is editable, and you right-click a regular file and click Properties
  30185  SuperPower 2 demo crashes on launch
  30487  Add icons for 'My Network Places', 'My favorites'
  36884  Drakensang: The Dark Eye demo crashes on startup (needs d3dx9_36.dll.D3DXCreateTeapot implementation)
  37275  Chess Position Trainer 5 (.NET 4.0 app) wants gdiplus.GdipCreateAdjustableArrowCap implementation
  37834  RtlSetCurrentDirectory_U prepends "UNC\" for network paths; the resulting path is invalid
  39906  ODB++ Viewer fails to install due to improper bat file handling (quoting or delimiting problem)
  40598  Warframe 'launcher.exe' reports 'update failed' ('InternetCrackUrlW' must resize buffer when URL canonicalization fails due to insufficient buffer)
  41652  Uplay cannot connect/login to Server
  42470  Frequent critical section timeouts in winetricks dotnet46
  42577  Far manager: needs virtdisk.dll.GetStorageDependencyInformation
  42710  Wechat can not send file to friend
  42870  CurrentBuild registry value is missing
  43036  SetNamedPipeHandleState returns ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED when setting PIPE_NOWAIT
  43125  Device reports coming in too fast
  43488  Bluestacks crashes in ITextService::TxGetVScroll()
  44369  cmd's %0 path variables (e.g. %~dp0) wrong inside subroutine call
  44489  Zwei: The Arges Adventure can't detect installed Indeo 5 codec
  44490  Zwei: The Arges Adventure videos play distorted (Indeo 5 encoded)
  44981  Xenserver console and Vmware management console (client) v5.5 installer fails on 'hcmon' driver service ('EventLog\\System' needs 'Sources' registry key present for WinVer < Windows 7)
  45167  Acronis Disk Director 12 installer fails: action L"_USRCUSTACT_MsiFltSrvInstall_fltsrv_component" returned 1603 (setupapi lasterror leakage)
  45199  Many applications and games fail to start/crash after compiling wine with gcc 8.1.0 and -O2 (GOT/PIC register load code now emitted at function entry, missing hotpatch signatures)
  45372  Resident Evil 7 requires mfplat.dll.MFCreateMFByteStreamOnStream to be implemented
  45478  World of Warcraft: graphical artifacts since 8.0 (BfA)
  45495  Toontown Corporate Clash: fails to launch
  45521  64-bit Sentinel HASP hardlock.sys kernel driver crashes due ntoskrnl emulate_instruction not handling 'cli' and 'sti'
  45529  Custom color scheme applied but wine not respecting current text color of scheme on window columns and statusbar.
  45530  No$Gba crashes with pulseaudio assertion in waveOutOpen
  45535  Rekordbox 5.3.0 terminates with the message "Unexpected application error" (dwrite:dwritetextlayout_Draw out-of-bounds access on empty clustermetrics after failure to resolve layout fonts)
  45552  Kolab E14 Client installation fails
  45602  Wargaming Game Center needs msvcp140.dll._Set_last_write_time
  45603  Total War:Arena needs POWRPROF.dll.PowerEnumerate
  45617  Just Dance 2017: Unimplemented function mfplat.dll.MFCreateSample
  45622  Overwatch crashes when trying to save highlights (needs mfplat.MFTRegisterLocal implementation)
  45644  chromium 64-bit sandbox >=win10 needs UpdateProcThreadAttribute to handle  PROC_THREAD_ATTRIBUTE_CHILD_PROCESS_POLICY
  45715  Just Dance 2017: Unimplemented function mfplat.dll.MFCreateMemoryBuffer
  45722  cmd for loop doesn't work with tokens and delims
  45729  cmd's REM evaluates |
  45731  cmd for loops sensitive to whitespace
  45770  WMP9 crashes with unimplemented function pidgen.dll.PIDGenSimpW
  45784  Bethesda Launcher Updater crashes on unimplemented function msvcp110.xtime_get
  45785  Bethesda Launcher Updater crashes on unimplemented function msvcp110._Xtime_diff_to_millis2
  45786  GTA downgrader (.NET program latest.exe) crashes: "Can't find matching timezone information" ("America/Sao_Paulo")
  45821  Metasploit Console won't start due to missing registry value HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters\DataBasePath
  46106  Stable: ARM64 build broken with gcc

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