Wine development release 7.3 is now available for Linux FreeBSD and macOS

The Wine development release 7.3 is now available.

What's new in this release:

• More large scale cleanups to support 'long' type.
• Proper support for API sets.
• Progress on the PE conversion of USER32 and WineALSA.
• A number of HID joystick fixes.
• 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 7.3 (total 15):

  38210  WshScriptExec's StdIn StdOut and StdErr are missing.
  41386  Motocross Madness 2 crashes on start
  44635  Multiple games need ID3DXEffect CloneEffect (Gray Matter, Black and White 2)
  44658  Multiple Win7+ APIset lookup/resolver tools need 'ApiSetMap' field in PEB (ApiSetView, Dependencies)
  48096  Mulle Meck: Unhandled exception when starting game
  48201  Unimplemented function KERNEL32.dll.SetCurrentConsoleFontEx
  48733  Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 web-installer needs ncrypt.dll.NCryptOpenStorageProvider implementation
  48760  ConEmu shows 'GetConsoleProcessList failed' at startup
  51103  d3d11:d3d11 crashes on Windows + NVidia
  52155  kernel32:pipe times out on 64-bit Wine
  52290  Playground Sessions crashes on startup
  52434  Light Blue theme has rendering errors in tree views
  52526  Trails to Azure (Geofront patch) crashes on unimplemented function KERNEL32.dll.InitializeContext
  52561  d3dx9_36:math crashes on Windows 8.1 and cw-rx460
  52583  ApiSetView does not display export ordinals correctly

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World Wine News issue 412

This is the 412th issue of World Wine News. Its main goal is to inform you of what's going on around Wine. Wine is an open-source implementation of the Windows API on top of X and Unix. Think of it as a Windows compatibility layer. Wine does not require Microsoft Windows, as it is a completely alternative implementation consisting of 100% Microsoft-free code. 

The full article is here

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Proton 7.0-1 has been released

• The following games are now playable:
  • Anno 1404
  • Call of Juarez
  • DCS World Steam Edition
  • Disgaea 4 Complete+
  • Dungeon Fighter Online
  • Epic Roller Coasters XR
  • Eternal Return
  • Forza Horizon 5
  • Gravity Sketch VR
  • Monster Hunter Rise
  • NecroVisioN
  • Nights of Azure
  • Oceanhorn: Monster of the Uncharted Seas
  • Order of War
  • Persona 4 Golden
  • Resident Evil 0
  • Resident Evil Revelations 2
  • Rocksmith 2014 Edition
  • SCP: Secret Laboratory
  • Wargroove
  • Wartales
  • Yakuza 4 Remastered

• Added support for EasyAntiCheat if the game has enabled a Linux module.
• Added support for local decoding of H264 videos.
• Fix Sea of Thieves' voice chat.
• Fix Sea of Thieves getting stuck on "locating fresh supplies" when joining multiplayer.
• Improve Steam Input controller support for games running via Origin.
• Fix Beacon crashing when getting into daily/weekly challenge.
• Improve audio support in Skyrim and Fallout 4.
• Fix flickering in Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord launcher.
• Fix Age of Empires IV and Marvel's Avengers displaying graphics drivers warnings.
• Fix audio in Mass Effect 1 from Mass Effect Legendary Edition.
• Improve Runescape stability.
• Fix quick save in Castlevania Advance Collection.
• Improve Paradox Launcher support.
• Fix Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous hang on exit.
• Fix Far Cry regression - the game is playable again.
• Fix Doom Eternal's multiplayer.
• Various performance improvements around input, windowing, and memory allocation that were previously in Experimental.
• Update Wine to 7.0.
• Update DXVK to 1.9.4.
• Update vkd3d-proton to 2.5-146-g33f17cc7.
• Update wine-mono to 7.1.2.

Link to source code

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Lutris 0.5.10-beta1 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 :

• Add new window to add games to Lutris, with searches from the website,
  scanning a folder for previously installed games, installing a Windows
  game from a setup file, installing from a YAML script or configuring a
  single game manually.
• Move the search for Lutris installers from a tab in the Lutris service
  to the window for adding games.
• Add a coverart format
• Add integration with EA Origin
• Add integration with Ubisoft Connect
• Download missing media on startup
• Remove Winesteam runner (install Steam for Windows in Lutris instead)
• PC (Linux and Windows) games have their own dedicated Nvidia shader cache
• Add dgvoodoo2 option
• Add option to enable BattleEye anti-cheat support

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