World Wine News issue 420

This is the 420th 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. 

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Wine development release 7.10 is now available for Linux FreeBSD and macOS

The Wine development release 7.10 is now available.

What's new in this release:

• macOS driver converted to PE.
• Mono engine updated to version 7.3.0.
• Windows-compatible Unicode collation.
• Wow64 support in SECUR32.
• 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 7.10 (total 56):

   3599  Corel Draw 9 printing Issue
   5163  Microsoft Office XP 2002 installer reports error 25003 (installation source corrupted), custom action 'CADpc' returns 1603
   5989  Cannot run uninstall for IE6
   9583  CompareStringW gives incorrect result for some wide strings
  10767  lstrcmp and others do not compare punctuation characters correctly
  16142  Adobe Reader 9.0 outputs error after install, that multiple instances are running
  19743  Acrobat Reader 5 crashes on startup (InterTrust 'docbox.api' plugin incompatible with Windows 7+)
  22603  Can't print page in IE6
  25280  Singularity: no sound in game without Hardware Acceleration = emulation
  26909  HaoZip: Cannot navigate to drive_c
  28437  Panzer Corps: no intro video (requires WMV1 codec)
  30503  Echo: Secrets of the Lost Cavern upside down on BACKBUFFER
  33209  Tribes: Ascend cannot authenticate user
  34025  IE8 help exits silently
  34026  IE8 help pages are blank
  37614  Applications do not always start inside a configured virtual desktop
  37877  boincmgr crashes with wxWidgets error with WinVer > Win81
  38929  Betfair Poker setup fails to connect to the server
  38931  Betfair Poker log-in stops
  46155  Multiple applications need KERNEL32.dll.RaiseFailFastException (RoyalTS v5, Windows PowerShell Core 6.1 for ARM64)
  46775  Steam crashes when attempting to access controller settings for desktop or general
  46857  Steam menus are hidden by macOS native window decoration
  48011  Rebelbetting: unhandled exception on exit
  48025  Betfair Poker crashes
  48270  Rebelbetting sometimes returns insanely high numbers
  48718  unimplemented function KERNEL32.dll.RaiseFailFastException
  49052  Japanese Visual Novel "Natural Vacation" doesn't start (ENIGMA 5.X protected)
  51572  Crash when opening notes panel in Logos Bible Software
  51665  Multiple applications need IDXGIAdapter3::RegisterVideoMemoryBudgetChangeNotificationEvent() (HITMAN 2 (2018), FAR mod for Nier: Automata)
  51788  windowscodecs:wmpformat test_decode() fails randomly
  51936  Honeygain forgets user details
  52032  Bad Mouse Pointer under 32bits app (Poser)
  52127  SlingPlayer 2 crashes on load
  52218  Honeygain exits silently
  52458  Lazarus can't start program for debugging
  52513  CEF does not work with sandbox
  52747  Notepad crashes on a StaticColor X display
  52863  kernel32:actctx fails on Windows 10 1909
  52870  shlwapi:url - The UrlGetPartA() tests fails with a UTF-8 code page
  52882  GPU Caps Viewer 1.54 crashes on start
  52918  Corrupted textures in Visual Studio 2010 using native WPF interfaces.
  52956  Star Citizen crashes on unimplemented function kernel32.dll.SetThreadInformation
  52972  wineusb.sys: add_usb_device erroneously releases critical section on failure path
  52973  A file containing special characters in its name is unreadable/unusable
  53003  XM6 TypeG: some MIDI note-on messages aren't sent to MIDI devices (MIDI running status isn't supported in the MIDI mapper)
  53005  quartz:systemclock Fails after timeGetTime() wraps
  53010  Split/Second crashes on launch
  53016  Steam fails to load pages
  53020  EA Origin is unable to download games
  53022  Hitomi downloader (Technical Preview) crashes at start
  53027  Port Royale 4 crashes with wined3d_texture*
  53034  Lazarus: menu text disappears under mouse if light theme is enabled
  53051  Kvaser software crashes on unimplemented function ntoskrnl.exe.ExNotifyCallback
  53061  Alcoma ASD Client 11.1 fails to start due to missing unicode exports in tapi32
  53079  Linker error during build. winegstreamer:wg_transform.c:526: undefined reference to `gst_sample_set_info'
  53080  Powershell Core crash in FindNLSStringEx

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World Wine News issue 419

This is the 419th 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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Wine development release 7.9 is now available for Linux FreeBSD and macOS

The Wine development release 7.9 is now available.

What's new in this release:

• Preliminary work towards PE conversion of macOS driver.
• A number of fixes for test failures on Windows.
• 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 7.9 (total 35):

  14841  ntdll:file tests are flaky
  19183  "make test" still fails on d3d9/tests/visual.c
  28220  kernel32/process.ok: test fails when redirected
  28508  user32:monitor tests fail occasionally
  34782  crypt32/chain tests crash with gcc-4.8.1 (win64)
  39346  Lego Rock Raiders crashes on startup (d3drm_device_init doesn't handle device version 3 case)
  45959  Editpad Lite 7 GUI not rendered correctly
  45960  Editpad Lite 7 displays empty boxes instead of text in some menus
  49285  PNotesPortable crashes inside WritePrivateProfileStructW
  50462  Ulead Photo Explorer 8.5 crashes on startup (needs {4a2286e0-7bef-11ce-9bd9-0000e202599c} CLSID_CMpegAudioCodec)
  51104  mf:mf crashes on Windows + AMD/NVidia
  51283  d3d8:device breaks evr:evr on w7u-2qxl
  51297  d3d8:visual & d3d9:visual, test_sample_mask() fails on Nvidia (cw-gtx560)
  51298  d3d8:visual: lighting_test() fails on Windows 10 >= 2004
  51376  Wine causes PC to lock or crash wine when loading more than 1 VST addon into WaveLab 6
  51612  Stellaris launcher (Paradox) does not launch
  51680  nsi:nsi test_ip_neighbour() fails on unreachable link local entry
  51783  The ieframe:webbrowser output is too big in Wine
  51827  d3dx10_34:d3dx10 crashes on all versions of Windows
  52686  DateAdd not implemented
  52751  `winetricks nocrashdialog` no longer works properly with Wine 7.5(but works with 7.4)
  52761  mscoree:mscoree test fails without a display or console
  52821  Cxbx Reloaded needs unimplemented function msvcp140_atomic_wait.dll.__std_atomic_wait_direct
  52848  Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing 15: Typed characters not spaced correctly
  52874  win32u change prevents chromium from starting
  52892  The 64-bit ntdll:thread fails on w7pro64 and w864
  52908  mf:mf - The 64-bit test_wma_decoder() fails on 64-bit Debian 11 + Intel
  52914  mf:mf - The 64-bit test_h264_decoder() fails on 64-bit Debian 11 + Intel GPU
  52937  msvcr110:msvcr110 fails on Windows with the UTF-8 codepage
  52961  crypt32:str - test_CertGetNameString() fails on Windows 7
  52969  mshtml:script fails on up-to-date Windows 8.1 machines
  52970  kernelbase:process breaks lz32:lzexpand_main on Windows 1809+
  52975  VTFEdit fails to start: err:module:LdrInitializeThunk "MSVCP80.dll" failed to initialize, aborting
  53004  63ce060 causes a white border line in winecfg
  53015  winscp bookmark adding error

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