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Monday, September 26, 2016

Q4Wine 1.3.2 has been released for Linux and Mac OSX

Q4Wine is a Qt GUI for Wine. It will help you manage wine prefixes and installed applications. It currently supported on Linux, FreeBSD and Mac OS X platforms.

Q4Wine was initially written by Alexey S. Malakhov aka John Brezerk. General idea comes from WineTools scripts which were initially written by Frank Hendriksen.


General features are:
  • Can export Qt color theme into wine colors settings;
  • Can easy work with different wine versions at same time;
  • Easy creating, deleting and managing prefixes (WINEPREFIX);
  • Easy controlling for wine process;
  • Autostart icons support;
  • Easy cd-image use;
  • You can extract icons from PE files (.exe .dll);
  • Easy backup and restore for managed prefixes;
  • Winetriks support;
  • And more: Explore it!;
 Changelog for 1.3.2:

Fixed:
  • [regression, bisected] Icon information is not displayed correctly BUG-80;
  • Winetricks does not update BUG-77;
  • First startup wizard (quick mount profile): profile strings are initially empty if fuseiso is not installed BUG-81;
  • Download (latest) Winetricks from GitHub BUG-82;
  • Correct proxy-related environment variables in Winetricks plugin BUG-83;
  • Use env command in the command line to download Winetricks BUG-83;
  • Support proxy username/password in Winetricks plugin BUG-83;
  • Treat aarch64 as 64 bit platform and put libraries in lib64 directory BUG-85;

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Thursday, September 22, 2016

Codeweavers CrossOver 15.3.0 for Linux and Mac OSX has been released

I am delighted to announce that CodeWeavers has just released CrossOver 15.3.0 for both Mac OSX and Linux. CrossOver 15.3.0 has important bug fixes for both Mac and Linux users.

Mac customers with active support entitlements will be upgraded to CrossOver 15.3.0 the next time they launch CrossOver Mac. Linux users can download the latest version from https://www.codeweavers.com/.

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Change Log For CrossOver Mac and Linux :

 15.3.0 CrossOver - September 20, 2016
  • Linux:
    • CrossOver should no longer complain about a missing libpng package on Debian 9.
    • CrossOver will no longer have problems with its Perl dependency on Debian 9.
  • Bug Fixes:
    • Steam crashes when loading certain fonts have been fixed.
    • Fixed some crashes in GOG Galaxy.
    • Fixed a crash in the Microsoft Office 2007 diagnostic tools.

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Saturday, September 17, 2016

The WineHQ Wine development release 1.9.19 is now available for Linux and Mac

The WineHQ Wine development release 1.9.19 is now available for Linux and Mac

What's new in this release:
  • Initial version of a udev bus driver for HID.
  • Various improvements in joystick support.
  • Initial implementation of DC rendering in Direct2D.
  • Improved metafile support in GDI+.
  • 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 1.9.19 (total 19):

  10643  WinUAE settings window reappears after being dismissed
  17351  PDF Export problem on Delphi 7 applications
  19998  stamps.com installer hangs
  27415  The Geometer's Sketchpad 5.03 does not display pictures. "fixme:gdiplus:GdipGetMetafileHeaderFromMetafile not implemented"
  29916  ElsterFormular cannot make use of default PDF viewer (e. g. Okular)
  34489  Can't use VSTi altiverb fst.exe crashes
  37259  Multiple Direct2D applications need ID2D1DCRenderTarget::BindDC implementation
  37628  KORG Legacy Collection - MS-20 v1.3.0 'Authorizer' app crashes, No Limits 2 help system does not render ('d2d_factory_CreateDCRenderTarget' is a stub)
  39246  user32:edit fails in Japanese and Korean locales
  40325  Captvty v3 (.Net4.5) crashes at start
  40533  Microsoft PowerPoint Viewer 14.0 shows error dialog when clicking System Info button (msinfo32.exe unimplemented)
  40746  Microsoft Expression Web 4 crashes when opening site, needs rpcrt4.dll.NdrAsyncServerCall
  41085  Unimplemented function msvcp140.dll._Thrd_id needed by Battle.net
  41217  Xebra ALSA underrun occurred
  41224  WineD3D8 crashes on Windows with GTAVC and i915-class video
  41274  QQ Lite version called unimplemented function vcomp100.dll._vcomp_reduction_r8, aborting
  41284  dbghelp_dwarf: parse_cie_details unknown CIE version 4 (clang/mesa/valgrind)
  41287  2050 IP Softphone - UI does not render correctly
  41296  World of Tanks (9.16) crashes with unimplemented function vcruntime140.dll.__std_type_info_hash

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Monday, September 12, 2016

The Wine Staging release 1.9.18 is now available

The Wine Staging release 1.9.18 is now available for Linux and Mac.

What's new in this release:
  • Experimental support for 1D Textures in D3D10 and 11.
  • Various improvements for windowscodecs and gdiplus palette functions.
  • Various bug fixes.
In addition, Wine Staging users will also benefit from the following changes merged in the development branch:
  • Support for multiple kernel drivers in a single process.
  • More WebServices reader support.
  • Various improvements in joystick support.
  • Some more work towards the Direct3D command stream.
  • GDI performance improvements.
  • Improved IME window handling.
  • Compatibility fixes in the clipboard support.
  • 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.

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