The WineHQ Wine development release 2.8 is now available for Linux and Mac
What's new in this release:
- Direct3D command stream runs asynchronously.
- Better serial and parallel ports autodetection.
- Still more fixes for high DPI settings.
- System tray notifications on macOS.
- 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 2.8 (total 35):
11811 Multiple applications fail to enumerate serial ports ('HKLM\\HARDWARE\\DeviceMap\\Serialcomm' registry entries)(Coastal Explorer, GPS apps, HyperTerminal)
30105 Chessbase Ludwig 3: MS Visual C++ Runtime Error
32155 MS Office 2007 SP3 installation needs msi.dll.MsiGetPatchFileListW
34551 Necrovision demo sometimes crashes with builtin d3dx9
34977 WinDjView: missing checkbox in the set as default viewer dialog
36820 Multiple games (Rift, dynamarisa, ShipSimulator 2008 demo) crash on startup (ID3DXBaseEffect::GetPassDesc returns NULL ptr for vertex and pixel shader function)
37811 Xvid 1.3.x installer MPEG-4 Video Codec 'xvid.ax' registration fails (crash on unimplemented function mfplat.dll.MFTRegister)
39309 Prism Video Converter v2.48 crashes on unimplemented function mfplat.dll.MFTEnum
39314 WAtomic: Black OpenGL (wgl) components
39936 Toad Data Modeler v5.4.8.1 fails to install (needs 'Scriptlet.TypeLib' object, CLSID '{06290BD5-48AA-11D2-8432-006008C3FBFC}')
40955 Steam version of Left 4 Dead 2 v2.1.4.6 crashes randomly in Multiplayer because of a certificate problem in the MOTD
41796 Fill Up! (freely downloadable game) crashes when creating a player profile
42035 WindBot needs msvcp120.?_2@placeholders@std@@3V?$_Ph@$01@2@A
42478 Undeclared O_CLOEXEC use in qcap DLL
42605 B4J (Basic 4 Java) crashes when click menu
42652 CryptCreateHash error NTE_FAIL after CryptImportKey(public-key)
42712 Image-Bugs in Guild Wars 2 (Guild emblem)
42835 redefinition of typedef 'WSD*'
42838 Steuer-Spar-Erklärung 2017 crashes on launch
42905 Compile error Undefined GNUTLS_MAC_AEAD
42919 Witcher Enhanced Edition Director's Cut crashes (purist)
42923 Neverwinter Online new module crashes with wine-2.7-staging
42925 strftime() truncates output inappropriately when %z is used
42926 Cut-and-paste from Wine App to Linux App adds trailing hidden chars ^@^@
42935 Dawn of War III crashes with unimplemented function concrt140.dll.??0scoped_lock_read@reader_writer_lock@Concurrency@@QEAA@AEAV12@@Z,
42946 FFXIV fails to render (D3D11)
42962 Multiple games use unimplemented d3d11_immediate_context_ClearState() (FFXIV, Gauntlet)
42965 BeamNG.drive 0.9.x crashes on unimplemented function api-ms-win-core-memory-l1-1-2.d.CreateFileMappingW
42975 Graphical glitches on Age of Empires
42986 wine can't be compiled by gcc-2.95.4 (amstream/mediastream.c)
42990 wine can't be compiled by gcc-2.95.4 (d3dx9_36/effect.c)
42991 wine can't be compiled by gcc-2.95.4 (dmusic/port.c)
42992 wine can't be compiled by gcc-2.95.4 (dwrite/opentype.c)
42995 wine can't be compiled by gcc-2.95.4 (netprofm/list.c)
42996 wine can't be compiled by gcc-2.95.4 (programs/ipconfig/ipconfig.c)
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