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Thursday, October 19, 2017

Q4Wine 1.3.5 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 1.3.5:

Updated:
  • Italian translation;
  • Ukrainian translation;
  • Russian translation;
Fixed:
  • Removed extra Doxygen files to reduce artifact size;

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The WineHQ Wine development release 2.19 is now available for Linux and Mac

The WineHQ Wine development release 2.19 is now available for Linux and Mac

What's new in this release:
  • Support for 32-bit float audio on Android.
  • Named pipes now fully handled by the Wine server.
  • Support for a new Microsoft root certificate.
  • More transform fixes in GdiPlus.
  • Some heap allocation optimizations.
  • 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 2.19 (total 16):

   7369  eISLP -help doesn't display, 'text controller' error message
  14530  EM_PASTESPECIAL unimplemented in richedit
  33841  Paint.NET 3.5.10 fails to start
  35372  iTunes 11.1.x shows distorted UI (no text drawn, missing ui controls)
  37251  WiX Toolset v3.8 installer doesn't open with Wine-Mono (unimplemented corruntimehost_CreateDomainEx)
  37637  CreateNamedPipe,  ReadFile, PIPE_WAIT or BufferSize problem
  43044  League of Legends needs function msvcp140.dll.?__ExceptionPtrAssign@@YAXPAXPBX@Z
  43163  Mixcraft 8 crashes when adding a video track ('IAMTimelineGroup', '{9eed4f00-b8a6-11d2-8023-00c0df10d434}' not implemented, 'qedit.dll')
  43261  Error when starting the game Farming Simulator 15
  43776  .NET 4.0 installer spams with error message boxes
  43777  redefinition of typedef ‘REFERENCE_TIME’ (gcc-4.2)
  43805  Regedit.exe crashes when exporting certain registry keys e.g. "HKLM\Software\Classes\steam"
  43829  DigitalSpace Traveler: Unhandled page fault on read access
  43830  Enterprise Architect no longer loads symbols when debugging.
  43860  Microsoft DirectX 9.0c Redistributable (June 2010) installer crashes
  43877  "Cannot allocate DOS memory" error with 16-bit Windows applications

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Wednesday, October 18, 2017

WineTricks 20171018 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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Tuesday, October 10, 2017

The WineHQ Wine development release 2.18 is now available for Linux and Mac

The WineHQ Wine development release 2.18 is now available for Linux and Mac

What's new in this release:
  • Radial gradients in Direct2D.
  • Asynchronous message support in WebServices.
  • Virtual memory write watches improvements.
  • FreeType 2.8.1 compatibility 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 2.18 (total 22):

  24281  Mafia 2 to slow to play
  36359  valgrind shows a couple possible leaks in dsound/tests/dsound.c
  37160  If D3D_DISABLE_9EX is defined, d3d9.h can't be compiled
  37321  foobar2000 'Scheduler' plugin crashes on unimplemented function shell32.dll.ShellExec_RunDLLW
  37418  Unable to paste images from linux clipboard to Wine apps workspace (affects Photoshop, Powerpoint etc.)
  41380  Xenia emulator don't run (needs _register_thread_local_exe_atexit_callback implementation)
  42154  Multiple games crash with built-in xinput (Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Thief (2014), Tomb Raider (2013), Bejeweled 3)
  42715  Cxbx (Xbox emulator) doesn`t start (wine: Invalid address)
  42983  Abwrite crashes with exception 0x40000015
  43324  Beamng.drive requires msvcr120.dll.vsscanf
  43326  Uplay (July 2017) needs dwmapi.DwmSetIconicLivePreviewBitmap
  43453  Magic Online  (Magic The Gathering: Online) Crashes due to race condition in secur32
  43487  Magic Online  (Magic The Gathering: Online) Crashes in dwrite
  43549  Wickr 4.0.5: Crashes upon run
  43699  Blackscreen in visual novel Hanahira
  43701  Half-Life 2 (Counter-Strike:Source, Day of Defeat:Source) crash on start
  43707  [GdiPlus] HatchStyle is incorrectly named in Wine. Should be GpHatchStyle
  43714  ImageMagick crashes with msvcr120.dll._vfprintf_l
  43715  Many applications (winecfg, ...) crash on startup with freetype 2.8.1
  43716  freetype 2.8.1 breaks Wine build during font conversion with sfnt2fon
  43774  Chromium-based browser engine (CEFv3) used by several games randomly crashes on shutdown (World of Warships 0.6.x)
  43779  In ole32/storage32.c , miss check for the result of HeapAlloc

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