Wine development release 4.5 is now available for Linux FreeBSD and macOS

Wine development release 4.5 is now available for Linux FreeBSD and macOS

The Wine development release 4.5 is now available.

What's new in this release:

• Support for Vulkan 1.1.
• Better support for kernel objects in device drivers.
• Still more Media Foundation APIs implemented.
• Support for SVG elements in MSHTML.
• Fixes for case conversion troubles in Turkish locale.
• 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 4.5 (total 30):

  19098  Regedit randomly crashes when deleting registry keys
  23455  FileAlyzer 1.6.0.4, Affinity-installer-1.6.5.123 can't load PE images (needs imagehlp.ImageLoad and imagehlp.ImageUnload implementation)
  26445  URLDownloadToFileW does not support FTP URLs
  38087  Settlers III: mouse not working on start screen and menu (after fixing raw input bug 33479)
  38801  Settlers Heritage of Kings crashes when loading a map
  41591  Solidworks 2016 installer needs ADVAPI32.dll.RegLoadAppKeyW
  45322  League Of Legends installer on tr_TR.UTF-8: unknown color "systemhighlight"
  45429  Inno Setup v5.x based game-installers using 'wintb' plugin fail with: 'Runtime error 229 at

' (Win7+ ITaskbarList3 ThumbBar/Thumbnail semi-stubs needed)
  45497  Biamp Systems Nexia v3.3: Button labels missing in DSP controls
  45998  64-bit FACEIT Anti-cheat client claims "Your system is out of date, you are missing important Windows updates!" (needs 'wintrust.CryptCATAdminAcquireContext2' stub)
  46115  Cursor in unity games moving down and to the right one pixel on any mouse interaction
  46222  Star Citizen hang on splash screen
  46643  Belarc Advisor Computer Inventory 9.0 crashes on unimplemented function advapi32.dll.AuditQuerySystemPolicy with WinVer >= Windows Vista
  46807  The Sims hangs when opening menus
  46812  PS4 Remote Play installer 2.8.x fails, claims 'You need the Media Feature Pack' (MsiGetDatabaseState is called from a custom action)
  46830  Gaea 1.0.x installer stops: err:msi:ITERATE_Actions Execution halted, action L"WixSchedInternetShortcuts" returned 1603 (MsiViewGetErrorA/W() needs to be RPC-compatible)
  46833  Multiple application installers fail with err:msi:ITERATE_Actions Execution halted, action L"" returned 1603 (iTunes 12.9.3.3, Dameware Mini Remote Control 10.x)
  46845  Freelancer: character glitches in cutscenes after loading a saved game
  46846  msi x64 installer does not display splash and other texts like a license agreement
  46848  PTC Mathcad Prime 3.0 Web installer crashes on unimplemented function api-ms-win-crt-convert-l1-1-0.dll.wctrans
  46851  Can't input Japanese text after updating to 4.4.
  46881  Power World Simulator installer needs unimplemented function msi.dll.MsiSourceListForceResolutionW
  46885  Multiple applications fail to install with wine-4.4-114-g15f852015a+, reporting err:msi:ITERATE_Actions Execution halted, action L"BindImage" returned 1615  (MS Office 2007, AstroToaster 2.x. MS .NET Framework 4.x)
  46892  redefinition of typedef ‘UUID’
  46894  SIMATIC WinCC V15.1 Runtime installer (.NET 4.0) fails in CoreLib::GetPhysicalMemoryAmountWmi() (missing 'DeviceLocator' property of 'Win32_PhysicalMemory' WMI class)
  46895  SIMATIC WinCC V15.1 Runtime installer (.NET 4.0) fails due to missing 'OperatingSystemSKU' property of 'Win32_OperatingSystem' WMI class
  46906  SIMATIC WinCC V15.1 Runtime installer: SeCon tool 'SeCon_Win32.exe' crashes due to hnetcfg 'INetFwRules::get__NewEnum' not initializing out parameter
  46907  msi crashes in RemoveFiles action for a broken msi
  46908  Support msvcp mtx_init 'mtx_try' flag (0x2) to create a mutex object that supports test and return
  46909  Missing (black) textures in Black & White

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Lutris 0.5.1.2 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 :

 Fix issue with custom Proton detection preventing Wine games from running

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Lutris 0.5.1.1 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 :

• Fixed a crash when trying to open webpages on system without GVFS
  installed
• Fixed GOG login dialog being displayed multiple times during the install
• Add mesa-utils as dependency for glxinfo
• Add gvfs-backends as dependency to fix the open_uri issue
• Add detection of custom proton builds in compatibilitytools.d folder, as
  documented here: https://github.com/valvesoftware/proton#install-proton-locally
  (by @GloriousEggroll)

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Lutris 0.5.1 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.

First release after the initial 0.5 branch creation, this version brings a lot of stability to the GOG integration, the PGA cache and introduces a new feature to submit problems to the lutris team!

When running lutris --submit-issue, you'll be prompted with a message box asking you to describe your problem. This will generate a file you can send to the support team to help troubleshooting your issues.

Changelog:

• Download the default Lutris Wine version when not available
• Prevent duplicates when importing games from 3rd party services
• Fix some sorting issues in the view
• Add issue reporting feature with the --submit-issue flag. The issue can
  only be saved locally, API integration will be implemented at a later stage.
• Add support for CD-ROM images for non CD32/CDTV Amiga models
• Remove website search from sidebar and merge it with the main search entry
• Display a warning message if the installed Nvidia driver is too old
• Fix GOG games not being installable without being connected to GOG
• Improve performance of log handling
• Remove winecfg if Proton is used
• Use discrete graphics by default with compatible systems
• Increase game icon size from 32x32 to 128x128
• Various fixes

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