Proton 4.2-4 has been released

 Proton 4.2-4 has been released

• Fix crash on launch for RAGE 2. (requires Mesa development builds on AMD)
• Update DXVK to v1.1.1.
• Improve Vulkan support for the new No Man's Sky Vulkan build.
• Better icons in some window managers.
• Fix occasional stuck Wine process when upgrading Proton version.
• Fix controller detection for Yakuza Kiwami and Telltale games.
• Fix terrain generation in Space Engineers.
• Fix for Flower failing to launch.

Link to source code

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Wine development release 4.8 is now available for Linux FreeBSD and macOS

Wine development release 4.8 is now available for Linux FreeBSD and macOS

The Wine development release 4.8 is now available.

What's new in this release:

• Support building most programs in PE format.
• Unicode data updated to Unicode 12.0.
• Support for MSI patch files.
• Default to non-PIC builds on i386.
• Joystick support improvements.
• Asturian 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 4.8 (total 38):

  12332  Microsoft Windows Server 2003 DDK SP1 installer crashes ('setupapi.SetupCloseFileQueue' should do proper handle validation before accessing members)
  14695  Lifeforce demo misses codecs (msvideo1 needs to support 24 bpp output)
  28196  Test Drive Unlimited: Water is always rendered on top of everything.
  28254  Multiple kernel drivers crash during load/relocation (relocation entry crosses page boundary)(PMP Exam Version 7 CrypKey, Age of Wushu SDProtect DRM, StarForce v3)
  29460  Multiple kernel drivers crash in entry due to ntoskrnl.exe IoGetCurrentProcess() being a stub (Ruijie Supplicant Su1xDriver.sys, nProtect GameGuard/Tachyon Kernel Control Driver)
  31101  ScoobyRom v0.6.x-0.8.x (.NET 4.0 app) fails to start with Wine-Mono
  31350  Multiple .NET 3.x WPF applications crash in Vista/Win7 mode due to dwmapi.DwmGetTransportAttributes stub returning E_NOTIMPL (T-Online Mediencenter Assistent, Valil.Chess, Zwift 1.0)
  34372  Multiple applications need AllocateAndGetTcpExTableFromStack (cross compiled dbus, spamMonitor)
  37359  planetside 2  no mouseclicks registered
  37540  Multiple games and applications wrapped with Enigma v4 and GG DRM schemes crash on startup (incompatible with use of position independent code (PIC) in Wine dlls)
  38423  Python 3.5.x exe installer fails with Access denied error
  39614  Wine initialises a Critical Section for Mutexes by NULL instead of (void*)-1
  42420  MidiIllustrator Virtuoso 3 crashes when using any File open dialog
  44850  Microsoft Skype 8.x crashes on unimplemented function iphlpapi.dll.GetBestRoute2
  45155  OpenGL Window Z order in Truespace
  45213  Multiple applications using Microsoft Detours library crash on startup after compiling Wine with GCC 8.x+ and -O2 (GOT/PIC code emitted at Win32 API entries)(Microsoft Visual Studio 201x, Visual Assist plugin)
  45757  Visual Studio 2017 Installer - "The installer manifest failed signature validation"
  45765  Universe Sandbox 2 unimplemented function USER32.dll.GetPointerType
  45947  Native Access crashes on unimplemented function virtdisk.dll.OpenVirtualDisk
  46861  TopoEdit crashes with unimplemented function mf.dll.MFEnumDeviceSources
  46905  Multiple eventlog monitor applications go haywire (endless console spam, live-loop CPU) due to advapi32.ReadEventLogA/W returning lasterror ERROR_CALL_NOT_IMPLEMENTED
  46989  Grand Prix Legends: Wheel (Wheel, Gas, Brake) axes inputs aren't recognized
  46993  ntoskrnl.exe tests don't compile when using -O0
  47016  MS Office 365 installer needs mfplay.dll.MFPCreateMediaPlayer
  47023  Warframe in-game screenshot fails if screenshot directory already exists
  47027  Wine built with GCC 8.x+ and -O2 causes apps and games using madCodeHook/madExcept 3.x/4.x to crash (hook engine can't cope with GOT/ PIC code emitted within 15-byte range at Win32 API entries)(EA Origin, HeidiSQL 10.x)
  47032  valgrind shows uninitialized read in writev from call_req_handler
  47082  NI System Web Server crashes on unimplemented function authz.dll.AuthzFreeResourceManager
  47096  World of Warships 0.8.3.x client (DirectX 11) crashes when post-battle results screen is about to be displayed
  47097  Wine built with GCC 8.x+ and -O2 causes Steam games using In-Game Overlay 'gameoverlayrenderer.dll' to crash (hook engine can't cope with GOT/PIC code emitted at Win32 API entries)
  47107  Windows XP DDK installer fails to copy any files
  47122  Star Citizen stopped working on commit 32d7838da73dd9bc3ee999d73a310da7adfb27dd
  47123  Starcitizen - joystick not recognized
  47129  Rendering glitch in Caste Siege/Ballerburg (invalid vertex count in IDirect3DDevice3::DrawIndexedPrimitiveVB)
  47131  Esportal client 1.0 (CS:GO anti-cheat) fails to start, reporting 'The procedure entry point InitiateShutdownW could not be located in the dynamic link library ADVAPI32.dll'
  47138  Microsoft .NET Framework 2.x installer fails ('RegSvcs.exe' bootstrapper needs unicode casing tables, 'l_intl.nls' no longer installed in WINEPREFIX)
  47142  Esportal client 1.0 (CS:GO anti-cheat) fails to start, reporting 'The procedure entry point NdrServerCallAll could not be located in the dynamic link library RPCRT4.dll'
  47145  Esportal client 1.0 (CS:GO anti-cheat) fails to start, reporting 'The procedure entry point K32GetWsChangesEx could not be located in the dynamic link library KERNEL32.dll'

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Wine development release 4.7 is now available for Linux FreeBSD and macOS

Wine development release 4.7 is now available for Linux FreeBSD and macOS

The Wine development release 4.7 is now available.

What's new in this release:

• Support for builtin libraries in PE format even on Unix.
• Updated version of the Mono engine.
• More implementation of the Debug Engine DLL.
• Support for the Command Link standard control.
• Improved Edit control sizing in CJK locales.
• 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 4.7 (total 34):

  11985  Status bar of D3D9 app window disappearing
  15934  Can't see Worms 2 intro films as they play (mciavi32 missing support to MCI_MCIAVI_PLAY_FULLSCREEN)
  15980  Multiple applications expect security descriptors present in process object/token (Rhapsody 2, Rockstar Games Social Club v1.x)
  29921  Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, 2008, 2010 Express installer shows highlighted items incorrectly
  41212  Alt-Tab in full-screen on resolutions other than native causes a crash
  42518  WinVerifyTrust fails for signatures using SHA256 digest
  44656  Multiple applications need ntdll.NtSuspendProcess and ntdll.NtResumeProcess implementation (Crashpad/Chromium/CEF, Oracle Data Visualization Desktop, cbwin)
  45543  Multiple games and applications crash in dwrite due to invalid index access to cluster array (Rekordbox 5.3.0, SpellForce 3)
  45703  Microsoft Office 365 applications crash on startup (Microsoft AppV ISV virtual filesystem technology requires several native and core API to be hot-patchable)
  45819  Symantec Eraser Control Driver 'eeCtrl64.sys' (Norton 360) fails in driver entry point due to 'ntoskrnl.exe.ExInitializeResourceLite' stub (needs STATUS_SUCCESS)
  45963  Multiple applications need setupapi.SetupDiInstallDeviceInterfaces and setupapi.SetupDiRegisterCoDeviceInstallers stubs for HID device driver install
  46174  Multiple apps (Halo Online Voice Chat, Discord, Miro Realtimeboard) crashes on unimplemented function qwave.dll.QOSCreateHandle
  46378  WarGaming.net Game Center crashes when installing games or self-updates
  46626  UPlay fails to start : "Error at hooking API LoadStringA" (UPlay's hooking engine can't handle ENDBR32 instruction inserted at non-hotpatch API entries due to distro build environments '-fcf-protection')
  46685  AviUtl: Can't specify 4 digits number as image size in new project dialog.
  46794  Skyrim crashes upon clicking Continue on macOS
  46899  SIMATIC WinCC V15.1 Runtime installer: user can't accept license terms (richedit20 ITextRange::ScrollIntoView lacks handling of 'tomEnd')
  46927  Oracle Java SE Runtime Environment 7/8, OpenJDK JVM for Windows with '-XX:+UseNUMA' setting needs kernel32.dll.VirtualAllocExNuma (Minecraft)
  46934  Oracle Java SE Runtime Environment 7/8, OpenJDK JVM for Windows: InternalError: Should not get here at sun.nio.fs.WindowsNativeDispatcher.FindFirstStream0
  46953  Watch_Dogs crashes after intro
  46971  Multiple games crash at launch (Sniper Elite V2, Sniper Elite 3)
  46974  Assetto Corsa sometimes crashes when clicking on buttons in the setup menu
  46996  Improvements to the 7.1 and 5.1 to stereo conversion
  46998  Yakuza Kiwami: Controllers aren't detected
  46999  Controller with invalid HID range value causes division by zero error
  47009  msi x64 installation file created by Visual Studio cannot be uninstalled
  47022  Multiple performance monitor applications fail to display system physical/committed virtual memory usage (Sysinternals Process Explorer v16.x, builtin Taskmgr)
  47031  widl generates invalid typelib when importing types from multiple typelibs
  47034  Star Wars The Old Republic - Certificate Authentication Failed with wine-dev 4.6 (regression)
  47039  Shantae Risky's Revenge has a blank screen in Wine 4.6
  47051  Microsoft Excel 2016 (Office 365) crashes on startup (Microsoft AppV ISV virtual filesystem technology requires kernel32.CreateActCtxW to be hot-patchable)
  47055  Unloaded modules traces are not accessible (RtlGetUnloadEventTraceEx)
  47063  Command Link Support in Wine
  47065  Vocaloid 5 (.NET 4.x app) crashes on startup (needs 'Win32_OperatingSystem' WMI class 'SystemDrive' property)

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