Wine development release 5.3 is now available for Linux FreeBSD and macOS

The Wine development release 5.3 is now available.

What's new in this release:

• More work towards Ucrtbase runtime support.
• Full support for Unicode normalization.
• Improvements in Shell Folders handling.
• 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 5.3 (total 29):

  13925  IKEA Home Planner 2010 2D and 3D graphical views show only garbage
  18234  Lotus Approach (MDI app): double clicking minimized MDI child windows (icons) results in "About Wine" instead of maximize
  22974  "Shell folders" settings are reset after each wine update
  34622  Multiple games need DMO Wrapper Filter, 'qasf.dll' (Neocron, Age of empires III Steam, .NET XNA 3.x/4.x games using Media classes) (`winetricks qasf` is a workaround)
  37073  Trees not rendered correctly in Far Cry 2 when anti-aliasing enabled
  40649  apps (e.g. sysinternals' ADExplorer) that require ActiveDirectory connections/ADsOpenObject fail
  42038  Cannot scroll documents being compared in winmerge (Followup to bug 20695)
  42764  Proteus direct 3D render problem
  43465  Unit Test: ComboBox Dropdown does not work if Style is set and no scrollbar required
  43814  Multiple games require IMFSourceReader ReadSample Implementation (Danganronpa V3, Resident Evil 2 1-Shot Demo)
  47857  Logos Bible Software (.Net 4.7.2 app) crashes in win8/10 (because IsNormalizedString is just a stub)
  47884  msi:action systematically times out on Windows 2003
  47992  msi:action tests fail when running them twice
  48136  Wine can't be started, log notice: wineboot failed to start wineboot c00000e5
  48229  Regression on Automobilista. A lot of cars and tracks are not shown on Game menu
  48302  Warhammer Online doesn't render without d3dx9_34
  48386  Some CPU features are not reported for Intel CPU (Detroit: Become Human is affected)
  48387  User shared data area should have NumberOfPhysicalPages field filled in (used by Detroit: Become Human)
  48484  winecfg doesn't allow disabling Desktop Integration for Downloads
  48510  Lotus Organizer 97 crashes when selecting a Backup folder using 'Browse' button
  48549  Arma Cold War Assault: Cursor stuck at low fps since Wine 5.0-rc6
  48557  Multiple installers crash (Hot Wired, Croc installer) : Setup is unable to initialize  the language dialogbox: Error 106
  48569  Infinite drag & drop loop crashes WinSCP
  48577  DISPLAYCONFIG_VIDEO_OUTPUT_TECHNOLOGY and other enums are the wrong size
  48594  AnyDesk crashes directly on startup (low WORD of instance handle must be ignored when looking up window classes)
  48646  QQMusicAgent crashes when started after installation
  48648  Gothic II Night of the Raven:unhandled exception in Wine 5.2
  48657  GdipGetNearestColor crash in Subtitle Edit
  48669  iphlpapi.NotifyUnicastIpAddressChange() should call the callback initially if requested (required for Far Cry 5 online mode)

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Proton 5.0-3 has been released

  Proton 5.0-3 has been released

• Support for Direct3D 12 mode in Metro Exodus.
• Fix crash on launch in The Walking Dead: Saints and Sinners and eFootball PES 2020.
• Fix Automobilista unable to load some assets.
• Fix high polling rate mouse regression.

Link to source code

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Wine development release 5.2 is now available for Linux FreeBSD and macOS

The Wine development release 5.2 is now available.

What's new in this release:

• More compatible codepage mapping tables.
• Support for using the null display driver as a real driver.
• Better UTF-8 support in the Resource and Message Compilers.
• Fixes for using ucrtbase as C runtime.
• 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 5.2 (total 22):

  14697  OllyDbg 2.x freezes sometimes during processing of debug events (debug events can block completion of queued user APCs)
  18159  Lotus Approach (MDI app) has extra caption buttons and Control box
  18933  Free PDF to Word Doc converter doesn't work, window empty/hangs on launch (appinstall)
  34848  PDF-XChange Viewer 2.5.213 crashes when switching between document tabs
  36059  Multiple Steam games fail to install DirectX runtime prerequisite, resulting in repeated install attempt on startup ('xinput1_3.dll' locked by client)
  36521  Star Wars rebellion update 1.01 crashes on start (quoted process command line only created with special 'My Documents' folder)
  43934  SumatraPDF 3.1.2 has very narrow buttons in its installer
  45462  PDF X-Change Viewer (all versions) cannot click dialog box in menu
  45481  Spintires: MudRunner crashes at launch
  46619  Lineage 2 crashes (godworld.ru private server)
  46735  Multiple applications need Direct3DShaderValidatorCreate9() implementation (The Sims 2 demo, Armed Assault)
  47018  Multiple applications show transparent bitmap images on static controls with black background (comctl32 lacking support for painting 32-bit BMPv3 with alpha channel)
  47718  x86_64-w64-mingw32-strip strip dlls make wine failed start
  48122  Arturia MIDI Control Center crashes on unimplemented function ntoskrnl.exe.RtlIsNtDdiVersionAvailable
  48392  Multiple applications crash on unimplemented function WS2_32.dll.WSCSetApplicationCategory (Verbum 8, Lineage 2's SmartGuard 3.0)
  48408  mixthread monopolizes buffer_list_lock if WaitForSingleObject returns quickly, causing livelock and game freeze
  48424  xl-r8r: Crashes right after splash screen (apparently because  vga.dll is missing)
  48480  dlls/krnl386.exe16 - thunk.c argument logic incorrect for CallProcEx32W16
  48489  .Net 4.7+ requires GpFontFamily to be referenced counted instead of cloning.
  48541  Affinity Photo trial (1.7.2) crashes:Call from 0x7b00fa3d to unimplemented function mscms.dll.WcsGetDefaultColorProfileSize
  48561  Cadence Allegro Professional 16.6 crashes at startup
  48571  Firefox 72.0.* crashes on every tab (unless dwrite is disabled)

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Proton 5.0-2 has been released

  Proton 5.0-2 has been released

• Fix frequent crash introduced in Proton 5.0-1 related to video and audio playback.
• Fix Planet Coaster crash on launch.
• Fix Subnautica graphical issue.

Link to source code

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