Wine development release 6.0-rc6 is now available for Linux FreeBSD and macOS

The Wine development release 6.0-rc6 is now available.

Barring any last minute issue, this is expected to be the last release candidate before the final 6.0.

What's new in this release:

• Bug fixes only, we are in code freeze.

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 6.0-rc6 (total 10):

  48860  RegiStax 6: mouse does not work in open file dialog
  49500  Wine is not displaying any windows (on a headless system)
  49511  Kontakt (Native Instruments) runtime is broken
  49575  Delphi applications no longer show their main window in the WM's taskbar
  50151  World of Tanks fails to launch if LC_LANG/LC_ALL are set ja_JP
  50153  HID doesn't work on macOS Catalina and Big Sur unless "Input Monitoring" permission is granted
  50355  Commandos 2: Men of Courage hangs after starting
  50437  wineserver crashes when running SteelSeries Engine client
  50453  CDB (Part of Debugging Tools for Windows) fails resume debugging after entry point break (continue debug event: 'DBG_EXCEPTION_HANDLED' must be treated as an alias for 'DBG_CONTINUE')
  50454  Icons have non-transparent background in HxD

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Lutris 0.5.8.2 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 popover menus not appearing on Wayland
• Fix game bar getting unselected on Wayland (Forces the last game to stay
  selected)
• Update Chinese, Dutch, German and Russian translations
• Download DXVK when Lutris starts
• Add fsync2 feature detection
• Limit simultaneous downloads to 3
• Add support for deb file extraction
• Add support for Adobe Air games from Humble Bundle (Installation only,
  Air runtime will come at a later stage)
• Add support for GStreamer enabled Wine builds. This will provide better
  compatibility for games using Media Foundation

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Wine development release 6.0-rc5 is now available for Linux FreeBSD and macOS

The Wine development release 6.0-rc5 is now available.

What's new in this release:

• Bug fixes only, we are in code freeze.

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 6.0-rc5 (total 21):

  21987  Acrobat 7 tryout installer complains: "This Postscript Driver or Windows Platform (Win9x/Me) not supported" (winspool.drv missing level 8/global default printer settings handling)
  38166  Heroes of Might and Magic V performance issue: severe fps drop on certain maps
  41593  Molot VST 0.3.1 UI: some knobs are not rendered
  43852  Monkey Island Special Edition Collection: White screen and crash when starting Monkey1.exe
  44243  Spire and Serum VST plugins using Direct2D render very slowly
  44367  Multiple applications need d2d FillEllipse/DrawEllipse implementation (OP-X PRO II VST)
  44454  Windows Media Encoder 9 refuses to install
  44574  Microsoft Office 2013 client area is rendered black (Direct2D)
  45096  MPC-HC 1.7.13 displays a message box: "Error creating EVR Custom renderer", "DXVA2CreateDirect3DDeviceManager9 failed"
  47770  Waves Central plugin installation fails
  47824  Remote Life 1.2 demo terminates with 'Cannot load library nw_elf.dll'
  48142  shell32:appbar tests fail on some Windows 10 machines
  49010  ilok license manager: doesn't connect to the activation server as in 4.0.2
  49356  Saya No Uta (a.k.a. The Song of Saya) crashes when launching
  49771  ntdll:exception causes an unhandled segmentation fault
  50241  Vertical Text in NL5 schematic doesn't display correctly
  50304  Control-C exits winedbg instead of stopping the inferior
  50397  dlls/d3dcompiler_43/tests/hlsl_d3d11.c: error: unknown field ‘Texture2D’ specified in initializer
  50408  wineboot crash to due getaddrinfo() returning NULL ai_canonname
  50420  Divinity: Original Sin - Enhanced Edition crashes on startup
  50423  dlls/devenum/mediacatenum.c: | function ‘property_bag_Read’ | error: unknown field ‘cPins2’ specified in initializer

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Wine development release 6.0-rc4 is now available for Linux FreeBSD and macOS

The Wine development release 6.0-rc4 is now available.

What's new in this release:

• Bug fixes only, we are in code freeze.

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 6.0-rc4 (total 29):

  24116  Cannot save game in Rainblood: Town of Death
  25409  Windows Live Essentials for XP installer crashes
  27229  printf() newline missing with multibyte strings
  31942  Microsoft Office 2003 and Office 2003 Editions Resource Kit installers crash on startup
  32061  Guild Wars: Launcher hangs sometimes
  39731  Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag crashes
  40430  Multiple NVIDIA installers abort due to failure to process xml config (PhysX 9.x, GeForce Now, GeForce Experience 3.x, RTX Voice)
  41298  Battlefield 3 crashes during loading
  41450  timestamp is missing from some debug messages
  43329  Multiple applications fail to get selected path after double click last path element in IFileDialog2 folder selection dialog (Wargaming.net Game Center, Adobe DNG Converter 10.x/11.x)
  43412  World of Warships: CEF screens cannot be displayed
  44185  DragonAgeOrigins autorun.exe crash inside winegstreamer
  44538  Tales of Zestiria doesn't start
  45950  RedMon 1.9 (Redirection Port Monitor) does not work (missing support for monitors providing the MONITOR2 interface)
  48587  httpapi tests are broken on Windows 8
  49143  RTF Editor does not support cyrillic letters using MS Sans Serif Font
  49347  Settlers III: mouse not working on start screen, game entry and statistics screen after a game, if "Automatically capture the mouse in full-screen windows" is on in winecfg
  49493  Children Of Morta stays at blue stars screen after starting game.
  49545  Current working directory reset to "/" executing a winegcc/wineg++ compiled program
  49563  Adobe DNG converter 12.4 crashes after upgrade to Wine 5.12
  49650  Bunch of Heroes (Steam) hangs with a black screen at startup
  49683  Kingdom Come Deliverance crashes
  49782  Elite Dangerous Horizons: crashes with wine64 5.16
  49789  Tina 11 Demo crashes when run in a 64-bit prefix
  50126  Writing VT_UI8 property type to a stream is not currently supported
  50291  World of Warcraft Classic Fails to Close Cleanly
  50354  Team Fortress 2 crashes during loading
  50373  Touhou Shinpiroku trial terminates immediately
  50378  dlls/amstream/tests/amstream.o error: unknown field ‘dwBitMasks’ specified in initializer

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