Wine development release 6.8 is now available for Linux FreeBSD and macOS

The Wine development release 6.8 is now available.

What's new in this release:

• Libraries installed into architecture-specific subdirectories.
• Secur32 library converted to PE.
• Support for Map object in JavaScript.
• 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 6.8 (total 35):

  11833  GroupMail 5.x crashes when creating new message
  19756  Date/time picker doesn't notify app about checkbox changes (TaskCoach: Cannot add new task with a due date)
  22327  Cannot install PGV demo for Windows using a clean wineprefix.
  24893  File/folder context menus have missing options (Explorer++, Double Commander)
  26189  Crysis Wars Dedicated Server no longer shows console on start under X
  28372  Ubuntu Skin Pack 5.0-XP installer crashes
  35102  Qvodplayer 3.5 Crashes on start
  35539  Proteus 8 demo fails to install
  37375  Visual C++ 2005 Express SP1 install fails
  39841  IShellFolder.CreateViewObject() doesn't support IID_IContextMenu (Double Commander "Error: invalid parameter" when right-clicking on an empty space)
  40227  LibreOffice 5.1.0 crashes when trying to run any Office program
  40382  CUEcards 2000 (v2.37) takes a lot of time to return with search results
  40823  Stone Giant demo crashes after launch
  41318  Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion requires binormal vectors support in D3DXComputeTangentFrameEx
  46948  Characters in The Sims Complete Collection render completely white
  49697  Age of Empires II (SafeDisc 1.x) fails to start since 3.0-rc
  49763  ALOTInstaller crashes
  49977  FIFA 11 Demo fifaconfig crashes when pressing Exit button
  49989  Samsung Dex installer crashes
  50006  The intro in The Sims Complete Collection gets played too fast
  50026  Powershell Core needs ntdll.RtlQueryProcessPlaceholderCompatibilityMode when run in win10 mode
  50117  winedbg --gdb doesn't work
  50396  Sacred Gold: wrong z-order or something else
  50503  Diablo 1: Game crashes after intro videos
  50961  Swtor game crash on splash screen 6.6
  50963  NtCreateUserProcess occasionally fails with STATUS_IMAGE_NOT_AT_BASE
  50980  Royal Quest: "out of memory" and other errors
  50992  Star Citizen crashes on unimplemented function advapi32.dll.QueryTraceA
  51028  Solid Edge 2021 Academic Edition: crash on startup
  51041  Scalable fonts with fsCsb[0] == 0 are not enumerated correctly
  51057  `winetricks -q mfc42` fails
  51067  ToolTaskTest:Execute_2 test fails on x86_64
  51070  Wine fails to create or update prefix
  51076  demangle_datatype in ucrtbase crash in vc2019 x86 mode
  51082  Regression: Powershell Core installs in wrong directory

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Proton 6.3-3 has been released

  Proton 6.3-3 has been released

• Previously in Experimental: Update vkd3d-proton to v2.3.1.
• Previously in Experimental: The Origin Overlay is functional, which allows It Takes Two to be played with friends.
• Previously in Experimental: Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord is playable.
• Previously in Experimental: Fix Red Dead Redemption 2 "Not Purchased" error.
• Previously in Experimental: Fix Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition hang on startup.
• Fixed launchers for Evil Genius 2, Zombie Army 4, Strange Brigade, Sniper Elite 4, Beam.NG, and Eve Online.
• The Bus and Army General are now playable.
• Support adjusting brightness/gamma in older games like Deus Ex.
• Fix Xbox controller detection in Far Cry Primal.

Link to source code

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vkd3d-proton version 2.3.1 has been released

VKD3D-Proton is a fork of VKD3D, which aims to implement the full Direct3D 12 API on top of Vulkan. The project serves as the development effort for Direct3D 12 support in Proton.

 

 This is a minor bugfix release to address some issues solved shortly after the last release.

Fixes

• Improved support for older Wine and Vulkan Loader versions.
• Fix blocky shadows in Horizon Zero Dawn.
• Fix the install script failing on Wine installs not built with upstream vkd3d.
• Fix minor dxil translation issues.

Link to source code

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Wine development release 6.7 is now available for Linux FreeBSD and macOS

The Wine development release 6.7 is now available.

What's new in this release:

• NetApi32, WLDAP32, and Kerberos libraries converted to PE.
• More Media Foundation work.
• ES6 JavaScript mode.
• Improved WOW64 file system redirection.
• More Plug & Play driver support.
• Keyboard raw input device.
• 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 6.7 (total 44):

  12076  Multiple applications refuse to install unless '%SystemRoot%\System32\Drivers\Etc\{services,host}' exist (Informix Database apps, Autodesk 3ds Max 9, SAP GUI)
  12457  Multiple apps crash with NotImplementedException at IWebBrowser2.get_LocationName() (SharpDevelop 2.2, Clarion Enterprise Edition 9.0.10376)
  17823  Multiple application license/DRM schemes require non-zero volume/fs serial for drive "c:" (Rhino 4.0 trial installer, HyperChem 8.0.x, Solid Framework .NET libraries)
  25265  Foobar2000 does not automatically update media library (folder watch does not work)
  28995  Avid VENUE software fails to start (unable to use named pipes with ">" character in the name)
  32548  CS:GO error message when launching csgo.exe.
  34398  Daedalic games don't display anything with winemac.drv (glu32 is tied to X11)
  38572  NHL09 Crashing when loading game after selecting all options in game menus
  40567  Foobar2000 1.x doesn't run or takes too long to open
  41468  Supreme Commander Forged Alliance needs CLSID '{343e68e6-8f82-4a8d-a2da-6e9a944b378c}' xactengine2_9.dll
  42775  Page fault in ole32.PropertyStorage_ReadFromStream() while running mwt.exe /regserver (part of PR1750-60-R5 installation)
  44691  EA Origin installer fails with "error 3:0" (security descriptor translated to 555 access on install directory)
  44755  reg.exe does not recognize '/reg:32' and '/reg:64' switches passed via the command line
  45615  Rekordbox 5.3.0 terminates with the message "Unexpected application error" when playing an audio file
  46309  Winamp with Classic Skin "jumps randomly" when moved
  48486  cmd WCMD_ReadAndParseLine contains non-null terminated strings, causing garbage output in trace logs
  49277  Always false condition in dispex.c
  49286  Melodyne 5 installs but crashes when launched (needs ws2_32.dll.GetHostNameW)
  49671  Supreme Commander demo needs CLSID {bc3e0fc6-2e0d-4c45-bc61-d9c328319bd8} xactengine2_4.dll
  50275  Copy paste bug in conhost/window.c
  50318  'HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters\DataBasePath' registry entry has non-standard value
  50415  MPC-HC 1.7.13 crashes when playing video (needs the EVR filter to support IEVRFilterConfig)
  50628  Fairy Tale About Father Frost, Ivan and Nastya crashes on DDERR_SURFACE_LOST
  50733  MUSICUS!: ending videos play are extremely choppy
  50791  NtQueryObject( ..., ObjectBasicInformation, NULL, 0, &retLen) returns incorrect NTSTATUS error code and no buffer size (EditSection, Google sandbox-attacksurface-analysis-tools v1.1.x)
  50801  Wine Mono crashes on macOS
  50829  Process Hacker 2.38 crashes on unimplemented function dbghelp.dll.SymFromNameW
  50892  WINE 6.3: opentrack-wrapper-wine segfaults with message "Got unexpected trap 14 during process initialization".
  50894  Wine does not recognize C:\windows\sysnative\
  50898  Improve performance for RGB lookups into color tables conversion
  50899  WeChat crashes with Wine 6.5
  50925  Error fetching public key in GetRSAKeyFromCert - File not found
  50946  BioShock Remastered crashes after choosing difficulty
  50952  Legends of Runeterra crashes at launch
  50956  Cannot disable winemenubuilder.exe by DLL override
  50960  NETCoreCheck from .NET Deployment Tools crashes on unimplemented function api-ms-win-crt-stdio-l1-1-0.dll.__stdio_common_vfwprintf_p
  50967  sc.exe doesn't understand the start command and other parameters
  50978  Multiple applications fail to load due to unhandled "loadFrom" field in assembly <file> element (Adobe DNG Converter 13.2, MikroTik WinBox, SimSig, Windows System Control Center)
  50979  Regression: Wine doesn't run executables in unix path
  50996  GCC11 & wineg++ regression: missing /usr/include path
  51006  Running 32-bit wineboot to create a new 64-bit WINEPREFIX results in a wineboot fork bomb with Wine 6.6-149-g39263558a20
  51008  LDPlayer 4.0.x (Android Emulator) crashes on unimplemented function user32.dll.SetProcessDpiAwarenessInternal
  51018  Binaries compiled with an older winegcc won't run on >=v6.5
  51035  Alacritty v0.7.2 portable crashes: SetEnvironmentVariable  ("some_non-existant_var", NULL) should return TRUE

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