World Wine News issue 406

This is the 406th issue of World Wine News. Its main goal is to inform you of what's going on around Wine. Wine is an open-source implementation of the Windows API on top of X and Unix. Think of it as a Windows compatibility layer. Wine does not require Microsoft Windows, as it is a completely alternative implementation consisting of 100% Microsoft-free code. 

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Wine maintenance release 6.0.2 is now available for Linux FreeBSD and macOS

The Wine maintenance release 6.0.2 is now available.

What's new in this release:

• Compilation fixes (freetype, gcc 11)
• Default to building with GnuTLS support on macOS, if present
• 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 6.0.2 (total 51):

  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)
  19756  Date/time picker doesn't notify app about checkbox changes (TaskCoach: Cannot add new task with a due date)
  24893  File/folder context menus have missing options (Explorer++, Double Commander)
  29903  Multiple games and applications fail to enumerate processes due to 'wtsapi32.WTSEnumerateProcessesW' stub (Visual Studio 2005, .NET 2.0 SDK DbgCLR, Akamai DL Manager, Dekaron)
  32749  Implement atl100.dll.AtlAxDialogBoxW to show error dialogs (Visual Studio 2010 (10.0) Express Edition)
  35539  Proteus 8 demo fails to install
  36010  Changing font resolution on winecfg changes default main font to Tahoma
  39841  IShellFolder.CreateViewObject() doesn't support IID_IContextMenu (Double Commander "Error: invalid parameter" when right-clicking on an empty space)
  44813  Some applications fail when calling ntdll.NtReadFile on a directory (expect STATUS_INVALID_DEVICE_REQUEST)
  46817  Steam Big Picture needs d3d11_device_CreateDeviceContextState
  47296  Google drive crashes before login
  47310  Canon TS3100 series full driver and software package refuses to install: "To install the software, you must be logged in to an administrator account."
  48123  Word 97 crashes after calling stub URLMoniker_ComposeWith
  48412  Multiple games have lighting issue and textures blinking (Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2)
  48507  osu! icons in the setting and music player are not being rendered
  49434  Wine builtin 'iexplore' crashes upon loading Google Account login page
  49663  Performance regression in TrackMania Nations Forever
  49954  Multiple games and applications need msvcp140_1._Aligned_get_default_resource (EVE Online Launcher, QT Creator 3.x, Kate, Snap Camera 1.11.x, Cppcheck 2.3)
  50119  Dark Souls II: Scholar of the First Sin shows a white screen with vulkan renderer
  50147  Microsoft WebView2 "evergreen bootstrapper"/installer needs IStream::CopyTo()
  50168  Error when running notepad.exe: Failed to start RpcSs service
  50318  'HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters\DataBasePath' registry entry has non-standard value
  50362  Fl Studio 20.8 crashes on startup
  50436  Upstream FAudio pkg-config file not found
  50492  Amazon Chime 4.x (.NET 4.5 app) reports 'Failed to InjectErrorHandlingScript, Unable to cast COM object of type 'System.__ComObject' to interface type 'mshtml.HTMLHeadElement''
  50628  Fairy Tale About Father Frost, Ivan and Nastya crashes on DDERR_SURFACE_LOST
  50673  FlatOut 2 crashes on launch
  50697  Multiple applications crash due to DHTMLEdit 'IOleObject::GetExtent' stub (Atomic Mail Sender 4.2x)
  50725  Nvidia FrameView 1.2 (Win10 app) crashes on unimplemented function tdh.dll.TdhLoadManifestFromBinary
  50756  "Path is invalid." when using "SVN update" with SVN for Windows, which is used by TortoiseSVN
  50791  NtQueryObject( ..., ObjectBasicInformation, NULL, 0, &retLen) returns incorrect NTSTATUS error code and no buffer size (EditSection, Google sandbox-attacksurface-analysis-tools v1.1.x)
  50805  Win32_OperatingSystem class is missing 'ProductType' (affects Chocolatey)
  50809  Multiple .NET 4.x application installers fail due to 'MsiNetAssemblySupport' property returning incorrect version (IronPython 2.7.5)
  50811  gdi32.res fails to compile when freetype pkg-config cflags contain "-pthread"
  50818  Mahou Shoujo Shoumou Sensen - DeadΩAegis (Trial) shows unreadable text in the message box.
  50829  Process Hacker 2.38 crashes on unimplemented function dbghelp.dll.SymFromNameW
  50830  Process Hacker 2.38 crashes on unimplemented function advapi32.dll.LsaEnumerateAccounts
  50845  jscript crashes on internal assert(0) in PE build with clang
  50854  Multiple Windows 10 application installers refuse to install, requiring 'advapi32.dll' version >= 6.3.10000.0 (Elgato Stream Deck 4.9.3, Windows Admin Center 2103)
  50875  HTMLElement_get_offsetParent crashes wine if a NULL offset parent is expected (VbsEdit)
  50885  PdfSharp creates invalid PDF files
  50925  Error fetching public key in GetRSAKeyFromCert - File not found
  50952  Legends of Runeterra crashes at launch
  50960  NETCoreCheck from .NET Deployment Tools crashes on unimplemented function api-ms-win-crt-stdio-l1-1-0.dll.__stdio_common_vfwprintf_p
  51035  Alacritty v0.7.2 portable crashes: SetEnvironmentVariable  ("some_non-existant_var", NULL) should return TRUE
  51041  Scalable fonts with fsCsb[0] == 0 are not enumerated correctly
  51076  demangle_datatype in ucrtbase crash in vc2019 x86 mode
  51117  Silverlight_x64.exe (part of LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 Home Edition installer) crashes
  51324  Imperium Great Battles of Rome can't play videos
  51631  winhttp:winhttp and winhttp:notification fail because echo.websocket.org is out of commission

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Wine development release 6.20 is now available for Linux FreeBSD and macOS

The Wine development release 6.20 is now available.

What's new in this release:

• MSXml, XAudio, DInput and a few other modules converted to PE.
• A few system libraries are bundled with the source to support PE builds.
• HID joystick is now the only supported joystick backend in DirectInput.
• Better support for MSVCRT builds in Winelib.
• 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 6.20 (total 29):

  30600  Emergency 3 crashes on start
  34297  Allow reconnecting to disconnected joysticks
  36796  Mozilla Firefox 13.0 crashes on startup if run in Windows Vista+ mode (D3D10CreateEffectFromMemory needs more complete Direct3D 10 DXBC parser)
  38696  Messy screen in DxTex.exe
  41080  Need For Speed Most Wanted 2005 not working after upgrade from Ubuntu 14.04 to 16.04
  41317  WOLF RPG Editor: Gamepad axis value not recalculated after deadzone change results in ghost input events
  41700  "Install Now" and "Customize installation" buttons are invisible in Python 3.5.2 installer
  42137  DirectInput needs to join both Xbox shoulder triggers into a single axis (aka half-axis problem)
  42434  Gamepad listed twice
  42695  Path of Exile fails to start when launching with dx11 enabled with message "Failed to create WIC factory" (CoCreateInstance() called in uninitialized apartment)
  47387  Victor Vran has no sound
  49296  ZWCAD 2020: the program doesn't start (using mono)
  49887  "EA Desktop" installer fails.
  50758  Vbscript does not handle recursive calls
  51105  Diablo 2: Resurrected (D2R) stays black
  51385  DTS Encoder Suite won't start in Wine 6.0.1
  51564  Can't run 16bit programs when built without mingw
  51574  swscanf_s with %zu fails for valid value
  51583  Tetris crashes due to "visual styles"
  51707  Rise of the Tomb Raider stops the process before entering the main menu
  51749  Wine 6.17 fails to build under Slackware64 Current with multilib
  51797  Input lag with controller in Wine 6.18
  51802  Theming on 16-bit application breaks their UI
  51846  Standard library call fopen(..., "wx") not recognized - causes destruction of data
  51863  QuantumClient.exe from Raymarine SDK needs dhcpcsvc6.dll
  51871  PSScript fails with 0x80041002 (WBEM_E_NOT_FOUND) ( system property L"__Derivation" not implemented)
  51892  Program DSP-408.exe returns Assertion Failed error in afxwin1.ini line 418
  51894  ucrtbase:misc fails on some Windows 10 1607 and 1709
  51902  Project CARS 2 keyboard keys aren't responsive

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Proton 6.3-7 has been released

• The following games are now playable:

  • Life is Strange: True Colors
  • Quake Champions (broken after a game update)
  • Divinity Original Sin 2 (broken after a game update)
  • eFootball PES 2021
  • EVERSLAUGHT VR
  • WRC 8, 9 and 10

• Fix Logitech G920 mapping for F1 2020.

• Fix Resident Evil Village display settings.

• Improve Forza Horizon 4 windowing.

• Update DXVK to v1.9.2.

• Update vkd3d-proton to include the latest development work.

Link to source code

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