World Wine News issue 407

This is the 407th 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 development release 6.21 is now available for Linux FreeBSD and macOS

The Wine development release 6.21 is now available.

What's new in this release:

• WinSpool, GPhoto, and a few other modules converted to PE.
• Better support for inline functions in DbgHelp.
• Beginnings of a MSDASQL implementation.
• 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 6.21 (total 26):

  38420  Sticky mouse with xinput2
  43546  Multiple programs crash with unimplemented function vcomp{100,110,140}.dll._vcomp_for_static_simple_init_i8 (Astrotoaster, Gaea-1.0.16.8020, easyHDR 3.13.0, SimIon, BlueSkyPlan)
  44055  Multiple applications fail to run in Win7+ mode, requiring DWM composition API support to be enabled (Aero Glass, transparent windows)(Affinity Designer 1.x, Electron-based apps using isAeroGlassEnabled API)
  46000  SuperTux 0.6.0 nightly build crashes inside ucrtbase _FindAndUnlinkFrame
  46472  Linux kernel 4.19 breaks startup of Call of Duty: Black Ops II due to change in PTRACE_POKEUSER hw breakpoint behavior
  46801  Hitman: Sniper Challenge crashes on startup when using FAudio
  48377  Home Designer Suite 21.3.1.1x64 hangs on mouse button release when drawing wall
  48791  Multiple games have sound stuttering when using FAudio (Sniper Elite series, Resident Evil 0 HD Remaster, Homesick, Call of Juarez: Gunslinger)
  48981  Riot Vanguard (Riot Games) needs Microsoft Kernel Mode Cryptographic Primitives Library 'cng.sys'
  50088  Memento Mori needs WMReaderAdvanced2_OpenStream
  51267  Rise of Legends Demo crashes with null pointer exception inside SAXReader::parseURL
  51628  Samsung SDK 1.2.2 for Java ME: Black window
  51677  Resident Evil 4 HD crashes when gameplay starts
  51684  quartz:systemclock gets out of order timestamps on Windows
  51719  _pclose() does not cause child stdin to report EOF
  51815  DocumentProperties broken by last update (x64 only)
  51851  Resident Evil 6 stops to a black screen instead of playing videos (needs WMSyncReader_GetOutputCount)
  51856  access violation at emfdc_delete_object+0x17
  51911  vbscript does not handle strings in if clauses
  51914  Color picker doesn't render with custom themes
  51917  Internet Explorer 8 crashes when visiting http://www.baidu.com/ on unimplemented function dxtrans.dll.DllGetClassObject
  51919  New sal.h macros break libstdc++ includes in wineg++
  51921  Multiple games crash due to assertion failures in bundled FAudio (Unreal Engine 4 games, Skyrim SE)
  51926  Wine fails to build with glibc headers < 2.24
  51937  Resident Evil 6 stops to a black screen instead of playing videos (needs WMSyncReader_GetOutputProps)
  51951  configure says that libsane development files are not found even though they are present

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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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