Wine development release 7.12 is now available for Linux FreeBSD and macOS

The Wine development release 7.12 is now available.

What's new in this release:

• Theming support for Qt5 applications.
• Bundled vkd3d upgraded to version 1.4.
• Improved effect support in Direct2D.
• QWORD support in registry tools.
• 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 7.12 (total 13):

  49501  Star Citizen: No mic input audio (used for voip)
  49633  StarCitizen launcher crashes on start with a winmm error
  52475  Shogun Total War 2 crashes on start up. (Main Application.)
  52586  Approach (Smart Suite) crashes when trying to print to cups-pdf
  52729  Argentum 20 RPG Launcher has graphical glitches
  53049  Incorrect display of selected buttons in Light theme.
  53066  Wireshark shows black rectangle on various places if light theme is enabled
  53156  MetaTrader4 stopped working properly with wine 7.10
  53169  Rich edit control becomes unstable or trips assertion after ITextRange::SetFont is called
  53170  Rich edit control becomes unstable or trips assertion after changing TextFont properties
  53180  aria2 needs QueryContextAttributes(SECPKG_ATTR_CIPHER_INFO) to return a valid version
  53201  The 32-bit evr:evr crashes almost systematically on the TestBot's Wine VMs
  53235  The 32-bit mfplat:mfplat crashes on the TestBot debian11 VM

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World Wine News issue 421

This is the 421st 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. 

The full article is here

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Vkd3d 1.4 Released

The Wine team is proud to announce that release 1.4 of vkd3d, the Direct3D to Vulkan translation library, is now available.

This release contains improvements that are listed in the release notes. The main highlights are:

• Many improvements to the HLSL compiler.
• A new descriptor heap implementation using the VK_EXT_descriptor_indexing extension.
• A new fence implementation using the VK_KHR_timeline_semaphore extension.

The source is available here.

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Wine development release 7.11 is now available for Linux FreeBSD and macOS

The Wine development release 7.11 is now available.

What's new in this release:

• Android driver converted to PE.
• Zero-copy support with GStreamer.
• High Unicode planes support in case mappings.
• 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 7.11 (total 34):

  33381  Mayhem Triple renders too small
  33383  Foobar2000 crashes on Alt-H
  34176  Kernel32:CompareStringW strange behavior ?
  35027  Euphoria needs CreateProcessInternalW function
  36720  LCMapString with the parameter NORM_IGNORENONSPACE does not remove diacritics
  39144  SpinTires tech demo wrong rendering after changing screen resolution
  39298  kernel32 does not support custom nls installation.
  45634  enabling CSMT ruins performance for rFactor 1.255
  46281  Multiple Windows 7+ apiset-aware applications fail due to Wine loader lacking support for resolving virtual dlls via 'kernel32.GetModuleHandle' (Archicad 22)
  46782  CompareStringEx does not support SORT_DIGITSASNUMBERS flag
  49210  Mafia and Mafia II: Definitive Edition Launcher crashes with Wine-Mono
  49232  Saints Row The Third Remastered shows floating black rectangles
  50941  Multiple applications crash on unimplemented function WS2_32.dll.WSAConnectByName (TIP-Integral, EasyMiniGW)
  50948  taskmgr.exe: wrong memory usage unit (GB => MB)
  51243  In Wine dinput:keyboard fails if the keyboard layout does not match the display language
  52663  Civilization 4: no text in main menu
  52752  Rich Edit Control does not support drawing OLE objects
  52795  Multiple applications crash in Mesa due to syscall stack overflow (Cyberpunk 2077, Stranger of Paradise, Doom Eternal with ray tracing)
  52831  Kernel32::GetSystemPowerStatus returns invalid data if /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0 is missing
  52841  Leverless arcade controller SOCD cleaning does not work
  52885  Adobe Lightroom Classic 11.1 crash in user32
  52893  GreedFall crashes on launch
  52993  msi:action - test_publish() fails on date change
  52995  shell32:shelllink crashes in Wine cause shell32:shellpath's test_PathResolve()  to fail (test.bat file)
  52998  xaudio2_7:xaudio2 fails on Windows 1909+
  53029  Clipboard cut/paste partially broken in wine 7.8.1.2
  53035  Displaying Out-GridView in Powershell Core crashes with WinVer > Win7
  53038  Epic Games Launcher crashes on start
  53076  Kvaser CanKing needs ntoskrnl.exe.KfRaiseIrql and ntoskrnl.exe.KeLowerIrql
  53082  "explorer: Create clipboard manager thread when creating a desktop." causes hangs on wine startup
  53102  Ubisoft Connect fails to connect to server
  53112  winegstreamer build error
  53136  crypt32:cert - testVerifyRevocation() fails in Wine
  53138  crypt32:chain - testGetCertChain() fails in Wine

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