Wine development release 7.13 is now available for Linux FreeBSD and macOS

The Wine development release 7.13 is now available.

What's new in this release:

• Gecko engine updated to version 2.47.3.
• USB driver converted to PE.
• Some theming improvements.
• 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 7.13 (total 16):

  43167  Witcher 3 will not start
  47375  Multiple applications crash on unimplemented function msvcr120.dll.?_Schedule@_StructuredTaskCollection@details@Concurrency@@

QEAAXPEAV_UnrealizedChore@23@@Z (Photoshop C 2018, CLIP Studio Paint)
  51129  Function name conflict (ldap_connect) with OpenLDAP 2.5
  51462  SnowRunner crashes when changing settings
  51842  include/winnt.h:403:50: error: size of unnamed array is negative
  52391  Multiple games are missing sound effects since FAudio import (Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth 1, Skyrim Legendary Edition)
  53104  Wireshark can't start capturing packets
  53133  uiautomationcore:uiautomation - test_uia_prov_from_acc_properties() crashes on Windows 8
  53157   --without-mingw builds on Mac can't unwind exceptions
  53231  d2d1:d2d1 - test_shared_bitmap() crashes on the TestBot VMs
  53298  Check boxes don't scale properly in Qt application with light theme
  53309  Wizard101 launcher window takes over a minute to appear
  53335  Crash when converting an rich text editor already containing text into a password input
  53341  uxtheme:system depends on GetDpiForSystem() which is missing on Windows 10 1507 and earlier
  53343  The 64-bit itss:protocol fails in Wine
  53344  HPLOCONS (legacy TLS applications): GnuTLS priority string overrides are ignored in schan_create_session() (patch included)

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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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