Wine release 1.1.40

The Wine development release 1.1.40 is now available.
What’s new in this release (see below for details):
– Support for Wow64 registry redirection.
– Increased coverage of MSI standard actions.
– Various Wordpad improvements.
– Many shell fixes for better IE support.
– Improved support for typelibs.
– Better GL [...]

Wine release 1.1.39

The Wine development release 1.1.39 is now available.
What’s new in this release (see below for details):
– Support for registry symbolic links.
– Many MSI fixes.
– Build process improvements.
– MSXML cleanups and fixes.
– A number of MSHTML improvements.
– Various bug fixes.
The source is available from [...]

Wine release 1.1.38

The Wine development release 1.1.38 is now available.
What’s new in this release (see below for details):
– Better support for memory allocations debugging.
– Improved MIDI support.
– A wide range of Direct3D fixes.
– OLEDB fixes (should fix Clipart in Office).
– Improved debugger support on x86-64.
– [...]

Wine release 1.1.37

The Wine development release 1.1.37 is now available.
What’s new in this release (see below for details):
– A number of fixes in AVI file support.
– Several MSXML improvements.
– A few MSI fixes.
– Various bug fixes.
The source is available from the following locations:

Wine release 1.1.36

The Wine development release 1.1.36 is now available.
What’s new in this release (see below for details):
– Completion of the 16-bit separation.
– Improved Shader Model 4 support.
– A ton of memory leak fixes.
– Improved debugging support for MinGW.
– A number of MSHTML fixes.
– Various [...]

Wine release 1.1.35

The Wine development release 1.1.35 is now available.
What’s new in this release (see below for details):
– Support for OLE transacted storage.
– Better certificate checking on secure connections.
– More progress on the 16-bit separation.
– Left 4 Dead 2 DRM really supported now.
– MSI performance improvements.
[...]

Wine release 1.1.34

The Wine development release 1.1.34 is now available.
What’s new in this release (see below for details):
– Many fixes for crypto certificates support.
– A lot of MSHTML improvements.
– Various fixes to support the Left 4 Dead 2 DRM.
– A number of OLE marshalling fixes.
– More Listview [...]

Wine release 1.1.33

The Wine development release 1.1.33 is now available.
What’s new in this release (see below for details):
– Gecko now installed at wineprefix creation time.
– Better support for certificates in crypt32.
– Improved sound support in mciwave.
– Some more Direct3D 10 functions.
– Many cleanups for issues spotted by [...]

Wine release 1.1.32

The Wine development release 1.1.32 is now available.
What’s new in this release (see below for details):
– Many crypto fixes, particularly on 64-bit.
– Improved DVD access on Mac OS.
– Several common controls improvements.
– Various HTML support improvements.
– More DIB optimizations.
– Various bug fixes.
The source [...]

Wine release 1.1.31

The Wine development release 1.1.31 is now available.
What’s new in this release (see below for details):
– Vastly improved monthcal control.
– Performance improvements for DIB sections.
– Several sound driver fixes.
– Beginning of ActiveX support in JScript.
– More Direct3D 10 work.
– More 16-bit dlls split [...]

Wine release 1.1.30

The Wine development release 1.1.30 is now available.
What’s new in this release (see below for details):
– Support for OpenAL.
– Many improvements in HTML and JavaScript support.
– Many common controls fixes and improvements.
– More Direct3D 10 work.
– Better MAPI support.
– Various bug fixes.
The source [...]

Wine release 1.1.29

The Wine development release 1.1.29 is now available.
What’s new in this release (see below for details):
– Improved Gecko integration by using Wine’s network layers.
– Use of external libmpg123 for mp3 decoding.
– Support for JPEG and PNG formats in WindowsCodecs.
– Many regression test fixes for Win64 and Windows [...]

Five Cleverly Named Ubuntu Applications

Free-software hackers like to brag about the robustness of their code. But a less-celebrated area where open-source programmers also shine is coming up with names for their applications. Developers don’t often receive the credit they deserve for the clever and fitting titles they apply to their software, so here’s a quick and lighthearted [...]

Wine release 1.1.27

The Wine development release 1.1.27 is now available.
What’s new in this release (see below for details):
– New version of the Gecko engine.
– New GSM 06.10 codec support.
– Improved support for the disk volume APIs.
– Support for XShm pixmaps for better performance.
– Various bug fixes.
The source [...]

Wine release 1.1.26

The Wine development release 1.1.26 is now available.
What’s new in this release (see below for details):
– Still more translation updates.
– Faster bitmap stretching using XRender.
– Proxy support in WinHTTP.
– Many more JScript functions.
– Various bug fixes.
The source is available from the following locations:

Wine release 1.1.25

The Wine development release 1.1.25 is now available.
What’s new in this release (see below for details):
– A ton of translation updates.
– Support for various Unicode file encodings in Notepad.
– Improved memory management, especially for OpenGL.
– Desktop menus now cleaned up automatically.
– Beginnings of a windowscodecs [...]

Wine release 1.1.24

The Wine development release 1.1.24 is now available.
What’s new in this release (see below for details):
– Support for freedesktop file associations.
– Support for exception handling on 64-bit.
– Improved ARB shaders.
– Fixes for the FBO mode.
– Many listview improvements.
– Various bug fixes.

Wine release 1.1.23

The Wine development release 1.1.23 is now available.
What’s new in this release (see below for details):
– Support for registering MIME types with the Linux desktop.
– FBO mode is now the default for Direct3D.
– Support for COM proxy delegation.
– Improved support for the Mingw cross-compile.
– Proper [...]

Wine release 1.1.22

The Wine development release 1.1.22 is now available.
What’s new in this release (see below for details):
– More improvements to OLE copy/paste.
– Beginnings of x86_64 exception handling.
– Direct3D locking fixes.
– ARB shaders improvements.
– Better OpenGL pixel format support.
– Various bug fixes.

Wine release 1.1.21

The Wine development release 1.1.21 is now available.
What’s new in this release (see below for details):
– Beginnings of shader model 4 support.
– Support for copying/pasting images from X11 applications.
– A number of GDIPlus improvements.
– Various listview fixes.
– 64-bit support in winemaker.
– Support for [...]