The Wine development release 1.5.5 is now available. What’s new in this release (see below for details): – Support for installing Mono as a Wine add-on package. – Dithering of pattern brushes in the DIB engine. – Support for installing the .NET 4.0 runtime. – DDS files supported in D3DX9. – Various bug fixes. The [...]

The Wine development release 1.5.5 is now available.
What’s new in this release:

Support for installing Mono as a Wine add-on package.
Dithering of pattern brushes in the DIB engine.
Support for installing the .NET 4.0 runtime.
DDS files su…

The Wine development release 1.5.4 is now available. What’s new in this release (see below for details): – A new DirectSound resampler. – A Negotiate authentication provider. – OpenGL support in the DIB engine. – Beginnings of support for .NET mixed assemblies. – Support routines for Internationalized Domain Names. – Various bug fixes. The source [...]

The Wine development release 1.5.4 is now available.
What’s new in this release:

A new DirectSound resampler.
A Negotiate authentication provider.
OpenGL support in the DIB engine.
Beginnings of support for .NET mixed assemblies.
Support …

The Wine development release 1.5.3 is now available. What’s new in this release (see below for details): – Support for graphics bounds tracking. – A number of fixes to the builtin Internet Explorer. – Support for displaying ARM code in the Wine debugger. – Various DirectMusic improvements. – Better namespace support in MSXML. – Various [...]

The Wine development release 1.5.3 is now available.
What’s new in this release:

Support for graphics bounds tracking.
A number of fixes to the builtin Internet Explorer.
Support for displaying ARM code in the Wine debugger.
Various DirectM…

The Wine development release 1.5.2 is now available. What’s new in this release (see below for details): – Improved naming scheme for audio devices. – Better support for finding system fonts on Mac OS X. – Beginnings of support for JPEG encoding. – Several printing fixes. – Improvements to the URL cache. – Various bug [...]

The Wine development release 1.5.1 is now available. What’s new in this release (see below for details): – Built-in JavaScript now preferred over Gecko in most cases. – Support for scalable font resources. – Fixes for audio and video playback. – Support for script decoding in JScript. – Various bug fixes. The source is available [...]

The Wine development release 1.5.0 is now available. What’s new in this release (see below for details): – New version of the Gecko engine. – Partial support for using the Trash on Mac OS X. – Support for path gradients in GdiPlus. – Various MSXML improvements. – Fixes to 64-bit exception handling. – Various bug [...]

The Wine team is proud to announce that the stable release Wine 1.4 is now available. This release represents 20 months of development effort and over 16,000 individual changes. The main highlights are the new DIB graphics engine, a redesigned audio stack, and full support for bidirectional text and character shaping. It also contains a [...]

The Wine development release 1.3.37 is now available. What’s new in this release (see below for details): – Completion of the DIB engine. – Improvements to the C++ runtime. – A number of fixes in the audio drivers. – Unnecessary Direct3D options removed from WineCfg. – Some fixes to the built-in Internet Explorer. – Various [...]

The Wine development release 1.3.36 is now available. What’s new in this release (see below for details): – UDisks backend for the dynamic device support. – Polygons and geometric pens implemented in the DIB engine. – JScript now compiles entire functions. – Improved support for vertical fonts. – A few more scripts in UniScribe. – [...]

The Wine development release 1.3.35 is now available. What’s new in this release (see below for details): – Triangular gradients and cosmetic wide pens support in the DIB engine. – All Wine dialogs can now be translated through po files. – Many more scripts added to UniScribe. – JScript using bytecode throughout now. – Several [...]

The Wine development release 1.3.33 is now available. What’s new in this release (see below for details): – Support for text output in the DIB engine. – Improved support for HTTP proxies. – New version of the Gecko engine. – A number of cursor fixes. – Some fixes in bidirectional text layout. – Various bug [...]

The Wine development release 1.3.32 is now available. What’s new in this release (see below for details): – BiDi text support in the multi-line edit control. – Support for pattern brushes in the DIB engine. – A number of MSXML fixes. – Improvements to the PostScript driver. – Various bug fixes. The source is available [...]

Last week Wine 1.3.31 was released. If you have been wondering when the next stable release, Wine 1.4, will arrive now that many development releases have occurred in the 1.3 series and it’s been more than a year since the last major release (Wine 1.2), here’s some information. Last year at WineConf the plans for [...]

The Wine development release 1.3.31 is now available. What’s new in this release (see below for details): – BiDi text support in the single-line edit control. – Support for StretchDIBits and AlphaBlend in the DIB engine. – A number of audio fixes. – VBScript improvements. – Various bug fixes. The source is available from the [...]

Here’s a glance at how the Direct3D/OpenGL performance in Wine has evolved over the past several months, from Wine 1.3.21 to Wine 1.3.30. One of the many organizations that rely upon the Phoronix Test Suite and OpenBenchmarking.org software is CodeWeavers for measuring the progress of Wine, particularly when it comes to the graphics performance. Stefan [...]

A lot of people make the mistake of downloading Wine and expecting it to work out of the box with their Windows applications. It should be noted that Wine is simply a compatibility layer by itself; it does not include the necessary drivers and library files needed to run most Windows applications. That’s where applications [...]

Jeremy White of CodeWeavers has announced that the WineHQ database system, used by Wine for its BugZilla and for its application rating system, was compromised by hacker(s). CodeWeavers has discovered that someone has gained unauthorized access to the WineHQ database system via phpMyAdmin. The complete database to WineHQ was downloaded, including log-in credentials. There are [...]