The Wine maintenance release 1.2.2 is now available. What’s new in this release (see below for details): – Support for animated cursors. – Translation updates. – Various bug fixes. The source is available from the following locations: http://ibiblio.org/pub/linux/system/emulators/wine/wine-1.2.2.tar.bz2 http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/wine/wine-1.2.2.tar.bz2 Binary packages for various distributions will be available from: http://www.winehq.org/download You will find documentation on http://www.winehq.org/documentation [...]

The Wine development release 1.3.8 is now available. What’s new in this release (see below for details): – Icons in the “open with” menus. – Man pages for all installed binaries. – Support for schemas in MSXML. – Many installer fixes. – Translation updates. – Various bug fixes. The source is available from the following [...]

The Wine development release 1.3.7 is now available. What’s new in this release (see below for details): – Improved system tray support. – Better support for installers with assemblies. – Many of the msvcrt “secure” functions implemented. – A lot of fixes to the GStreamer support. – Many MSXML improvements. – Translation updates. – Various [...]

The Wine development release 1.3.6 is now available. What’s new in this release (see below for details): – Support for GStreamer filters. – Mapping of standard cursors to native desktop cursors. – Improved support for installers with services. – Many MSXML improvements. – Decoder for TGA-format images. – Translation updates. – Various bug fixes. The [...]

The Wine development release 1.3.5 is now available. What’s new in this release (see below for details): – Support for animated cursors. – Printing directly through CUPS instead of lpr. – Installer fixes for Office 2010. – Many MSXML3 improvements. – Improved Shader Model 4 support. – Proper icons in built-in Internet Explorer. – Translation [...]

Dan Kegel released winetricks 20101008 today. new verbs abiword, dsound, nvidiasdk9, vd, xinput Another fortnight-and-a-half, another Winetricks. Changes since 20100917: Austin English: add dsound verb. (Issue 175) add xinput verb dxsdk_nov2006, add support for quiet install. fix dotnet installs for wine 1.2 (broken in recent winetricks release) introduce $appdata_win/$appdata_unix variables, use it for Safari refuse [...]

The Wine development release 1.3.4 is now available. What’s new in this release (see below for details): – Support for right-to-left mirrored windows. – Winelib now supports the ARM platform. – New taskkill.exe built-in application. – Inetcpl control panel fleshed out. – AcceptEx is implemented now. – Improved security checks for SSL connections. – Translation [...]

The Wine development release 1.3.3 is now available. What’s new in this release (see below for details): – Improved support for right-to-left text. – Support for CMYK JPEG images. – Beginnings of a Game Explorer implementation. – Improved 64-bit support in MSI. – Stub inetcpl control panel applet. – A number of fixes to crypto [...]

Dan Kegel released winetricks 20100917 today. new verbs crypt32, devenum, d3dx9_26, winhttp Another fortnight, another Winetricks. Changes: Austin English: crypt32: added (Issue 162). devenum: added (Issue 163). divx: update sha1sum dotnet30: fix breakage from last release dxsdk_nov2006: support silent install firefox: update to 3.6.10 mingw: fix downwload urls winhttp: added (for e.g. ffxiv) Andrew Nguyen: [...]

The Wine development release 1.3.2 is now available. What’s new in this release (see below for details): – Update of the Gecko engine, now including a 64-bit version. – New implementation of console support on Unix terminals. – Many new functions in the C runtime dlls. – Various bug fixes. The source is available from [...]

It was just two weeks ago that Wine 1.2.0 was released as the second major stable release of Wine in the nearly two decades that this free software project has been around, but the developers are now out today with their first development release of Wine 1.3. The Wine 1.3.0 release already pulls in a [...]

The Wine development release 1.3.0 is now available. What’s new in this release (see below for details): – Beginnings of a user interface for the builtin Internet Explorer. – Support for cross-process OLE drag & drop. – New builtin wscript.exe (Windows Script Host) program. – Open/save dialogs remember the last used directory. – Translation updates. [...]

The Wine team is proud to announce that the stable release Wine 1.2 is now available. This release represents two years of development effort and over 23,000 changes. The main highlights are the support for 64-bit applications, and the new graphics based on the Tango standard. It also contains a lot of improvements across the [...]

The Wine development release 1.1.44 is now available. What’s new in this release (see below for details): – Many more new icons. – Support for 32-bit prefixes with a 64-bit Wine. – Many additional msvcr80/90 functions. – Improvements to Bidi handling. – More complete mmdevapi (Win7 audio) support. – Improved handling of MSI patches. – [...]

Wine 1.2 release plans were sent to the wine-devel mailing list from Alexandre Julliard the Wine project leader. Here is the release plans and Alexandres email to wine-devel. Folks, The 64-bit support is now more or less complete, and we have most of the fancy new icons, so it’s time to think about the next [...]

This is the 361 issue of the World Wine News publication. Its main goal is to bring wine statistics back to the community. It also serves 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 [...]

The Wine development release 1.1.43 is now available. What’s new in this release (see below for details): – A number of new icons. – Improved support for alpha channel in bitmaps. – Many Direct3D fixes and optimizations. – More complete msvcr80/90 implementations. – A wide range of 64-bit fixes. – Various bug fixes. The source [...]

The Wine development release 1.1.42 is now available. What’s new in this release (see below for details): – Support for shared 32/64-bit setups. – Dwarf debug info support for better backtraces. – More standard actions supported in MSI. – Support for TIFF image format in WinCodecs. – A number of Direct3D improvements. – Shell fixes [...]

I got a call from one of my clients last night, he’s running SuperOS, SuperOS it seems comes with WINE installed by default. His compalaint was that he was getting these icons appearing on his system tray, and when he clicked on them they opened a control panel – he sent me an email with [...]

The Wine development release 1.1.41 is now available. What’s new in this release (see below for details): – A wide range of Direct3D improvements. – Support for SHA-256, SHA-384, and SHA-512 algorithms. – A number of MSHTML fixes. – Support for mp3 decoding on Mac OS X. – Various widl improvements. – More typelib fixes. [...]