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Wine 1.3.0 Released

July 30, 2010

The Wine development release 1.3.0 is now available.

What's new in this release:

  • 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.
  • 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.

Wine 1.2 Released

July 16, 2010

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 board, and over 3,000 bug fixes. See the release notes below for a summary of the major changes.

The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.

Wine 1.2-rc7 Released

July 9, 2010

The Wine development release 1.2-rc7 is now available. Barring any last minute problems, this should be the last release candidate before the final 1.2. Please give it a good testing.

What's new in this release:

  • Translation updates.
  • 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.

Wine 1.2-rc6 Released

July 2, 2010

The Wine development release 1.2-rc6 is now available.

What's new in this release:

  • Many translation updates.
  • A lot of 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.

Wine 1.2-rc5 Released

June 25, 2010

The Wine development release 1.2-rc5 is now available.

What's new in this release:

  • Many translation updates.
  • A lot of 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.

Wine 1.2-rc4 Released

June 18, 2010

The Wine development release 1.2-rc4 is now available.

What's new in this release:

  • Many translation updates.
  • A lot of 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.

Wine 1.2-rc3 Released

June 11, 2010

The Wine development release 1.2-rc3 is now available.

What's new in this release:

  • Many translation updates.
  • A lot of 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.

Wine 1.2-rc2 Released

May 28, 2010

The Wine development release 1.2-rc2 is now available.

There are no new features in this release, only bug fixes, since we are in code freeze. If you find a new feature that's a bug.

The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.

Wine 1.2-rc1 Released

May 21, 2010

The Wine development release 1.2-rc1 is now available.

This is the first release candidate for Wine 1.2. It marks the beginning of the code freeze period. Please give this release a good testing to help us make 1.2 as good as possible.

What's new in this release:

  • Many new toolbar icons.
  • Support for alpha blending in image lists.
  • Much more complete shader assembler.
  • Support for Arabic font shaping and joining.
  • A number of fixes for video rendering.
  • Font antialiasing configuration through fontconfig.
  • Improved handling of desktop link files.
  • 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.

World Wine News Issue 362

May 13, 2010

Wine 1.1.44 Released

May 7, 2010

The Wine development release 1.1.44 is now available.

What's new in this release:

  • 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.
  • A number of fixes for desktop menus.
  • Optimizations in OLE storage.
  • 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.

World Wine News Issue 361

April 17, 2010

Wine 1.1.43 Released

April 16, 2010

The Wine development release 1.1.43 is now available.

What's new in this release:

  • 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 is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.

Wine 1.1.42 Released

April 2, 2010

The Wine development release 1.1.42 is now available.

What's new in this release:

  • 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 for better Internet Explorer support.
  • 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.

Wine 1.1.41 Released

March 19, 2010

The Wine development release 1.1.41 is now available.

What's new in this release:

  • 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.
  • OLE storage 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.

Wine 1.1.40 Released

March 5, 2010

The Wine development release 1.1.40 is now available.

What's new in this release:

  • 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 card detection.
  • 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.

Wine 1.1.39 Released

February 19, 2010

The Wine development release 1.1.39 is now available.

What's new in this release:

  • 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 now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.

Wine 1.1.38 Released

February 5, 2010

The Wine development release 1.1.38 is now available.

What's new in this release:

  • 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.
  • Many MSI fixes.
  • 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.

Wine 1.1.37 Released

January 22, 2010

The Wine development release 1.1.37 is now available.

What's new in this release:

  • A number of fixes in AVI file support.
  • Several MSXML improvements.
  • A few MSI fixes.
  • 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.

Wine 1.1.36 Released

January 8, 2010

The Wine development release 1.1.36 is now available.

What's new in this release:

  • 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 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.

Wine 1.1.35 Released

December 18, 2009

The Wine development release 1.1.35 is now available.

What's new in this release:

  • 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.
  • 64-bit fixes in debugger support.
  • 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.

Wine 1.1.34 Released

December 4, 2009

The Wine development release 1.1.34 is now available.

What's new in this release:

  • 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 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.

Wine 1.1.33 Released

November 13, 2009

The Wine development release 1.1.33 is now available.

What's new in this release:

  • 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 Valgrind.
  • 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.

Wine 1.1.32 Released

October 23, 2009

The Wine development release 1.1.32 is now available.

What's new in this release:

  • 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 is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.

Wine 1.1.31 Released

October 9, 2009

The Wine development release 1.1.31 is now available.

What's new in this release:

  • 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 off to separate modules.
  • Support for attachments in MAPI.
  • 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.