WineHQ News

Wine 1.3.0 Released

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0500

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

Fri, 16 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0500

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

Fri, 09 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0500

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

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0500

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

Fri, 25 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0500

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

Fri, 18 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0500

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

Fri, 11 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0500

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

Fri, 28 May 2010 00:00:00 -0500

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

Fri, 21 May 2010 00:00:00 -0500

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

Thu, 13 May 2010 00:00:00 -0500

WWN Issue 362 was released today.