WWN Issue 417

This is the 417th issue of the World Wine News publication. Its main goal is 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 a Windows compatibility layer. Wine does not require Microsoft Windows, as it is a completely alternative implementation consisting of 100% Microsoft-free code.

GitLab
WineHQ is testing a GitLab instance. Currently, it contains projects for the main Wine Tree, WineHQ tools, and the WineHQ website. Create an account here. A mail gateway forwards merge requests and comments from the WineHQ GitLab to the wine-devel mailing list, so lab activity is visible on the mailing list. Most actions can also be accomplished from the command line, with the help of tools like or this, or this. There is a wine-demo project for testing merge requests or debug scripts without worrying about goofing up the actual project. The mail gateway does not send wine-demo activity to wine-devel, so don't worry about making mistakes. Only time will tell if switching to GitLab makes sense, but it has the potential to improve the current process. Create an account, test it out, and see if it fits your workflow.

GitLab

WineHQ is testing a GitLab instance. Currently, it contains projects for the main Wine Tree, WineHQ tools, and the WineHQ website. Create an account here.

A mail gateway forwards merge requests and comments from the WineHQ GitLab to the wine-devel mailing list, so lab activity is visible on the mailing list. Most actions can also be accomplished from the command line, with the help of tools like or this, or this. There is a wine-demo project for testing merge requests or debug scripts without worrying about goofing up the actual project. The mail gateway does not send wine-demo activity to wine-devel, so don't worry about making mistakes.

Only time will tell if switching to GitLab makes sense, but it has the potential to improve the current process. Create an account, test it out, and see if it fits your workflow.

Wine 7.7
Wine 7.7 spilled onto the scene last Friday. More progress on PE conversion, support for UTF-8 as default for ANSI codepage, and theming support for control panel applets. Below is a list of closed bugs.

A Bug's Life

Bug ID	Open Date	Days Open	Weeks Open	Months Open	Years Open	Bug Summary
6682	11/14/06	5,638	805	185	15	IrfanView's 4.44 Help -> About window is missing a picture on the left
24574	9/30/10	4,222	603	138	12	RAR Password Recovery Magic initial (registration) window is empty and doesn't allow any interaction
45916	9/30/18	1,300	186	42	4	x64dbg fails to load debuggee, needs ThreadScheduler_ScheduleTask
52223	12/15/21	128	18	4	0	activeCodePage utf-8 in application manifest not respected
52640	3/9/22	44	6	1	0	Steam does not display anything when using the Vulkan renderer (stack overflow from official Vulkan loader calling into dxgi)
52679	3/15/22	38	5	1	0	Anno 1602 / 1602 A.D. graphics too dark / black
52703	3/20/22	33	5	1	0	64-bit Irfanview crashes on startup
52763	4/2/22	20	3	0	0	ConEmu doesn't work with winver > Win8.1
52787	4/8/22	14	2	0	0	Invalid function prototype for "RegisterUserApiHook" when compiling for C++
52809	4/12/22	10	1	0	0	steamwebhelper.exe crashes repeatedly since 2aa4673f32
52825	4/16/22	6	1	0	0	Capella help crashes with Error "qtwebengingeprocess has serious errors"