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5/13/2022
by Cressida Silver
Issue: 418

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This is the 418th 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.


Wine 7.8

The Silver household (after two years of dodging and weaving) finally got hit with COVID. Unfortunately, our four-year-old tested positive last Thursday. As a result, both he and his younger brother have been unable to attend preschool, and adulting has required Herculian effort. So without further ado and with ostensibly minimal effort, I give you the quick and dirty on Wine 7.8.

  • X11 and OSS drivers converted to PE.
  • WoW64 support in the sound drivers.
  • Number formatting using the new locale database.

Bugs closed with this release are listed below.


A Bug's Life

Bug ID Open Date Days Open Weeks Open Months Open Years Open Bug Summary
18635 5/26/09 4,728 675 155 13 Adobe Lightroom 2.3: Menu bar is hidden
43208 6/19/17 1,782 255 58 5 Assassin's Creed IV - Black Flag Hangs tightly
43995 11/9/17 1,639 234 53 4 Uplay - Assassin's Creed 4 Black Flag won't start
45388 6/27/18 1,409 201 46 4 user32:edit fails on Traditional Chinese and Korean locales
48045 11/5/19 913 130 30 3 comdlg32:filedlg crashes or times out randomly
48048 11/5/19 913 130 30 3 urlmon:protocol - The ftp test fails on Vista to Windows 8
51181 5/25/21 346 49 11 1 d3d10core:d3d10core fails systematically on AMD GPUs
51407 7/5/21 305 44 10 1 kernel32:time, msvcrt:time and shlwapi:ordinal fail in Wine because Hindi is Unicode-only
51460 7/13/21 297 42 9 1 oleaut32:vartest has a todo because Wine uses an outdated currency symbol for Swiss Francs
51619 8/16/21 263 38 8 1 advapi32:registry fails in Wine because French & German timezone name translations are too long
52079 11/21/21 166 24 5 0 oleacc:main crashes randomly on Windows 10 1709+
52149 12/3/21 154 22 5 0 user32:dialog fails in test_DialogBoxParam() on current Windows 10 21H1
52362 1/7/22 119 17 3 0 Powershell Core 7 installer hangs forever on Chinese locale (LC_ALL=zh_CN.UTF-8)
52554 2/15/22 80 11 2 0 Serbian locale mapping cause crash on multiple installshield wizards
52559 2/16/22 79 11 2 0 kernel32:resource times out since 2021-12-29 at two win10 testbot systems.
52684 3/17/22 50 7 1 0 Command and Conquer Generals (and C&C Zero Hour) have no ground textures
52704 3/20/22 47 7 1 0 FreeHand 9 demo: invalid handle exception (0xc0000008) when attaching uxtheme.dll
52743 3/28/22 39 6 1 0 cannot write to _fdopen'ed stdout when running in docker
52771 4/4/22 32 5 1 0 Wine console creation breaks comctl32:button, dinput:keyboard, user32:dialog, user32:input, user32:monitor and user32:win
52828 4/16/22 20 3 0 0 Incorrect instruments in MIDI playback over ALSA
52845 4/20/22 16 2 0 0 Recent versions of chromium have broken sandbox again
52847 4/21/22 15 2 0 0 GetACP() returns CP_UTF8 on some debian VM
52856 4/22/22 14 2 0 0 kernel32:process fails when Wine has no Unix terminal
52857 4/22/22 14 2 0 0 msvcp140:msvcp140 fails in Windows 8.1 on the cw-rx460 machine
52861 4/22/22 14 2 0 0 kernel32:locale fails on Windows 10 1709
52864 4/22/22 14 2 0 0 windows.media.speech:speech has a refcount failure on all Windows 10 versions
52865 4/22/22 14 2 0 0 windows.media.speech:speech has a Windows 10 1507-specific failure
52866 4/22/22 14 2 0 0 vbscript:run fails in Wine in Arabic and Hebrew
52867 4/23/22 13 2 0 0 Multiple applications crash because of ResolveLocaleName stub (dnSpy, dotnet-sdk-5.0.100-win-x64, Metatogger 7.2)
52869 4/23/22 13 2 0 0 kernel32:locale - test_CompareStringA() fails on Windows with a UTF-8 code page
52871 4/23/22 13 2 0 0 oleaut32:vartest has failures in Wine in the Arabic and Hebrew locales
52887 4/24/22 12 2 0 0 Get-Computerinfo from NoPowershell crashes
52904 4/26/22 10 1 0 0 kernel32:locale breaks oleaut32:varformat on Wine in the French locale
52922 4/28/22 8 1 0 0 The Evil Within crashes before entering the main menu using Vulkan renderer
52924 4/28/22 8 1 0 0 Guilty Gear XX #Reload: black screen since wine 5.0
52953 5/2/22 4 1 0 0 GuiPy crashes on unimplemented function xmllite.dll.CreateXmlReaderInputWithEncodingCodePage


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