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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.