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World Wine News Issue 392

June 07, 2015

Wine 1.7.44 Released

May 29, 2015

The Wine development release 1.7.44 is now available.

What's new in this release:

  • More support for the COM interfaces of the RichEdit control.
  • Initial version of a SmartTee filter.
  • Some more support for the ARM64 platform.
  • Support for the null device kernel object.
  • 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 391

May 22, 2015

Wine 1.7.43 Released

May 15, 2015

The Wine development release 1.7.43 is now available.

What's new in this release:

  • Improved support for Shell Browser windows.
  • Some more API Sets libraries.
  • Read/write operations support with built-in devices.
  • Major Catalan translation update.
  • Support for WoW64 mode on ARM64.
  • 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 390

May 09, 2015

Wine 1.7.42 Released

May 1, 2015

The Wine development release 1.7.42 is now available.

What's new in this release:

  • Support for dynamic timezone information.
  • Initial desktop shell window support.
  • Some more Direct2D 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.

World Wine News Issue 389

April 25, 2015

Wine 1.7.41 Released

April 17, 2015

The Wine development release 1.7.41 is now available.

What's new in this release:

  • More Known Folders supported in the shell.
  • Some more support for kernel job objects.
  • More MSI patches improvements.
  • Some theming 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 1.7.40 Released

April 3, 2015

The Wine development release 1.7.40 is now available.

What's new in this release:

  • Support for kernel job objects.
  • Various fixes to the ListView control.
  • Better support for OOB data in Windows Sockets.
  • Support for DIB images in the OLE data cache.
  • Improved support for MSI patches.
  • Some fixes for ACL file permissions.
  • 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 388

March 27, 2015

Wine 1.7.39 Released

March 20, 2015

The Wine development release 1.7.39 is now available.

What's new in this release:

  • WinMM joystick support on Mac OS X.
  • Kerning support in DirectWrite.
  • Support for DirectX Media Objects filters.
  • Better support for animated GIFs in GdiPlus.
  • Improved support for Known Folders in Shell32.
  • 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 387

March 14, 2015

Wine 1.7.38 Released

March 6, 2015

The Wine development release 1.7.38 is now available.

What's new in this release:

  • New version of the Gecko engine based on Firefox 36.
  • Support for themed scrollbars.
  • Updated version of the Mono engine.
  • More compatible RPC interface for service control.
  • Support for X Drag & Drop version 5.
  • Threading fixes in IME 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.

World Wine News Issue 386

February 27, 2015

Wine 1.7.37 Released

February 20, 2015

The Wine development release 1.7.37 is now available.

What's new in this release:

  • Interface change notifications.
  • Support for the UTF-7 encoding.
  • A number of graphical fixes for themed controls.
  • Wininet now implemented on top of Win32 sockets.
  • 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 385

February 13, 2015

Wine 1.7.36 Released

February 7, 2015

The Wine development release 1.7.36 is now available.

What's new in this release:

  • Some preliminary 64-bit support for Mac OS X.
  • Support for configuring speakers in Winecfg.
  • Improved support for Mac OS X Trash folder.
  • Support for typographic features in DirectWrite.
  • 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 384

January 30, 2015

Wine 1.7.35 Released

January 23, 2015

The Wine development release 1.7.35 is now available.

What's new in this release:

  • Beginnings of support for OpenGL core contexts.
  • Initial support for glyph placement in DirectWrite.
  • Some more WBEM objects.
  • 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 383

January 16, 2015

Wine 1.7.34 Released

January 9, 2015

The Wine development release 1.7.34 is now available.

What's new in this release:

  • Support for surround sound in DirectSound.
  • Better text run support in DirectWrite.
  • Many HTML engine fixes.
  • More support for WBEM objects.
  • A few more C/C++ runtime functions.
  • 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 382

December 19, 2014

Wine 1.7.33 Released

December 12, 2014

The Wine development release 1.7.33 is now available.

What's new in this release:

  • Support for copy/paste commands in MSHTML.
  • Some more font support in DirectWrite.
  • Better handling for loss of focus in Direct3D windows.
  • Several more API Sets DLLs.
  • 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 381

December 05, 2014

Wine 1.7.32 Released

November 28, 2014

The Wine development release 1.7.32 is now available.

What's new in this release:

  • New version of the Mono engine.
  • A few more functions implemented in MSHTML.
  • Improved support for restoring display mode.
  • Font metrics improvements in DirectWrite.
  • 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.