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Wine 1.5.12 Released

August 31, 2012

The Wine development release 1.5.12 is now available.

What's new in this release:

  • Support for disabling individual joysticks.
  • Better support for D3DX9 constant tables.
  • Some XRandR improvements.
  • 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.

Donations from JIB

August 21, 2012

The Jinn in the Bottle project recently announced that they are now donating 15% of their sales to Wine.

Wine 1.5.11 Released

August 17, 2012

The Wine development release 1.5.11 is now available.

What's new in this release:

  • Multi-channel support in the ALSA driver.
  • Removal of the big X11 lock.
  • Support for pair positioning adjustments in Uniscribe.
  • More I/O stream implementations in the C++ runtime.
  • 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 1.5.10 Released

July 31, 2012

The Wine development release 1.5.10 is now available.

What's new in this release:

  • New version of the Gecko engine based on Firefox 14.
  • Support for OpenGL in the DIB engine using libOSMesa.
  • Off-screen rendering is now the default in Direct3D.
  • Some more WMI infrastructure.
  • 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 1.5.9 Released

July 17, 2012

The Wine development release 1.5.9 is now available.

What's new in this release:

  • Support for GPOS font tables in Uniscribe.
  • Support for XRandr 1.2 and 1.3.
  • Parser improvements for the HLSL compiler.
  • More key exchange algorithms supported on Mac OS.
  • Relay tracing on ARM.
  • 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 1.5.8 Released

July 3, 2012

The Wine development release 1.5.8 is now available.

What's new in this release:

  • More stream functionality in the C++ runtime.
  • A number of Windows Codecs improvements.
  • More WBEM classes and properties.
  • Some HTML Help fixes.
  • Support for printing fake italic fonts.
  • 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 1.5.7 Released

June 22, 2012

The Wine development release 1.5.7 is now available.

What's new in this release:

  • New version of the Gecko engine based on Firefox 13.
  • Dynamic device support with UDisks2.
  • More stream classes implemented in the C++ runtime.
  • Support for metadata in TIFF files.
  • Fleshed out WBEM implementation.
  • Improved support for printer paper sizes.
  • 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 1.4.1 Released

June 15, 2012

The Wine maintenance release 1.4.1 is now available.

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 1.5.6 Released

June 8, 2012

The Wine development release 1.5.6 is now available.

What's new in this release:

  • Automatic installation of the Mono add-on package.
  • Control panel applet for joysticks.
  • Device bitmap rendering now done through the DIB engine.
  • Support for video rendering through DirectX (VMR-9).
  • First steps towards a D3D shader compiler.
  • Build fixes for DragonFly BSD.
  • 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 1.5.5 Released

May 25, 2012

The Wine development release 1.5.5 is now available.

What's new in this release:

  • Support for installing Mono as a Wine add-on package.
  • Dithering of pattern brushes in the DIB engine.
  • Support for installing the .NET 4.0 runtime.
  • DDS files supported in D3DX9.
  • 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 1.5.4 Released

May 11, 2012

The Wine development release 1.5.4 is now available.

What's new in this release:

  • A new DirectSound resampler.
  • A Negotiate authentication provider.
  • OpenGL support in the DIB engine.
  • Beginnings of support for .NET mixed assemblies.
  • Support routines for Internationalized Domain Names.
  • 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 1.5.3 Released

April 27, 2012

The Wine development release 1.5.3 is now available.

What's new in this release:

  • Support for graphics bounds tracking.
  • A number of fixes to the builtin Internet Explorer.
  • Support for displaying ARM code in the Wine debugger.
  • Various DirectMusic improvements.
  • Better namespace support in MSXML.
  • 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 1.5.2 Released

April 13, 2012

The Wine development release 1.5.2 is now available.

What's new in this release:

  • Improved naming scheme for audio devices.
  • Better support for finding system fonts on Mac OS X.
  • Beginnings of support for JPEG encoding.
  • Several printing fixes.
  • Improvements to the URL cache.
  • 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 1.5.1 Released

March 30, 2012

The Wine development release 1.5.1 is now available.

What's new in this release:

  • Built-in JavaScript now preferred over Gecko in most cases.
  • Support for scalable font resources.
  • Fixes for audio and video playback.
  • Support for script decoding in JScript.
  • 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 1.5.0 Released

March 16, 2012

The Wine development release 1.5.0 is now available.

What's new in this release:

  • New version of the Gecko engine.
  • Partial support for using the Trash on Mac OS X.
  • Support for path gradients in GdiPlus.
  • Various MSXML improvements.
  • Fixes to 64-bit exception handling.
  • 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 1.4 Released

March 7, 2012

The Wine team is proud to announce that the stable release Wine 1.4 is now available.

This release represents 20 months of development effort and over 16,000 individual changes. The main highlights are the new DIB graphics engine, a redesigned audio stack, and full support for bidirectional text and character shaping.

It also contains a lot of improvements across the board, as well as support for many new applications, notably Microsoft Office 2010. See the release notes below for a summary of the major changes.

This release is dedicated to the memory of Gé (Greg) van Geldorp, who passed away in May 2011. Greg single-handedly designed, built, and maintained the Wine Testbot, which has become a cornerstone of our development process. The high quality of this release owes a lot to his work. He is greatly missed by us all.

The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.

Wine 1.4-rc6 Released

March 2, 2012

The Wine development release 1.4-rc6 is now available.

What's new in this release:

  • Bug fixes only, we are in code freeze.

The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.

Wine 1.4-rc5 Released

February 24, 2012

The Wine development release 1.4-rc5 is now available.

What's new in this release:

  • Bug fixes only, we are in code freeze.

The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.

Translators wanted!

February 20, 2012

Wine's translation status page shows only 12 complete translations. We'd like to do better for 1.4.

Luckily, starting with 1.4 Wine uses PO files, thus making translations easier than ever before. So check out how to get started and help us make Wine usable in your country.

Wine 1.4-rc4 Released

February 17, 2012

The Wine development release 1.4-rc4 is now available.

What's new in this release:

  • Bug fixes only, we are in code freeze.

The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.

Wine 1.4-rc3 Released

February 11, 2012

The Wine development release 1.4-rc3 is now available.

What's new in this release:

  • Bug fixes only, we are in code freeze.

The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.

Wine 1.4-rc2 Released

February 2, 2012

The Wine development release 1.4-rc2 is now available.

What's new in this release:

  • Bug fixes only, we are in code freeze.

The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.

Wine 1.4-rc1 Released

January 27, 2012

The Wine development release 1.4-rc1 is now available.

This is the first release candidate for the upcoming Wine 1.4. It marks the beginning of the code freeze period. Please give this release a good testing to help us make 1.4 as good as possible.

What's new in this release:

  • Improved crash dialog with support for saving the backtrace.
  • Support for the Back button in built-in Internet Explorer.
  • Keyboard accelerators can now be translated through po files.
  • A number of installer fixes.
  • Many translation updates and tweaks.
  • 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 1.3.37 Released

January 13, 2012

The Wine development release 1.3.37 is now available.

What's new in this release:

  • Completion of the DIB engine.
  • Improvements to the C++ runtime.
  • A number of fixes in the audio drivers.
  • Unnecessary Direct3D options removed from WineCfg.
  • Some fixes to the built-in Internet Explorer.
  • 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 1.3.36 Released

December 30, 2011

The Wine development release 1.3.36 is now available.

What's new in this release:

  • UDisks backend for the dynamic device support.
  • Polygons and geometric pens implemented in the DIB engine.
  • JScript now compiles entire functions.
  • Improved support for vertical fonts.
  • A few more scripts in UniScribe.
  • A bunch of ctype functions implemented in MSVCP.
  • 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.