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The Wine development release 1.0-rc5 is now available.

This should be the last release candidate for Wine 1.0, please give it a good testing.

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.

Friends, vintners, penguins, lend me your ears:

We come not to praise Windows, but to celebrate our increasing independence from it.

The final release candidate for Wine 1.0 will appear this Friday, and barring catastrophe, Wine 1.0 itself will be released a few days later.

To those of you whose favorite bug was not fixed, we offer our apologies; time was limited.

We expect to do a 1.0.1 release at some point (1-2 months?) with a few important and conservative bugfixes.

Bug Status

There are no open 1.0 bugs.

1.0 bugs fixed since May 27th:

11509 Wordviewer 2003 is unable to open documents encrypted with AES
12097 Wine 1.0 should not ship out-of-sync resource translations
12246 "make test" gives different results with and without warn+heap
13139 Office 2003 install aborts in RC1
13277 Return to Mysterious Island crashes

1.0 bugs deferred to 1.0.1 since May 27th:

11584 Multiple games crash with stack overflow error
12307 firefox 3 crash on some web pages [dogfood]
13143 XIM patch prevents wine-0.9.60 and later to run
13740 winebrowser gets wrong URL, problem with unicode

1.0 bugs deferred to 1.2.0 since May 27th:

124 Review of Wine Server Protocol
3023 Orcad - "Place Part" never tries to put down a part
5163 Office XP 2002 crashes on installation
5402 Trying to run PhotoStitch 3.1
5535 Planescape:Torment doesn't work
6095 MOTD in counter-strike 1.6 and counter-strike source does not render
6519 Wine blacks out rotated font bitmap
7404 ShowWindow(SW_MINIMIZE) should not generate a WM_PAINT message
8439 Visual Studio .NET (7) install fails
8783 USB serial ports do not work
9771 Steam Friends doesn't work (fails to render correctly or refresh)
9787 Warcraft3 Battle.net Doesn't work (Needs AcceptEx)
9916 "make test" usually fails
10147 Word Viewer 2003 - Tab behavior differs from Windows
10288 wine_gecko download hangs sometimes
11281 CJK input many issues
12005 Regression in pressure sensitivity with wizardpen tablet driver and Photoshop 7
12074 The conformance tests fail on Windows
12730 gdi32: some tests fail when X is run in 16 bit mode, but not 32 bit
13071 Flashplayer crashes in a quartz bug

Wine 1.0-rc4 was released today, with the following main changes:

Bug fixes only, we are in code freeze.

Binary packages are in the process of being built and it may take a few days for them to appear, but the source is available now. You can find out more about this release in the announcement. Check out our download page for packages for your distribution.

Wine 1.0-rc3 was released today, with the following main changes:

Bug fixes only, we are in code freeze.

Binary packages are in the process of being built and it may take a few days for them to appear, but the source is available now. You can find out more about this release in the announcement. Check out our download page for packages for your distribution.

More Issues...

According to https://wiki.winehq.org/WineReleasePlan, wine-1.0.0-rc3 will be due out Friday, May 30th, 2008.

Please help us find regressions, conformance test failures, and embarrassing problems in rc2! See the following three links for three different ways you can help:

Dabski submitted the best Regression from Platinum report during rc1, so I'm going to send him a Wine t-shirt (if it fits, he can have the very last Drunken Penguin t-shirt). Congratulations Dabski!

Bug Status

There are 26 open 1.0 bugs as of 23 May. (You can see the full list of current 1.0 bugs by navigating to Bugzilla in the WineHQ menu and clicking on "Wine 1.0".) Most of them will simply be rolled over to be fixed for a later release; we only have time to fix a few, and much as we'd like to fix the rest, most are not showstoppers.

1.0 bugs fixed since last week:

2493 Multi-select listview: Shift-arrow up only selects top two items
5024 Thief: Deadly Shadows crashes:page fault on read access to 0x0000040c
13168 Update the README before the 1.0 release

1.0 bugs new since last week:

12307 firefox 3 crash on some web pages [dogfood]
13277 Return to Mysterious Island crashes

Wine 1.0-rc2 was released today, with the following main changes:

Bug fixes only, we are in code freeze.

Binary packages are in the process of being built and it may take a few days for them to appear, but the source is available now. You can find out more about this release in the announcement. Check out our download page for packages for your distribution.

Wine 1.0-rc1 was released today, with the following main changes:

Bug fixes only, we are in code freeze.

Binary packages are in the process of being built and it may take a few days for them to appear, but the source is available now. You can find out more about this release in the announcement. Check out our download page for packages for your distribution.

Wine is finally in code freeze in preparation for releasing wine 1.0, and we need your help!

If you are a user, now would be the time to help us find regressions and file them at bugzilla so we know what we have to fix.

According to Wine's release plan, wine-1.0.0-rc1, will be the first release candidate for 1.0. It is expected to be released at 09th of May 2008.

The code freeze will be less rigid at first, but we're serious about not destabilizing Wine at this point. So go ahead and post your patches, but make sure you've got your ducks in a row, and don't be surprised if Alexandre pushes back.

During the code freeze, patches that are simple, come with a conformance test, fix a regression and/or are low risk are more likely to get in than other patches. This has always been true, but it's even more true during a code freeze. We will actively discourage patches that might endanger a June 1.0 release.

There are 45 open 1.0 bugs as of 2 May. Most of these will simply be rolled over to be fixed for a later release; we only have time to fix a few, and much as we'd like to fix the rest, most are not showstoppers.

Wine 0.9.61 was released today, with the following main changes:

Automatic updating of the WINEPREFIX directory.
Winhelp now uses Richedit as display engine.
Many RichEdit fixes.
More improvements to IME support.
More quartz fixes.
Implementation for many more Gdiplus functions.
Lots of bug fixes.

Binary packages are in the process of being built and it may take a few days for them to appear, but the source is available now. You can find out more about this release in the announcement. Check out our download page for packages for your distribution.

WWN Issue 346 was released today.

Wine 0.9.60 was released today, with the following main changes:

Better support for Windows IMEs.
Option for Windows-style window decorations.
Improved system tray behavior.
Window management fixes.
Improved quartz audio support.
Better support for launching apps from Unix file managers.
Lots of bug fixes.

Binary packages are in the process of being built and it may take a few days for them to appear, but the source is available now. You can find out more about this release in the announcement. Check out our download page for packages for your distribution.

WWN Issue 345 was released today.

Wine 0.9.59 was released today, with the following main changes:

Improved support for the .NET framework.
Better services handling through a separate services.exe process.
Support for ATI fragment shader.
Better support for http proxies.
Window management fixes.
Pre-compiled fonts are now available in the source tree.
Lots of bug fixes.

Binary packages are in the process of being built and it may take a few days for them to appear, but the source is available now. You can find out more about this release in the announcement. Check out our download page for packages for your distribution.

WWN Issue 344 was released today.

CodeWeavers has released a new product for Mac OS X and Linux dedicated to running Windows games. Out of the box CrossOver Games supports such popular Windows games as Team Fortress 2, CounterStrike: Source, Eve Online, Guild Wards, World of Warcraft, and more. A trial version is available for download.

CodeWeavers proudly supports the Wine project.

Wine 0.9.58 was released today, with the following main changes:

The default version is now Windows XP.
Many Richedit improvements.
Beginning of jscript dll support.
Shell folders now respect XDG directory configuration.
Many translation updates.
Lots of bug fixes.

Binary packages are in the process of being built and it may take a few days for them to appear, but the source is available now. You can find out more about this release in the announcement. Check out our download page for packages for your distribution.

WWN Issue 343 was released today.

Wine 0.9.57 was released today, with the following main changes:

Support for multiple OpenGL pixel formats.
Improved support for color profiles.
Many window management fixes.
Better fullscreen support.
Lots of bug fixes.

Binary packages are in the process of being built and it may take a few days for them to appear, but the source is available now. You can find out more about this release in the announcement. Check out our download page for packages for your distribution.

WWN Issue 342 was released today.

WWN Issue 341 was released today.

Wine 0.9.56 was released today, with the following main changes:

Proper handling of OpenGL/Direct3D windows with menu bars.
Stubs for all the d3dx9_xx dlls.
Several graphics optimizations.
Many installer fixes.
Improved MIME message support.
Lots of bug fixes.

Binary packages are in the process of being built and it may take a few days for them to appear, but the source is available now. You can find out more about this release in the announcement. Check out our download page for packages for your distribution.

Wine 0.9.55 was released today, with the following main changes:

Direct3D improvements, including driver version emulation.
Beginnings of support for OLE objects in Richedit.
Several fixes to the animation control.
A bunch of fixes for regression test failures.
Lots of bug fixes.

Binary packages are in the process of being built and it may take a few days for them to appear, but the source is available now. You can find out more about this release in the announcement. Check out our download page for packages for your distribution.

Wine 0.9.54 was released today, with the following main changes:

Photoshop CS/CS2 should now work, please help us testing it.
A number of RPC fixes.
Various improvements to the debugger support.
Lots of bug fixes.

Binary packages are in the process of being built and it may take a few days for them to appear, but the source is available now. You can find out more about this release in the announcement. Check out our download page for packages for your distribution.

WWN Issue 340 was released today.