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Wine Weekly News Issue 298
November 4, 2005
Wine Weekly News Issue 297
October 28, 2005
Wine 0.9 Press Release
October 25, 2005
As you can see, it's been a pretty active day for Wine news.
Read our official
Wine 0.9 press
release.
"The Wine Project, the community of free software developers dedicated
to opening Linux and other POSIX compatible operating systems to
Windows applications, today announced the completion of the core
architecture for Wine, an open-source project that allows Windows
applications to run natively on Linux. Now available as Wine version
0.9, the tools and libraries are functionally complete and ready for
commercial testing and optimization."
CrossOver Office 5.0
October 25, 2005
Coinciding with today's beta release of Wine, CodeWeavers
announced version 5.0 of CrossOver Office. See the official
press
release and
announcement
for more details. This version has a lot of new stuff under the hood,
a lot of which can be found in Wine's beta release. The biggest news
in this version is the support for Microsoft Office 2003. A new idea,
bottles, allows for the management of Windows applications.
Beta!
October 25, 2005
Tagged a few minutes ago in CVS:
This is release 0.9 of Wine, a free implementation of Windows on Unix.
After 12 years of development, this release marks the beginning of the
beta testing phase. Everybody is encouraged to try it; while there
are still bugs, most applications are expected to at least install and
do something useful.
Because of lags created by using mirrors, this message may reach you
before the release is available at the ftp sites. The sources will be
available from the following locations:
Binary packages for various distributions will be available from:
You will find documentation on
It will likely take a little while for the binary packages to get built
(which we suggest you use.) An official press release later today will
have more details on what you can expect from this release.
Wine Weekly News Issue 296
October 25, 2005
WWN Issue 296 was released today to celebrate
Wine's beta release.
Wine Weekly News Issue 295
October 21, 2005
Wine Weekly News Issue 294
October 14, 2005
Wine Weekly News Issue 293
October 7, 2005
Wine 20050930 Released
September 30, 2005
One last alpha release: Wine-20050930. Noted changes include:
- Joystick force feedback support.
- Beginnings of Win64 support.
- Many MSI fixes and cleanups.
- Font linking support.
- Several OLE fixes.
- Some fixes for MacOS/x86.
- Lots of bug fixes.
Binary packages are in the process of being built, 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 favorite
distribution.
Wine Weekly News Issue 292
September 30, 2005
Wine Weekly News Issue 291
September 23, 2005
Wine Weekly News Issue 290
September 16, 2005
Wine 20050830 Released
August 30, 2005
In what may possibly be your last chance to get a release of Wine
while it's still alpha software, Alexandre dropped Wine-20050830
from the CVS tree. Noted changes include:
- A lot more theming support.
- Many improvements to the various crypto dlls.
- More LDAP support.
- Beginnings of an MSXML implementation.
- Better MSHTML support.
- Emulated version now set to Windows 2000 by default.
- Direct3D fixes and improvements.
- Lots of bug fixes.
Binary packages are in the process of being built, 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 favorite
distribution.
WineHQ has moved!
August 30, 2005
We moved WineHQ to a new ISP today. The website was down for a while,
but now things are working well again. There still may be a few quirks
here and there. We are on top of those and things will be smooth again soon.
Now back to your regularly scheduled Wine hacking.
Wine Weekly News Issue 289
August 26, 2005
Wine Weekly News Issue 288
August 19, 2005
Wine Weekly News Issue 287
August 12, 2005
Wine Weekly News Issue 286
August 5, 2005
Wine Weekly News Issue 285
July 29, 2005
Wine 20050725 Released
July 25, 2005
July's CVS drop is out. Alexandre noted the following changes in
Wine 20050725:
- Beginnings of theme support in common controls.
- Many MSHTML improvements.
- A bunch of OLE fixes for InstallShield installers.
- Many Direct3D fixes and improvements.
- Beginnings of LDAP support.
- Various cleanups after removal of the config file.
- Lots of bug fixes.
Binary packages are in the process of being built, 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 favorite
distribution.
Wine Weekly News Issue 284
July 22, 2005
CodeWeavers Installer Challenge
July 19, 2005
Do you have a program that just won't install with Wine? CodeWeavers
accounced
a major initiative today to get programs to install with
a current copy of either Wine or CrossOver. If your application just
won't install, CodeWeavers promises to fix the bugs in Wine preventing
installation. In return, you get to write a regression test that
can be run to make sure future changes don't break your installation.
It's a win-win situation for you, Wine, and CodeWeavers. For details
check out the
instructions
for the Installer Challenge.
Wine Weekly News Issue 283
July 15, 2005
Wine Weekly News Issue 282
July 8, 2005