Wine staging 3.8 release

Alistair Leslie-Hughes leslie_alistair at hotmail.com
Sat May 12 19:02:16 CDT 2018


Binary packages for various distributions will be available from:
https://www.winehq.org/download

Summary of the past few weeks
* Rebased to current wine 3.8 (920 patches are applied to wine vanilla)
* Improve support for some game using the legacy nVidia driver.
* Reviewed and upstreamed patches.

Fixes
* Star Citizen should no longer crash on startup.

New Patches
* d2d1: Added support for creating
ID2D1Bitmap1/ID2D1Factory1/ID2D1DeviceContext interfaces.
* d3d11: Stop crash when programs relied on a valid shader instances count.
* d3d11: Allow Gauntlet to run using Legacy nVidia driver.
* dxgi: Added support for IDXGIDevice2 interface.
* wined3d: Implement oMask Support.

Where can you help
* Run Steam/Battle.net/UPlay.
* Try you favorite game: Oxygen not included, Gauntlet, Giana Sisters
* Test your favorite applications.
* Steal staging patches and get them accepted upstream.

As always, if you find a bug, please report it via
https://bugs.winehq.com

Best Regards
 Alistair.



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