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Wine 0.9.7 was released on Thursday, February 2nd, approximately two weeks since the last release. The following changes were noted in the announcement:

• Directory change notifications can use inotify now.
• Hardware breakpoints in the Wine debugger.
• Beginnings of support for tape APIs.
• A bunch of improvements to the IDL compiler.
• Better scheme for mapping My Documents etc. to Unix directories.

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.