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World Wine News Issue 401

October 14, 2015

World Wine News Issue 400

October 04, 2015

Wine 1.7.52 Released

October 2, 2015

The Wine development release 1.7.52 is now available.

What's new in this release:

  • Unicode data updated to Unicode 8.0.0.
  • Some implementation of the Web Services DLL.
  • More Direct3D 11 interfaces.
  • A few more functions in the C++ runtime.
  • Output standard glyph names in the PostScript driver.
  • 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.

World Wine News Issue 399

September 24, 2015

World Wine News Issue 398

September 14, 2015

Wine 1.7.51 Released

September 4, 2015

The Wine development release 1.7.51 is now available.

What's new in this release:

  • XAudio2 implementation using OpenAL Soft.
  • Support for the new Universal C Runtime DLL.
  • Dropdown menu support in the standard Open Dialog.
  • Grayscale rendering mode in DirectWrite.
  • 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.

World Wine News Issue 397

August 28, 2015

Wine 1.7.50 Released

August 21, 2015

The Wine development release 1.7.50 is now available.

What's new in this release:

  • New version of the Gecko engine based on Firefox 40.
  • First steps of the Direct3D 11 implementation.
  • Better font matching in DirectWrite.
  • Support for OpenMP on ARM platforms.
  • 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 1.7.49 Released

August 8, 2015

The Wine development release 1.7.49 is now available.

What's new in this release:

  • DirectWrite is now good enough for rendering text in Steam.
  • A number of Direct2D improvements.
  • Some more OpenMP functions.
  • Support for namespaces in the IDL compiler.
  • 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.

World Wine News Issue 396

July 31, 2015

Wine 1.7.48 Released

July 28, 2015

The Wine development release 1.7.48 is now available.

What's new in this release:

  • Fleshed out OpenMP implementation.
  • I/O stream support in the MSVCIRT C++ runtime.
  • Support for pixel snapping in DirectWrite.
  • More support for OpenGL core contexts.
  • 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.

World Wine News Issue 395

July 17, 2015

Wine 1.7.47 Released

July 10, 2015

The Wine development release 1.7.47 is now available.

What's new in this release:

  • Text drawing in Direct2D.
  • Support for the new thread pool API.
  • Toolbar state saving.
  • Beginnings of an implementation for proper HID support.
  • Support for file objects in device drivers.
  • 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.

World Wine News Issue 394

July 03, 2015

Wine 1.7.46 Released

June 26, 2015

The Wine development release 1.7.46 is now available.

What's new in this release:

  • Improvements in the BITS file transfer service.
  • Still more progress on DirectWrite implementation.
  • Support for shared user data on 64-bit.
  • Various C++ runtime improvements.
  • Some more support for the 64-bit ARM platform.
  • 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.

World Wine News Issue 393

June 23, 2015

Wine 1.7.45 Released

June 12, 2015

The Wine development release 1.7.45 is now available.

What's new in this release:

  • Better debugging support on 64-bit Mac OS X.
  • Some more progress on DirectWrite implementation.
  • A number of RichEdit control fixes.
  • Beginning implementation of the old MSVCIRT 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.

World Wine News Issue 392

June 07, 2015

Wine 1.7.44 Released

May 29, 2015

The Wine development release 1.7.44 is now available.

What's new in this release:

  • More support for the COM interfaces of the RichEdit control.
  • Initial version of a SmartTee filter.
  • Some more support for the ARM64 platform.
  • Support for the null device kernel object.
  • 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.

World Wine News Issue 391

May 22, 2015

Wine 1.7.43 Released

May 15, 2015

The Wine development release 1.7.43 is now available.

What's new in this release:

  • Improved support for Shell Browser windows.
  • Some more API Sets libraries.
  • Read/write operations support with built-in devices.
  • Major Catalan translation update.
  • Support for WoW64 mode on ARM64.
  • 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.

World Wine News Issue 390

May 09, 2015

Wine 1.7.42 Released

May 1, 2015

The Wine development release 1.7.42 is now available.

What's new in this release:

  • Support for dynamic timezone information.
  • Initial desktop shell window support.
  • Some more Direct2D support.
  • 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.

World Wine News Issue 389

April 25, 2015

Wine 1.7.41 Released

April 17, 2015

The Wine development release 1.7.41 is now available.

What's new in this release:

  • More Known Folders supported in the shell.
  • Some more support for kernel job objects.
  • More MSI patches improvements.
  • Some theming fixes.
  • 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.