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The Wine development release 1.6-rc1 is now available.

This is the first release candidate for the upcoming Wine 1.6. It marks the beginning of the code freeze period. Please give this release a good testing to help us make 1.6 as good as possible.

What's new in this release:

• New implementation of the typelib creation support.
• GLSL-based support for fixed function vertex shaders.
• Support for desktop launchers in virtual desktop mode.
• Fixes for Japanese vertical text.
• New Croatian translation.
• 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.

The Wine development release 1.5.31 is now available.

What's new in this release:

• New version of the Gecko engine based on Firefox 21.
• Joystick force feedback support on Mac OS X.
• Window management fixes in the Mac 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.

The Wine development release 1.5.30 is now available.

What's new in this release:

• Mouse capture support in the Mac driver.
• NTLM and Negotiate authentication in WinHTTP.
• Support for proxy bypass in WinInet.
• 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.

The Wine development release 1.5.29 is now available.

What's new in this release:

• Input method support in the Mac driver.
• Support for TLS 1.1 and 1.2 connections on Mac OS X.
• JavaScript performance improvements.
• 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.

The Wine development release 1.5.28 is now available.

What's new in this release:

• GnuTLS used for all secure connections, OpenSSL is no longer needed.
• Mac driver enabled by default.
• Built-in FixedSys fonts.
• New icon for the joystick control panel.
• Postscript driver improvements.
• 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.

The Wine development release 1.5.27 is now available.

What's new in this release:

• System tray support in the Mac driver.
• Various C runtime improvements.
• Large icons for built-in applications.
• 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.

The Wine development release 1.5.26 is now available.

What's new in this release:

• OpenGL support in the Mac driver.
• Clipboard and drag&drop support in the Mac driver.
• Improvements to the URL cache.
• Some fixes for ARM binaries.
• SPARC platform no longer supported.
• 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.

The Wine development release 1.5.25 is now available.

What's new in this release:

• Proper cursor support in the Mac driver.
• Fixes for right-to-left support in RichEdit.
• Initial version of a Wingdings font.
• 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.

The Wine development release 1.5.24 is now available.

What's new in this release:

• Keyboard and mouse wheel support in the Mac driver.
• Regular expression support in VB Script.
• Many RichEdit code cleanups.
• 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.

The Wine development release 1.5.23 is now available.

What's new in this release:

• HTTPS support no longer dependent on OpenSSL.
• Support for event handling in the Mac driver.
• A functional Netstat built-in application.
• A bunch of C++ runtime math functions.
• 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.

The Wine development release 1.5.22 is now available.

What's new in this release:

• New version of the Gecko engine.
• Beginnings of the Mac graphics driver.
• Support for ARM64 platforms.
• Fixes for RTL text in Uniscribe.
• 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.

The Wine development release 1.5.21 is now available.

What's new in this release:

• Beginnings of a netstat built-in program.
• Support for selecting resolution 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.

The Wine development release 1.5.20 is now available.

What's new in this release:

• A bunch of dlls with ugly names for API sets support.
• More ATL functions implemented.
• Still more C++ runtime functions.
• Several text rendering fixes.
• PostScript driver improvements.
• 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.

The Wine development release 1.5.19 is now available.

What's new in this release:

• Performance improvements in the DIB engine.
• More fleshed out XML-lite implementation.
• Some more C++ runtime functions.
• 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.

The Wine development release 1.5.18 is now available.

What's new in this release:

• Various Windows Codecs improvements.
• Fixes for OLE database support.
• Improvements to system parameters management.
• Some fixes to the built-in Web browser.
• Fixes for XML 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.

The Wine development release 1.5.17 is now available.

What's new in this release:

• Sub-pixel font anti-aliasing in the DIB engine.
• Support for automatic installation of ActiveX controls.
• Automatic fallback to TLS 1.0 for secure connections.
• Beginnings of the DirectWrite text analyzer.
• Better handling of font outlines in OpenGL.
• 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.

The Wine development release 1.5.16 is now available.

What's new in this release:

• New version of the Mono package.
• Many improvements to the CMD command-line parser.
• More stream classes in the C++ runtime.
• Support for managing services in WMI.
• Improved CPU detection.
• 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.

The Wine development release 1.5.15 is now available.

What's new in this release:

• Full support for layered windows.
• New version of the Gecko engine based on Firefox 16.
• Support for broadcast sockets used by networked games.
• Downloaded add-ons installers are now cached.
• Support for persistent Internet cookies.
• String optimizations in JavaScript.
• 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.

The Wine development release 1.5.14 is now available.

What's new in this release:

• Much better behavior of the URL cache.
• Improved GIF image support.
• More parser features in the shader compiler.
• Optimizations in JavaScript.
• 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.

The Wine development release 1.5.13 is now available.

What's new in this release:

• Client-side window rendering using the DIB engine.
• Raw input support for keyboard and mouse.
• Support for transparent window areas using color keying.
• Proper C++ RTTI support on 64-bit.
• Implementation of logical processor information.
• Support for fonts with localized names.
• 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.

The Wine development release 1.5.12 is now available.

What's new in this release:

• Support for disabling individual joysticks.
• Better support for D3DX9 constant tables.
• Some XRandR improvements.
• 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.

The Jinn in the Bottle project recently announced that they are now donating 15% of their sales to Wine.

The Wine development release 1.5.11 is now available.

What's new in this release:

• Multi-channel support in the ALSA driver.
• Removal of the big X11 lock.
• Support for pair positioning adjustments in Uniscribe.
• More I/O stream implementations in the 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.

The Wine development release 1.5.10 is now available.

What's new in this release:

• New version of the Gecko engine based on Firefox 14.
• Support for OpenGL in the DIB engine using libOSMesa.
• Off-screen rendering is now the default in Direct3D.
• Some more WMI infrastructure.
• 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.

The Wine development release 1.5.9 is now available.

What's new in this release:

• Support for GPOS font tables in Uniscribe.
• Support for XRandr 1.2 and 1.3.
• Parser improvements for the HLSL compiler.
• More key exchange algorithms supported on Mac OS.
• Relay tracing on ARM.
• 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.