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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.

The Wine development release 1.5.8 is now available.

What's new in this release:

• More stream functionality in the C++ runtime.
• A number of Windows Codecs improvements.
• More WBEM classes and properties.
• Some HTML Help fixes.
• Support for printing fake italic fonts.
• 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 1.5.7 is now available.

What's new in this release:

• New version of the Gecko engine based on Firefox 13.
• Dynamic device support with UDisks2.
• More stream classes implemented in the C++ runtime.
• Support for metadata in TIFF files.
• Fleshed out WBEM implementation.
• Improved support for printer paper sizes.
• 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 maintenance release 1.4.1 is now available.

What's new in this release:

• Translation updates.
• 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 1.5.6 is now available.

What's new in this release:

• Automatic installation of the Mono add-on package.
• Control panel applet for joysticks.
• Device bitmap rendering now done through the DIB engine.
• Support for video rendering through DirectX (VMR-9).
• First steps towards a D3D shader compiler.
• Build fixes for DragonFly BSD.
• 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 1.5.5 is now available.

What's new in this release:

• Support for installing Mono as a Wine add-on package.
• Dithering of pattern brushes in the DIB engine.
• Support for installing the .NET 4.0 runtime.
• DDS files supported in D3DX9.
• 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 1.5.4 is now available.

What's new in this release:

• A new DirectSound resampler.
• A Negotiate authentication provider.
• OpenGL support in the DIB engine.
• Beginnings of support for .NET mixed assemblies.
• Support routines for Internationalized Domain 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 1.5.3 is now available.

What's new in this release:

• Support for graphics bounds tracking.
• A number of fixes to the builtin Internet Explorer.
• Support for displaying ARM code in the Wine debugger.
• Various DirectMusic improvements.
• Better namespace support in MSXML.
• 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 1.5.2 is now available.

What's new in this release:

• Improved naming scheme for audio devices.
• Better support for finding system fonts on Mac OS X.
• Beginnings of support for JPEG encoding.
• Several printing fixes.
• Improvements to the URL cache.
• 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 1.5.1 is now available.

What's new in this release:

• Built-in JavaScript now preferred over Gecko in most cases.
• Support for scalable font resources.
• Fixes for audio and video playback.
• Support for script decoding in JScript.
• 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 1.5.0 is now available.

What's new in this release:

• New version of the Gecko engine.
• Partial support for using the Trash on Mac OS X.
• Support for path gradients in GdiPlus.
• Various MSXML improvements.
• Fixes to 64-bit exception handling.
• 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 team is proud to announce that the stable release Wine 1.4 is now available.

This release represents 20 months of development effort and over 16,000 individual changes. The main highlights are the new DIB graphics engine, a redesigned audio stack, and full support for bidirectional text and character shaping.

It also contains a lot of improvements across the board, as well as support for many new applications, notably Microsoft Office 2010. See the release notes below for a summary of the major changes.

This release is dedicated to the memory of Gé (Greg) van Geldorp, who passed away in May 2011. Greg single-handedly designed, built, and maintained the Wine Testbot, which has become a cornerstone of our development process. The high quality of this release owes a lot to his work. He is greatly missed by us all.

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 1.4-rc6 is now available.

What's new in this release:

• Bug fixes only, we are in code freeze.

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 1.4-rc5 is now available.

What's new in this release:

• Bug fixes only, we are in code freeze.

The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.