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Latest news in the Wine community.
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November 12, 2010

The Wine development release 1.3.7 is now available.

What's new in this release:

Improved system tray support.
Better support for installers with assemblies.
Many of the msvcrt "secure" functions implemented.
A lot of fixes to the GStreamer support.
Many MSXML improvements.
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.

Wine 1.3.6 Released

October 29, 2010

The Wine development release 1.3.6 is now available.

What's new in this release:

Support for GStreamer filters.
Mapping of standard cursors to native desktop cursors.
Improved support for installers with services.
Many MSXML improvements.
Decoder for TGA-format images.
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.

Wine 1.3.5 Released

October 15, 2010

The Wine development release 1.3.5 is now available.

What's new in this release:

Support for animated cursors.
Printing directly through CUPS instead of lpr.
Installer fixes for Office 2010.
Many MSXML3 improvements.
Improved Shader Model 4 support.
Proper icons in built-in Internet Explorer.
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.

Wine 1.2.1 Released

October 8, 2010

The Wine maintenance release 1.2.1 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.

Wine 1.3.4 Released

October 1, 2010

The Wine development release 1.3.4 is now available.

What's new in this release:

Support for right-to-left mirrored windows.
Winelib now supports the ARM platform.
New taskkill.exe built-in application.
Inetcpl control panel fleshed out.
AcceptEx is implemented now.
Improved security checks for SSL connections.
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.

Wine 1.3.3 Released

September 18, 2010

The Wine development release 1.3.3 is now available.

What's new in this release:

Improved support for right-to-left text.
Support for CMYK JPEG images.
Beginnings of a Game Explorer implementation.
Improved 64-bit support in MSI.
Stub inetcpl control panel applet.
A number of fixes to crypto support.
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.

Wine 1.3.2 Released

September 3, 2010

The Wine development release 1.3.2 is now available.

What's new in this release:

Update of the Gecko engine, now including a 64-bit version.
New implementation of console support on Unix terminals.
Many new functions in the C runtime dlls.
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 1.3.1 Released

August 20, 2010

The Wine development release 1.3.1 is now available.

What's new in this release:

Support for drag & drop between X11 and OLE.
New ipconfig.exe builtin tool.
Support for favorites in builtin Internet Explorer.
Beginnings of a shell Explorer control.
A number of DirectDraw code cleanups.
Improvements to the calendar control.
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 1.3.0 Released

July 30, 2010

The Wine development release 1.3.0 is now available.

What's new in this release:

Beginnings of a user interface for the builtin Internet Explorer.
Support for cross-process OLE drag & drop.
New builtin wscript.exe (Windows Script Host) program.
Open/save dialogs remember the last used directory.
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.

Wine 1.2 Released

July 16, 2010

The Wine team is proud to announce that the stable release Wine 1.2 is now available.

This release represents two years of development effort and over 23,000 changes. The main highlights are the support for 64-bit applications, and the new graphics based on the Tango standard.

It also contains a lot of improvements across the board, and over 3,000 bug fixes. See the release notes below for a summary of the major changes.

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

Wine 1.2-rc7 Released

July 9, 2010

The Wine development release 1.2-rc7 is now available. Barring any last minute problems, this should be the last release candidate before the final 1.2. Please give it a good testing.

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.

Wine 1.2-rc6 Released

July 2, 2010

The Wine development release 1.2-rc6 is now available.

What's new in this release:

Many translation updates.
A lot of 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 1.2-rc5 Released

June 25, 2010

The Wine development release 1.2-rc5 is now available.

What's new in this release:

Many translation updates.
A lot of 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 1.2-rc4 Released

June 18, 2010

The Wine development release 1.2-rc4 is now available.

What's new in this release:

Many translation updates.
A lot of 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 1.2-rc3 Released

June 11, 2010

The Wine development release 1.2-rc3 is now available.

What's new in this release:

Many translation updates.
A lot of 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 1.2-rc2 Released

May 28, 2010

The Wine development release 1.2-rc2 is now available.

There are no new features in this release, only bug fixes, since we are in code freeze. If you find a new feature that's a bug.

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

Wine 1.2-rc1 Released

May 21, 2010

The Wine development release 1.2-rc1 is now available.

This is the first release candidate for Wine 1.2. It marks the beginning of the code freeze period. Please give this release a good testing to help us make 1.2 as good as possible.

What's new in this release: