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Wine 0.9.57 Released

March 7, 2008

Wine 0.9.57 was released today, with the following main changes:

  • Support for multiple OpenGL pixel formats.
  • Improved support for color profiles.
  • Many window management fixes.
  • Better fullscreen support.
  • Lots of bug fixes.

Binary packages are in the process of being built and it may take a few days for them to appear, 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 distribution.

Wine Weekly News Issue 342

March 4, 2008

WWN Issue 342 was released today.

Wine Weekly News Issue 341

February 24, 2008

WWN Issue 341 was released today.

Wine 0.9.56 Released

February 22, 2008

Wine 0.9.56 was released today, with the following main changes:

  • Proper handling of OpenGL/Direct3D windows with menu bars.
  • Stubs for all the d3dx9_xx dlls.
  • Several graphics optimizations.
  • Many installer fixes.
  • Improved MIME message support.
  • Lots of bug fixes.

Binary packages are in the process of being built and it may take a few days for them to appear, 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 distribution.

Wine 0.9.55 Released

February 8, 2008

Wine 0.9.55 was released today, with the following main changes:

  • Direct3D improvements, including driver version emulation.
  • Beginnings of support for OLE objects in Richedit.
  • Several fixes to the animation control.
  • A bunch of fixes for regression test failures.
  • Lots of bug fixes.

Binary packages are in the process of being built and it may take a few days for them to appear, 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 distribution.

Wine 0.9.54 Released

January 25, 2008

Wine 0.9.54 was released today, with the following main changes:

  • Photoshop CS/CS2 should now work, please help us testing it.
  • A number of RPC fixes.
  • Various improvements to the debugger support.
  • Lots of bug fixes.

Binary packages are in the process of being built and it may take a few days for them to appear, 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 distribution.

Wine Weekly News Issue 340

January 21, 2008

WWN Issue 340 was released today.

Wine Weekly News Issue 339

January 14, 2008

WWN Issue 339 was released today.

Wine 0.9.53 Released

January 11, 2008

Wine 0.9.53 was released today, with the following main changes:

  • RunOnce and Run entries now executed on startup.
  • Beginnings of support for emulated disk devices.
  • Many Richedit improvements.
  • Nicer looking color dialog.
  • Lots of bug fixes.

Binary packages are in the process of being built and it may take a few days for them to appear, 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 distribution.

Wine Weekly News Issue 338

January 6, 2008

WWN Issue 338 was released today.

Wine Weekly News Issue 337

December 30, 2007

WWN Issue 337 was released today.

Wine 0.9.52 Released

December 28, 2007

Wine 0.9.52 was released today, with the following main changes:

  • Improved graphics tablet support.
  • Support for RPC context handles.
  • Fixes for some longstanding screen depth issues.
  • Implementation of "My Network Places" shell folder.
  • Lots of bug fixes.

Binary packages are in the process of being built and it may take a few days for them to appear, 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 distribution.

Wine Weekly News Issue 336

December 24, 2007

WWN Issue 336 was released today.

Wine Weekly News Issue 335

December 17, 2007

WWN Issue 335 was released today.

Wine 0.9.51 Released

December 14, 2007

Wine 0.9.51 was released today, with the following main changes:

  • A bunch of WinHelp improvements.
  • Better Japanese font support.
  • A ton of rpcrt4 fixes.
  • Several Alsa capture fixes.
  • Improved support for screen resolution changes.
  • Lots of bug fixes.

Binary packages are in the process of being built and it may take a few days for them to appear, 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 distribution.

Wine Weekly News Issue 334

December 10, 2007

WWN Issue 334 was released today.

Wine Weekly News Issue 333

December 3, 2007

WWN Issue 333 was released today.

Wine 0.9.50 Released

November 30, 2007

Wine 0.9.50 was released today, with the following main changes:

  • Completed I/O completion.
  • Improved user credentials management, including Mac Keychain support.
  • More Valgrinding.
  • Lots of bug fixes.

Binary packages are in the process of being built and it may take a few days for them to appear, 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 distribution.

Wine 0.9.49 Released

November 9, 2007

Wine 0.9.49 was released today, with the following main changes:

  • Many copy protection fixes.
  • GLSL is now the default for Direct3D.
  • Lots of memory errors fixed thanks to Valgrind.
  • Support for TOPMOST windows.
  • Beginnings of an inetcomm dll implementation.
  • Lots of bug fixes.

Binary packages are in the process of being built and it may take a few days for them to appear, 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 distribution.

Wine 0.9.48 Released

October 26, 2007

Wine 0.9.48 was released today, with the following main changes:

  • Still more fixes for regression test failures.
  • Much more complete cryptnet implementation.
  • WIDL is now able to generate the oleaut32 proxy code.
  • Lots of bug fixes.

Binary packages are in the process of being built and it may take a few days for them to appear, 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 distribution.

Wine 0.9.47 Released

October 12, 2007

Wine 0.9.47 was released today, with the following main changes:

  • New scheme for OpenGL support in child windows.
  • Lots of fixes for regression test failures.
  • A Tahoma replacement font.
  • Lots of bug fixes.

Binary packages are in the process of being built and it may take a few days for them to appear, 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 distribution.

CrossOver 6.2 Released

October 2, 2007

CrossOver 6.2 was released by CodeWeavers today, with the following changes:

  • Added support for Team Fortress 2.
  • Many improvements to Outlook 2003.
  • Added a dock presence for running Applications.
  • Dramatic improvements in performance on OS X Leopard.
  • many other Mac OS X and Linux fixes.

CrossOver is a commercial version of Wine by CodeWeavers that allows users to support Wine. You can find out more about this release by reading the official announcement. There is also a fun promotional video out comparing the performance of Wine versus our competitors.

There are free trials available for download for both Mac OS X and Linux.

Wine 0.9.46 Released

September 28, 2007

Wine 0.9.46 was released today, with the following main changes:

  • A variety of fixes to improve Photoshop CS2 support.
  • More complete support for device installation in setupapi.
  • New Bidi text implementation that doesn't depend on libicu.
  • The usual assortment of Direct3D improvements.
  • Beginning of I/O completion ports support.
  • Lots of bug fixes.

Binary packages are in the process of being built and it may take a few days for them to appear, 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 distribution.

Wine 0.9.45 Released

September 14, 2007

Wine 0.9.45 was released today, with the following main changes:

  • Many improvements to the crypto dlls (should make iTunes work).
  • The usual assortment of Direct3D improvements.
  • A number of fixes to sound support.
  • Many more WordPad features.
  • Lots of bug fixes.

Binary packages are in the process of being built and it may take a few days for them to appear, 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 distribution.

Wine 0.9.44 Released

August 24, 2007

Wine 0.9.44 was released today, with the following main changes:

  • Better heuristics for making windows managed.
  • Automatic detection of timezone parameters.
  • Improvements to the builtin WordPad.
  • Better signatures support in crypt32.
  • Still more gdiplus functions.
  • Lots of bug fixes.

Binary packages are in the process of being built and it may take a few days for them to appear, 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 distribution.