News

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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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.

Wine 0.9.43 was released today, with the following main changes:

• Direct3D support on top of WGL instead of GLX for better portability.
• Many DirectSound fixes.
• Still more gdiplus functions.
• Many crypt32 improvements.
• 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 0.9.42 was released today, with the following main changes:

• Support for activation contexts and side-by-side assemblies.
• Many more gdiplus functions.
• More messaging support in crypt32.dll.
• Many HTTP protocol handling fixes.
• 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 0.9.41 was released today, with the following main changes:

• A number of gdiplus functions.
• More complete pdh.dll implementation.
• Support for MSI remote calls.
• Messaging support in crypt32.dll.
• 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 0.9.40 was released today, with the following main changes:

• Many MSHTML improvements.
• A few more sound fixes.
• Many Direct3D fixes.
• 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 0.9.39 was released today, with the following main changes:

• Many MSHTML improvements.
• Several improvements to the sound support.
• A number of Winsock fixes.
• Several new supported constructs in the IDL compiler.
• Many Direct3D threading fixes.
• 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.

We're a bit late in reporting this, but CodeWeavers released version 6.1 of their CrossOver products on May 15th. You can read the press release and announcement on their website. Version 6.0 brought the addition of gaming support; this release continues that trend by including support for EVE Online and more games playable through Steam, such as Call of Duty 2. Outlook picked up some changes to enable better remote connectivity. All in all, it sounds like there's a bunch of new functionality, so it's probably worth checking out.

Wine 0.9.38 was released today, with the following main changes:

• Beginnings of support for copy protection kernel drivers.
• More MSI automation support.
• Many 64-bit compilation fixes.
• A number of OLE fixes.
• 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 0.9.37 was released today, with the following main changes:

• MSI automation with JScript/VBScript support.
• Various MSHTML improvements.
• The usual assortment of Direct3D fixes.
• Support for a few more exe protection schemes.
• 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 0.9.36 was released today, with the following main changes:

• Midi support in the CoreAudio driver.
• Mixer support in the Alsa driver.
• A lot of MSI fixes.
• Implementation for most D3DRM functions.
• The usual assortment of Direct3D fixes.
• 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.