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Wine 0.9.31 was released today, with the following main changes:

• Many Direct3D fixes and performance improvements.
• Several new comctl32 test cases.
• IDL compiler improvements.
• More OLE32 marshalling 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 0.9.30 was released today, with the following main changes:

• Many improvements to Direct3D shaders and state management.
• Support for inter-process memory allocations.
• OLE32 marshalling 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.

CodeWeavers announced the release of CrossOver 6.0 for Mac and Linux. Several new applications and games are now supported and existing supported apps have had extensive bug fixes. The big news most people will find exciting is the added support for Outlook 2003, World of Warcraft, and a range of Steam based games such as Half-Life 2.

Users of Intel based Mac systems can now seamlessly run many Windows applications on their Mac without needing a Windows license. Supported applications include Outlook, Visio, Project, Quicken, Steam based games such as Half Life 2, and many more.

• Linux Press Release
• Mac Press Release
• CrossOver Standard Trial
• Change Log
• CodeWeavers' Store

Wine 0.9.29 was released today, with the following main changes:

• More work on the new Direct3D state management.
• Debugger support for Mac OS.
• Many OLE fixes and improvements.
• Audio input support on Mac OS.
• 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 0.9.28 was released today, with the following main changes:

• OpenGL in child windows should work again.
• Better mouse support in games.
• Beginnings of new state management in Direct3D.
• Improved audio and font support on Mac OS.
• 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 0.9.27 was released today, with the following main changes:

• Better support for noexec kernels.
• Better Dwarf support in dbghelp.
• Several Winsock fixes.
• Various code cleanups.
• 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 0.9.26 was released last Friday, with the following main changes.

• Better support for Unix locale settings
• Improved X11 keyboard support
• Various MSI fixes
• Winecfg 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 0.9.25 was released some time ago, with the following main changes.

• Many more fixes for installer support
• Many MSHTML improvements
• Support for NTLMv2
• RPC over TCP 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 0.9.24 came out today and includes the following enhancements:

• Support for multiple monitors using Xinerama.
• Various MSI fixes and improvements.
• A ton of memory leaks fixed.
• Many common controls 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 favorite distribution.

Wine 0.9.23 came out last week with these changes:

• Massive update of printf formats for Win64 compatibility.
• Dynamic drive support on Mac OS X.
• Still more MSI fixes and 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 favorite distribution.

Wine 0.9.22 came out last week with these changes:

• The usual assortment of MSI improvements.
• Several bug fixes to the various common controls.
• Pixel shaders enabled by default in D3D.
• Various improvements to the build process.
• Many translation updates.

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 favorite distribution.

A summary of WineConf has been written and you can find it in them for of WWN issue #320.

WineConf 2006 has just about wrapped up. Approximately 35 developers convened in Reading, England for the event. A summary will follow, but for now you can check out this year's group photo (1MB).

The Wine team would especially like to thank Lars Mathiassen and the members of the Party Poker Strategy Guide for their recent donations that sponsored the event. Putting on an event of this scale without a charge for developers is quite remarkable and their generosity helped immensely.

Wine 0.9.21 came out today and includes the following enhancements:

• OpenGL restructurations.
• The usual assortment of MSI improvements.
• Several Richedit fixes.
• WCMD Winelib app renamed to CMD for compatibility.
• Many improvements to the Wintrust DLL.
• Some code cleanups.

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 favorite distribution.

CodeWeavers announced CrossOver Mac 6.0 Beta 1 today. The final release will add support for many of today's popular Office applications as well as limited gaming support in the way of official support for Half-Life 2. For more details, see their CrossOver Mac product page.

A new beta version of Wine was released today. Besides the usual bugfixes, you might notice the following changes:

• XEmbed system tray support.
• Many improvements to NTLM support.
• Many messages made localizable instead of hardcoded to English.
• Improved support for various OpenGL platforms.
• More improvements to the IDL compiler.

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 favorite distribution.

Summer development is rolling forward. Alexandre released Wine 0.9.19 today and a slew of updates:

• Support for a proper Trash folder.
• Many improvements to the IDL compiler.
• Better FreeBSD support.
• A number of MSI bug fixes.
• Many RichEdit improvements.

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 favorite distribution.

A new beta version of Wine was released today. Besides the usual bugfixes, you might notice the following changes:

• Still more work on Direct3D.
• A lot of MSI bug fixes and improvements.
• More compatible memory management.
• Several fixes for Win64 support.
• Some performance improvements.

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 favorite distribution.

Wine 0.9.17 was tagged today. Alexandre noted the following changes in this release:

• Still more work on Direct3D shaders.
• Now using the Gecko engine directly for MSHTML.
• Better support for apps switching to full screen mode.
• Support for multiple joysticks.

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 favorite distribution. Fedora packages can be installed from the Fedora Extras repository by running yum install wine .

Wine 0.9.16 was released today. It contains some noticeable improvements including:

• More work on Direct3D shaders.
• Major DirectDraw rewrite on top of Direct3D.
• Support for debug information in Dwarf format.
• Beginnings of an OleView Winelib application.

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 favorite distribution. Fedora packages can be installed from the Fedora Extras repository by running yum install wine .

A new beta version of Wine is out, 0.9.15. You might notice the following changes in it:

• More MS/RPC improvements.
• Core Audio driver for Mac OS X.
• More complete DNSAPI dll.
• Improvements to Web browser support.

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 favorite distribution. Fedora packages can be installed from the Fedora Extras repository by running yum install wine from Fedora Extras.