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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.

Google just released Picasa for Linux. In case you haven't used it, Picasa is an advanced image archiving tool that also includes some basic photo manipulation features. Interestingly, there's some technical details available about how the Linux version came to be. The port was done using Wine and in the process over 200 patches were contributed back to the Wine project. The final product ships with a self-contained version of Wine and includes important features such as camera access using gPhoto. Dan Kegel sent an email to the wine-devel mailing list providing more details of this unique port. All of the patches have already been committed and you'll find coverage of some of the specific contributions in past issues of the Wine Weekly News.

Go forth and download.

The news report over at Linux Today includes even more information, including news that Google Earth for Linux is planned as well.

A new drop fell out of CVS today - Wine 0.9.14. There's a lot of behind the scenes changes in this release, but you may notice the following:

• Better MS/RPC compatibility.
• Many fixes to Direct3D shaders.
• Several improvements to the header control.

Binary packages are in the process of being built, 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. Currently official Fedora packages lag behind, but you can get Wine-0.9.10 by running yum install wine from Fedora Extras.

Alexandre released Wine 0.9.13 today. The following changes were noted:

• GPhoto backend for TWAIN.
• drive configuration using HAL.
• gazillion Direct3D fixes.
• TCP transport for RPC.

Binary packages are in the process of being built, 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. Currently official Fedora packages lag behind, but you can get Wine-0.9.10 by running yum install wine from Fedora Extras.

Wine 0.9.12 fell out of the git tree this morning. Notable improvements include:

• New Winelib Internet Explorer application (all 5 lines of it).
• Several improvements to the font support.
• More work on the IDL compiler.
• Faster drawing of the cards in Solitaire (very important feature).
• A number of fixes for issues found by the Coverity code cheker.

Hear that? Faster drawing of the cards in Solitaire! I know you're all psyched about that.

Binary packages are in the process of being built, 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. Currently official Fedora packages lag behind, but you can get Wine-0.9.10 by running yum install wine from Fedora Extras.

Just in time to give you something to do this weekend, Alexandre released Wine 0.9.11. The more notable changes include:

• Fake dll files created in the system directory to help installers.
• Desktop mode now properly supports multiple processes.
• Better type parsing in dbghelp.
• Several OpenGL fixes.
• A bunch of Unicode functions in advpack.

Binary packages are in the process of being built, 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. Currently official Fedora packages lag behind, but you can get Wine-0.9.10 by running yum install wine from Fedora Extras.

Wine 0.9.10 was released yesterday. In it you'll find:

• Improved ESD audio driver.
• More Web browser improvements in mshtml and wininet.
• Direct3D fixes and preparation for ddraw code migration.
• Explorer process now managing the desktop window.

Binary packages are in the process of being built, 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.