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WWN Issue 315 was released today.

WWN Issue 314 was released today.

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.

WWN Issue 313 was released today.

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.

WWN Issue 312 was released today.

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.

WWN Issue 311 was released today.

WWN Issue 310 was released today.

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.

WWN Issue 309 was released today.

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.