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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.

Wine 0.9.9 was released yesterday. Quite a few major additions appeared in this release, including:

• Many new features and improvements in Richedit.
• More Web browser support.
• Recursive directory change notifications.
• Wine installation is now fully relocatable.
• Direct3D 8 and 9 now use the same code.
• Many debugger improvements.
• Systray is now handled by the explorer process.

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.

Wine 0.9.8 was released today. Some bug fixes for problems affecting some common applications may be in this release, including one for Photoshop. The following major additions were noted:

• Better Web browser support.
• Beginnings of a Wordpad application.
• Many richedit improvements.
• A number of Direct3D fixes.
• A few more options in winecfg.

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.

Wine 0.9.7 was released on Thursday, February 2nd, approximately two weeks since the last release. The following changes were noted in the announcement:

• Directory change notifications can use inotify now.
• Hardware breakpoints in the Wine debugger.
• Beginnings of support for tape APIs.
• A bunch of improvements to the IDL compiler.
• Better scheme for mapping My Documents etc. to Unix directories.

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.

Wine 0.9.6 is now available for download. The following changes were noted in the announcement:

• A bunch of OLE fixes and improvements.
• DirectSound improvements, including full duplex support.
• Fix for the Windows metafile vulnerability.
• Many static control improvements.
• Some fixes for copy protection support.

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.

Wine 0.9.5 is out.

The following changes were noted in the announcement:

• A number of MSI fixes.
• More improvements to the IDL compiler.

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.

Just in time for Christmas, a new CVS snapshot is out, wine-0.9.4. As you might have noticed, we're seeing more snapshots now that we're in beta. We'll cover that process in more detail in this week's Wine Weekly News. Until then, happy compiling!

Alexandre noted the following changes:

• Improvements to the IDL compiler.
• Some infrastructure work for loadable driver support.
• The usual assortment of Direct3D improvements.
• IME support in the edit control.
• Better support for AVI animations.
• Debugging support improvements.
• Relay traces now work on NX platforms.

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.

A new CVS snapshot is out, wine-0.9.3. Alexandre noted the following changes:

• Many marshalling fixes in rpcrt4.
• Various OLE improvements and fixes.
• Better audio driver management in winecfg.
• Many wininet fixes.
• Several Web browser improvements.
• More dbghelp APIs implemented.
• Directory objects in wineserver.

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.

We had a second drop from CVS for the month, wine-0.9.2. The announcement noted the following changes:

• Winelib Explorer app (just a wrapper around winefile for now).
• Debugger cleanups and improvements.
• Many wininet fixes.
• Better autogenerated API manpages.
• A bunch of Korean translations.
• Lots of bug fixes.

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.