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CodeWeavers announced the release of CrossOver Office 4.0 today. Several new applications 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 Apple's iTunes. You can play music, access the store, and sync with an iPod. Other new apps include FrameMaker and JInitiator, which allows people to access Oracle Application Forms via a web browser. Links you might find interesting:

• Press Release
• "The Real Dirt"
• Change Log
• CodeWeavers' Store

If you've ever aspired to become a Wine hacker, you'll appreciate a quick introduction written by Mike Hearn. It's not a replacement for the Wine Developer Guide, but it does serve as an excellent starting point for working on Wine.

Also this week, Chris Morgan and Tony Lambregts modified the AppDB to allow folks to take over an application and become a maintainer. Then you can edit comments, change app descriptions, and all kinds of other cool stuff. If there's an app you regularly use under Wine, please consider maintaining an AppDB page and help track regressions. After you've set up a normal AppDB user account, you can become a maintainer by finding (or adding) an application and clicking on the maintainer button you'll find on each app's page. Have any ideas for improving the interface? Let us know!

A new vintage of Wine is out. The Changelog notes the following improvements:

• Beginnings of an architecture for Direct3D 9 support.
• Many debugger regressions fixed.
• Improvements to the IDL compiler and the COM headers.
• New MSCMS dll (color management support).

Binary packages will be appearing soon, but you can find the source release on SourceForge right now. Read more about this release, or just go download it.

The following updates came in this week:

• Dimi Paun updated the To-Do List and moved various items closer to completion.
• The UI Status page was updated to reflect recent audits performed.
• Tony Lambregts worked on the Application Database to improve submission of new new applications. More patches appear to be pending in this area.

A new CVS snapshot has been released. Alexandre noted the following changes:

• Various improvements to the common controls.
• New ITSS dll (for HTML Help support).
• Many compatibility fixes in the exported headers.
• Replacements for the Windows standard bitmap fonts.

Binary packages will be available shortly, but you can find the source release on SourceForge right now. Read more about this release, or just go download it.

A bunch of website updates have poured in over the past week. Tom Wickline updated the status pages, including the addition of builtin versions of atl.dll, d3dxof.dll, dbghelp.dll, and mlang.dll. Our janitorial projects received a bit of their own janitorial clean up courtesy of Dimi Paun. They also saw the addition of -Wsign-compare as a useful gcc warning to turn on (suggested by Mike McCormack.) Finally, over on the downloads page we've added Fedora Core 2 and White Box Enterprise Linux targets as part of the Red Hat packages maintained by Vincent Béron.

Yes.. it's that time of the month again. What's new in this release:

• New msiexec application.
• Support for alpha blending.
• More sound support improvements.
• Various code cleanups.
• Lots of bug fixes.

Read more about this release, or just go download it.

What's new in this release:

• Implementation of the Microsoft Installer dll.
• Beginnings of proper inter-process window repaints.
• Several DirectSound improvements.
• Fixes for the regressions caused by the new filesystem support.
• Lots of bug fixes.

Read more about this release, or just go download it.