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WWN Issue 228 was released today.

WWN Issue 227 was released today.

CodeWeavers announced a minor bugfix release to CrossOver Office, version 3.0.1. It's primarily aimed at Fedora Core 2 users, though there are small changes for everyone else.

What's new in this release:

• Major winedbg rewrite using the dbghelp dll.
• New Wine preloader to reserve memory areas at startup.
• Many improvements to the audio support.
• Lots of bug fixes.

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

Over the past year and half Wine's DirectX support has improved immensely. Lionel Ulmer is one of the driving forces behind that effort and this week we took a moment to talk with him about it.

read the interview...

WWN Issue 226 was released today.

WWN Issue 225 was released today.

WWN Issue 224 was released today.

We got a chance recently to sit down Steven Edwards and grill him about Wine, ReactOS, and everything in between.
read the interview...

WWN Issue 223 was released today.

WWN Issue 222 was released today.

CrossOver Office 3.0 is available for purchase from CodeWeavers' website. This is the first major release of the product in over a year. Some of the news things you'll find are:

• Newly added support for Lotus Notes (versions 5.0 and 6.5.1), Microsoft Project, and Outlook XP
• Merged codebases between CrossOver Office, CrossOver Plugin, and Wine. That means CrossOver Office now includes all the features of CrossOver Plugin and there's no need to purchase two separate products.
• A new licensing program intended to appeal to the needs of home users versus business users accompanies the new features. Appropriately, there are different price points as well.

What's new in this release:

• Many more filesystem improvements, including autodetection of drive types and devices, and support for editing the drive configuration with winecfg.
• Many Direct3D improvements.
• Several fixes to the various sound drivers.
• Lots of bug fixes.

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

WineHQ is hosting another series of interviews with Wine developers. Mike Hearn is interviewed by Brian Vincent in the first of our series of interviews for 2004.
read the interview...

WWN Issue 221 was released today.

WWN Issue 220 was released today.

WWN Issue 219 was released today.

TransGaming released WineX 3.3.1 today. "WineX 3.3.1 is primarily a bug fix release. However, it also includes a number of DirectX 9 related changes to make the present patch level of EverQuest work, and a major reduction in sound latency." For more information, see the release notes.

What's new in this release:

• DOS devices and drives are now configured through symlinks.
• Many shell32 improvements.
• New task manager merged from ReactOS.
• First version of wineprefixcreate tool for initial setup.
• Lots of bug fixes.

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

WWN Issue 218 was released today.

IBM's developerWorks published "A taste of Wine: Transition from Windows to Linux" today. (23 April 2004 - Google's cache still has a copy, but it's been removed from IBM's website.) For years IBM's articles have gone in-depth on subjects and provided more information than your average technical article. This one is no exception and covers everything from Wine's underlying architecture to creating a Winelib app. There's something in there for everyone, check it out.

WWN Issue 217 was released today.

Onebase Linux announced support for Wine using a custom configuration system. Their Wine Gallery lists applications you can run and includes MS Word View, Sim City 3000, and Dreamweaver MX. For more information about this Linux distro, check out their website. Thanks to Frank's Corner for finding this link.

WineHQ has seen quite a few additions over the past week. We're now able to display the completion of various API's from release to release. The source to the Wine Application Database was released and is available via CVS (as well as browsable via LXR.) One of the first new additions linked apps to bugs filed in BugZilla. The To Do List has seen updates from several areas, including more things bumped into the DONE category. Finally, Mike McCormack suggested three new fun projects someone might be interested in tackling:

• implementation of jscript.dll using Mozilla's SpiderMonkey
• implementation of Image Color Management, mscms.dll, using Little CMS
• implementation of cryptography functions using OpenSSL's libcrypto.so

WWN Issue 216 was released today.