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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.

WWN Issue 215 was released today.

WWN Issue 214 was released today.

• Much improved winegcc tool, now used to build Wine itself.
• VxDs are now separate libraries for better modularity.
• Improvements and simplifications to the drive configuration.
• New setupapi INF script to create the initial registry.
• Many improvements to the various multimedia dlls.
• Lots of bug fixes.

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WWN Issue 213 was released today.

WWN Issue 212 was released today.

WWN Issue 211 was released today.

We updated some more pages on the site. The Who's Who page has been rewritten. Some new names have appeared, some old ones will be moved to an as-yet unwritten acknowledgements page. A small update to the introduction page should make finding some of our resources easier to find.

TransGaming released WineX 3.3 yesterday. This new release includes support for Steam - Valve's peer to peer network designed to give you the latest updates for mods such as CounterStrike, Half-Life, and Day of Defeat. See the release notes for more details.

Pardon our dust. We're in the midst of making some updates to the WineHQ site. On of the things you might notice immediately is we've changed the download page. We've combined source and binary downloads on one page and listed all of the individual packages available for various distributions. Have you tried out Wine lately?

We've also updated our status pages, including new porting status and Winecfg options pages.

If you have any questions or concerns please feel free to mail wine-devel.

• Improved support for screen resolution changes.
• More shell32 improvements.
• Several Winelib compatibility fixes.
• Beginnings of support for typelib creation.
• Lots of bug fixes.

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WWN Issue 210 was released today.

WWN Issue 209 was released today.

ReactOS announced the release of ReactOS 0.2 Final. "The main functionality change is that of booting into the graphical ROS Explorer. The release features more additions and fixes than the ability to boot into explorer. For a complete listing, view the release changelog."

A WineConf summary has been put together and made available in the form of Wine Weekly News #208.

WineConf for 2004 is now over. Thanks go out to all the attendees and those who chatted with us on IRC. We will be posting movies, slides, IRC logs, and photos to the WineConf website.

WineConf 2004 is now in session. There is a live video feed available at the WineConf website.

WWN Issue 207 was released today.