Software Update: Wine 0.9.52

It’s Friday and the previous version of Wine is exactly two weeks old. Regular visitors to the junk tracker will then know what time it is: time for a new Wine release. This time, version 0.9.52 has been released by the developers. With the help of this software it is possible to run Windows programs on Linux, FreeBSD and Mac OS X, among others. Not all Windows programs still work via Wine, but people have now reached the point where started is it with it make and process of lists of bugs that must be fixed before an official 1.0 version is released. In the release released today, the following has been fixed:

• Improved graphics tablet support.
• Support for RPC context handles.
• Fixes for some longstanding screen depth issues.
• Implementation of “My Network Places” shell folder.
• Lots of bug fixes.

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