Software Update: Wine 1.1.16

On Friday, a new development build of Wine was released, just in time. Wine is an open source implementation of the Windows API. This makes it possible to run DOS and Windows programs on Linux, FreeBSD and Mac OS X, among others. The database with applications running under Wine, with or without some minor tweaks, it contains 11,786 titles at the time of writing, which is 141 more than two weeks ago. Below are the changes and improvements made in this release:

What’s new in this release:

• Improved SANE scanner support.
• Support for digital CD audio playback.
• Improved cookie management in Wininet.
• Support for building stand-alone 16-bit modules.
• Many fixes to the regression tests on Windows.

Bugs fixed in 1.1.16:

• listview columns do not sort in Acemoney
• Microsoft Golf 3.0 crashes on startup
• Pegasus Mail: program closes when sub-program closes
• 3DMark01 – Test4 Nature is extremely slow
• midtown madness 2 menus are not displayed correctly
• regedit does not correctly display unicode value data
• iTunes – Show in Windows Explorer link broken
• Dialog with enu does not display the menu
• Live For Speed ​​S2: could not detect suitable screen modes
• watchtower library – listview works slow and wrong
• Victoria, an Empire under the sun. Crashes on startup
• Lemmings Revolution: does not start anymore, still did in 0.9.43.
• Dungeon Keeper 2 cursor fails to render correctly with hardware rendering enabled
• Dungeon Keeper 2 cannot be navigated with the arrow keys
• GuildWars 3D rendering broken
• America does not run
• FoxPro for Windows 2.5 setup.exe crashes with page fault
• Missing symbols in Microsoft Word (symbol.ttf is required)
• Supreme Commander: Lighting changes on zoom level
• Silent hill 4 demo crashes very early
• Miranda has severe problems showing history in conversation windows
• Photomatix Pro works in 32-bit but crashes in 64-bit Ubuntu
• winealsa sound regression: scratchiness/stutter in multiple games
• Tile Studio 2.55: Toolbar icons get resized when switching to Map mode
• Dragon NaturallySpeaking 10 crashes after SelectStyleFont
• Miranda IM options page crash
• Dragon NaturallySpeaking 10 New User Box displays training text incorrectly
• Switched Y/Z on german keyboard settings
• memory leak in function SetWindowRgn(?)
• file dialog to select attchments slows down for many files
• Call of Duty 2 demo install fails
• eMule: Ends up eating all the memory (swap included)
• Chicken Tournament: needs ComputeSphereVisibility
• Keyboard stops working in Halo Demo
• VMware Intrastructure Client 2.5 cannot validate disk capacity while creating new VM
• eac3to: large files don’t work – NtMapViewOfSection?
• crypt32/chain tests fail with +heap enabled
• crypt32/encode tests fail with +heap enabled
• riched32/editor tests fail with +heap enabled
• user32/dde test crashes if +heap enabled
• several tests (jscript:run, msi:msi, netapi32:access) crash if +heap enabled
• winetest causes msvcrt:file test to fail
• winhlp32 crash when run with no options
• win16 app fails with unimplemented function krnl386.exe.GetShortPathName
• libs/wine: Japanese character wrongly reported as invalid
• Portal: Prelude 1.1.5 installer has improper placement of directory selection text
• Scrollbars are inappropriately displayed in Ascentive Library Files installer