Software Update: Wine 1.1.39

On Friday, Wine’s usual biweekly new development build was released. 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. Wine is contributed by a large group of developers, which is why it was decided to release a new build every two weeks, instead of waiting for a number of new features to be ready. The database with applications that work under Wine, with or without some minor adjustments, contains 13,765 titles at the time of writing, 75 more than version 1.1.38. Below you will find what has been changed and improved in this release:

What’s new in this release:

• Support for registry symbolic links.
• Many MSI fixes.
• Build process improvements.
• MSXML cleanups and fixes.
• A number of MSHTML improvements.

Bugs fixed in 1.1.39:

• Sonic & Knuckles Collection freezes when starting a game
• gtk-dev-2.12.9-win32-2.exe crashes on installation
• Oblivion crashes during certain quests when entering certain doors or jumping into water
• Can’t paste large amounts of text into an application via the clipboard
• dooble browser’s new tab button makes the browser window close
• Europa Universalis 2: crashes after a few moments upon starting
• MyRoots Install fails err:msi:msi_cabextract FDICopy failed
• Anno 1701 crashes at startup
• eBay Turbo Lister unhandled exception
• VMware Player install – not enough disk space
• EVE Online glitches graphically, then crashes
• Turbo Lister’s installer puts folders in the wrong place
• Portal/Half life ep2 screen is black
• AutoCAD 2004: Crash after closing Layer Management Window
• Acclaim Re-Volt: Unhandled page fault on read access during Battle Tags and Nhood1
• Missing toolbar icons in HTML-Kit
• File open dialog is extremely slow
• Background music doesn’t loop in Pikachu Volleyball 1.0
• PAF 5 help viewer crashes
• Aztlam Dreams nolonger displays any graphics
• EVE Online: Crashes when generating certain images
• mscoree.dll.DllUnregisterServer stub needed (.NET 1.0 installer)
• MJ12node.exe crashes with StackOverflowException
• CactusGest crash when selecting any option
• No background music in Pikachu Volleyball 1.0
• Garmin training center crashes
• The Lost Crown: game crashes shortly after beginning
• NuSphere PhpED 5.9 build 5921 crash whenever try to browse file
• Age of Empires III Trial install fails
• make install error with today (11.Feb.10) commits
• Turbo Lister assertion failure
• Mass Effect crashes when exiting Chora’s Den
• Return key has no effect in an input dialog on a win16 application
• Sonic & Knuckles Collection Demo installer produces (non-fatal) WINNLS32 errors
• msi.MsiGetMode( MSIRUNMODE_MAINTENANCE) case should return false on new installs (TecDoc CATALOG 1/2010 installer)