Last Friday a new build of Wine was released with version number 1.1.5. 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 that work under Wine contains 11,275 titles at the time of writing, which can run fine without problems or with some minor adjustments. Here’s what’s changed in this release:
What’s new in this release:
- Substantial JavaScript implementation.
- Partial support for layered windows.
- Support for Unicode file export in Regedit.
- Proper exception handling in widl-generated code.
- Asynchronous requests and cookies support in WinHTTP.
Bug fixed in 1.1.5:
- print page range defaults to 1 to 65535 pages on graphical applications
- failure of CreateScalableFontResourceA and Unhandled page fault in MathWorkshop
- Deliplayer doesn’t fully open saying it can’t open DeliUI
- Close combat 3 crashes with backtrace
- Hyperlobby: runtime error 430
- AOL AIM won’t install: complains about minimum requirements
- Defcon crashes in ws2_32
- Formula objects in Word 97 always trigger unhandled page fault
- Regedit cannot import/export version 5 registry files
- Regedit Metabug: get regedit working perfectly
- No battle sounds in Guild Wars
- warrock installer crash
- Safari crashes on startup
- Evernote crashes
- MS Office 2007 Home and Student edition installer crashes
- Call from 0x7b840a80 to unimplemented function gdiplus.dll.GdipSetLinePresetBlend
- FIFA2002 demo crashes, dsound/alsa
- Guild Wars: Rendering of 3D models broken
- Silencer doesn’t fully connect to lobby server.
- Input Method’s output overruns the buffer of wine keyboard input
- cookies not set within steam
- SEH stack overflow exception in Kuma Games
- Bioshock demo: crashes on loading screen
- Problems with ole on Interfax-Direct
- Mpeg2Schnitt doesn’t display video since wine v. 0.9.16
- sacred: Sacred crashes randomly after several actions in game
- Portal must be launched twice to run properly
- excel page faults and exits
- FileZilla 3.0.5.2 crashes if changing local working directory
- Cannot select a format option for numeric values in Excel 2003
- Medieval 2: Total War: water covers the land
- Speed Commander 12 does not install
- Regression running “Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow”
- D3D9: Visual test fail
- Photoshop CS2 tab doesn’t really really hide windows
- MotoGP 3: Crashes when attempting to configure controllers
- Cepstral voice configuration tools are not displayed in the control panel
- BYOND: Clicking url doesn’t launch native browser
- BYOND: Crashing on login
- Cepstral voices garble the first part of the sentence they are reading
- Trackmania nations forever does not install Openal
- Progecad smart! crashes on save/save us
- Xenocode Virtual Appliance Runtime Error
- A-ray crashes on startup
- Cluster size not supported for large NFS mounts?
- Excel 2007 Crashes immediately on startup.
- FtpVC applicaton does not run
- BYOND Suite: Browser windows do not function / crash DreamSeeker.
- warcraft 3 sound stops after a while
- Sopcast generate a crash while using, native wmvcore.dll
- ddraw tests fail on XP SP2 with Radeon Mobility 9000 card
- Sound buffer freed by both winealsa.drv and dsound
- installation of WISO 2007 failed
- Spore Creature Creature: Failed to connect to license server
- No sound in Morrowind using software mixing
- richedit: Deleting text at end of edit control is improperly handled
- Diablo2:LOD Digital Distribution: “Agree” button never enables
- Google Lively installer aborts because of missing directx registry entry
- VFP8-SP1-Runtime crashes on a certain function
- orb installer aborts, unimplemented function gdiplus.dll.GdipGetPropertyItem
- Shell32 IAutoCompleteDropDown needed for VS.NET 2005 and other tools which use MS DevEnv UI engine
- Unreal Tournament: General Protection fault!
- ngen.exe from .NET 2.0 show exception E_INVALIDARG when trying to compile an assembly
- Installer doesn’t allow for the Accept button to be clicked on the license agreement
- widl fails to honor typedef ptr attributes
- Raising exception for SC_RPC_HANDLE being NULL
- No ingame sound in Diablo 2 anymore since update
- Haskell’s removeDirectoryRecursive fails on Wine
- intermittent crashes while playing bf1942
- Rome Total War: water is not rendered on the campaign map
- Google Chrome fails to load web pages.
- Google Chrome on Wine 1.1.3 does not load pages over HTTPS
- Flashplayer crashes when used with an IMC
- Wine notepad: Extension behavior differ from Windows
- In Google Chrome, embedded flash window does not scroll with main window
- Parallel install in multiple jobs as in “make -j99 install” fails
- Several fonts don’t appear in Adobe Photoshop CS
- Google Chrome crashes when downloading an exe file
- winedbg has an infinite loop at wine/programs/winedbg/memory.c:426
- orb installer crashes when showing eula
- moving/resizing undecorated windows broken in dual-screen setups
- objects in trace leave trails
- jscript: engine.c – unitialized variable
[break]
Office 2007 under Wine on Linux, click on the image for a larger version.
| Version number | 1.1.5 |
| Release status | unstable |
| Operating systems | Linux, BSD, macOS, Solaris |
| Website | Wine HQ |
| Download | |
| File size |
13.80MB |
| License type | GPL |