Software Update: Wine 1.2 RC2

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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. A new development build is released every Friday every other week. 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. Once in a while, however, a stable release becomes available and at this moment the second release candidate has appeared. Below you will find what has been changed and improved in this release:

What’s new in this release:

There are no new features in this release, only bug fixes, since we are in code freeze. If you find a new feature that’s a bug.

Bugs fixed in 1.2-rc2:

  • Black cursor on textbox with black backgroud -> cursor invisible
  • test case demonstration PeekMessage give up timeslices
  • Equation editor in Microsoft Office 97/2000/2003/2007 doesn’t work
  • NFS MW crashed when sound is on in winecfg
  • NFS Most Wanted: Execution of glDrawArrays (drawStridedFast) takes 1 second +
  • Doom 3 Demo fails to start
  • Need for Speed ​​Carbon crashed after game starts
  • user32 msg test fails when using virtual desktop mode
  • MiniTab fails to load due to not being able to load its own DLL
  • No large display pictures in MSN Messenger 7.0
  • Far Cry: Segmentation fault on startup when using Direct3D
  • Need for Speed ​​Most Wanted crashes frequently
  • NFSU2 crashes out when loading a level
  • ClearScale, Autocad 2008 do not run (GdipBitmapSetPixel not implemented)
  • Emule: Background color of an label is displayed horizontal
  • CodeGear RAD Studio 2007 does not install
  • [winhelp] Popup shadow is displayed ontop of popup itself
  • winhelp: Window title is not set correctly for some (older) help files
  • winhelp: Mouse pointer flickers when moved
  • wineserver: debug events can block completion of queued user APCs
  • expand: Wine’s expand program fails on /r option
  • Initial crash when running GSpot
  • Microsoft Office Outlook 2007: Splash screen never goes away, z-order issues
  • Microsoft XNA Framework 2.0 redistributable cannot be installed even with .NET Framework 2.0 installed
  • MS AppLocale installer fails
  • guitar pro 5.2 is sluggish and unstable
  • Use the system desktop setting for subpixel font smoothing
  • Audiosurf crashes on startup
  • NCSoft Launcher crashes after being run.
  • MetaTrader 4 installer hangs at the very end of file extraction
  • VectorNTI crashes when saving files
  • Powerpoint 2007: text does not display correctly in textbox rotated 90 or 270 degrees
  • Teach2000 hangs when switched to “Advanced input mode”
  • ControlSpy doesn’t show any message passed to control procedure
  • Firefox/Thunderbird/Sunbird: Close button must be clicked twice
  • MS Keyboard Layout Creator won’t run (needs GdipIsStyleAvailable)
  • Cannot type language specific letters in MS Word
  • Multiple init/deinit of msvcrt (std fd’s) causes pluto app installer to hang
  • Nokia Ovi Suite installer fails
  • Demo Need for Speed ​​Underground 1 crashes
  • VirtualDub: cannot edit text informations
  • system(NULL) generates SIGSEGV
  • Total Commander: Main window becomes dead when the FTP Connect window is open and you switch workspaces or minimize and restore the main window
  • Personal Chess Trainer v3.02, Run-time error ’13’: Type mismatch
  • PlayOnline viewer has missing icon in title bar
  • Mono & HTML-Kit’s installers do not appear in the taskbar
  • QuickTime installs a few files to the wrong location
  • Touhou games: no text in dialogue boxes
  • msvcr90 insufficient to run Deluge
  • Trackmania quits when I want to go back to the main menu
  • uTorrent 2.0.1 renders some icons incorrectly when run within a FreeNX session
  • Major decline in Starcraft’s 2d graphics performance
  • Movie Magic Screenwriter 2000 crashes when selecting Program Options
  • windows opened by wine has zero size, and cannot be resized
  • Fonts no longer anti-aliased
  • SUPERAntiSpyware displays crash handler when Preferences button is clicked
  • Civ4BeyondtheSword crashes when trying to start it
  • StarCraft 2 warns incorrectly about old drivers.
  • Tropico 3 – cursor is black rectangle everywhere in game
  • utorrent progress bars don’t show progress
  • freebsd compile broken when using BSD make
  • Mailwasher connection timeout on gmail
  • Total Commander crashes when trying to display system information
  • Drawn text overlaps after the second character.

GuildWars under Ubuntu using Wine.

Version number 1.2 RC2
Release status beta
Operating systems Linux, BSD, Solaris
Website Wine HQ
Download http://ibiblio.org/pub/linux/system/emulators/wine/wine-1.2-rc2.tar.bz2
file size 16.30MB
License type Freeware
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