Software Update: Wine 1.3.17

On Friday, the usual, two-weekly development build of Wine was released again. Wine is an open source implementation of the Windows API. This makes it possible to run DOS and Windows programs on Linux, FreeBSD and Solaris, among others. Wine is contributed by a large group of developers and it has been decided to release a new so-called development version every two weeks, instead of waiting for a number of new functions to be ready. A stable edition is published a few times a year. The database with applications running under Wine, with or without some minor tweaks, contains 16,474 titles at the time of writing, which is 65 more than at the time of version 1.3.16. Below you will find what has been changed and improved in this release:

What’s new in this release:

• Implementation of the new Vista file dialogs.
• Initial support for patching in MSI installers.
• Improvements to the calendar control.
• A few fixes for file associations.
• Menus cleaned up in built-in applications.

Bugs fixed in 1.3.17:

• Redraw/refresh errors for Remote Assault demo
• segmentation fault with Microsoft Flight Simulator 98
• Fractal Mapper: fill patterns get wrong
• Civilization 2 crashes on load after game complains about audio driver
• Oziexplorer Save Image Problem
• Semi transparency in .ico files is ignored
• py2exe fails because fixme:resource:get_resource_section .rsrc isn’t the last section
• Joystick POV (hat switch) doesn’t work
• Democracy crashes in wined3d
• Graphical glitches in cursor for Diner Dash Hometown Hero
• Mouse position in Steam tray menu is incorrect
• fails to run PeachTree Accounting 8.0
• REFPROP fails to calculate any values
• Protel 99: text rotation misbehavior
• Rapid Uploader: Crash with file open dialog
• ntdll/directory.c: passing argument from incompatible pointer type
• Quicktime 7.1.6 buffer overrun on exit
• the +message debug channel can cause crashes when printing sent messages
• mshtml/dom test times out if +heap enabled
• GCC optimizations cause workaround for Slingplayer bug 13371 to fail
• Amazon MP3 Downloader: Toolbar doesn’t work
• Can’t close IE8
• ActiveState ActiveTcl installer fail to install due to path write permission
• Sony Ericsson PC Suite 5 fails to install
• “Master Blaster 2006” hangs in infinite loop
• Slingplayer’s UI does not draw
• Metal Fatigue hangs on intro movies if audio is enabled
• Need for Speed ​​Porsche 2000 / Unleashed: Text displayed incorrectly
• Gomez Peer auto update fails
• 2gis does not work
• Barnes and Noble EReader crashes on startup
• .net1.1 sp1 will not install
• AtcWindows – modal windows don’t stay on top
• PCBSD crash handler encountered error while trying to start bin/wine
• Stack buffer read overflow in GdipCreateBitmapFromScan0
• Turbo Lister page fault when selecting “register now” in help page
• Cake Mania only runs in a virtual desktop on first run
• 7-Zip 64bit msi – Filesystem browser doesn’t work at all
• Delphi Apps can’t open/save files in vista+ mode
• iexplore does not correctly detect proxy details
• igneous game : graphical error
• PAF5 help content panel is blank for most chapters.
• 1by1 Player version 1.70 freezes.
• Radiobuttons and checkboxes not shown in .Net applications
• Verizon Media Manager needs native gdiplus to show text
• Pando-based downloaders (League of Legends, Atlantica Online) missing background image
• 64-bit iexplore crashes on
• ICO parsing needs an improvement
• Barnes & Noble Nook for PC (eReader 2.5) doesn’t show the text of books
• TomTom HOME2 fails to start – gives a backtrace
• Hegemony: Philip of Macedon installer complains “Couldn’t create instance of IKnownFolderManager”
• Graphical corruption in Verizon Media Manager without native GDIplus
• WoW 4.x D3D: Water Detail and Sunshafts cannot be enabled fully in d3d9
• Impulse crash after login
• EA Create demo: fails without native msvcp90
• problem on menus from DexExpress Delphi application component
• Stale file associations are not properly removed
• Black Prophecy and other Pando installers don’t render properly
• KOTOR2 : Crash when leaving Telos with the Ebon Hawk
• msi install/package tests fail on clang
• PAF5 now crashes is using the help viewer and clicking four chapter titles
• Divinity 2: The Dragon Knight Demo – fails to start with builtin msvcr80 (purist)
• TurboTax 2011: initial setup screen is mostly gray
• msvcrt/cpp tests show a few memory leaks under valgrind
• msvcrt/printf test shows an invalid/read write under valgrind
• msvcrt/locale tests show a few uninitialized variables under valgrind
• Theme internals on 64 bit enters infinite loop after crash
• AVRStudio 4 : crashes when connecting to the programmer using COM port
• Dragon Age 2 demo crashes with builtin msvcr90
• regedit: Doesn’t export decent newline in Unicode (NT5) Format.
• Cain and Abel: No permission to open .tmp file
• unimplemented function WS2_32.dll.GetNameInfoW
• ldap_set_option with LDAP_OPT_OFF does not work
• Free FLV Converter: Fails to start
• WavePad: Unimplemented function traffic.dll.TcDeregisterClient
• iMesh: Fails to install
• Office 2007 installer terminates on start
• Lost Saga downloader fails because IsValidURL doesn’t like first parameter
• IDAfree needs uxtheme.OpenThemeDataEx
• file associations built by winemenubuilder lack wineprefix
• Atom Zombie Smasher demo window is not fullscreen
• Matlab 2009a: Fails to start
• Escaped spaces in desktop entries
• eBay Turbo Lister 7 fails to install
• FTBFS: RTLD_NOW, MessageBoxA, and MB_OK undefined in JACK_DriverProc()

Total Commander using Wine on Ubuntu.