Software Update: Wine 1.3.9

After last week’s stable release, Wine’s usual biweekly development build has now arrived. 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. A large group of developers contribute to Wine 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 15,833 titles at the time of writing, which is 101 more than at the time of version 1.3.8. Below you will find everything that has been changed and improved in this release.

What’s new in this release:

• Beginnings of support for ActiveX in built-in browser.
• Icons on Internet shortcut menu entries.
• Standardization of code implementing COM interfaces.
• New scheme for auto-generated DLL registrations.
• OpenCL library wrapper.
• translation updates.

Bugs fixed in 1.3.9:

• Ventrilo list does not draw correctly at times
• No mp3s playing in Age of Empires 3
• EAccess Violation in winex11.drv when printing
• WISO Sparbuch garbled printout
• Visualworks Smalltalk menu z-order pfui
• chem sketch won’t display
• Swichmax 2 close in the try to export
• Spore crashes when leaving water
• GTA4 doesn’t work
• Trials 2 SE normal graphics mode does not work
• undefined reference to `NtCurrentTeb’ on PowerPC
• kernel32/format_msg.c: compiler errors
• ntdll/tests: size of array is negative
• AutoCAD 2008: installation of Service Pack 1 fails
• Office 2007 SP1/SP2 installers fail
• Top level window loses focus when selecting a menu item
• Open/save file dialog “New Folder” button does not behave as expected for non-unixfs/My Documents working directory shell items
• Adobe Reader 7 w/ FEAD installer causes a page fault
• Msxml2.DOMDocument.6.0 unimplemented
• men of war version 1.2 (regular game-on-cd, not steam or demo) crashes
• Background music (MIDI) doesn’t always play in Pikachu Volleyball 1.2
• Letter Chase 5.4 crash when typing
• Texture Problems in Battlefield Bad Company 2
• unimplemented function msvcr80.dll._wgetenv_s
• MS Paint crashes attempting to save a monochrome bitmap
• Age of Empires III 1.1.3: Unhandled exception: page fault on write access….
• Windows Live Essentials installer aborts just after startup with “an unknown error occurred”
• Multiple games from Sonalysts cannot play sound files (stored in Sfx.agg)
• Steam: Windows will automatically reopen after being closed
• WMI: provide “WMIC” stub executable to silence various “file not found” messages (Java SE JRE/JDK installers)
• Nimbus Sky Princess is slow during gameplay
• install eatree tweak
• MS Office 2010 Pro Trial installer “encounters an error”
• Fable: The Lost Chapters can’t play video
• ApacheMonitor.exe (start/stop/pause the Apache demon) needs wtsapi32.WTSTerminateProcess
• Civilization 4 crashes when starting.
• Dragon Age: Origins – ultimate edition, updater needs dotnet20, mono26 isn’t enough
• application Get My Ancestors won’t install
• utorrent icon in systray is blank and unclickable
• Chaser: crashes before reaching the main menu
• VLC 1.1.5 fails to install in Vista mode
• Rise of Nations installer hangs on “Removing icons…”
• AutoCAD 2008: Hangs at installation
• Parameter checking in _controlfp_s seems to be broken.
• Classmodules not usable in MS Word 2003
• make install-dev target broken for empty directory structures
• AutoCAD 2005 crashes selecting files after OPEN command
• Fable: The Lost Chapters, no video with gstreamer
• King’s Quest Collection Series (1997): setup.exe crashes
• graphical glitches drawing gun in Battlefield 2 Bad Company
• Photoshop CS4 Freezes on start while reading preferences
• Lightworks : Unhandled page fault on read access
• Age of Empires 3: initial playback of mp3 stutters
• GTA III and Vice City crash after the intro video
• WSAStringToAddress doesn’t update lpAddressLength on success
• Windows Live Photo Gallery [for XP] fails to install
• Windows Live Movie Maker fails to install

Total Commander using Wine on Ubuntu.