Software update: Wine 1.4 rc4

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 few times a year, the developers focus on smoothing out the creases and a stable release comes out. The intention is that version 1.4 will be released soon and the fourth release candidate has now become available.

What’s new in this release:

• Bug fixes only, we are in code freeze.

Bugs fixed in 1.4-rc4:

• Image and icons corrupt in ShutterFly 2.2
• World In Conflict silently exits on start
• Photoshop CS2, info window – missing info.
• Adobe Reader 8 plugin crashes on EULA in Firefox 3 [dogfood]
• Circuitmaker schematic does not print to a printer
• Duelpro’s “Yu-gi-oh News” window unresponsive
• SigmaPlot (9,10 and 11) y-axis title rotated and shifted
• PhotoShop CS2: Photoshop Save As.. dialog ignores filename input on jpegs and names them “.jpg” (Workaround exists)
• PokerTracker hangs on start up
• So Blonde: Crashes when pick up some items
• Focus frame too big in fable
• Crash in winevdm for some 16-bit programs
• Visual C++ 2005 Express: can’t uninstall or reinstall
• America’s Army 3.0 fails to start
• Visual C++ 2005 Express SP1 install fails
• Table of contents is unusable in Wine’s CHM viewer application
• Menu item for “Visual C++ 2005 Express Command Prompt” busted
• “Sticky” right click in MS Paint
• Cannot install Adobe Photoshop CS2 due to msi_cabextract failure
• Altium Designer print preview displays inverted text in schematic views
• wine notepad crashes: BadLength (poly request too large or internal Xlib length error)
• Visual Studio 2008 (VC9) installer crashes
• Santa Clause in Trouble does not start
• F-22 Raptor freezes when loading a mission
• Control panel items description truncated
• SumatraPDF 1.6: tooltips leave black rectangles when disappearing
• Fallout New Vegas hangs by save – backtrace
• Clifford’s Thinking Adventures: mouse pointer goes wacky or disappears entirely
• No dynamic shadows with pixel shaders enabled in Tomb Raider: Anniversary
• winmm/midi.ok deadlocks and crashes occasionally?
• Sound play in games and programs causes brief “pauses”
• Magic the Gathering – Duels of the Planeswalkers 2012: Sound only works in Emulated mode
• Test Drive Unlimited: No in-game sound
• Crimzon Clover 1.01 shows only black screen
• winmm player deadlocks after failing to launch a competitor one
• Internet Explorer 8’s developer tools window hangs after changing document mode
• BurnPlot sporadically fails to start with an X error (invalid Window parameter)
• World of Warcraft 64bit client hangs at world load
• Dragon Age: Origins DVD authenticity checks fail (DVD_LAYER_DESCRIPTOR big endian values ​​need to be converted host endianness before being returned to caller)
• ElsterFormular’s setup wants at least MSI installer version 3.1 on x86_64
• Team Fortress 2 – total black screen when displaying Jarate effect
• win3.x app fail to display the printer settings dialog
• Gangsters 2 Demo (German): No aperture effect in the main menu
• Trackbar control doesn’t show tick marks when TBS_AUTOTICKS is used
• ALSA driver cannot enumerate software (slave) devices from .asoundrc
• Bomb Squad 2 display wrong
• Wine’s help viewer crashes on a particular CHM file
• Microsoft Visual Studio 2005: “attach to process” crashes IDE (marshalling/unmarshalling or GUID struct -> VT_CARRAY type)
• FarCry 1.4 crashed while using mouse wheel
• IE6’s back/forward buttons show the history dropdown menu – real dropdown arrows missing

Total Commander using Wine on Linux Mint.