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.
Version number | 1.4 rc4 |
Release status | beta |
Operating systems | Linux, BSD, Solaris |
Website | Wine HQ |
Download | |
File size |
19.00MB |
License type | Freeware |