Software Update: Wine 1.5.15

A new development build of Wine has been released with version number 1.5.15. Wine is an open source implementation of the Windows API. The software 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 that work under Wine, with or without the help of minor adjustments, contains 19,080 titles at the time of writing, 57 more than at the time of version 1.5.14. Below you will find what has been changed and improved in this release.

What’s new in this release:

• Full support for layered windows.
• New version of the Gecko engine based on Firefox 16.
• Support for broadcast sockets used by networked games.
• Downloaded add-ons installers are now cached.
• Support for persistent Internet cookies.
• String optimizations in JavaScript.

Bugs fixed in 1.5.15 (total 86):

• JP soft’s 4DOS unimplemented int2f values
• Orbiter060929 crashes, unimplemented function msvcirt.dll.??0ofstream@@QAE@PBDHH@Z
• C&C 3 network does not work
• Window movement in virtual desktop mode should match real Windows
• wineconsole curses backend wraps cursor in cmd incorrectly
• PokerTracker HUD dysfunctional (UpdateLayeredWindow per-pixel alpha, color keying not implemented)
• cmd’s “for” command doesn’t handle /F. Breaks msysgit, firefox build.
• MuckClient introduction CHM windows are spawned incorrectly
• Painkiller level E4M3 “Babel” hangs on load
• cmd.exe: mishandled quoted built-in commands with parameters (programs/cmd/wcmdmain.c: has_space==1 && opt_s==0)
• Quickbooks update checker hangs during download
• The Football Superstars updater endlessly loops attempting to update
• BITS background transfer job size is always unknown
• cmd can’t handle echo commands containing quotes and redirection
• cmd /c echo “&” returns ‘Echo is ON’, not ‘”&”‘
• ‘cmd echo on’ sometimes fails
• Heroes of Might and Magic V hangs during start-up
• cmd /c “dir ” fails
• Notification tray icons using solid rather than transparent background colors
• specviewperf10: run_all.bat fails to invoke second test
• Portal from Steam – recommended texture detail low
• EVE Online: Random “Unhandled page fault” during game play
• UpdateLayeredWindow() generates WM_SIZE when it should not, and other non-matching behavior
• black shadow when running Tencent QQ and Thunder
• Wine should use pkg-config –libs freetype2 instead of freetype-config –libs
• TYPE and MORE integrated commands ignore charset
• assert failure playing mp3 file in Super Mario Bros. X
• Incorrect command line parsing in cmd
• Heroes of Might and Magic V low frame rate
• “Fatal Error” while launching Paintball 2
• June 2010 directx sdk: cannot change installation component options
• Two joysticks reported instead of one
• Cloning Clyde hangs with a black screen on start
• msvcp60.dll.??0Init@ios_base@std@@QAE@XZ needed by Creative Centrale, QQDownload, Adobe Premiere Pro and others
• Eve Online Randomly Crashes with unhandled page fault on read access.
• EVE online: client unresponsive with stack overflow in terminal output
• Sound fails after level start in System Shock 2
• Quicktime 7.6.9: crashes on run
• IE7/IE8 x64 installation doesn’t complete (cmd.exe builtin copy command asks for overwrite despite being invoked through “cmd.exe /c”)
• WCMD_for /R needs to handle supplied root
• avast! Free Antivirus crashes on each boot due to unimplemented function ntoskrnl.exe.PsImpersonateClient
• Multiple apps need IXMLDOMDocument::save() to preserve/output XML declaration (Lexware 2012 product installers, …)
• Multiple apps need msvcp90.dll.??0?$basic_ostringstream@GU?$char_traits@G@std@@V?$allocator@G@2@@std@@QAE@H@Z (Juggernaut MMORPG, MS Office Communicator 2007 R2 Trial, Cmake, Elsterformular)
• NightSky needs msvcp60.dll.??0?$basic_ifstream@DU?$char_traits@D@std@@@std@@QAE@PBDH@Z
• avs2yuv.exe fails to load avisynth.dll (msvcp60.?str@?$basic_stringstream@DU?$char_traits@D@std@@V?$allocator@D@2@@std@@QBE?AV?$basic_string@DU ?$char_traits@D@std@@V?$allocator@D@2@@2@XZ)
• Silverlight 4 does not install (Microsoft PlayReady DRM scheme requires FILE_PERSISTENT_ACLS if returned filesystem type is NTFS)
• noscript tag is not working correctly anymore
• EVE-Online Launcher crashes during patching
• Lexware Buchhalter 2012 complains on startup about missing ‘arial’ font (native gdiplus works around without having ‘arial’ installed)
• GTA2 crashes on starup
• Assassin’s Creed 2 and Revelations look in wrong place for saved games?
• .NET Framework 3.x/4.x WPF Media Integration Layer deadlocks between ui and render thread when calling SetPixelFormat
• FTABCISSetup.exe needs unimplemented function msvcp60.dll.??0?$basic_ostringstream@DU?$char_traits@D@std@@V?$allocator@D@2@@std@@QAE@H@Z
• ThunderMini deadlock at start with builtin msvcr71
• XMP (Xunlei Kankan player ) crash with builtin msvcp71
• Temple of Evil – full screen mode “fail”, results in a “borderless window” with wrong dimensions
• Divinity II: The Dragon Knight Saga needs msvcp90.dll.??0strstreambuf@std@@QAE@PBDH@Z (purist)
• Listview LVS_EX_GRIDLINES paints thick gridlines in lists with >3855 items
• Adobe After Effects CS5 x64 won’t start due to unimplemented function
• quartz video window isn’t fullscreen in fullscreen apps
• Graphic Problem on Grandia II
• Toad: Installer throws a gdiplus exception
• Netflix on Firefox fails with DRM error when loading bar is at 98%
• SlingPlayer 1.5 crashes when stopping stream
• iexplore, SunSpider JavaScript benchmarks is really slow
• Regression Error – OpenGL display blanked out with gray rectangle
• MiniThuder crash with unimplemented msvcp71.dll.?insert@?$basic_string@_WU?$char_traits@_W@std@@V?$allocator@_W@2@@std@@QAEXViterator@12@I_W@Z
• Colobot demo crashes when changing rendering settings
• Full-page Silverlight 5.x on Firefox fails to render on top of browser elements
• Access 2010 (Design view) Combobox activation causes Runtime error + total crash.
• Cedar Logic crashes when you press F1
• dmime:performance tests shows lots of unitialized values ​​in dmusic
• LTSpice: chm help file viewer broken
• Add correct detection of GeForce GT 650M card
• AutoCAD 2009: Fonts aren’t visible at installation
• Transcendence hangs with a blank screen on startup
• Cannot close wine desktop via Alt+F4 when a game is running
• Wizard101 launcher slow to load and then freezes for 30 seconds or more
• Steam needs unimplemented function ADVAPI32.dll.StopTraceA when wine is set to vista or win7
• Bits of the wow launcher disappear when hovering it
• Photoshop CS5 fails to run
• Aquanox: black screen in virtual desktop mode
• Weird winedbg behavior when issuing a command
• Pokemon World No sound because of stubbed MediaControl_RenderFile
• Copistar needs Win32_NetworkAdapter WMI class ‘AdapterType’ property
• Steam in xfce: xfwm4 windows refuse to relinquish focus

Internet Explorer 8 using Wine on Ubuntu, click on the image for a larger version.