Software Update: Wine 1.5.19

A new development build of Wine has been released with version number 1.5.19. 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 running under Wine, with or without minor tweaks, contains 19,360 titles at the time of writing, 82 more than at the time of version 1.5.18. This week’s changelog is a bit shorter than we’re used to, but this time there was also the American party Thanksgiving Day in.

What’s new in this release:

• Performance improvements in the DIB engine.
• More fleshed out XML-lite implementation.
• Some more C++ runtime functions.

Bugs fixed in 1.5.19 (total 36):

• Silent Hunter III: Crashes on loading a savegame at sea (dsound causing out of memory condition)
• crash in cmd.exe with lib.exe (VC++6.0)
• Direct3D only shows garbage when rendering to a child window on intel
• Supreme Commander: No audio at default sample rate/with full audio hardware acceleration
• cmd /c doesn’t wait for result before exiting?
• GRLEVEL2: Radar is offset in the upward direction making sampling incorrect.
• Pausing Pikachu Volleyball and opening menus disrupts fade-in/fade-out effects
• League of Legends / Pando downloader can’t use its bundled MSVCP90
• cmd.exe: enclosing quoting of builtin command and parameters confuses cmd.exe (Windows PowerShell 2.0 installer)
• In Magicka, certain polygons can stretch across the map and track the player.
• Microsoft Product Support Reporting Tool 6 (32-bit) doesn’t detect somethings
• When CreateFileW receives invalid filename it crashes
• Dungeons and Dragon Launcher crashes
• Classic Shell installer fails to extract setup file
• iexplore says Javascript is not enabled
• w3schools ajax examples don’t work in iexplore
• __RTDynamicCast (aka dynamic_cast<>) broken on win64?
• d3d8/device.c, d3d9/device.c: tests fail on nVidia chip
• Handle failure to reserve NT shared user data at 0x7ffe0000 (Windows on ARM)
• Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Edition: SQL Server System Configuration Checker fails (needs lanmanserver service registry values)
• Adobe Acrobat Professional XI needs msvcp100.dll.??0_Container_base12@std@@QAE@XZ
• Europa Universalis III demo needs msvcp60.dll.?_Mode@?$basic_stringbuf@DU?$char_traits@D@std@@V?$allocator@D@2@@std@@AAEHH@Z
• Port Royale needs msvcp60.dll.??1?$collate@G@std@@UAE@XZ (purist)
• Bug in BasePinImp_GetMediaType()
• Installer of Creo 2.0 Parametric Free Trial needs msvcp100.dll.?ends@std@@YAAAV?$basic_ostream@DU?$char_traits@D@std@@@1@AAV21@@Z
• No sound in Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
• Dr.com client hangs at start after clicking on any area of ​​the application
• Railworks 3 Train Simulator 2013 crashes in OleDraw
• WinUAE emulation window not refreshed properly when other windows move in front of it
• Winecfg applications tab displays apps on one line & they cannot be selected
• Dr.com response slowly when clicking on menu
• TeamViewer-7.0.9377 crashes on start
• Office 2010, Visio 2010 Std installers fail
• Moving objects in Circuitmaker 2000 schematic is delayed (slowed down)
• Mezzmo fails to start due to unimplemented function MSVCR80.dll._encode_pointer
• QQ2012 crashes at start