Software Update: Wine 1.7.31

A new development build of Wine has been released with version number 1.7.31. 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. 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 minor adjustments, contains exactly 21,823 titles at the time of writing. Below you will find what has been changed and improved in this release.

What’s new in this release:

• New version of the Gecko engine based on Firefox 34.
• Support for the Visual Studio 2013 version of the C/C++ runtimes.
• More font metrics support in DirectWrite.
• Some more Direct2D work.

Bugs fixed in 1.7.31 (total 51):

• 3766: GRE Powerprep Software crashes
• 9190: Warhammer: Dark Omen doesn’t launch
• 10085: Adobe Bridge CS2 complains that it can’t start due to licensing restrictions (affects photoshop)
• 10212: Microsoft Crimson Skies crashes after startup
• 13632: ShipSimulator 2008 freezes after start playing (needs d3dx9_36.D3DXCreatePolygon)
• 16584: chaos theory music lack of drums
• 16699: OpenGL anti-aliasing capabilities of graphics driver not exposed to Google Sketchup 7/8 (needs WGL_SWAP_COPY_ARB support)
• 16832: Hinterland fails to run, wine reports Unhandled page fault to NULL
• 18289: wine gets some wrong charcodes on some keyboard mappings
• 18689: Wine serial-handling consumes 100% CPU when using USB->Serial-converter
• 24787: WoW 4.x D3D: Player shadow broken with orm=backbuffer
• 25247: Alien Swarm: Can’t join or create game, game hangs
• 25342: Bionic Command: Rearmed. Dark foreground graphics
• 25392: Unable to start qm.exe from state-machine.com website on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
• 25399: EasyCash & Tax crashes when executing “Select New Datadirectory” menu entry
• 27736: Virtual Sailor 7 settings screen: boats and scenery options are unavailable
• 28675: FUEL: Abandoned Vehicles Do Not Appear where they should
• 29861: MiPony crashes after startup with null pointer access in fire_event
• 30492: VMware vSphere Client v5.0 Update 1 fails, needs ntoskrnl.exe.IoRegisterPlugPlayNotification
• 30572: Multiple applications need vectored continuous handler support (.NET 3.x/4.x/Silverlight, Lync from Office 2013)
• 30737: Dde_OnRequest should return groups_data instead of NULL
• 31410: Hamster Free eBook Converter 1.0.0.x installer crashes on startup
• 32111: Element Client for Perfect World crashes on startup
• 32448: WoW, The memory could not be “read”. Sound/video performance issues
• 32825: ThunderMini: hangs randomly after change the status of the file
• 32977: Solidworks 2012 needs unimplemented function dwmapi.dll.DwmInvalidateIconicBitmaps (Win7 mode)
• 32978: Solidworks 2012 : OpenGL Display refresh problems with keyboard events (mouse is OK)
• 33323: Garena Messenger crashes on startup
• 33993: Microsoft Jet fails to install
• 34184: Skype 6.6 and above cannot start, Runtime error 217 at 00XXXXXX, Loading of typelib L”uc.tlb” failed with error 1006
• 34539: Final Fantasy XIV Benchmark: moving the window inside a virtual desktop causes mouse focus issues
• 34573: Cinema 4D R15 crashes on unimplemented function IPHLPAPI.DLL.NotifyIpInterfaceChange
• 34857: Hoyle Casino 2011 game won’t launch.
• 34915: user32:msg fails on Windows XP
• 34941: Ruby 1.9.x interpreter hangs with OS-level thread concurrency error (critical section not initialized in msvcrt internal semi-documented ‘ioinfo’ struct)
• 35133: The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing (Steam) crashes with built-in d3dx9_36
• 35722: MS Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable KB-hotfix installer, part of Nero 10 installer crashes on unimplemented function msi.dll.MsiRemovePatchesW
• 36713: Watch_Dogs requires ws2_32.inet_pton
• 36752: mp3DirectCut 2.20 crashes when stopping mp3 playback
• 37074: Ironclads series: missing text in the menus without native d3dx9_36
• 37120: PVS-Studio Error: Equivalent branches of if operator
• 37354: Battle.net launcher does not start in Windows 7 mode: “Cannot load Qt platform plugin Windows” (FindFirstFileExW needs info level ‘FindExInfoBasic’ support)
• 37374: Behringer X-32 Edit crashes on startup
• 37381: Matlab 2010 crashes on unimplemented function msvcr80.dll._ungetc_nolock
• 37461: Sid Meier’s Civilization: Beyond Earth (Steam) crashes on unimplemented function msvcp110.dll.?length@?$codecvt@GDH@std@@QBEHAAHPBD1I@Z
• 37490: dwrite/analyzer.c:1226:5: warning: comparison of unsigned expression < 0 is always false
• 37493: Silverlight 5.1 msi installer fails with Wine 1.7.30 – Transform doesn’t update ProductVersion property
• 37511: Multiple games and applications need ‘msvcp120.dll’ (PPSSPP 0.9.x)
• 37519: ooVoo 3.6.x (video chat client) doesn’t launch
• 37539: Altap Salamander 3.04 crashes on startup on missing shell32.RegenerateUserEnvironment
• 37548: .NET applications using native .NET Frameworks fail to load, reporting ‘CLR error: 80004005. The program will now terminate.’ (‘RtlAddVectoredContinueHandler’ is a stub)