Software Update: Wine 2.0-rc4

After a long series of development builds, we are working towards a stable build of Wine again. Wine is an open source implementation of the Windows API and allows you 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 the help of minor adjustments, contains 24,157 titles at the time of writing. The changelog for this release looks like this:

What’s new in this release:

• Bug fixes only, we are in code freeze.

Bugs fixed in 2.0-rc4 (total 28):

• 7592: Window problems when running Citrix ICA client ICA16 v6.20.985 (Win16)
• 11808: winefile: broken horizontal scrolling
• 24718: Condes renders every line or point 100x thicker than it should be
• 29287: Heroes of Might and Magic IV: performance issues with Opengl renderer
• 32682: Multiple .NET 4.0 applications fail to load the pen cursor (IDC_PEN, 32631, 0x7F77 missing)
• 33570: SWAT 4: Mouse Escapes Wine environment in full screen or windowed mode
• 34030: Altium Designer 10 hangs on startup accessing a driver
• 34807: Gruntz crashes on startup in d3d
• 35293: Halo: Combat Evolved has graphical glitches
• 35700: Arabic Shaping Is Broken After Rechedit News.
• 36959: Whirlwind of Vietnam crashes after starting
• 37416: The Sims 3: Display locks when running in window, uses 100% cpu
• 38766: RpcBindingServerFromClient is unimplemented, needed to determine client Computer Name/IP Address
• 39268: x11drv: Can’t store handle for display fd
• 39714: Halo some sounds in cut scenes don’t play
• 40169: Recognize INTERNET_FLAG_SECURE with INTERNET_INVALID_PORT_NUMBER in GetHttpConnection
• 40243: Korg Nano editor USB MIDI driver won’t install, requires Administrator Privileges
• 40477: Motocross Madness and 3DMark2000 do not start (VRAM, video memory size)
• 41347: TMIDI Player: Some characters and logos in LCD are rendered as black rectangles
• 41599: Battle.net and Hearthstone play loud static when receiving messages
• 41708: Duo 0.10 crashes on startup
• 41998: Regression in wined3d crashes visual novel “A drug that makes you dream”
• 42031: Heroes Of Might & Magic VI: no more started
• 42057: Pressing Ctrl+C to close iTunes results in error dialog with gibberish title
• 42071: LINE (Powered by Naver): LINE does not work on wine 1.9.16 and later versions
• 42074: osu! – Audio latency regression (ALSA)
• 42090: Highway Pursuit constantly emits loud noise when sound effects enabled
• 42101: Strania – The Stella Machina (Steam) black screen on launch