Software Update: Wine 2.0-rc5

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 24,170 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-rc5 (total 28):

• 7372: Can’t copy and paste between native apps (eg, Open Office, Firefox, Gimp) and some Wine apps (affects Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Powerpoint, Excel)
• 9875: moving dialogs shows artifacts on window behind it
• 11835: Adobe Acrobat Pro 6 / Acrobat Reader 6.01 — Comments don’t work
• 11847: Adobe Acrobat Pro 6 / Acrobat Reader 6.01 — How To window does not work
• 15845: Silverlight configuration tab “Application storage” causes freeze (while iterating isolated storage)
• 16528: RAdmin Send Message Feature Doesn’t Work
• 29832: Mario Forever crashes
• 30355: DVDSubEdit 1.52 crashes on startup, broken TBM_SETRANGEMAX handling
• 33066: resident evil 6 pc benchmark Black screen
• 33860: Visual Web Developer Express 2008 displays only “file system” in Browse window
• 34465: process hacker 2.31 crashes in toolbar code
• 36187: valgrind shows lots of warnings for comctl32/tests/listview.c when running in a virtual desktop
• 36554: valgrind shows a definite leak in ieframe/tests/intshcut.c
• 37458: Regedit: Left click on a selected key activates renaming mode
• 37576: Google Sketchup 7 and 8: 2D Drawing File Export Broken
• 37762: Runaway & Runaway 2: wrong colors
• 38030: Adobe Lightroom 5.7 – Classic window dialog size increase at each opening
• 38216: Wrong screen in Civilization V
• 38449: valgrind shows a couple leaks in shell32/tests/shelldispatch.c test_namespace()
• 38847: valgrind shows a definite leak in winmm/tests/wave.c
• 39905: Ogar Server crashes while starting
• 40537: ddraw:ddraw1 causes Windows XP to crash
• 41058: Absent model in 3d scene in SexyBeach3 game
• 41188: Trove game wants msvcp140.dll._Cnd_init_in_situ
• 42009: Mentor Graphics DK Design Suite crashes on clipboard copy
• 42067: Disney Universe doesn’t scale game screen properly
• 42110: regression: commit “xinput1_3 prefer builtin dll” aliens versus predator classic 2000 (steam) fails to launch
• 42194: Magic: The Gathering Online 4.0 fails to connect to login server