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 24,202 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-rc6 (total 21):
- 11179: NO$GBA 2.6a debugger GUI buttons are not stacked
- 19862: CodeCreatures crashes.
- 28672: VirtualDub: crash when using directx for display panes
- 33859: Visual Web Developer Express 2008 crashes when clicking “Browse” (bug in PropertySheet common control)
- 34127: FIFA 2000 demo crashes after ‘Press Any Key’
- 35669: Space Giraffe: text between levels (and on level selection screen) is corrupted / unreadable
- 36525: Ctrl+C does not copy in the Battle.net chat scrollback
- 38305: SMARegisTry Backup installer: corrupted window title
- 38845: Battle.net launcher shows white screen with WINEPREFIX Windows version > ‘Windows XP’ (builtin ‘d3dcompiler_46.dll’ is not mature enough)
- 38850: crypt32/tests: chain test fails on Debian Jessie
- 39642: Battle.net crashes when you try to resize the window when “allow the window manager to decorate the windows” is unchecked.
- 40096: Pendulumania: Black screen
- 40781: KSP Trajectory Optimization Tool (using MATLAB Runtime (MCR)) “Could not successfully parse URI string”
- 41001: 64-bit Core Temp 1.x kernel driver ‘ALSysIO.sys’ crashes on unimplemented function ntoskrnl.exe.RtlUnwindEx
- 41212: curl 7.50: HTTPS fails with InitializeSecurityContext failed: SEC_E_INVALID_TOKEN
- 41290: DirectShow applications: MP3 playback is broken if winegstreamer is disabled
- 42020: Tompi Jones fails creating user profile
- 42211: redefinition of typedef ‘REFERENCE_TIME’
- 42228: bcrypt:bcrypt test regression (test_aes)
- 42229: advapi32:eventlog test regression (privilege issue in test_start_trace)
- 42243: 3DMark11 installer crashes with access violation in Freetype because font data is released too early
| Version number | 2.0-rc6 |
| Release status | beta |
| Operating systems | Linux, BSD, Solaris |
| Website | Wine HQ |
| Download | |
| File size |
22.58MB |
| License type | GPL |