Software Update: Wine 2.14

A new development build of Wine has been released with version number 2.14. 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 24,741 titles at the time of writing. The following changes and improvements have been made in this release:

What’s new in this release:

• Mono engine updated with some bug fixes.
• C++ calling convention workarounds in the IDL compiler.
• Z-order support in the Android graphics driver.
• Scalable mouse cursors on macOS.

Bugs fixed in 2.14 (total 18):

• 35423: Serif WebPlus x5/x6/x8 installer fails, reports ‘Invalid command line.’
• 38322: Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 and Saints Row 3: Wine crashes when Steam is starting the game
• 40919: Worms Armageddon Gameplay only shows top-left corner of screen
• 41263: Dead by Daylight: Crash on starting the game
• 41985: CHM viewer does not use default window
• 42165: Root Double only shows black window in new game
• 42416: iMesh 10 crashes at startup (IWMReader::QueryInterface doesn’t support IWMReaderAccelerator, ‘BDDC4D08-944D-4D52-A612-46C3FDA07DD4’)
• 42508: start.exe does not detect its title argument when it should (breaking .eg URL opening in League of Legends)
• 42514: start.exe incorrectly treats multiple quoted arguments as the console title (breaking .eg URL opening in League of Legends)
• 42526: DiRT Showdown hangs on start
• 43135: The Witcher 3. The game does not start after upgrading to wine-staging 2.9. On wine staging 2.8 game works.
• 43144: Distorted graphics in the game Starcraft 2.
• 43369: Nora, Princess and Stray cat (demo): fails to run (division by zero)
• 43402: Star Wars – Knights of the Old Republic: hardware mouse pointer invisible
• 43403: make error on Debian 4.9.30-2kali1 (2017-06-22) x86_64 GNU/Linux
• 43413: Quicken Basic 2007 installer triggers __stack_chk_fail() on Wine builtin ‘msiexec’
• 43420: UnrealEd 3: Cannot fully build map since Wine 2.13
• 43424: cursor icon has the wrong size