Software Update: Wine 2.17

A new development build of Wine has been released with version number 2.17. 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 24,870 titles at the time of writing. The following changes and improvements have been made in this release:

What’s new in this release:

• Better support for grayscale mode in DirectWrite.
• Per-application StartupWMClass in desktop files.
• Virtual memory compatibility improvements.
• Palette handling improvements in Windows Codecs.
• Reply message improvements in WebServices.

Bugs fixed in 2.17 (total 20):

• 12185: Before You Know It crashes
• 19177: Gorky-17 does not start in Direct3D HAL (SW Renderer is OK)
• 29958: UIRibbon Framework not implemented: 926749fa-2615-4987-8845-c33e65f2b957
• 38622: gdiplus should return PixelFormat32bppARGB instead of PixelFormat8bppIndexed for a grayscale PNG file
• 39885: Cannot allocate more than 32gb of memory
• 41370: TTM_GETCURRENTTOOL returns always FALSE when send from TTN_NEEDTEXT handler.
• 41827: Wrong specular rendering with some applications
• 42427: Steam application claims no internet connection
• 43046: Multiple apps need api-ms-win-crt-stdio-l1-1-0.dll.__stdio_common_vfprintf_s (Civilization VI, Mafia 3, SketchBook)
• 43197: 5Plus: Print dialog crashes with illegal floating point operation
• 43290: MyLifeOrganized crashes when mousing over tabs
• 43319: Steam Store/Uplay/Epic Games Launcher no longer display text in Windows 7 mode (libcef applications)
• 43476: Skyrim hardware detection spinlocks with CSMT enabled
• 43519: Path of Exile: Corrupt/flickering UI textures after ~1 minute of gameplay
• 43577: unit test: DBGrid inplace editor dropdown does not work and worked on version 2.0.2
• 43586: Dead Space: no shadows in game
• 43649: dbgeng stub DebugCreateEx causes jadesentinel crash in JADE thin client
• 43658: Text in Deletion Confirmation MsgBox has wrong background colour
• 43668: Terris Universal Remote UFB 234 – update database does not work
• 43685: Many games fail to start, or run without audio