Software Update: Wine 3.8

A new development build of Wine has been released with version number 3.8. 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 25,491 titles at the time of writing. The following changes and improvements have been made in this release:

What’s new in this release:

• Infrastructure for writing kernel driver tests.
• Support for showing file properties in the Shell browser.
• MP3 decoder as a DirectX Media Object.
• More support for the Task Scheduler.
• Support for COM aggregation in UrlMon.

Bugs fixed in 3.8 (total 32):

• 10365: Multiple applications fail to install due to custom action dll instance data not reset (dll pinned during execution of multiple custom actions)(Nero 7, ABBYY FineReader 9, Lingvo X5/X6, TradeStation 10.0)
• 16144: Acrobat Reader X, XI and Photoshop CS any version crash on complex documents due to missing atmlib.dll (Adobe Type Manager, Windows NT OpenType/Type 1 API Library)
• 21404: winedbg does not support fixed host:port parameter
• 21530: Wrong notification format used by tooltip attached to Toolbar
• 22048: Installation of ‘.NET documentation’ from Windows SDK for Windows 7 and .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 installer fails (VS90-KB953196-x86.exe hotfix fails with incorrect TARGETDIR)
• 23757: Free Pascal 2.4.0 segfaults (Cygwin 1.5.18 TLS implementation overwrites Wine/glibc/pthread data near Tib->StackBase)
• 30449: GDIPaint does not paint (works with native gdiplus)
• 30713: Microsoft Visual C++ 64-bit redistributables get incorrectly installed into SysWOW64 (system directory for 32-bit files) when run under 64-bit Wine
• 31741: python.org 64-bit Python 2.7.3 installer: selecting preferred installation folder does nothing (32-bit bootstrapper process needs custom action script/dll executed in 64-bit server process)
• 37856: Multiple installers fail due to 32-bit custom actions erroneously executed in 64-bit MSI process (packages needs to be processed as 32-bit by default, with relegation to 32-bit server)
• 38073: GdipDrawPath graphics object has no HDC (graphical glitches in Adobe Premiere Pro CS3)
• 43607: Akiba’s Trip Undead & Undressed requires MFStartup to return S_OK.
• 44118: Steam Big Picture requires d3d11 Multiple Viewports
• 44119: Steam Big Picture requires d3d11 Multiple scissor rects
• 44334: ‘start /W “” notepad’ does not wait as on native.
• 44399: WickrMe 4.19.7: Crashes due to stub combase.RoGetActivationFactory
• 44553: Kerberos support added in Wine 3.1 is breaking build on some old Linux distributions
• 44866: Autodesk Fusion 360 fails to run: propertystore_SetValue and propertystore_Commit need fake success
• 44895: League Of Legends: Unable to log in if behind OpenWRT based router
• 44914: Wrong cursor for IDC_SIZEWE
• 44953: Adobe Premiere Elements 14 (trial) crashes inside winmm.dll
• 44959: Adobe Premiere Elements 14 fails to install: ERROR: DF039: Cannot set folder icon. Error 2 File not found.(Seq 4)
• 44976: ConEmu-Maximus5 Windows console emulator causes crash of builtin ‘wineconsole.exe’ (division by zero)
• 45033: Dragon Naturally Speaking 15 installer fails with ‘CheckWMIService’ returning error 1602 (needs dummy Windows Management Instrumentation service ‘winmgmt’)
• 45073: MSI custom action server process crashes in remote_GetActionInfo while unmarshalling data (affects many MSI installers)
• 45078: UFOHD2 crashes inside devenum
• 45081: DsEnumerateDomainTrusts stubbed without A/W suffix
• 45118: Microsoft Windows PowerShell 6.x reports ‘PowerShell Gallery is currently unavailable.’ (WinHttpSetOption returns incorrect lasterror on unsupported options)
• 45134: Multiple MSI-based installers crash in custom actions with unhandled RPC exception 0x6b5 ‘Unknown Interface’ (World Racing 2 demo, ABBYY Lingvo x6)
• 45136: Wine does not behave as Windows when using TBM_SETPAGESIZE call before TBM_SETRANGE
• 45143: Neoncron 2 Launcher crashes embedding IE browser process when clicking bottom menu items
• 45157: Toolbar code crashes on certain button tooltips