Software Update: Wine 4.5

A new development build of Wine has been released with version number 4.5. Wine is an open source implementation of the Windows API and allows you to run DOS and Windows programs on Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, and macOS. 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 26,295 titles at the time of writing. Since version 4.2, the following changes and improvements have been made:

What’s new in release 4.5:

• Support for Vulkan 1.1.
• Better support for kernel objects in device drivers.
• Still more Media Foundation APIs implemented.
• Support for SVG elements in MSHTML.
• Fixes for case conversion troubles in Turkish locale.
• Various bug fixes.

What’s new in release 4.4:

• New MSIDB tool for manipulating MSI databases.
• Support for custom draw buttons in common controls.
• Many more Media Foundation APIs implemented.
• Various bug fixes.

What’s new in release 4.3:

• Reimplementation of XAudio2 using the FAudio library.
• Mono engine updated to the latest upstream.
• More modern handling or iconic windows.
• Improved handling of kernel objects.
• Various bug fixes.