Software Update: Wine 4.9

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A new development build of Wine has been released with version number 4.9. 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 26,419 titles at the time of writing. The following changes and improvements have been made in this release:

What’s new in this release:

  • Initial support for installing Plug and Play drivers.
  • Support for building 16-bit modules in PE format.
  • A lot of code moved to the new KernelBase DLL.
  • Various game controller fixes.
  • Use higher performance system clocks if available.

Bugs fixed in 4.9 (total 24):

  • 27185: Futuremark PC Mark 7 (.NET 4.0 app) fails to run with Wine-Mono (mscoree:get_runtime Unrecognized version L”v4.0.20926″)
  • 34764: .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 based WPF applications crash on direct access of MIL (Media Integration Layer) to internal bitmap struct/class impl (depends on exact layout)
  • 36764: Rogue Squadron 3D 1.3: Unable to setup controller in game
  • 36981: Flexera InstallShield 20.x based installers crash in NdrProxyInitialize (Samsung Kies 3, Designspark 6.1, Exelis ENVI 5.x)
  • 41657: CoolQ 5.x reports network error on startup due to msscript:ScriptControl_Eval stub
  • 43738: “MegaTagmension Blanc + Neptune VS Zombies” – Character models don’t render
  • 46406: TreePad X Enterprise (single user) 12GB v7.17.0: Garbled Text When Creating or Editing a Node/Tree Name
  • 46655: Adobe Photoshop CC 2015.5: Tabs show completely black
  • 46682: TopoEdit crashes with unimplemented function mf.dll.MFCreateAudioRendererActivate
  • 46849: Vietcong: taking handmap causes crash (ProcessVertices)
  • 47044: 64-bit MRAC Anti-Cheat (My.Com Warface) kernel service fails in driver entry point due to missing ‘ntoskrnl.exe. {ExAcquireFastMutex,ExReleaseFastMutex}’
  • 47085: Spellforce 3 has misplaced text in main menu
  • 47178: Grand Prix Legends: Service papycpu2 doesn’t load
  • 47183: Grand Prix Legends: Only the first two axes are recognized
  • 47185: `winetricks -q msxml3` hangs
  • 47188: Gamepad input no longer works (regression)
  • 47190: Custom protocol handler CF doesn’t support aggregation
  • 47209: Gamepad input no longer works again (regression)
  • 47214: Oracle Java runtime 8.211 online installer crashes in WoW64
  • 47219: “winetricks -q ie8” hangs
  • 47222: World of Tanks 1.5.0 launcher ‘WotLauncher.exe’ (0.3.x) crashes with Wine-Staging 4.7
  • 47226: Incorrect crash information displayed for unimplemented function stubs when 64-bit Wine builtins are cross-compiled in PE format (Mingw-w64, MS x64 calling convention)
  • 47238: Osmos refuses to start with built-in msvcp90
  • 47249: CM_Set_Class_Registry_Property should use PCVOID for buffer parameter

Version number 4.9
Release status Final
Operating systems Linux, BSD, macOS, Solaris
Website Wine HQ
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License type GPL
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