Software Update: Wine 5.7

A new development build of Wine has been released with version number 5.7. 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 27,073 titles at the time of writing. The following changes and improvements have been made in this release:

What’s new in this release:

• Wine Mono engine updated to 5.0.0, with upstream WPF support.
• More progress on the WineD3D Vulkan backend.
• Beginnings of a USB device driver.
• Support for building with Clang in MSVC mode.
• Builtin modules no longer depend on libwine.
• Support for configuring Windows version from the command line.

Bugs fixed in 5.7 (total 38):

• 10600: Multiple applications using skinning have distorted/unusable GUI (ABC Amber LIT Converter 2.0, GSA Search Engine Ranker v7.25)
• 18104: Multiple TTS applications using Microsoft SAPI runtime report ‘Speech engine not installed’ (CLSID_SpVoice ‘{96749377-3391-11D2-9EE3-00C04F797396}’)(Final Draft, TactileView, Vocaboly 3.0)
• 19239: Multiple applications crash with division by zero on edit control with zero line height (eBay Turbo Lister, Clarin TX control wrapper)
• 27825: Super Street Fighter IV AE : Videos won’t play
• 29067: Skyrim crashes during game intro
• 38776: ReadPlease 2003 (SAPI 4.0) won’t load non-English Text to Speech Engine
• 40502: Global objects constructors fail when invoking standard libs
• 41559: (winecfg) Add ability to change windows version via command line
• 42136: switching tab in sapi.cpl from Microsoft Speech SDK 5.1 crashes control
• 43638: Multiple 4k demoscene OpenGL demos crash on startup with ‘No active WGL context found’ (Yermom, ‘End of time’ by Alcatraz and Altair)
• 45111: Winamp – Milkdrop complains
• 46633: Multiple applications need threadpool I/O (MariaDB mysqld, Mono’s System.Threading.ThreadPoolBoundHandle)
• 47061: Multiple E-Banking applications by KOBIL Systems GmbH crash on startup or report ‘Security issue code: 0x03938745 (60000069)’ (MigrosBank EBanking 8.2.x, Sparda Bank SecureApp 1.x)
• 47365: jittering caused by mouse input in vkquake
• 47944: Wine64 tries to change permissions in /private/tmp/ that fails on macOS 10.15 Catalina
• 48052: kernel32:debugger – Wine randomly fails to get the thread context
• 48389: Detroit: Become Human has poor performance (use of unaligned futexes for condition variables on Linux)
• 48556: Nascar racers crash at start
• 48731: Just Cause crashes while loading level with builtin d3dx9_26
• 48740: ConEmu is constantly loosing focus
• 48747: ConEmu flickers and scrolls randomly
• 48803: FITietokanta crashes every time after ADD-button is pressed
• 48807: Panzer Corps 2 needs vcruntime140_1.dll.__CxxFrameHandler4
• 48817: Module_InitDLL fails if LDR_MODULE.Flags was modified
• 48898: 4k demoscene OpenGL demos crash on startup due to missing opengl32.dll ‘wglGetDefaultProcAddress’ stub (Crinkler’s imports resolver requires named API exports matching native opengl32)
• 48923: Heroes of Might and Magic IV crashes on start
• 48932: Wine does not display any windows unless `xrandr –auto` has been run
• 48937: Wine 5.6 ships broken ‘winepath’ that emits DOS-style instead of UNIX-style line endings, breaking scripts
• 48941: IMalloc::DidAlloc() return value is inaccurate
• 48956: winecfg fails to initialize kernelbase.dll
• 48958: wineusb driver doesn’t install in WINEPREFIX
• 48960: NtQueryDirectoryFile incorrectly returns STATUS_NO_MORE_FILES when it encounters an ignored entry
• 48961: Il-2 Sturmovik 1946 (GOG.com) fails to start
• 48966: Previously created Wine prefix: “kernelbase.dll” failed to initialize, aborting
• 48971: Multiple Blizzard Games not running anymore with a Game Initialization Failed: T error
• 48973: eDrawings 2015 (.NET 4.0 app) crashes on startup (needs ‘Win32_VideoController’ WMI class ‘AdapterCompatibility’ property)
• 48974: Multiple MSI-based installers show ‘newBinaryXX’ text instead of bitmap on button controls (missing support for ‘msidbControlAttributesBitmap’)
• 48983: DeutschlandLAN Cloud PBX Desktop client v22.x is not able to connect with the internet