A new development build of Wine has been released with version number 5.9. 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 27,141 titles at the time of writing. The following changes and improvements have been made in this release:
What’s new in this release:
- Major progress on the WineD3D Vulkan backend.
- Initial support for splitting dlls into PE and Unix parts.
- Support for generating PDB files when building PE dlls.
- Timestamp updates in the Kernel User Shared Data.
Bugs fixed in 5.9 (total 28):
- 15489: Build should optionally produce .pdb file suitable for use with symbol server
- 29168: Multiple games and applications need realtime updates to KSYSTEM_TIME members in KUSER_SHARED_DATA (Star Wars: The Old Republic game client, Blizzard games, GO 1.4+ runtime, Denuvo Anti-Tamper x64 #2)
- 29806: Hype The Time Quest: DirectX Media (DXM) v6.0 runtime installer fails (advpack.ExecuteCab should extract the INF from CAB before running the install part)
- 30814: Age of Empires II scrolling gets stuck after Alt-Tab away and back
- 42125: 4k/8k demos often fail with ‘Bad EXE Format’ or ‘error c0000020’ due to Crinkler executable file compressor’s “optimized” usage of PE header fields (loader compatibility)
- 43959: webservices/reader tests fail on arm
- 43960: rpcrt4/cstub tests fail on arm
- 43962: msvcrt/string tests fail on arm
- 44860: 4k/8k demos crash due to Crinkler executable file compressor expecting PEB address in %ebx on process entry
- 48186: every wine process shows a definite leak in dlls/ntdll/env.c
- 48289: Grand Theft Auto 5 crashes after loading (GTA5 expects Vista+ PEB_LDR_DATA structure fields)
- 48441: mouse coordinates cannot exceed initial desktop size during startup of wineserver
- 48471: Mismatching behavior of GetEnvironmentVariableW for empty / long values
- 48490: Restored minimized windows have wrong height
- 48775: Microsoft Teams 1.3.x crashes on unimplemented function IPHLPAPI.DLL.NotifyRouteChange2
- 49105: Deus Ex GOTY fails to start with Direct3D renderer
- 49115: Hitman (2016) and Hitman 2 (2018) fail to launch in DX11 mode
- 49128: Good Company crash on launch
- 49130: NVIDIA RTX Voice installer crashes on unimplemented function setupapi.dll.SetupDiGetActualSectionToInstallExW
- 49131: wineboot fails to start
- 49139: Regression: Wine crashes on startup on FreeBSD >= 5.7
- 49140: Windows 10 SDK installer hangs on startup
- 49142: Horizontal mouse scroll events (X11 buttons 6 and 7) should not be translated to back/forward events
- 49146: Hearts of Iron IV needs api-ms-win-crt-private-l1-1-0.dll._o_sin
- 49173: widl generates invalid code for Gecko’s ISimpleDOM.idl
- 49175: Duplicated checking canonicalized inside kernelbase/path.c
- 49200: Steam hangs after login
- 49203: Possible incorrect usage >= instead <= in shlview.c
| Version number | 5.9 |
| Release status | unstable |
| Operating systems | Linux, BSD, macOS, Solaris |
| Website | Wine HQ |
| Download | https://www.winehq.org/download |
| License type | GPL |