Software Update: Wine 6.16

A new development build of Wine has been released with version number 6.16. 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 minor adjustments, contains 28,030 titles at the time of writing. The following changes and improvements have been made in this release:

What’s new in this release:

• Initial version of a HID-based joystick backend.
• Improved high-DPI theming support.
• More preparation work for the GDI syscall interface.
• Better CodeView support in WineDump.

Bugs fixed in 6.16 (total 36):

• 11146: RootsMagic 3.2.x crashes when using ‘Publisher’ feature
• 22741: Enterprise Architect 6.5: crash when generating RTF document
• 23382: NVIDIA Demo: Cascades crashes on unimplemented function d3dx10_43.dll.D3DX10CreateFontA
• 25359: Internet Explorer 4 setup crashes
• 27737: NVIDIA D3D SDK 10 Lightning Sample crashes on unimplemented function d3dx10_43.dll.D3DX10CreateSprite
• 27738: Multiple NVIDIA D3D SDK 10 example applications crash on unimplemented function d3dx10_43.dll.D3DX10CreateFontW
• 37310: MMS Buchfuehrung und Bilanz fails during online update
• 37771: 32bit Virtualbox 4.0.8 fails to start on Wow64 wine prefix
• 38010: VPython 6.11: python2.7.9 crashes when importing visual
• 38136: Clickr: missing letters
• 38640: Cygwin/MSYS2 compiled Hello World program couldn’t display output in pure Linux console
• 38867: Homesite+ (v5.5): Using keyboard shortcut for indenting text wipes out text (but undo restores to correct result)
• 38868: Homesite+ (v5.5): If caps-lock is on, exiting Extended Find dialog results in caps-lock state being toggled
• 39139: Microsoft Return of Arcade Anniversary Edition setup spawns DelUS.bat which never closes and consumes 100% CPU
• 39873: Sumatra PDF 3.1.1 – Wine crashes during reading PDF
• 40862: Kingsoft Office 2012 displays a gray editor window with invisible text
• 45200: Hitman (2016) doesn’t launch in Direct3D 12 mode
• 49542: vkGetInstanceProcAddr shouldn’t return an address for missing functions
• 50405: RTL_USER_PROCESS_PARAMETERS.EnvironmentSize field is not set in process parameters
• 50412: Wrong check for needed access rights in QueryServiceConfig2
• 51221: Dangerous Water crash when starting a Multiplayer game (requires IDirectPlay8Server_EnumServiceProviders implementation)
• 51302: NASCAR ’15 Victory Edition gets in infinite loop on launch
• 51304: d3dcompiler_43:hlsl_d3d9 and d3dcompiler_47:hlsl_d3d9 fail on AMD GPUs (cw-rx460)
• 51547: Comet Busters doesn’t start (reports ‘Could not load shapes. Probably not enough memory.’)
• 51550: Unable to run wine at all, could not load kernel32.dll.
• 51553: Purple bitmap should be transparent in scrollbar theming
• 51570: Tetris (16bit) has regressions in gdi32
• 51590: services:service fails when the KDE taskbar is at the top
• 51614: NtGdiSetLayout is missing call to release_dc_ptr(dc)
• 51620: TemTem crashes before main menu
• 51626: Star Citizen crashes on launch
• 51632: Downloading Wine-Mono through appwiz hangs/fails
• 51635: wine fails to build with glibc 2.34
• 51642: EverQuest fails to log in
• 51668: mscoree tests fail, .NET executables usually fail to run
• 51671: Random Dungeon: Can’t show load screen.