Software Update: Wine 6.20

A new development build of Wine has been released with version number 6.20. 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 28,121 titles at the time of writing. The following changes and improvements have been made in this release:

What’s new in this release:

• MSXml, XAudio, DInput and a few other modules converted to PE.
• A few system libraries are bundled with the source to support PE builds.
• HID joystick is now the only supported joystick backend in DirectInput.
• Better support for MSVCRT builds in Winelib.

Bugs fixed in 6.20 (total 29):

• 30600: Emergency 3 crashes on start
• 34297: Allow reconnecting to disconnected joysticks
• 36796: Mozilla Firefox 13.0 crashes on startup if run in Windows Vista+ mode (D3D10CreateEffectFromMemory needs more complete Direct3D 10 DXBC parser)
• 38696: Messy screen in DxTex.exe
• 41080: Need For Speed ​​Most Wanted 2005 not working after upgrade from Ubuntu 14.04 to 16.04
• 41317: WOLF RPG Editor: Gamepad axis value not recalculated after deadzone change results in ghost input events
• 41700: “Install Now” and “Customize installation” buttons are invisible in Python 3.5.2 installer
• 42137: DirectInput needs to join both Xbox shoulder triggers into a single axis (aka half-axis problem)
• 42434: Gamepad listed twice
• 42695: Path of Exile fails to start when launching with dx11 enabled with message “Failed to create WIC factory” (CoCreateInstance() called in uninitialized apartment)
• 47387: Victor Vran has no sound
• 49296: ZWCAD 2020: the program doesn’t start (using mono)
• 49887: “EA Desktop” installer fails.
• 50758: Vbscript does not handle recursive calls
• 51105: Diablo 2: Resurrected (D2R) stays black
• 51385: DTS Encoder Suite won’t start in Wine 6.0.1
• 51564: Can’t run 16bit programs when built without mingw
• 51574: swscanf_s with %zu fails for valid value
• 51583: Tetris crashes due to “visual styles”
• 51707: Rise of the Tomb Raider stops the process before entering the main menu
• 51749: Wine 6.17 fails to build under Slackware64 Current with multilib
• 51797: Input lag with controller in Wine 6.18
• 51802: Theming on 16-bit application breaks their UI
• 51846: Standard library call fopen(…, “wx”) not recognized – causes destruction of data
• 51863: QuantumClient.exe from Raymarine SDK needs dhcpcsvc6.dll
• 51871: PSScript fails with 0x80041002 (WBEM_E_NOT_FOUND) ( system property L”__Derivation” not implemented)
• 51892: Program DSP-408.exe returns Assertion Failed error in afxwin1.ini line 418
• 51894: ucrtbase:misc fails on some Windows 10 1607 and 1709
• 51902: Project CARS 2 keyboard keys aren’t responsive