A new development build of Wine has been released with version number 6.8. 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 27,876 titles at the time of writing. The following changes and improvements have been made in this release:
What’s new in this release:
- Libraries installed into architecture-specific subdirectories.
- Secur32 library converted to PE.
- Support for Map object in JavaScript.
Bugs fixed in 6.8 (total 35):
- 11833: GroupMail 5.x crashes when creating new message
- 19756: Date/time picker doesn’t notify app about checkbox changes (TaskCoach: Cannot add new task with a due date)
- 22327: Cannot install PGV demo for Windows using a clean wine prefix.
- 24893: File/folder context menus have missing options (Explorer++, Double Commander)
- 26189: Crysis Wars Dedicated Server no longer shows console on start under X
- 28372: Ubuntu Skin Pack 5.0-XP installer crashes
- 35102: Qvodplayer 3.5 Crashes on start
- 35539: Proteus 8 demo fails to install
- 37375: Visual C++ 2005 Express SP1 install fails
- 39841: IShellFolder.CreateViewObject() doesn’t support IID_IContextMenu (Double Commander “Error: invalid parameter” when right-clicking on an empty space)
- 40227: LibreOffice 5.1.0 crashes when trying to run any Office program
- 40382: CUEcards 2000 (v2.37) takes a lot of time to return with search results
- 40823: Stone Giant demo crashes after launch
- 41318: Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion requires binormal vectors support in D3DXComputeTangentFrameEx
- 46948: Characters in The Sims Complete Collection render completely white
- 49697: Age of Empires II (SafeDisc 1.x) fails to start since 3.0-rc
- 49763: ALOTInstaller crashes
- 49977: FIFA 11 Demo fifaconfig crashes when pressing Exit button
- 49989: Samsung Dex installer crashes
- 50006: The intro in The Sims Complete Collection gets played too fast
- 50026: Powershell Core needs ntdll.RtlQueryProcessPlaceholderCompatibilityMode when run in win10 mode
- 50117: winedbg –gdb doesn’t work
- 50396: Sacred Gold: wrong z-order or something else
- 50503: Diablo 1: Game crashes after intro videos
- 50961: Swtor game crash on splash screen 6.6
- 50963: NtCreateUserProcess occasionally fails with STATUS_IMAGE_NOT_AT_BASE
- 50980: Royal Quest: “out of memory” and other errors
- 50992: Star Citizen crashes on unimplemented function advapi32.dll.QueryTraceA
- 51028: Solid Edge 2021 Academic Edition: crash on startup
- 51041: Scalable fonts with fsCsb[0] == 0 are not enumerated correctly
- 51057: `winetricks -q mfc42` fails
- 51067: ToolTaskTest:Execute_2 test fails on x86_64
- 51070: Wine fails to create or update prefix
- 51076: demangle_datatype in ucrtbase crash in vc2019 x86 mode
- 51082: Regression: Powershell Core installs in wrong directory
| Version number | 6.8 |
| Release status | unstable |
| Operating systems | Linux, BSD, macOS, Solaris |
| Website | Wine HQ |
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| File size |
23.30MB |
| License type | GPL |