Wine is working towards a new stable release and has released the second release candidate. 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 28,240 titles at the time of writing. The following changes and improvements have been made in this release:
What’s new in this release:
- Bug fixes only, we are in code freeze.
Bugs fixed in 7.0-rc2 (total 34):
- 29934: Weird Worlds: Launcher no longer launches the game
- 37255: Proteus 8 Access violation in module ‘VGDVC.DLL’
- 48631: Multiple games display text as squares (Death to Spies: Moment of Truth, Shadow Warrior, Resident Evil 4 HD)
- 50526: ConEmu wineconsole Ctrl+m has different behavior
- 50714: YooSee CMS client 10.0.0.53 crashes after login since Wine 5.12 (ntdll built as PE)
- 50906: Her Story: crashes when seeking in video
- 51282: Samurai Shodown Reboot 2019: low gpu usage around 5-10% and low fps around 9-20fps
- 51296: Multiple applications (Cogmind, Photoshop, …) render mouse cursor as black square
- 51380: The segment register tests fail in the wow32 ntdll:exception build
- 51409: Trails to Azure crashes when reaching main menu after video playback
- 51479: winedevice.exe crashes on prefix shutdown
- 51500: ntdll:exception test_wow64_context() randomly fails on Windows
- 51521: Installer of Tencent meeting crashes when using enter key in the license agreement screen.
- 51539: “server: Get the process entry point from the exe image info” breaks running if exe is loaded at a non-default address
- 51589: Buttons have no icons when using the Light Blue theme
- 51745: Xbox Controller no longer recognized
- 51766: ^C in gdb mode makes debugger quit
- 51790: MSI is no longer able to detect correct architecture for a custom action DLL
- 51910: Keyboard Input Partly Broken
- 51930: Final Fantasy XIV audio broken in wine-6.20
- 52008: Broken symlink to ‘My Documents’ causes app to crash
- 52020: Multiple games crash after intros (Borderlands GOTY Enhanced, Dark Souls: Remastered, Steel Division: Normandy 44)
- 52038: Sonic Adventure DX (2004) crashes after intro cutscene
- 52041: DAVAR4 crashes when moving mouse over document window scrollbars
- 52082: Ace Ventura (CD-ROM) crashes on start
- 52112: Final Fantasy XIV failing to boot
- 52140: configure fails to detect libldap 2.5+
- 52161: ntdll:om fails when run without elevated privileges
- 52165: mfplat:mfplat has failures in test_sample_allocator_d3d12() on Windows 10 1709
- 52166: mfplat:mfplat has a failure in test_d3d12_surface_buffer() on Windows 10 1709
- 52187: wine-mono’s WPF tests hang (broken handling or IDWriteTextAnalysisSource callbacks in analyzer)
- 52195: comctl32:propsheet fails in the Hebrew locale
- 52206: Logos 9 Bible Software (.NET 4.7 app) external links don’t open web browser
- 52207: HICON leak in CopyImage causes TheBat! to crash after a while
| Version number | 7.0-rc2 |
| Release status | beta |
| Operating systems | Linux, BSD, macOS, Solaris |
| Website | Wine HQ |
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| License type | GPL |