Software Update: Wine 7.9

A new development build of Wine has been released with version number 7.9. 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 28,525 titles at the time of writing. The following changes and improvements have been made in this release:

What’s new in this release:

• Preliminary work towards PE conversion or macOS driver.
• A number of fixes for test failures on Windows.

Bugs fixed in 7.9 (total 35):

• 14841: ntdll:file tests are flaky
• 19183: “make test” still fails on d3d9/tests/visual.c
• 28220: kernel32/process.ok: test fails when redirected
• 28508: user32:monitor tests fail occasionally
• 34782: crypt32/chain tests crash with gcc-4.8.1 (win64)
• 39346: Lego Rock Raiders crashes on startup (d3drm_device_init doesn’t handle device version 3 case)
• 45959: Editpad Lite 7 GUI not rendered correctly
• 45960: Editpad Lite 7 displays empty boxes instead of text in some menus
• 49285: PNotesPortable crashes inside WritePrivateProfileStructW
• 50462: Ulead Photo Explorer 8.5 crashes on startup (needs {4a2286e0-7bef-11ce-9bd9-0000e202599c} CLSID_CMpegAudioCodec)
• 51104: mf:mf crashes on Windows + AMD/NVidia
• 51283: d3d8:device breaks evr:evr on w7u-2qxl
• 51297: d3d8:visual & d3d9:visual, test_sample_mask() fails on Nvidia (cw-gtx560)
• 51298: d3d8:visual: lighting_test() fails on Windows 10 >= 2004
• 51376: Wine causes PC to lock or crash wine when loading more than 1 VST addon into WaveLab 6
• 51612: Stellaris launcher (Paradox) does not launch
• 51680: nsi:nsi test_ip_neighbour() fails on unreachable link local entry
• 51783: The ieframe:webbrowser output is too big in Wine
• 51827: d3dx10_34:d3dx10 crashes on all versions of Windows
• 52686: DateAdd not implemented
• 52751: `winetricks nocrashdialog` no longer works properly with Wine 7.5(but works with 7.4)
• 52761: mscoree:mscoree test fails without a display or console
• 52821: Cxbx Reloaded needs unimplemented function msvcp140_atomic_wait.dll.__std_atomic_wait_direct
• 52848: Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing 15: Typed characters not spaced correctly
• 52874: win32u change prevents chromium from starting
• 52892: The 64-bit ntdll:thread fails on w7pro64 and w864
• 52908: mf:mf – The 64-bit test_wma_decoder() fails on 64-bit Debian 11 + Intel
• 52914: mf:mf – The 64-bit test_h264_decoder() fails on 64-bit Debian 11 + Intel GPU
• 52937: msvcr110:msvcr110 fails on Windows with the UTF-8 codepage
• 52961: crypt32:str – test_CertGetNameString() fails on Windows 7
• 52969: mshtml:script fails on up-to-date Windows 8.1 machines
• 52970: kernelbase:process breaks lz32:lzexpand_main on Windows 1809+
• 52975: VTFEdit fails to start: err:module:LdrInitializeThunk “MSVCP80.dll” failed to initialize, aborting
• 53304: 63ce060 causes a white border line in winecfg
• 53015: winscp bookmark adding error