Software update: Wine 8.12

A new development build of Wine has been released with version number 8.12. 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 until a number of new features are 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 29,046 titles at the time of writing, which is 22 more than two weeks ago. The following changes and improvements have been made in this release:

What’s new in this release:

• Initial support for painting windows in the Wayland driver.
• Command stream performance improvements in WineD3D.

Bugs fixed in 8.12 (total 31):

• #7767: Zero G Software ‘InstallAnywhere’ installers crash or silently exit (Rosetta Stone, Reading Counts, World Religions, Parashara’s Light Professional 7.0.1)
• #9378: Combat Mission Shock Force DEMO: ‘Could not initialize OpenGL graphics.’
• #17868: tools/widl.c: warning: initialization discards qualifiers from pointer target type
• #38938: SlingPlayer 1.5 crashes when moving the main window
• #47089: 32-bit Winamp 5.80 installer crashes in 64-bit WINEPREFIX after pressing ‘Next’
• #49772: Memory safety issues in widl
• #53085: Free Video Converter complains about being unable to install .Net 2.0
• #53086: Free Video Converter needs certutil.exe
• #53907: SierraChart Freezes when allocating more than one account
• #54257: Missing support for Windows 2003 (5.2) in OleAut version detection
• #54532: msidb.exe: page fault on read access to 00000007 when importing a .idt file
• #54978: vbscript fails to compile Sub when End Sub on the same line
• #54996: msys2: gpg.exe fails because “NtSetInformationFile Unsupported class (64)” / FileDispositionInformationEx
• #55053: Prometheus exporter for Windows needs DISPATCH_PROPERTYGET support in object_Invoke
• #55062: Starcraft II Graphics Only Work When Window is Out of Focus
• #55096: Moving loader to PIE removed loaded modules chain view from debuggers
• #55099: Excel 2016 crashes on date cell formatting
• #55101: DesignDoll Declaring An Error After Loading All Component In Splash Screen
• #55110: quartz:vmr7 & quartz:vmr9 sometimes exit prematurely in Wine
• #55114: secur32:schannel – The 32-bit test_connection_shutdown() crashes on Windows <= 8
• #55120: kernel32:debugger – test_debug_loop_wow64() gets wrong ntdll count in the new WoW mode
• #55124: Can’t run Flutter SDK (cmd.exe doesn’t support redirecting stderr for a block)
• #55126: Flutter application needs Windows.Devices.Geolocation.Geolocator
• #55128: dbghelp:dbghelp & dbghelp:path – Call to SymSetExtendedOption() prevents running on Windows 7, 8 & 10 <= 1607
• #55137: Missing support for SCARD_AUTOALLOCATE
• #55141: virtual desktop not rendering with some dual monitor setups (regression: 8.10 -> 8.11)
• #55144: Error when I run Navigraph FMS Data Manager
• #55146: Virtual desktop is fullscreen regardless of the desktop size setting in winecfg
• #55160: Loading Bay / Harry Potter Magic Awakened: Unable to install
• #55194: oleaut32:vartest – test_VarImp() fails in Wine
• #55201: Wine fails to build with clang-11.0.1 due to recent nameless unions/structs VARIANT changes