Software update: Wine 8.8

A new development build of Wine has been released with version number 8.8. 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 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 28,957 titles at the time of writing, which is 48 more than two weeks ago. The following changes and improvements have been made in this release:

What’s new in this release:

• More work towards full PE support in the PostScript driver.
• Initial support for loading ARM64EC modules.
• More work on IME restructuring.

Bugs fixed in 8.8 (total 18):

• #33945: Wine build warnings with gcc
• #35254: Freemake Video Converter 4.1 installer complains about running Freemake processes (builtin ‘findstr’ stub app always returns “match”)
• #48596: Multiple applications need tasklist.exe to support printing process list in CSV format ‘/fo CSV /nh’ (Net64+ Client 2.x, Playstation Now 11.x, MathType)
• #49964: 32-bit dxdiag doesn’t support ‘/64bit’ command line switch (launch 64-bit dxdiag)
• #50576: ACAT Phrase, part of Intel Assistive Context-Aware Toolkit (ACAT) v1.00.0 (.NET 4.5 app) crashes on unimplemented function ‘uiautomationcore.dll.UiaNodeFromFocus’
• #51107: rise of nation extended: cannot do multiplayer when having more than one network interface
• #52269: Captvty can’t find its own tools/cefsharp folder
• #53073: mfplat: unimplemented function while loading Devil May Cry 1
• #53826: Attempting to install / update battle.net fails with Qt error
• #54250: winedbg loads wrong debug symbols for built-in dlls
• #54367: Wow64 wineboot fails to generate 32Bit slice of wineprefix
• #54596: Wavelab 6.1 has problems minimizing window
• #54733: Notepad3 crashes on unimplemented function SHLWAPI.dll.StrFormatByteSizeEx
• #54760: imm32:imm32 – test_ImmActivateLayout() fails on Windows
• #54864: imm32:imm32 – test_ImmSetOpenStatus() fails on Windows in the Korean locale
• #54879: RtlValidSecurityDescriptor should return TRUE if the given descriptor is valid.
• #54904: RtlInitializeSid should return NTSTATUS
• #54918: compiling nvcuda fails with threadpoolapiset.h:36:55: error: expected declaration specifiers before ‘__WINE_DEALLOC’