Wine is een opensource-implementatie van de Windows-api. Dit maakt het mogelijk om DOS- en Windows-programma's op onder andere Linux, FreeBSD en Solaris te draaien. Een grote groep ontwikkelaars draagt bij aan Wine en er is voor gekozen om elke twee weken een nieuwe zogeheten ontwikkelversie uit te brengen, in plaats van te wachten tot er een aantal nieuwe functies klaar is. Een paar keer per jaar concentreren de ontwikkelaars zich op het gladstrijken van de plooien en komt er een stabiele uitgave. De bedoeling is dat versie 1.4 binnenkort zal verschijnen en daarvan is nu de vijfde release candidate beschikbaar gekomen.
What's new in this release:Bugs fixed in 1.4-rc5:
- Bug fixes only, we are in code freeze.
- Command and Conquer Generals (and Zero Hour) hang on splash screen
- No text displayed in Bloodrayne2
- Shade: Wrath of Angels Demo - no graphics drawn in game
- ETO_OPAQUE and clear style are not transparent on a bitmap
- Beyond Divinity: screen corruption
- gdi32: path.c fails to build with gcc 4.2, -Werror -O3
- print preview broken
- No add-ins loadable in Office 2003 PowerPoint
- RealMYST crashes on launch
- Earthworm Jim: sound crackles, stutters and repeats.
- Everquest 1 (eqgame.exe) crashes right before character enters world
- Azteca and Diamond Drop 2 crash
- TradeTiger does not show the login window correctly
- Comanche 3 freezes after a mission
- MYOB: Cannot add custom logo to template
- Alice 2.2 fails with "can't create Java VM"
- Cry of the Infected demo fails with "runtime error 7018"
- Corel Draw 11 not loading
- Windows Live Essentials beta (webc variant) doesn't detect .NET Framework 3.0 installation (Mono/Registry)
- MS Office PowerPoint 2007 freezes when right-click on top bar
- No sound in Sim City 3000 Unlimited
- Atlantis II crashes when changing screen resolution
- Astro Avenger crashes on launch (with built-in d3dxof.dll)
- Installation of FooBar.msi using msiexec fails with /qb switch (unattended with basic UI)
- Sound stops after some time (restarting sound in game usually possible)
- Incoming Forces: visual glitches
- Comanche 3 menu is unusable because of graphic issues
- BC Kings refuses to start without DirectSound hardware acceleration
- Assassin's Creed: eagle's eye graphic glitch with postprocessing enabled
- SDP Downloader: access violations when deleting url
- Spotify crashes when searching song or artist with the search box
- ellipse_first_quadrant() runs into dead loop for large width and height because of negative overflow
- Perfect World: Latest Descent patch crashes Launcher window
- Microsoft Visual Studio 2008: attaching to process fails with "unknown error: 0x80070003" (support of "Session" namespace for named objects needed)
- PanzerKiller hangs with a black screen on start
- MS Paint's bucket fill tool doesn't work
- Cyberboard Player hangs when opening a game
- Wordpad crashes on opening the printer setup dialog
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