Download Wine 1.5.1

A new development build of Wine was released on Friday. Wine is an open source implementation of the Windows API. This makes it possible to run DOS and Windows programs on Linux, FreeBSD and Solaris, among others. 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 18,288 titles at the time of writing. Below you will find what has been changed and improved in this release.

What’s new in this release:

• Built-in JavaScript now preferred over Gecko in most cases.
• Support for scalable font resources.
• Fixes for audio and video playback.
• Support for script decoding in JScript.

Bug fixed in 1.5.1:

• Civilization 3: needs CreateScalableFontResource implemented
• Text in title or tab is not displayed
• Demo of Runaway: A Road Adventure crashes
• “Nancy Drew: The Creature of Kapu Cave” won’t start
• Star wars empire at war fails to initialize sound
• wxWidgets TextCtrl in Python
• La-Mulana Jukebox Crashes
• CPUZ 1.45 crashes when trying to select a different tab via keyboard
• Melty Blood Act Cadenza Ver. B Incorrect Rendering
• Airport Inc: Text does not render
• Devil May Cry 4 displays a black screen
• starting games totally kills the sound on the system
• LOTRF BFME2 demo crashes after splash screen on some systems
• La-Mulana: crash on startup due to problem with dmusic
• Word Pro tables run past margins
• Opera native skin widgets are black/invisible
• dreamweaver 8 hangs when encountering •
• launching a “New Query” pane produces an “OutOfMemory” error in MS SQL SMSE
• Team-Fortress 2 and other source games suffer from black menu and missing UI textures in dx9 mode
• noisy shadows in CRRC Sim
• Word Pro looses keyboard
• VB6 Font size problem with custom user controls
• Ragnarok Online takes 99-100% CPU under wine.
• FL Studio and MIDI Controller
• Star Trek: Starfleet Command III fails to start
• Anarchy Online crash after login on PCBSD
• Wrong caching with INI functions
• Stuttering sound when playing HoMM3
• Trackmania United Forever crashes with complex shaders enabled
• Copy/Paste doesnt work for some programs
• Verizon Media Manager needs native Windows VB scripting dlls to install
• error in Visual Basic Editor
• Edge of Chaos high quality textures are broken
• “bricksntiles” crashes
• Samsung Kies installer stops early
• Verizon Media Manager doesn’t detect Windows Media Framework 11 that it installs
• Angry Birds: Sound is choppy or doesn’t play at all
• Lylian: Mouse clicks don’t register
• Solidworks 2010: Fails to install
• Office 2003 installer crashes immediately
• Descent 3: game unbearably slow with D3D
• Irfanview 4.28 paint extension changes to the image are lost upon closing the paint window
• Missing StrToInt64Ex in SHLWAPI.DLL
• Brigade E5 NEW jagged union don’t run
• Skype 5.3 crash in wined3d
• Game borderlands does not start
• Wine should warn user when generating invalid shaders
• Sound stops after first sound/audio output in Age of Empires 2.
• Renegade X fails to install with Mono 2.10 (works with .NET Framework 4.0 prerequisite)
• Some links don’t work in iexplore – needs Navigate_anchor Navigating to target L”_top”
• IHTMLtablecell is unimplemented?
• Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5 Developer Preview installer needs some wevtapi.dll stubs (EvtOpenChannelConfig, …)
• Strong Bad’s Cool Game launcher: buttons not working
• Unimplemented function gdiplus.dll.GdipResetPageTransform
• Cossacks: European Wars – game encyclopedia won’t open
• Glitches in GTAVC menu apparent window size
• The MSIMODIFY_MERGE function in TABLE_modify is missing
• builtin iexplore crashes at loading

Total Commander using Wine on Linux Mint.