Download Wine 1.5.17

A new development build of Wine has been released with version number 1.5.17. Wine is an open source implementation of the Windows API. The software 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 running under Wine, with or without minor tweaks, contains 19,200 titles at the time of writing, 42 more than at the time of version 1.5.16. Below you will find what has been changed and improved in this release.

What’s new in this release:

• Sub-pixel font anti-aliasing in the DIB engine.
• Support for automatic installation of ActiveX controls.
• Automatic fallback to TLS 1.0 for secure connections.
• Beginnings of the DirectWrite text analyzer.
• Better handling of font outlines in OpenGL.

Bugs fixed in 1.5.17 (total 53):

• Bad sound quality in Starcraft when running with hardware acceleration
• Overlord: adding native d3dx9_36.dll results in a crash
• Disabling OpenGL output in WinUAE causes crash, possibly in x11drv_main
• Encoding/escaping issues in some foreign chm files
• Metatrader: doesn’t respect charts sorting/sequency when restarted
• Age of Wonders Shadow Magic: Game doesn’t launch!
• Minor display problems in Mafia
• MetaEditor has black rows in the text editor.
• MotorM4X fails to run
• EXIT_ON_ERROR should use ERR instead of WARN in winealsa.drv
• HeadOverHeels crashes
• Downloadable content is unauthorized and disabled when logged in to Dragon Age: Origins server
• package Mono so it can be included in a default Wine install
• RCT2 crashes when changing screen resolution
• The Spirit Engine 2 crashes on startup when using ALSA hardware driver backend (ALSA hw emu and OSS hw/sw emu work)
• Snes9x 1.52 runs very slowly with DirectDraw.
• winmm/msacm: Improper shutdown sequence
• James Cameron’s Avatar: The Game demo – no sound without hardware acceleration = emulation
• LTSPICE crashes some seconds after running a simulation
• Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 installer does not complete
• The UnderGarden Demo won’t run without wine tricks d3dx9_36
• Cannot save games in Sim City 3000 Unlimited
• WebcamMax: Crash at installation
• Imbricated for loops parameters not expanded correctly
• Windows 7 msacm32 needs CompareStringOrdinal
• scanf family of functions provides only 7 digits of precision for converting doubles and long doubles
• Pollux Ride : Unhandled exception: unimplemented function msvcp80.dll.??0?$basic_fstream@DU?$char_traits@D@std@@@std@@Q
• MT5 installs but window doesn’t respond
• Metatrader freezes when an expert advisor is loaded
• Blurry fonts antialiasing in Word 2007/2010
• msi installer doesn’t show open dialog
• win2flash crashes on start with segfault
• LT Spice freezes
• Doom Builder 2: fails to initialize graphics when opening a map
• Heroes IV Crash in 16:9 resolution
• Evernote can’t connect to server
• msxml3/domdoc tests flaky
• Console2: fails to start
• SlingPlayer 2 crashes when connecting through a proxy
• Tropico 4: crashes on startup
• AirMech installer does not start up
• Black shadow flash in a moment after right clicking on the main window of Thunder
• Artweaver Free v3.1 fails to start without native crypt32.dll
• Ankh hangs on start with built-in msvcp71
• Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Desktop Engine (MSDE 2000) Release A installer creates incorrect registry entry
• Right click menu of QQ2012 system tray flushes and disappears
• Installation of CorelDRAW 12 fails
• Civilization V fails to start a game without native d3dx9_36 (crashes in d3dx9_36/math.c)
• Genesis Rising crashes on start
• Invoke() is broken for IFileSystem
• msi: crash running tests for MSI products patching
• .Net 3.0 (dotnet30) installer fails
• .NET installer does not set file dates