Download Wine 0.9.56

It’s Friday evening on an even week, so regular visitors know what time it is: the developers of Wine have released a new version. With the help of Wine it is possible to run DOS and Windows programs on Linux, FreeBSD and Mac OS X, among others. Wine is maintained by a large group of enthusiastic developers and instead of releasing new releases when new features are added have been added to the software, it has been decided to release a new build every two weeks. More information about Wine can be found in this faq are being found. This release contains several Direct3d improvements. For example, all OpenGL and Direct3D screens with menus are now handled properly. Fortunately, the inevitable ‘a lot of bug fixes’ are also not missing this time. The full changelog of this release looks like this:

What’s new in this release:

• Proper handling of OpenGL/Direct3D windows with menu bars.
• Stubs for all the d3dx9_xx dlls.
• Several graphics optimizations.
• Many installer fixes.
• Improved MIME message support.
• Lots of bug fixes.

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