Download Wine 0.9.61

Version 0.9.61 of Wine was released on Friday. 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 to the software, they have chosen to release a new build every two weeks. More information about Wine can be found in this FAQ are being found. Below is a list of the main improvements, plus a list of bug fixes since the previous release:

What’s new in this release:

• Automatic updating of the WINEPREFIX directory.
• Winhelp now uses Richedit as display engine.
• Many RichEdit fixes.
• More improvements to IME support.
• More quartz fixes.
• Implementation for many more Gdiplus functions.
• Lots of bug fixes.

Bugs fixed since 0.9.60:

• 3DMark 2001 SE dies into debugger when trying to display about screen
• The Sting demo crashes
• Faststone Image Viewer crashes on exit
• Microphone xmit in Half Life and HL:S games very harsh and goes in and out of “focus”
• Mouse is invisible in Act of War : Direct Action
• D3D & Via seems to don’t work fine together…
• MetaEditor Help Navigator Doesn’t Work.
• lockon crashes with null pointer dereference during loading
• VobBlanker: Hangs when X-11 closes child window.
• drmMap Fails — Multiple Monitors:
• JRE 1.3.1: RuntimeException in sun.awt.Win32GraphicsDevice.getDefaultPixIDImpl (Native Method)
• Strict Pasv response check should be modified.
• Title bar shown in window style that does not have one
• VobBlanker Crashes when open in some DVDs
• combobox dropdown area should be customizable
• Monopoly Tycoon demo crashes at startup
• Sea Dogs: infinite loop on startup
• lack of GLX causes wine to crash
• GS-Auftrag Professional SQL aborts on startup
• NexusTK crashes at start
• unable to run setup for Office 2003
• Day of Defeat (a Half-Life 1 mod) – Mouse & Graphic
• installer stuck for TRS 2006 Demo
• Make wine updates work even if the registry changed
• winecfg: not launching
• IE’s writing-mode:tb-rl (CJK-style vertical text layout) renders fullwidth characters rotated when it should not
• Synergy HL2 mod crashes in IHTMLWindow2_Release
• Sega rally 2 crashes on start
• sun jre 5 update 10 installer hangs in 0.9.52
• matlab r14 and r16 (7.0.4 and 7.3.0) and WriteItNow3.1.0s hang if X in 24bpp mode
• Chief Architect refuses to install
• Adobe Acrobat Reader 3: Text of the Document is displayed as big black boxes
• Date selector not displayed in Lotus Notes 7.0.2
• mspaint: Multiple copy/paste operations will cause an exception
• FarCry InstallShield wizard cannot be completed
• ClocX installer has a z-order problem
• regedit creates bogus hex:(1) value instead of empty “”
• matlab r16/2006b/7.3.0 hangs on startup with X in 16bpp mode
• oRipa MSN Webcam Recorder crashes with page fault, backtrace in user32
• Wine crashes and won’t initialize any type of application
• Unimplemented function msftedit.dll.DllGetVersion preventing proper detection of richedit from Miranda IM History++ plugin
• D3D9: Device test fails
• Kai Power Tools filters z-order problem in Photoshop (7, CS2)
• winedbg crashes loading a .pdb file
• MSN Messenger 7.0 crash while configuring the Webcam
• X11DRV_ChoosePixelFormat fails (Wing Commander: Secret Ops)
• msxml3 test case fails
• Deus Ex and Syberia2 both have corrupted graphics in 0.9.59
• wine 0.59 and kyodai
• Chinese input method not working in DirectX game World of Warcraft with wine 0.9.59
• Palringo: Pressing shift-enter in a chat window closes it
• -lGLU flag not activated
• Battlefield 1942 crashes when having joysticks attached
• Window of PSPad is flashing, when new file is opened
• Photoshop CS2 installer crashes in msi:ACTION_CallDllFunction
• Picasa no longer starts maximized in KDE
• Ctrl and Alt don’t work in Guild Wars
• Ability to set virtual desktop on a per app basis
• Applications written in Delphi has got minimize, maximize and size controls disabled for its item in taskbar
• GTA 3 Liberty City: texture corruption on cards with GL_EXT_paletted_texture
• EVE Online light effects and some other objects are not blended correctly
• Bad textures/shading in Dream Aquarium (white fishes)
• Wine should refuse to run if pointed at a real Windows
• when calling wineprefixcreate from wine launcher, WINEPREFIX is ignored
• some winemenubuilder processes never exit
• OpenGL Application crashes with GLX error
• non-fatal crash accompanies every program start
• Trying to get Electric Quilt 6 working
• net start spooler results in an infinite loop
• Wineboot: Can’t run wine cross test
• Regression in ResHacker in wine-0.9.60
• control + enter sending the wrong key code
• Build breaks
• imm32: imm32.ok test fails
• Dungeon Siege graphics problems since removing the pixel format limitation
• Xdrive Desktop Lite Crashes after login
• Stack trace in socket.c when starting Call of Duty multiplayer
• Mono 1.9.1 installer EULA is not rendered due to richedit regression
• opengl.ok test fails in PC-BSD but not Linux
• magic the gathering online v3 doesn’t run
• EasyUO: disappears when reduced but still running
• Thief The Dark Project crashes on game start

[break] Dreamweaver, Fireworks and Flash under Wine. Click for a larger version.