Download Wine 1.1.15

On Friday, a new development build of Wine was released, just in time. Wine is an open source implementation of the Windows API. This makes it possible to run DOS and Windows programs on Linux, FreeBSD and Mac OS X, among others. The database of applications running under Wine contains 11,645 titles at the time of writing, which is 133 more than two weeks ago. New in this release include an updated Gecko engine, improved region support in GdiPlus, and a slew of bug fixes. Below is the full changelog for this release:

What’s new in this release:

• Gecko engine update.
• Better region support in GdiPlus.
• Support for cross compilation in winegcc.
• Beginnings of MS Text Framework support.
• Many fixes to the regression tests on Windows.

Bugs fixed in 1.1.15:

• Lionhead Black & White 2 demo crashes
• Unhandled page fault when exiting Commandos – BEL
• MIDI in/out fails, ports recognized
• Supreme Commander crashes during play
• tabbed control captures mouse input even when it shouldn’t
• VMware Infrastructure Client: Fails to install. MSIEXEC high CPU usage
• Unreal Tournament: dinput mode makes game unplayable
• Can’t record long MIDI sysex data
• Final Reality: DX5 benchmark fails to start
• Yabause: Fullscreen does not appear correctly
• xfwm4 and fullscreen issues
• Zmodeler: freezes and crashes
• Photoshop CS2 update installer doesn’t work…
• Ableton Live fails to install — crashes at setup
• Outlaws window shrinked to 1/4 of screen
• Anquet maps won’t install with “internal installer error” number 536870920.
• in The White Chamber game in video scenes video and audio is not in sync
• freenet SMS-Program crashed during the start
• Guitar Pro 5: Alt+Down on score activates menubar
• Microsoft Office 2007, Google Chrome: scroll bars in the font name/size and url boxes
• Wine Gecko needs .pdb file and defined build procedure
• rpcrt4’s server crosstest crashes on windows
• istool: toolbar spacing way too wide
• 3dmark2000 dialog window very large
• Request: Richedit should handle Ctrl+Scrollwheel
• Exception in Gecko 0.9.x xul.dll when run from not-installed Wine built with separate build and source trees
• Compile broken in dlls/ipphplpapi/ipstats.c on NetBSD
• d3dxof: Chicken Tournament needs d3dxof’s “source type 1”, not implemented yet
• Galactic Civilizations II does not start
• status_directx page on winehq is missing
• invalid WriteFile call in mshtml
• missing expectation of ERROR_MORE_DATA status code in rpcrt4_conn_np_read
• Setupapi procedure error CM_Query_And_Remove_SubTreeW
• DOSBox installer crashes on launch
• tools/widl: warning: null format string
• crypt32/tests: compiler warnings
• winebuild does not respect –host & –target configure parameters