Download Wine 1.1.17

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 with applications running under Wine, with or without some minor tweaks, it contains 11,880 titles at the time of writing, which is 94 more than two weeks ago. Below are the changes and improvements made in this release:

What’s new in this release:

• Joystick support on Mac OS X.
• Implementation of iphlpapi on Solaris.
• A number of 64-bit improvements.
• Obsolete LinuxThreads support has been removed.
• Many fixes to the regression tests on Windows.

Bugs fixed in 1.1.17:

• SmartBarXP crashes if you add the Weather Channel pane
• No sound for rise of nations – all versions
• RPG Maker, Fritz9, Amazon Music Downloader: crash when clicking menu bar. (Screws up Adobe Photoshop CS4 menus, too.)
• Guild Wars: “Observe” menu does not display additional information about selected game
• Black halos surround NPCs in Fable
• Internet Explorer 7 is falling after start on unhandled exception.
• DrawPrim.c needs to handle more than 4 vertex shader prims causes crash in everquest and does not allow rendering
• The Lost Crown’s menu is no longer accessible in-game
• Audio broken under Solaris
• winhelp: transition to richedit breaks minigolf1997.hlp file
• winecfg does not show *.acm (or other non .dll) overrides, must be typed in manually
• winhttp: winhttp.ok test fails in OpenSolaris
• 3D Game Studio text objects newline characters mistranslated
• FreeBSD (PC-BSD) fails to launch majority of applications, ‘Invalid address’
• ‘make install’ broken on BSD
• Invisible text in Autocad LT 97
• AutoCAD: Buttons on the bottom don’t change their graphical state if pressed/released
• Naval units in Civilization 4 are drawn incorrectly
• Lcms error crashes PowerPoint 2003
• Non-windows apps generate an inappropriate dialog
• Game pauses when pressing NumLock
• Powerpoint 2007: crashes when opening complex .pptx files.
• winhlp32: left ceased working
• winhlp32: clickable area out of sync with hyperlink text
• urlmon: protocol test fails with +heap enabled