Download Wine 1.5.18

A new development build of Wine has been released with version number 1.5.18. 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 that work under Wine, with or without the help of minor adjustments, contains 19,278 titles at the time of writing, 78 more than at the time of version 1.5.17. Below you will find what has been changed and improved in this release.

What’s new in this release:

• Various Windows Codecs improvements.
• Fixes for OLE database support.
• Improvements to system parameters management.
• Some fixes to the built-in Web browser.
• Fixes for XML support.

Bugs fixed in 1.5.18 (total 46):

• Star Wars: The Battle of Endor: Crashes while starting.
• The SunSpider JavaScript benchmarks does not show the Results
• Mouse don’t run in Medal of Honor Airborne
• cmd does not handle FOR /F %%a in (‘command’) properly
• MCI open+play .avi hangs
• zero: zero doesn’t work for copy.
• Medal of Honor Airborne: Install recognizes it as “ProductName”
• Rollercoaster tycoon not working
• d3dx9/asm tests crashes in a real windows vista box
• Fable: The Lost Chapters rendered scenes mostly black without native d3dx9_36
• ddraw/tests/d3d.ok fails sometimes under valgrind with “Expected message 0x7e, but didn’t receive it.”
• setupapi/tests/devinst.ok fails on some machines under Valgrind
• .NET 4.0 runtime fails to initialize MediaSystem subsystem due to rpcrt4.dll RpcMgmtIsServerListening being a stub
• Download Accelerator Plus: hangs on start without native ie7
• QQ2011 does not display Chinese correctly with builtin usp10 if font link setting is incomplete
• Format Factory crashes in Video Options
• ePSXe crash while reset game
• Word 2010 does not display reference styles with builtin msxml6
• Wine doesn’t detect opengl/wgl extensions anymore
• Microshop 2.0 (.NET 2.0 app using System.Windows.Forms.WebBrowser) wants IWebBrowser2::Refresh
• Popcap wrapper does not work through proxy
• Circuitmaker 2000 schematic editor: some parts are displayed incorrectly
• Material Brave hangs on starting
• Font smoothing does not work in spite of registry settings
• Uru does not properly start anymore in full-screen mode
• Lord of the Rings Online crashes at startup
• Netflix on Firefox hangs with loading bar at 100%
• The Witcher – Graphical glitches with ARB shader backend
• Simon the Sorcerer 3D crashes on start with built-in msvcp60
• HeidiSQL 7 crashes in 1.5.15
• dhpoware’s OpenGL 3 demos don’t display
• CCleaner 3.x installer crashes at the same point (not fully reproducible)
• Elven Legacy needs msvcp80.dll.?replace@?$basic_string@DU?$char_traits@D@std@@V?$allocator@D@2@@std@@QAEAAV12@V?$_String_iterator@DU?$char_traits@D @std@@V?$allocator@D@2@@2@0PBDI@Z (purist)
• External environment variables interfere with cmd runtest, causing it to issue false errors
• SSF Saturn Emulator – Crashes with SendMessage() error
• KwSing installer needs wmvcore.dll.DllRegisterServer
• Image Composite Editor fails to install with a VSDCA_VsdLaunchConditions msi error
• ListView fails to redraw after Insert
• Installer of Creo 2.0 Parametric Free Trial needs msvcp100.dll.wctrans
• Installer of Creo 2.0 Parametric Free Trial crashes
• fixme:gdiplus:GdipSetPathGradientBlend not implemented gives Exception
• Silverlight 4.x can no longer install
• PowerPoint 2010 crashes in slideshow mode
• System.TypeInitializationException when starting ‘Adventures of Shuggy’
• AtlModuleExtractCreateWndData and AtlModuleAddCreateWndData not found, needed by QQ2011
• Jammer 6 demo installer: can’t click on window