Download Wine 1.5.3

A new development build of Wine was released on Friday. Wine is an open source implementation of the Windows API. This 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 running under Wine, with or without minor tweaks, contains 18,402 titles at the time of writing, 58 more than at the time of version 1.5.2. Below you will find what has been changed and improved in this release.

What’s new in this release:

• Support for graphics bounds tracking.
• A number of fixes to the builtin Internet Explorer.
• Support for displaying ARM code in the Wine debugger.
• Various Direct Music improvements.
• Better namespace support in MSXML.

Bug fixed in 1.5.3:

• GetBoundsRect not implemented
• date format differs from Windows
• C&C 3 Video does not stretch to fullscreen with ATI drivers
• No ALSA support for certain soundcards since 0.9.57
• AngelBot crashes if text is copied via right-click context menu
• Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 Installer crash if you reject the license
• Lotr Bfme2: Big parts of characters appear in a glowing white
• Some winsock calls will crash when passing NULL as protocol parameter
• Runes of magic is unable to save configuration settings
• icons of size 24×24 are black
• FineReader 8 crashes after importing images into an empty batch
• Blue particles where there should be only fog in Age of Empires III trial.
• Babylon 5 – I’ve Found Her: crashes when colliding with objects if using a joystick
• Ragnarok and deforming sound
• Shareaza shows white boxes when you select a neighbor in the network tab
• Non-English characters don’t display in winecfg
• Serif WebPlus X2 fails to install
• JavaScript custom actions not running?
• TES Construction Set crashes on topic view/edit
• Brink: No sound
• Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 R2 does not install, doesn’t recognize MSXML 6.0 SP1 as installed (ACTION_FileVersionMatches needs to check version for languages)
• UFO: Extraterrestrials Gold crashes at start (can’t be workarounded by using native dsound/directplay)
• PCSX2 0.9.9 svn r4942: Using GSDX plugin results in garbled graphics
• Weatherbug fails to detect vbscript
• LabView 2011 demo crashes on start (PathRemoveExtensionA/W unconditionally tries to null terminate string)
• IApplicationAssociationRegistration not implemented (needed by gecko)
• Internet Explorer 8 cannot show previews on the quick tabs screen
• Subtitle Edit is missing its menu bar with MS .NET 2.0, but not Mono
• Non display of code from a saved project on starting the app again
• Pegasus Mail v4.63 build 325 starts w/ exception (0x80004001) (0x80004001) @01AE3610 (mshtml HTMLDocument_put_URL is a stub)
• Cisco IP Communicator 8.6(1). The minimum supported processor to run Cisco IP Communicator is a P3 Pentium-level or compatible processor
• RaiderZ needs msvcr90.dll._byteswap_ulong
• Can’t fetch STATIC records from Microsoft ADO data sources
• Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 R2 Trial requires ISAXXMLReader feature “namespace-prefixes”
• Some sites iexplore now hangs
• Iexplore crashes
• Iexplore crashes
• Iexplore crashes
• Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds 1.0: crashes randomly every time I play it
• Windows Media Player does not render video
• iexplore hangs
• Document.write doesn’t support number content
• Lexware Buchhalter 2012 fails on startup due to GdipCreateFontFromLogfont not properly handling negative font heights
• Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 R2 Trial fails to parse rule XML from resource file (BSTR/UTF-16 passed to SAXXMLReader)
• Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 R2 Trial fails to parse rule XML from resource file (needs support for push/pop operations for namespace contexts)
• Powerpoint 2003 & 2007: embedded video has an “ActiveMovie” title bar (and shouldn’t)
• Crash when using CANeds
• StudioTax 2011 installer hangs