Download Wine 1.5.5

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 18,838 titles at the time of writing, 59 more than at the time of version 1.5.4. Below you will find what has been changed and improved in this release.

What’s new in this release:

• Support for installing Mono as a Wine add-on package.
• Dithering of pattern brushes in the DIB engine.
• Support for installing the .NET 4.0 runtime.
• DDS files supported in D3DX9.

Bugs fixed in 1.5.5:

• Speed ​​up PDB support
• When running Half-Life in software mode, the screen is not updated
• Wine hangs when attempting to add video file in DVD lab Pro 1.53
• eBay Turbo Lister exits silently before displaying anything
• text rendering using vsfilter doesn’t properly display (affects Flash Pro 8)
• BCDC++ redraws too many times on window resize
• Screen Resolution Bug
• Powerpoint Viewer 2007 crashes opening Keynote.pptx
• No$gba- 3D layer drawn behind 2D layer, making 3D invisible
• Thinkwell Player does not hide password under wine
• jedit hangs on startup if ddraw is disabled
• .NET Reflector 6.x user interface is distorted
• Alien Shooter 2 graphical glitch on shadows
• West Point Bridge Designer 2007 crashes with page fault in oleaut32
• MS Powerpoint Viewer 2007 crashes when displaying embedded table
• Adobe Premiere CS2 doesn’t run
• TimeShift demo does not launch
• outlook 2007 doesn’t run after install
• Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5 fails to start
• Vobblanker: crashes randomly
• FlowCode hangs when works with LCD module init.
• Half-Life 2 Episode 2 & Portal: hl2.exe continues to running after exit of game
• Wine Iexplore does not have usable GUI
• The config program that comes with Final Fantasy 8 does not work.
• check boxes go sometimes completely black
• bad display in Azure Quest3D demo
• Microsoft Office Outlook 2007: Cannot start outlook once email settings have been configured
• Halo Editing Kit will not load
• Adobe Dreamweaver 8: “Next” link in Help doesn’t work
• tools/font_convert.sh should be bourne compatible
• Networking doesn’t work for app “IPS” Internet Print Service (photo software fotoquelle.de)
• Distorted sound in Dyson game
• Make test fails in ds3d.c
• PixelFormat_WineD3DtoDD Can’t translate this Pixelformat
• Flowcode has a bad display refresh
• IBExpert does not work as expected (can’t register database)
• Visual C# 2005 Express: Form Designer is blank on first run, then gives memory error
• ATK0100 Asus Utility Driver: Crashes on install start
• Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault – sand is too light
• VBALink: GBC roms open at an incorrect resolution
• SmartHeap Library reports MEM_BAD_POINTER and Sinistar Unleashed crashes on launch
• Star Sonata does not load
• Dragon NaturallySpeaking freezes then crashes after about a half hour of use.
• NHL 99 graphics are corrupted on Direct3D
• d3d_surface:IWineGDISurfaceImpl_UnLoad UnLoad is not supported on X11 surfaces!
• picasa 3.6 unable to scan
• Sketchup fails to print previews, show back area, template and part previews also
• 3dmark06 free version reports “D3DXGetImageInfoFromFileInMemory failed” when you try to run the demo
• Hearts of Iron III – Texture brushes are not sized/aligned properly
• Bonzai3D – mouse pointer position mapped incorrectly in project window
• Portal and Uru graphics glitches (fglrx only)
• Bonzai3D irretrievable following window minimize
• Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II – in game map is not fully painted
• Fritz 11 needs d3dx9_36.dll.D3DXCreateCubeTextureFromFileA
• Two Worlds calls unimplemented function d3dx9_36.dll.D3DXCreateCubeTextureFromFileInMemoryEx
• Final Fantasy 8: Eidos Intro movie and sound choppy
• SketchUp cannot produce correct png/jpg/bmp files
• King’s Bounty needs DDS support
• Energy Tycoon won’t run
• SketchUp 7 prints black rectangle and export the same into JPG
• Men of War (Steam) won’t run.
• Flowcode v4 : double click on component macros crashes
• .NET 3.5 Framework installer fails to install some assemblies into GAC (affects Visual Studio 2008 and later products)
• Playchess, games tab is not drawn
• Silent Hill 2 menu invisible
• Where’s Waldo installer needs native msxml
• Money 2002 fails to run
• MPLAB 8 Logic Analyzer doesn’t work
• Polybius crashes on exit
• Star Wars: Republic Commando hangs when skipping the intro video
• Powerpoint 2003 & 2007: embedded video won’t stop playing, program unresponsive to mouse or keyboard
• Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio Express 2005 (SSMSE): corrupted font in properties window
• Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio Express 2005 (SSMSE): “New table” fails with unknown error 80070057
• Several apps started rendering some fonts incorrectly (appear as huge font sizes have been used)
• The Stalin Subway 2 (Red Veil) crashes when shooting
• The Stalin Subway 2 (Red Veil) crashes on game start
• .NET 3.x/4.x WPF based installers/apps require windowscodecs.dll.IWICStream_InitializeFromMemory_Proxy
• Deleting text from richedit controls extremely slow
• Word viewer crashes on some .rtf
• Add support for msi INSTALLMESSAGE_PROGRESS subtype “ProgressAddition”
• excessive operator ‘&’ in GetThemeSysFont(); can probably lead to segfault
• Add support for .NET 4.0 assembly cache (.NET 4.0 Framework installer)
• Playchess pieces are too small
• [patch] krnl386.exe16/int21.c: set (1<<12) for cdrom
• .NET 4.0 installer/CLR native ngen.exe runs into “unimplemented function fusion.dll.InitializeFusion, aborting” (Wine builtin fusion override during .NET 4 install)

Internet Explorer 8 using Wine on Ubuntu, click on the image for a larger version.