Download Wine 1.5.6

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 18,602 titles at the time of writing, 236 fewer than at the time of version 1.5.5. Below you will find what has been changed and improved in this release.

What’s new in this release:

• Automatic installation of the Mono add-on package.
• Control panel applet for joysticks.
• Device bitmap rendering now done through the DIB engine.
• Support for video rendering through DirectX (VMR-9).
• First steps towards a D3D shader compiler.
• Build fixes for DragonFly BSD.

Bugs fixed in 1.5.6:

• Airline Tycoon Demo fails to start
• GeoControl installer hangs
• Warcraft III TFT fails to start with prefixes never used by 15092 Adobe Flash Player 9 and 10: movies and images are messed up
• The Lord of the Rings Online: Mines of Moria doesn’t start
• The Alien Nations / Die Völker crashes: amstream GetFormat stub
• Construct 0.99.8 “File” menu does not work
• d3dx9_36.dll.D3DXSaveSurfaceToFileInMemory is needed by Ship Simulator 2008 demo, King’s Bounty demo
• Sound does not work in Big Fish Games when acceleration is set to full
• Medieval Total War Gold DVD Italian – Unload the debugger error
• Rise of Nations Gold Edition Nuclear Blast Effect Looks Awful
• Machinarium window does not show any contents and hangs desktop
• .NET Framework 4.0 Fails to install with HRESULT 0x80070643
• ie7 can connect to but not ?
• builtin IE cannot open
• Midi messages MTC trashed
• Just Cause crashes on first level load (texture resolution ‘high’)
• SQLyog crashes when displaying data
• Office Professional Plus 2010 install fails without machine.config file (does not need it on Windows)
• d3dx9_36/tests/mesh.ok: memcpy source and destination overlap in weld_float16_2() triggered by test_weld_vertices()
• Blizzard Launcher/Installer needs AcceptEx improvements (Affects WoW, D3…)
• DSOUND_BufPtrDiff: Assertion `ptr1 < buflen' failed.
• graphed crash while expand “DirectShow Filters”
• Sanitarium crashes/hangs frequently with OpenGL renderer
• GTAVC crashes when car is visible at some angle
• usb joystick not working with virtuanes
• SmartFTP 4.0 crashes on startup (crypt32 CertCreateSelfSignCertificate failure)
• EVE Online crashes on attempt to move window
• Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio Express 2005: hangs with .NET Fatal Execution Engine Error
• Dr.com v3.71 infinitely asks for reboot due to missing registry entry
• Construct needs D3DXSaveTextureToFileInMemory
• CodeJock’s XTPToolBar renders transparent areas of icons black
• “automatically grab mouse in full-screen windows” doesn’t grab mouse with regard to Gnome 3 tray bar
• BMFont crashes on startup with Unhandled page fault
• Take Command 14 from JPSoftware wants KERNEL32.dll.SetConsoleIcon
• Windows 8 release preview upgrade assistant crashes due to unimplemented function ntdll.dll.NtQuerySystemEnvironmentValueEx
• OSForensics crashes on 1st launch
• Wine has troubles installing dotnet20 (using winetricks) and doesn’t run some games like osu! or Path of Exile (which worked before)

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