Download Wine 1.7.2

Last weekend a new development build of Wine was released with version number 1.7.2. 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 20,472 titles at the time of writing. Below you will find what has been changed and improved in this release.

What’s new in this release:

• Right-to-left text layout improvements.
• NTLM and Negotiate authentication for RPC over HTTP.
• More glyphs in the built-in Wingdings font.
• Better system tray support in the Mac driver.
• Activation context improvements.

Bugs fixed in 1.7.2 (total 39):

• The Sword project search function causes a crash
• Everquest certain areas do not render the models just have blank regions
• MSXML4 installer doesn’t install C:WindowsInstaller{37477865-A3F1-4772-AD43-AAFC6BCFF99Ficon.exe (appinstall)
• Word 97 needs native oleaut32 to record the first macro
• oleaut32: typelib registration should not fail bitness-neutral assemblies (32-bit typelib wrapped in 64-bit PE, x64 .NET 2.0 installer)
• Unhandled Exception – Monopoly Westwood (Win95 settings)
• Excel Workbook with Macros Isn’t Running : Getting Crashed.
• Excel crashes trying to run macros
• PowerSoccer crashes
• IncrediMail: No icon for desktop short cut
• winedbg and its man page should use “wpid” consistently for Windows’ process ID
• Death and the Fly demo crashes on start
• PartyPoker fails to install with builtin wininet
• Multiple Adobe products fail due to improper file type and protocol associations handling (Adobe Reader X online help, Adobe AIR installers)
• XIII: some levels are not correctly illuminated
• Outlook 2010 can’t connect to exchange server
• wine(1) man page should mention running built-in programs like explorer.exe
• StarForge Alpha build: Black screen due to shader compilation errors
• Mixcraft hangs on exit when using WaveRT audio driver
• WebSync 2.7.0 doesn’t install
• unimplemented function cfgmgr32.dll.CM_Reenumerate_DevNode, aborting
• Arabic Entry Box Has Big Errors .
• Amazon software downloader does not work with builtin msvcrt
• The Testament of Sherlock Holmes inverted shadows and sharpness
• Civilization IV shows a lot of XML Load Error while loading
• Anno 1602 (demo): crash during startup
• WMI query “select * from win32_Directory” via WMI crashes
• Louisiana Adventure crashes without native d3dx9_36 (D3DXCompileShaderFromFile() needs to call user-supplied include callbacks for resolving primary shader files)
• Fur looks wrong on Sims 3 Pets
• Process Hacker 2.x needs winsta.dll.WinStationRegisterConsoleNotification
• Rectangle rotation problem using GM_ADVANCED graphicmode
• QuiteRSS WinRT/ARM port needs msvcr110.dll.fabsf
• Multiple applications ported to WinRT/ARM require atl110.dll (Halite torrent client for Windows RT )
• AVP Classic WinRT/ARM port needs xinput1_4.dll
• Winsock error when connecting to Xsyon game servers
• Multiple applications ported to WinRT/ARM require msvcr110.dll.?before@type_info@@QBA_NABV1@@Z (Halite torrent client)
• Jagged Alliance 2 fails to start (becomes unresponsive after startup)
• Arx Fatalis crashes on start
• __unDName cannot demangle a string and shows error