Download Wine 4.0-rc1

The first release candidate of Wine version 4.0 has appeared. Wine is an open source implementation of the Windows API and allows you to run DOS and Windows programs on Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris. 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 26,021 titles at the time of writing. The changelog for this release looks like this:

What’s new in this release:

• Preloader implemented on mac OS.
• Mouse cursor support on Android.
• Updates to the timezone database.
• Vulkan support updated to the latest spec.
• Stream I/O support in WebServices.
• Better palette support in Windows Codecs.
• Synchronization objects support for kernel drivers.

Bugs fixed in 4.0-rc1 (total 43):

• 5402: Multiple MFC-based apps crash during non-modal child dialog control creation with active window being zero (Canon PhotoStitch 3.1.13, Flexible Renamer v8.4)
• 16845: Radio buttons not being checked on focus
• 23750: SpongeBob SquarePants: Diner Dash 2 – mouse has pink background
• 28810: d3dx9_36/tests/mesh.ok: D3DXLoadMeshTest fails under valgrind
• 29183: Heavy corruption when rendering edit control with WM_PRINTCLIENT and possibly invalid HDC
• 33117: Can’t load Bach41.ttf with CreateFontIndirect
• 35367: Multiple applications crash due to Wine ole32 code not taking implicit MTA into account (Cyberlink Powerdirector 8, PDFXChange Editor 5.5)
• 37863: Halo only works using Nvidia graphics
• 38228: Wildstar game failed to download : `winhttp:session_set_option 0` and `wine client error:41b: pipe: Too many open files`
• 40031: Singularity: In Steam the game is still running after quit
• 40880: Commandos 3: Destination Berlin demo has sound issues
• 40971: Zombie Army Trilogy crashes before the menu
• 41404: WPS Office 10.1.0.5775 unhandled exception on installation
• 41488: ProfitChart RT crashes at startup
• 42010: ReactOS Calc does not show dots in radio buttons.
• 42255: Xenia emulator needs ntdll.dll.RtlAddGrowableFunctionTable implementation
• 42474: Multiple applications crash on unimplemented function api-ms-win-core-path-l1-1-0.dll.PathCchCombineEx (Python 3.6, AutoFlashGUI, RenderDoc)
• 42582: Murdered: Soul Suspect has messed up rendering
• 43584: Hitman: Absolution needs dxgi_output_GetGammaControlCapabilities
• 43745: Graywalkers Purgatory demo has wrong models rendering
• 43889: Gradient is inverted when using gdiplus
• 44015: Steam – fails to load UI since Wine 2.20 (due to dwrite commit)
• 44177: Guitar Pro 5: Long freezes during draw process of dashed lines (PM or let ring markers)
• 44588: Many kernel drivers need support for kernel synchronization objects (event, semaphore, mutex) (BattleEye’s ‘bedaisy.sys’, Franson VSerial service ‘bizvserialnt.sys’)
• 44897: Multiple applications using Crashpad/Chromium/CEF in Win7+ mode crash on unimplemented function ntdll.RtlGetUnloadEventTraceEx (Steam client)
• 44999: Python 3.6.5 crashes due to unimplemented function api-ms-win-core-path-l1-1-0.dll.PathCchCanonicalizeEx.
• 45431: Multiple D3D11 games deadlock in IDXGISwapChain::ResizeTarget while trying to resize window (Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy, Dragon Age: Inquisition)
• 45453: Guild Wars 2: Launcher crashes with assertion “jobThreads && (jobThreads <= hardwareThreads)"
• 45627: mdac28 fails to install (SetupDefaultQueueCallbackW copy error 32 L”C:\\users\\austin\\Temp\\IXP000.TMP\\msdaorar.dll”)
• 46093: GRLevel3 2.52 fails to start, hangs indefinitely
• 46099: Star Citizen not loading after implementation of WaitOnAddress() in wine
• 46140: .NET applications using ‘WebRequest’ API with MS .NET Framework crash when IPv4/6 is disabled in Linux kernel
• 46142: Games launched through Windows Steam no longer launch.
• 46161: Wine: Wrong GnuTLS usage?
• 46168: dotnet35sp1 installer has an error under wow64
• 46172: Multiple applications from Windows 7-10 crash on unimplemented function slc.dll.SLGetLicensingStatusInformation
• 46173: Used e-Sword successfully a few months ago, but when I try now I get a Program Error.
• 46179: Multiple Windows 10 ARM{32.64} apps need ‘kernel32.dll.GetCurrentThreadStackLimits’ to get stack start address
• 46180: wineserver does not release atom on unregistering window classes
• 46186: LoadImageA searches images in the wrong directory
• 46210: explorer /desktop leaks atoms from DDE interface
• 46229: server/ptrace: NetBSD debug register storage
• 46235: Opening ADODB.Connection results in: Method ‘~’ or object ‘~’ failed