Download Wine 9.0-rc1

The first release candidate of Wine version 9.0 has been released. Wine is an open source implementation of the Windows API and allows you to run DOS and Windows programs on Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris and macOS. 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 until a number of new features are 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 29,211 titles at the time of writing, which is 52 more than two weeks ago. The following changes and improvements have been made in this release:

The Wine development release 9.0-rc1 is now available.

This is the first release candidate for the upcoming Wine 9.0. It marks the beginning of the annual code freeze period. Please give this release a good testing and report any issue that you find, to help us make the final 9.0 as good as possible.

What's new in this release:

• Bundled vkd3d upgraded to version 1.10.
• Support for DH encryption keys with a recent GnuTLS.
• Keyboard layouts support in the Wayland driver.

Bugs fixed in 9.0-rc1 (total 42):

• #13340: DICOM Viewer (eFilm Workstation 2.x/3.x) aborts because IMultiLanguage2_GetCharsetInfo doesn't like “ISO8859-1”
• #34537: Athena's Charm Table search 0.35b wants msvcm90.dll.?ThrowModuleLoadException@@@YAXP$AAVString@System@@P$AAVException@3@@Z
• #47699: Multiple applications need support for ECDH key generation via bcrypt (For Honor, STEEP, Far Cry 5)
• #48972: Bugs found by static analyzers
• #49527: Printing with font Chilanka crashes Notepad and Word
• #49543: Several games require bcrypt DH support
• #53175: Roon fails to start
• #54037: user32:msg – test_SendMessage_other_thread() sometimes gets a todo success (GitLab CI)
• #54731: vbscript: stack_pop_bool doesn't support floats or ole color
• #54999: Process Explorer from Sysinternals shows a blank window
• #55045: NFS Most Wanted has missing graphics with WineD3D in WoW64 mode
• #55052: vbscript: For loop where right bound is string coercion issue
• #55054: WineServer crash. (complete_async_poll: Assertion `output->count == signaled_count' failed)
• #55065: user32:monitor – check_preferred_mode() fails on the TestBot's debiant VM
• #55075: Araxis Merge 2023.5877 needs api-ms-win-core-com-l2-1-1.dll
• #55115: widl crashes with dlls/sti after adding wia_lh.idl
• #55185: vbscript round does not handle numdecimalplaces argument
• #55210: Hatching printed with wrong stripes direction in Framemaker 8
• #55502: vbscript: Sub argument name clash with global const
• #55536: Aldec Active-HDL student edition: crashes when trying to open a file on unimplemented function SHELL32.dll.SHSetTemporaryPropertyForItem
• #55591: Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 has rendering glitches
• #55671: Internet Download Manager needs unimplemented function shcore.dll.RegisterScaleChangeEvent
• #55807: uiautomationcore:uiautomation – test_uia_com_event_handler_event_advisement() fails on Windows 10 1709
• #55812: Air Jura crashes
• #55843: Virtual Desktop spams “Failed to read display config.”
• #55851: SpeedCommander needs shell32.SHCreateItemWithParent()
• #55852: can't print, even from notepad to pdf
• #55867: Roon 2.0.23 crashes due to unimplemented function shcore.dll.CreateRandomAccessStreamOverStream
• #55890: Eurobattle installer fails to run
• #55892: .NET 8 Windows Forms crashes due to missing DPI functions in user32
• #55899: Daily Chthonicle – performance regression
• #55920: ModOrganizer crashes: Call to unimplemented function USER32.dll.SetDisplayAutoRotationPreferences
• #55927: RestoreDC appears to fail with printers
• #55931: VarMod(Empty, N) returns uninitialized result
• #55935: wine-8.21 build fails in Ubuntu x86_64
• #55950: An attempt to print from 'wine iexplore' leads to a crash
• #55959: _mbsicoll generates exceptions, in Simplified Chinese language linux systems
• #55963: Acid-V VST plugin crashes when removed from a track
• #55966: Crimson Skies freeze in menu
• #55968: MIDITrail 1.4.0 shows an error on start (DWMWA_EXTENDED_FRAME_BOUNDS isn't implemented)
• #55969: vbscript fails to return TypeName for Nothing
• #55973: Printing from iexplore results the images being printed as black rectangles