Download Wine 9.0-rc2

The second 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 29,212 titles at the time of writing, which is one more than two weeks ago. The following improvements have been made in this release:

What's new in this release:

• Bug fixes only, we are in code freeze.

Bugs fixed in 9.0-rc2 (total 33):

• #21550: Winedbg's disassembler doesn't support SSE2 instructions
• #27916: Ferro CCTV: Fails to start
• #45122: gdiplus/font test crashes under clang-5.0.1 but not gcc-7.3.0
• #45123: gdiplus/graphicspath test crashes under clang-5.0.1 but not gcc-7.3.0
• #52000: EA Desktop fails to install using French locale
• #52883: Improve support for high-level graphic settings in The Settlers: Heritage of Kings
• #53845: Regression in GetCalendarInfoEx et al
• #54115: wine client error:68: write: Bad file descriptor
• #54361: Winebus doesn't enumerate hid devices (in a –without-sdl build) unless SDL also disabled by winebus registry key
• #54402: Borland Turbo CPP 4.5 installer deadlocks on start
• #54616: Memory Access Violation in Libaes.dll, Texecom Wintex
• #54769: major regression in dnSpy startup time
• #54847: dnsapi:query – test_DnsQuery() fails on the TestBot VMs in Windows and Wine
• #54987: Waves Central does not launch
• #55179: Garmin MapSource drag & drop doesn't work in center of window
• #55561: kernel32:virtual – The 32-bit test_write_watch() fails in the new WoW mode
• #55569: mshtml:dom – The 32-bit test_attr_collection_attr() crashes on Windows 10 2004+
• #55588: mf:mf – test_scheme_resolvers() crashes on Windows 7
• #55638: mf:transform – test_h264_decoder_concat_streams() sometimes fails on Windows 7
• #55649: quartz:vmr9 – test_changed3ddevice() fails on the TestBot's w11pro64-amd & -nv VMs
• #55703: AstroArt crashes when trying to drag and drop files from one pane to another
• #55761: PLSQL Developer: Access Violation when trying to log in
• #55774: Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri: invisible mouse pointer
• #55783: Pronote 2023 can't load native msxml6
• #55809: FEMM 4.2 mesh creation won't run, running an analysis is impossible, works on wine-stable
• #55813: Hitomi Downloader fails with “[Errno 9] Bad file descriptor”
• #55833: Multiple 64bit programs crash due to pointer truncation (HeidiSQL 12.5.0.6677, Falcon BMS 4.37u3, PNGGauntlet, PLSQL Developer, …)
• #55863: Wine fails to build on macOS with LLVM 17
• #55908: PNGGauntlet expects LocalAlloc addresses to fit into 32bit int, breaks on 64bit due to recent memory changes
• #55972: Dolphin Emulator requires GetProcessInformation (since 5.0-16711)
• #55993: PLSQL Developer: Hangs when trying to connect a database.
• #55995: Wine 9.0-rc1 Wayland cursor does not move on some surfaces
• #56006: CrystalDiskInfo: Unhandled exception crashes DiskInfo64.exe