Many users came to Linux after having suffered passed through Windows. If there was one thing Bill Gates did well, it was to make his operating system available on almost every computer in the world, which is why virtually all of the most popular software is for Microsoft's desktop operating system. For this reason there is Wine, a software designed to run Windows applications that yesterday released Wine 4.13.
Wine 4.12 was released just under a month ago, on July 5, and based on the new update cycle every two weeks, the next version should have arrived on July 19. If we have had to wait a whole month, or four weeks to be more exact, it is because Alexandre Julliard, the main developer of the project, has been on summer vacation. From the looks of it, Julliard wasn't the only Wine developer to take a vacation, or so we think when we see Wine 4.13 not a very important release, nor having been delayed two weeks.
What's new in Wine 4.13
- Support for Passport HTTP redirects.
- Various header updates.
- Fixes for the following bugs:
- Some applications and games fail to correctly list the display / monitor driver properties in the registry using setupapi.
- Monitor Test 3.2 fails to list video devices / drivers in the registry.
- WSARecvMsc incorrectly prohibits null control buffers.
- Fix for Honor lock in "double free or corruption".
- Poor Second Sight performance.
- ARES Extinction Agenda 1.x hangs on introduction.
- Only errors echo by default.
- TreeSize Free Portable silently exits at startup due to the absence of the stub shell32.SHMultiFileProperties.
- bcrypt always choose ECB mode when using AES, even if the program indicates otherwise.
- Final Fantasy XIV 5.0 crashes on startup when using xaudio2_8.dll.
- Compilation error: "AT_NO_AUTOMOUNT" not declared.
- Ren'py is not able to create screens in Wine 4.11.
- Armv7hl compilation fails due to function calls variable not AAPCS.
- Many D3D11 games display black or white screen with Wine 4.12.1.
- The Amazon Workspaces - ABNT2 keyboard does not recognize characters.
The new version of Wine with all its fixes is available for Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, SUSE, Slackware and FreeBDS, as well as for Android and macOS, at this link.
