It is not at all common for WineHQ to deliver a new development version of WINE at the wrong time, especially if you do a quick search on the internet and find no explanation. WINE 7.20 I arrive on Monday, when the usual thing, if they are not on vacation, is that they do it on Friday night (as 7.19). In any case, the news is about the launch, not about Swiss times or watches, and we already have a new development version of those that are released every two weeks.
What has highlighted WineHQ as new is that Mono engine has been updated to version 7.4.0, source binding improvements, a number of exception unwinding fixes, and support for EMF spool dumping in WineDump, along with the usual point of various bug fixes . As for these, 29 have been included, and 304 changes in total.
Bugs fixed in WINE 7.20
- The network security system does not work in WINE.
- Crysis 2 (>1.0) Huge graphical issues after loading a save game.
- dbghelp_msc:pe_load_debug_directory A page fault occurs when loading symbols (Visual C++ 2013 .pdb's).
- winedbg: internal crash/hangs when running ieframe/tests/ie.c with pdb debug symbols.
- bsdtar.exe from cygwin needs a better stub ntdll.NtQueryEaFile.
- The edit control in the ADL search dialog does not initially draw in DC++ 0.868, regression.
- Tequila City of Heroes Launcher – expect_no_runtimes The process ends with a Mono runtime loaded.
- Autonauts on steam under WINE has a memory leak.
- Division by zero in wineconsole on hover.
- CloseHandle(INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE) returns FALSE, GetLastError is ERROR_INVALID_HANDLE.
- Verge 2 crashes on startup due to incomplete sapi implementation.
- The ACE entitlement parser should allow octal and decimal formats.
- conhost.exe:tty test_read_console_control() fails in Hindi and Portuguese.
- winedbg 'bt all' filled with dbghelp_dwarf RULE_VAL_EXPRESSION fixmes.
- ZOSI Cloud crashes on startup.
- shell32:recyclebin - test_query_recyclebin() gets unexpected size of recyclebin in WINE.
- imm32:imm32 - test_default_ime_window_creation() fails on Windows 10 21H1+.
- Line width calculation failed in WineMono.Tests.System.Windows.Media.TextFormatting.TextFormatterTest.NewlineCharacterCollapsibleTest.
- The visual novel Shin Koihime † Eiyuutan 4 plays the opening movie in a separate window.
- Problems with two separate MetaTrader4 programs on the same WINE desktop.
- The 64-bit ntdll:env fails on Windows 7.
- Obduction misses randomly in a handful of possible ways.
- Bad localization data for Chinese localizations for class LOCALE_SNATIVEDIGITS.
- CRYPT_GetBuiltinDecoder Unsupported decoder for lpszStructType 1.3.6.1.4.1.311.2.1.4.
- Let's encrypt certificate validation fails.
- winbase.h: ReOpenFile declaration missing (and not available in any other header).
- The source links for MingLiU are broken on 32-bit wine prefixes.
- wbemprox: The where clause appears to be case sensitive.
- Non-PE builds fail after "makedep: Make the installation directories architecture-generic".
WINE 7.20 available from this link. In the download page there is information on how to install this and other versions on operating systems such as Debian and Ubuntu, but it can also be installed on Android and macOS.
The next version will be a WINE 7.21 which will arrive on November 12, as long as there are no unexpected delays like this time.