With the punctuality that characterizes it, WineHQ launched a few minutes ago WINE 7.7. This is a new development version, the kind that they release every fortnight and prepare things for the next stable version that will arrive as soon as 2023. It is the seventh update of its kind for this series and, if it were not for the number of changes that falls within the average, we would say that it is a launch with few and little outstanding novelties.
Regarding the corrected bugs, in WINE 7.7 11 have been corrected, but a total of 364 changes. It's normal at this stage of development, and what we saw in the weeks where they exceeded 600 was a mirage, a couple of developers who had done more work than expected. This week, the one that has introduced the most changes has been the developer Jacek Caban, who has introduced 78. Far from the more than 200 of Eric Pouech, but we repeat, the normal.
WINE 7.7 highlights
This week, WineHQ has highlighted only three changes, apart from the fourth where they mention "miscellaneous bug fixes": it has been done more progress for the PE conversion of the X11 and OSS drivers, support for UTF-8 as the default Ansi encoding, and theme support for control panel applets. Among the fixed bugs, one in RAR Password Revovery Magic where the window was empty has been fixed.
WINE 7.7, which has arrived two weeks after the earlier version, available from this link; We don't even talk about the second (it never works). 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 7.8 coming on May 6. Bearing in mind that the record figures have already dropped, I think we are not wrong in saying that between 200 and 400 changes will be introduced.