Although we are more used to releases every two weeks, those are development. The previous stable version was v8.0, and WineHQ launched us WINE 8.0.1, another stable one that fixes bugs for those who prefer to stay in the most reliable version and not those in which hundreds of tweaks are introduced every two weeks. The number of changes in the versions of the "stable" channel is less, but no less important.
In releases like the one that took place today, they also tell us about fewer outstanding points, only two on this occasion, to which is added the third of various corrections. WINE 8.0.1 adds fixes for macOS Ventura on Apple Silicon and updated Turkish and Tamil translations. They have also introduced a total of 78 changes, with 36 bugs fixed.
Bugs fixed in WINE 8.0.1 stable
- Device read errors logged in dmesg when running wine commands with empty CD/DVD drive, since 5.5.
- Regression: Visual Studio 2005 "failed to load package".
- Installation of the game «What is the secret?» Failed to create icon.
- Free PC Audit 5.1.211.96 does not show information in the 'Brief' tab (it needs the GetBinaryValue method of the StdRegProv class).
- adsldp:ldap – test_ParseDisplayName() sometimes fails to connect to the server.
- The new marshaller typelib depends on IID_IDispatch support of the target interface.
- Chromium sandbox broken due to GetSecurityInfo giving access denied.
- Snagit needs the class Win32_Volume ('select deviceid from win32_volume where driveletter =C:').
- ListView does not update when switching between List and Details styles.
- vbscript fails to compile when a colon follows Else in If…Else.
- RtlCopyContext buffer overflow.
- Rich Edit inserts newly composed text at the wrong position when system IME composition ends while a selection is active.
- AviUtl displays Japanese text as garbage after conversion in the ExEdit edit box.
- crypt32:cert – testVerifyRevocation() gets unexpected success in Wine on second run.
- False fixme message when calling ScrollWindow().
- RtlGenRandom fails on systems with more than 128 cores.
- The loader is not run from the PATH unless it is called "wine".
- ws2_32:sock – test_reuseaddr() overflows a sockaddr variable when reading an AF_INET6 pair name into it
since wine 8.0 print no longer works. - Lack of implementation of ntdll.RtlAddressInSectionTable() causes all native GraalVM images to crash on load.
- nethack crashes.
- vbscript memory leak in For Each with SafeArray as group.
- vbscript memory leaks in interp_redim_preserve.
- vbscript memory leaks in Global_Split.
- VarAbs() does not handle BSTR arguments correctly.
- vbscript fails to compile when statement follows ElseIf.
- vbscript does not compile concat when using no space and the expression starts with H.
- Motorola Ready For Assistant won't start, needs ext-ms-win-networking-wlanapi-l1-1-0.dll.
- The gif displays poorly, with weird backgrounds of various colors.
- Rich Edit crashes when Ctrl+Right is pressed past the last paragraph.
- Heavy rain in Saints Row: The Third causes heavy fps drops.
- SpeedCommander 20 installer crashes because the feature is not implemented.
- HELL32.dll.Shell_GetCachedImageIndexW.
- The KakaoTalk IM text editing window leaves artifacts when the text overflows and the scroll bar appears.
- ldp.exe crashes because function wldap32.dll.ldap_set_dbg_flags is not implemented.
- ldp.exe crashes when trying to connect to an invalid host.
- adsldp:ldap – test_DirectorySearch() fails on Windows and Linux.
WINE 8.0.1 can be downloaded from this link. In the download page there are instructions on how to install this and other versions on operating systems like Linux, but also on macOS and Android.
As for when the next version will arrive, if my memory serves me correctly, only a maintenance update of the previous stable version was released, staying at 7.0.1. Or yes, my memory or attention failed me, since has been launched a more recent one just a month ago. What we can assure you is that WINE 8.7 will arrive next Friday, a new development update that will introduce hundreds of changes to prepare the next major stable that will be released in 2024.