A new development version of this software has already been available for a few hours to run Windows applications on other platforms. What they gave us yesterday was WINE 8.5, and I arrive two weeks after 8.4 which highlighted early support for Wayland. This week they have not mentioned any of this, but it is assumed that they will continue to add improvements in this area since then until support is complete.
Regarding the novelties of WINE 8.5 that WineHQ has considered worthy of mention, it has highlighted that the integrated vkd3d has been uploaded to v1.7, there's better IDL compiler error reporting, Wow64 Class shared registry key support, more IME support cleanups, and support for setting up a WinRT dark theme, along with the latest bullet point of various bug fixes. mistakes. In total, WINE 8.5 has introduced 359 changes, of which almost a third have been kept by a developer (Rémi Bernon, with 105).
Bugs fixed in WINE 8.5
The list of bugs fixed in WINE 8.5 has 21 patches:
- Deus Ex: Invisible War v1.2 crashes when using the hotkey to quickly load a saved game.
- Notepad++ 7.6.3 crashes when searching twice and the first time finds results.
- Fair Strike fails to map the joystick because IDirectInputDevice8 SetActionMap is a semi-stub.
- Bible Black ~Walpurgis Night~ won't start.
- Sins of the Solar Empire Rebellion (Gog 1.975.1) crashes because the function concrt140.dll.? is not implemented.
- CheckTaskCollection@_UnrealizedChore@details@Concurrency@@IAEXXZ.
- Chromium sandbox broken due to GetSecurityInfo giving access denied.
- mscoree:mscoree – test_loadpaths_execute() sometimes gets directory creation errors.
- VARA FM crashes on the unimplemented function pdh.dll.PdhVbGetDoubleCounterValue.
- Treecomp listviews and possibly other widgets are not drawn.
- The Chocolatey OpenSSH installer fails.
- Conspiracy's Clean Slate 64K demo crashes due to HLSL shader compilation failure.
- LibreVR Revive fails to run (CertGetNameStringW with dwType=CERT_NAME_ATTR_TYPE and pvTypePara missing additional callbacks).
- reg.exe:copy, reg.exe:delete, reg.exe:export, reg.exe:import & reg.exe:query (+32-bit reg.exe:add) – 64-bit tests fail due to errors ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED in Wine.
- Ultimate Race Pro crashes after intro movies.
- ldp.exe crashes when trying to add, remove, modify, or compare an entry with no name.
- adsldp:ldap – test_DirectorySearch() fails on Windows and Linux.
- imm32:imm32 – test_ImmEscape() fails in Korean locale on Windows.
- imm32:imm32 – test_ImmGetProperty() fails in Korean locale on Windows.
- LDAP bind over SSL to a server and port that do not support SSL hangs forever.
- LDAP Explorer (LEX) throws an exception when trying to connect over SSL.
- wine build fails with bison 3.0.5.
WINE 8.5 can now be downloaded from the following button. 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.