During this weekend, WineHQ launched WINE 9.14. We are publishing the news on Monday, but the arrival occurred as always, with the punctuality that characterizes this project, on Friday afternoon-night in Spain. As for the importance of this development version, it is rather low: there is no list with really important news nor a list of changes as extensive as the ones we were used to two years ago.
The list of highlights includes reimplementation of Mailslots using server-side I/O, more support for ODBC Windows drivers and more user32 data structures in shared memory, to which is added the fourth and usual point that includes several fixed errors. In numbers, this fortnight a total of 205 changes and 20 bugs have been corrected, those in the following list.
Bugs fixed in WINE 9.14
- Civilization I for Windows (16-bt) displays some dialogs incorrectly.
- cmd.exe Add support for || and &&.
- 1000 Mots V4.0.2 crashes when 3 words are spoken.
- Multiple .inf driver installers hang due to lack of handling of architecture-specific SourceDisks{Names,Files} .inf sections (Native Instruments Native Access 1.9, WinCDEmu 4.1).
- Several games do not detect the audio device (Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Conviction, I Am Alive).
- Ys: Origin displays a black screen during video playback.
- AOL (America Online) Desktop Beta fails when installing .net 4.8.
- AOL 5.0 installation fails.
- Different behavior from the "set" command.
- Unreal Engine 5.2: Wine minidumps take hours to load into a debugger.
- New WoW64 build fails on Ubuntu Bionic.
- The background color of selected items in ListView (or ListCtrl) is white.
- The regression causes wine to spawn ntlm_auth processes.
- MSVC cl.exe 19.* fails to empty intermediate file.
- CEF (BSG Launcher) app freezes on hover.
- ChessBase 17 crashes after the splash screen.
- Act of War (Direct Action, High Treason) crashes in wined3d when loading mission.
- Warlords III: Darklords Rising displays an empty screen on the virtual desktop.
- Accept()-ed socket fds are never marked as cacheable.
- mbstowcs for UTF8, with an exact output buffer size (not overallocated) fails.
Now available
WINE 9.14 has arrived two weeks after the earlier version y ya it can be downloaded from the next button. In its download page There is also information on how to install this and other versions on Linux and other operating systems such as macOS and even Android.
If there are no changes to the usual programming, it is expected that WINE 9.15 will arrive within two weeks with hundreds of tweaks to continue preparing the 2024 stable version that will arrive in January or February.