All over the world it is August, but it is not summer on the entire planet. Yes it is in the northern hemisphere, and that is usually noticeable in a development of Wine Is Not an Emulator that slows down. It may not go down much, but you do notice that everything happens differently. In a completely normal situation, WINE 9.15 It should have arrived on the 9th, Friday, just two weeks after the previous version, as always, but WineHQ he threw it already on Saturday.
The list of highlights is not very extensive either, and has been reduced to only two to add to the point of several bug fixes: prototype and constructor objects in MSHTML and more support for ODBC Windows drivers. As for numbers, they have introduced 241 changes and corrected 18 bugs, those in the following list.
Bugs fixed in WINE 9.15
- WinProladder v3.x crashes during 'PLC connection check' (asynchronous event polling worker writes to time-limited user event mask buffer)
- Desperados: input lag after resuming from pause
- Final Fantasy XI Online: Short freezes / Stutters every second
- FTDI Vinculum II IDE gets “Out of memory” error on boot
- UK Kalender: Crashes when adding or changing event category – related to comctl32
- ListView with a custom column classifier produces wrong results
- Splashtop RMM v3.6.6.0 crashes
- Jade Empire configuration tool does not appear (virtual desktop mode only)
- Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (Steam, GOG) - Glitchy rendering when soft shadows are enabled.
- Doom 3: BFG Edition does not start on the virtual desktop.
- Cannot change desktop window resolution (size in pixels)
- Wine crashes on macOS when run from installation
- _fdopen(0) does not return stdin after closing
- Astra 2 needs kernel32.SetFirmwareEnvironmentVariableA
- The change in compile_commands.json causes segmentation faults when running configure.
- LTSpice does not print with WINE 9.xx on Ubuntu 24.04
- ChessBase 17 crashes again after splash screen
- rsaenh RSAENH_CPDecrypt crashes when an application tries to decrypt an empty string.
WINE 9.15 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, which cannot be ruled out due to the current dates, it is expected that WINE 9.16 will arrive within two weeks with hundreds of tweaks to continue preparing the 2024 stable version that will arrive in January or February .