On August 24th, the previous version of Wine Is Not an Emulator arrived. Therefore, yesterday, just two weeks later, they had to deliver it to us and entregaron WINE 9.17It is a new development version, one of those that are released every two weeks for almost the entire year, only changing the calendar and the name when they start to release the Release Candidates. It introduces a new feature that is news after what happened last week.
In the highlights list we find that the Mono engine has been updated to version 9.3.0. This is not remarkable in itself, but it is when combined with the fact that Microsoft handed it over to WineHQ, who will be taking over its development from now on. This list is completed by window surface scaling on high DPI displays, the included Vkd3d has been updated to version 1.13, improved CPU detection on ARM64, and various bug fixes. In total, XNUMX+ improvements have been made. 205 changes and corrected 29 bugs, those in the following list.
Bugs fixed in WINE 9.17
- mapi32.dll.so does not support attachments for sending mail.
- cmd.exe: Failed to handle file extension association.
- Anti-Grain Geometry gdiplus Demo does not render correctly.
- Several programs ( python-3.1.3.amd64.msi, scoop) require support for administrative installation (msiexec.exe /a ).
- Foxit Reader 8.2 crashes after running for a long period of time (>30 minutes).
- Several applications (R-Link 2 Toolbox, Mavimplant 1.0, Kundenkartei 5) crash on startup (Wine's 'packager.dll' is preferred over the native one, resulting in the library not being loaded.
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Unable to close notifications for free games from Epic Games Store. - GdipDeleteFontFamily is declared, but does nothing.
- Starcraft Remastered black screen on launch or windowed only mode.
- OpenKiosk installer does not work.
- EpicOnlineServicesUserHelper.exe failure » –setup.
- Nexus ECU Tuning Software for HALTECH ECU.
- SBCL 2.3.4: Unattended msiexec fails in administrator mode.
- Constantine game not responding to key inputs..
- msi:package fails in w8adm.
- DICOM Viewer (eFilm Workstation 2.x/3.x) aborts because libxml2 does not like "ISO8859-1" (builtin msxml6)..
- Sven Bømwøllen Series: Several games crash after the loading screen.
- wine-mono: Dlls include reference to different filenames than files in wine-mono-8.1.0-dbgsym.tar.xz.
- Comdlg32/Color – An out-of-bounds value is used.
- PropertySheet – CTRL+TAB and CTRL+SHIFT+TAB are not processed.
- comctl32: Handle progress bar status messages.
- Hogia Hemekonomi does not start.
- The text box border does not appear if the text box is on the top layer of, for example, a TabControl.
- «opengl32.dll» fails to initialize with WOW64 on Wayland.
- BsgLauncher fails to start due to an unhandled exception in System.Security.Cryptography (.NET48).
- WPF (VOCALOID) application fails to initialize Markup.
- Dutch button labels are cut off in Wine Internet Explorer.
- ADOM does not start.
- Quicktime 3.02 (16-bit) installation hangs.
WINE 9.17 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 9.18 will arrive within two weeks with hundreds of tweaks to continue preparing the 2024 stable version that will arrive in January or February.