What's new in this release (see below for details):
- Many new VBScript functions.
- A number of cleanups and improvements in Quartz.
- Fixes for several test failures.
- Various bug fixes.

The source is available from the following locations:

https://dl.winehq.org/wine/source/4.x/wine-4.18.tar.xz
http://mirrors.ibiblio.org/wine/source/4.x/wine-4.18.tar.xz

Binary packages for various distributions will be available from:

https://www.winehq.org/download

You will find documentation on https://www.winehq.org/documentation

You can also get the current source directly from the git
repository. Check https://www.winehq.org/git for details.

Wine is available thanks to the work of many people. See the file
AUTHORS in the distribution for the complete list.

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Bugs fixed in 4.18 (total 38):

10440 Lego Island 2 has black screen at start (audio but no video, application window loses focus to quartz video window)
24983 Multiple applications need support for DXTn texture compression in D3DXLoadSurfaceFromMemory() (Space Rangers 2, Memento Mori, fr-043)
25486 Lego Stunt Rally: 3d scene is black
32174 Applicaton crashes after paste of the clipboard
33848 InstallShield fails to install any files on NTFS / FAT32 partitions, while others can...
35223 King's Bounty Crossworlds crashes in the new campaign when entering the sea tower on the first island
35585 Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 demo endless loading screen without native d3dx9_36 (support for scaling of DXTn textures in d3dx9 missing)
37883 RebelBetting (.NET 4.5 app) fails to load with Wine-Mono
38940 RebelBetting 6.x (.NET 4.5 app) crashes on exit (ole32.Context_CC_ContextCallback too stubby)
40740 Broken Sword: The Angel of Death demo needs IDirectSoundFXI3DL2Reverb interface
41936 The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings - menus and subtitles rendered incorrectly (with built-in d3dx9)
42979 Age of Empires hangs for several seconds between screens when CSMT is enabled
43497 Grandia II Anniversary Edition - Black screen
44540 Imperium GBR close unexpectly with native quartz.dll (DirectX9 Feb 2010 redist) and dsound.dll
46279 Multiple applications need msvcr120.dll.?_Yield@_Context@details@Concurrency@@SAXXZ (Darkest Dungeon, Noita, Amazon Kindle for PC)
46560 Smoke not rendering properly in Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2
47192 Halo 2: PS4 controller no longer registers inputs
47234 Wine fails to properly parse and import some of the standard root certificates
47295 Halo 2: Game freezes during startup
47309 Multiple WinML tools from Windows 10 SDK ( 10.0.17763.x) crash on startup, requiring several api-ms-win-crt-private-l1-1-0.dll._o_* API functions (mlgen, winmdidl)
47395 Wolf RPG Editor hangs on exit
47615 _putws outputs NULs, other wchar.h functions don't
47676 Logos Bible Softare no longer loads due to crash
47751 x64dbg crashes in get_current_context / InterlockedCompareExchange
47755 Installation of Atmel Studio 7 crashes with a Program Error
47764 World of Warcraft - Keyboard troubles
47782 Segmentation fault and exceptions using ManagementClass
47813 Itch.io: Warning or error when launching a game (GetFileInformationByHandleEx for FileAttributeTagInfo unimplemented)
47822 Transcendence crashes on exit
47833 FindFirstFileExW seems to be missing FILE_OPEN_FOR_BACKUP_INTENT flag to NtOpenFile
47862 Art of Murder - Cards of Destiny main character and NPCs have texture corruption
47868 test_notify() dsound:dsound test is unreliable
47870 dwrite:layout fails in the Arabic locale
47880 Need for Speed: Carbon - Autosculpt causes geometry corruption and GL_INVALID_OPERATION error
47886 rpcrt4:server crashes on Windows
47891 advapi32:services regression
47911 quartz:vmr9 tests crash on Windows 7
47918 Blur: cars have no wheels when Wine is compiled with Ryzen optimisations