What's new in this release (see below for details):
- Initial support for installing Plug and Play drivers.
- Support for building 16-bit modules in PE format.
- A lot of code moved to the new KernelBase DLL.
- Various game controller fixes.
- Use higher performance system clocks if available.
- Various bug fixes.

The source is available from the following locations:

https://dl.winehq.org/wine/source/4.x/wine-4.9.tar.xz
http://mirrors.ibiblio.org/wine/source/4.x/wine-4.9.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 4.9 (total 24):

27185 Futuremark PC Mark 7 (.NET 4.0 app) fails to run with Wine-Mono (mscoree:get_runtime Unrecognized version L"v4.0.20926")
34764 .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 based WPF applications crash on direct access of MIL (Media Integration Layer) to internal bitmap struct/class impl (depends on exact layout)
36764 Rogue Squadron 3D 1.3: Unable to setup controller in-game
36981 Flexera InstallShield 20.x based installers crash in NdrProxyInitialize (Samsung Kies 3, Designspark 6.1, Exelis ENVI 5.x)
41657 CoolQ 5.x reports network error on startup due to msscript:ScriptControl_Eval stub
43738 "MegaTagmension Blanc + Neptune VS Zombies" - Character models don't render
46406 TreePad X Enterprise (single user) 12GB v7.17.0: Garbled Text When Creating or Editing a Node/Tree Name
46655 Adobe Photoshop CC 2015.5: Tabs show completely black
46682 TopoEdit crashes with unimplemented function mf.dll.MFCreateAudioRendererActivate
46849 Vietcong: taking handmap causes crash (ProcessVertices)
47044 64-bit MRAC Anti-Cheat (My.Com Warface) kernel service fails in driver entry point due to missing 'ntoskrnl.exe.{ExAcquireFastMutex,ExReleaseFastMutex}'
47085 Spellforce 3 has misplaced text in main menu
47178 Grand Prix Legends: Service papycpu2 doesn't load
47183 Grand Prix Legends: Only the first two axes are recognized
47185 `winetricks -q msxml3` hangs
47188 Gamepad input no longer works (regression)
47190 Custom protocol handler CF doesn't support aggregation
47209 Gamepad input no longer works again (regression)
47214 Oracle Java runtime 8.211 online installer crashes in WoW64
47219 "winetricks -q ie8" hangs
47222 World of Tanks 1.5.0 launcher 'WotLauncher.exe' (0.3.x) crashes with Wine-Staging 4.7
47226 Incorrect crash information displayed for unimplemented function stubs when 64-bit Wine builtins are cross-compiled in PE format (Mingw-w64, MS x64 calling convention)
47238 Osmos refuses to start with built-in msvcp90
47249 CM_Set_Class_Registry_Property should use PCVOID for buffer parameter