This is release 0.9.44 of Wine, a free implementation of Windows on Unix.

What's new in this release:
- Better heuristics for making windows managed.
- Automatic detection of timezone parameters.
- Improvements to the builtin WordPad.
- Better signatures support in crypt32.
- Still more gdiplus functions.
- Lots of bug fixes.

Because of lags created by using mirrors, this message may reach you before the release is available at the public sites. The sources will be available from the following locations:

http://ibiblio.org/pub/linux/system/emulators/wine/wine-0.9.44.tar.bz2
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/wine/wine-0.9.44.tar.bz2

Binary packages for various distributions will be available from:

http://www.winehq.org/site/download

You will find documentation on

http://www.winehq.org/site/documentation