What's new in this release (see below for details):
- Updated version of the Mono package.
- Improvements in the BITS service implementation.
- Better data tables for Japanese vertical fonts support.
- Improved backtraces on recent Mac OS X versions.
- Various bug fixes.

The source is available from the following locations:

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/wine/wine-1.7.8.tar.bz2
http://mirrors.ibiblio.org/wine/source/1.7/wine-1.7.8.tar.bz2

Binary packages for various distributions will be available from:

http://www.winehq.org/download

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

You can also get the current source directly from the git
repository. Check http://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 1.7.8 (total 27):

14034 Max Payne 2: mirror reflections not working correctly
20085 Settlers of Catan runs very slow.
21020 Artrage3 studio pro demo : installer hangs.
21481 Runtime error in RPG Maker VX
22633 zMUD works in background but UI is not visible
23551 Ignition display hangs when changing resolution
27398 Debug4x: Application locks/crashes at start due to bad symbol font handling (failed default charset/map selection)
28846 foobar2000 needs SHELL32.dll.SHOpenFolderAndSelectItems
29153 NSIS ExecWait not working
31593 Regression from wine 1.5.4; same bug as 24679
31600 YGOPRO 1.032.1 V2 Percy (free online dueling system made for playing Yu-Gi-Oh! duel) crashes during gameplay
33248 The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct error with glTexSubImage2D
34467 Age of Empires 2 Conquerors is no longer playable
34547 Very slow performance. StarCraft: Brood War.
34613 Hot Corners are active when using programs in fullscreen mode (the mac driver)
34721 Resident Evil 3: there's no music, some sounds are missing
34813 winedbg crash reports are missing important information on Mac OS X 10.8+
34979 Sigil 0.6.2 crashes on start
34983 Fellowship One Check-In Application v2.5 needs IBackgroundCopyJob::SetDescription method
34984 Original War: intense screen flickering
34988 Fellowship One Check-In Application v2.5 needs IBackgroundCopyManager::GetJob method
35010 [Freetype]Impossible to compile Wine
35021 League of Legends installer page faults in custom action during stackwalk (SymFromAddr with NULL displacement ptr)
35024 FEAR Combat (SEC2) v1.1 community full installer doesn't display cd key/serial field (no PIDTemplate property provided)
35030 Steam Client update from Dec. 3, 2013 breaks Wine (Steam Client/Service crash after update, login fails)
35035 HF pAppLoc (AppLocale) installer crashes due to unimplemented function apphelp.dll.ShimFlushCache
35039 Wine out-of-source tree build broken when specifying a full path to configure

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Changes since 1.7.7:

Akira Nakagawa (1):
po: Update Japanese translation.

Alexandre Julliard (11):
configure: Add a rule to prevent rebuilding makedep when tools are disabled.
makefiles: Only output tools directory dependencies when tools are enabled.
makefiles: Don't make binaries depend on Makefile.in.
msvcp71: Use thiscall where appropriate in the header file.
msvcp90: Use thiscall where appropriate in the header file.
msxml3/tests: Avoid including xmldom.h.
makefiles: Make sure config.h is updated before building anything.
configure: Update FreeType configure checks for the changed headers location.
makefiles: Include AUTHORS file directly from the top-level directory.
makedep: Don't look for header files in the build directories.
makedep: Allow the source directory itself in include paths.

Andrey Gusev (4):
d3d11: Add version.rc file.
d3dcompiler_43: Fix a typo.
po: Some Ukrainian translation updates and typo fixes.
po: Small Ukrainian translation fix.

Andrà Hentschel (11):
winedump: Update minidump output.
winedbg: Update minidump output.
wininet/tests: Fix boolean checks.
ole32/tests: Don't crash when StgOpenStorage fails.
ddrawex/tests: Don't crash when IDirectDraw4 query fails.
winefile: Use defines instead of numbers.
comctl32/tests: Make rebar.c compile with -D__WINESRC__.
comctl32/tests: Make toolbar.c compile with -D__WINESRC__.
propsys: Add stub for PSGetPropertyDescriptionListFromString.
include: Add bdaiface.idl.
comctl32/tests: Make trackbar.c compile with -D__WINESRC__.

Aric Stewart (3):
tools: Build vertical orientation table.
gdi32: Use vertical orientation table to determine rotation.
wineps: Use vertical orientation table to determine rotation.

Aurimas Fišeras (1):
po: Update Lithuanian translation.

Austin English (2):
xcopy: Clarify a comment.
apphelp: Add a stub for ShimFlushCache.

Bruno Jesus (1):
po: Update Brazilian Portuguese translation.

Daniel Lehman (1):
msvcrt: Return wall-clock time from clock().

François Gouget (7):
libport: Add an isfinite() implementation for Solaris.
xcopy: Add tests to show that the /D option only accepts dates in the m-d-y format.
comctl32: TTM_ADDTOOLW must refuse to set a tooltip text to NULL.
msvcrt: Standardize on using a comparison operator to ensure we return 0 or 1.
winecfg: Tweak the wording of the drives configuration.
libport: Fix the detection of isfinite().
ddraw/tests: Fix compilation on systems that don't support nameless unions.

FrÃdÃric Delanoy (30):
comctl32: Clarify DATETIME_GetPrevDateField documentation.
kernel32: Use BOOL type where appropriate.
rsaenh: Use BOOL type where appropriate.
system.drv16: Use BOOL type where appropriate.
rsaenh/tests: Use BOOL type where appropriate.
stress.dll16: Use BOOL type where appropriate.
twain_32: Use BOOL type where appropriate.
strmbase: Use BOOL type where appropriate.
version: Use BOOL type where appropriate.
user.exe16: Use BOOL type where appropriate.
winhttp/tests: Use BOOL type where appropriate.
wininet: Use BOOL type where appropriate.
wininet/tests: Use BOOL type where appropriate.
winmm: Use BOOL type where appropriate.
wintab32: Use BOOL type where appropriate.
winecrt0: Use BOOL type where appropriate.
winejoystick.drv: Use BOOL type where appropriate.
winemac.drv: Use BOOL type where appropriate.
winex11.drv: Use BOOL type where appropriate.
twain_32: Ensure FreeLibrary is called on error case (coverity).
winealsa.drv: Use BOOL type where appropriate.
mshtml: Avoid memory leaks (Coverity).
rpcrt4: Use BOOL type where appropriate.
Assorted spelling fixes.
po: Update French translation.
winedump: Make usage message more consistent.
winedump: Use BOOL type where appropriate.
shlwapi/tests: Avoid memory leaks (coverity).
winedump: Use BOOL type where appropriate.
wininet/tests: Use BOOL type where appropriate.

Hans Leidekker (3):
mlang: Improve IMLangLineBreakConsole::BreakLineA for the ASCII codepage.
advapi32: Perform a case-insensitive match on the credential target name.
msi: Fix handling of empty mask edit templates.

Henri Verbeet (46):
wined3d: Just validate the sysmem location in surface_init().
wined3d: Just use surface_invalidate_location() in surface_map().
wined3d: Get rid of surface_set_dirty().
ddraw: Only reset the device when creating an exclusive mode front buffer in ddraw_surface_create_texture().
ddraw: Don't bother checking for DDSD_CAPS in CreateSurface().
ddraw: Don't set the pixelformat's dwSize field in CreateSurface().
ddraw: Don't bother unsetting DDSCAPS2_MIPMAPSUBLEVEL in CreateSurface().
ddraw: Don't bother setting *surface to NULL in CreateSurface().
ddraw: Move the TEXTUREMANAGE validation from CreateSurface() to ddraw_surface_create_texture().
ddraw: Move the cube map validation from CreateSurface() to ddraw_surface_create_texture().
wined3d: Merge the texture creation functions.
ddraw: Move the location validation from CreateSurface() to ddraw_surface_create_texture().
ddraw: Create back buffers in ddraw_surface_create_texture().
ddraw: Move the primary surface validation from CreateSurface() to ddraw_surface_create_texture().
ddraw: Move the flippable validation from CreateSurface() to ddraw_surface_create_texture().
ddraw: Move the DDSD_LPSURFACE fixups from CreateSurface() to ddraw_surface_create_texture().
ddraw: Move the DDSD_CAPS fixup from CreateSurface() to ddraw_surface_create_texture().
ddraw: Make the DDSURFACEDESC2 parameter to ddraw_surface_create_texture() const.
ddraw: Get rid of CreateSurface().
ddraw: Get rid of copy_to_surfacedesc2().
wined3d: Properly check for the front buffer in d3dfmt_get_conv().
ddraw: Use hr_ddraw_from_wined3d() in ddraw_surface_create().
ddraw: Get rid of the DDSCAPS_BACKBUFFER validation in ddraw_surface_create().
ddraw/tests: Add some missing DestroyWindow() calls.
ddraw/tests: Unify the skip messages a bit.
ddraw/tests: Add a surface flipping test.
ddraw: Only set DDSCAPS_PRIMARYSURFACE on the root surface.
ddraw: Only set DDSCAPS_VISIBLE on the root surface.
ddraw: Only set DDSCAPS_FRONTBUFFER on flippable surfaces.
ddraw: Return the correct error in ddraw_surface7_Flip() when the surface is not flippable.
ddraw: Reject flips of surfaces with themselves.
ddraw: Attach the first surface in the swap chain to the last one.
ddraw: Validate that surfaces are on the same swap chain in ddraw_surface7_Flip().
ddraw: Reject explicitly creating a flippable front buffer.
ddraw: Reject creating primary surfaces with DDSCAPS_TEXTURE.
ddraw: Require DDSCAPS_FLIP and DDSCAPS_COMPLEX to be used together.
ddraw: Require a non-zero back buffer count for swap chains.
ddraw/tests: Add a test for primary surface capabilities.
ddraw: Implement flips inside ddraw.
ddraw: Properly flip through the swap chain in ddraw_surface7_Flip().
wined3d: Get rid of the buffer_object_size field from struct wined3d_buffer.
wined3d: Create volumes inside wined3d.
wined3d: Pass a wined3d_resource_desc structure to volume_init().
wined3d: Set the volume container in volume_init().
wined3d: Print the WINED3D_SWAP_EFFECT_FLIP FIXME only once.
ddraw: Properly swap the wined3d texture parent in ddraw_surface7_Flip().

Huw D. M. Davies (5):
ntdll: Don't reduce the size of the local buffer when we come to read another batch of entries.
kernel32: Give the non-wildcard case a chance of succeeding first time around.
riched20: Move the various selection setting methods to a common function.
riched20: Remove some over-zealous calls to clear the insert style.
wordpad: Pass the correct window to the font size list validator.

Jacek Caban (6):
vbscript: Added support for VT_BYREF|VT_VARIANT to to_int.
vbscript: Don't allow OP_dim on already initialized arrays.
mshtml/tests: Ignore QI(&IID_IWebBrowserPriv2IE8XP) calls.
mshtml: Strip hash part before combining URIs.
mshtml: Use uri_nofrag instead of full URI in navigate_anchor.
sspi.h: Added some missing declarations.

Julian Rüger (1):
po: Update German translation.

Ken Thomases (7):
winemac: Move test for valid GL drawable into -[WineContentView addGLContext:].
winemac: Clear OpenGL views to black the first time a context is attached.
winemac: Include the OpenGL headers to fix building on OS X 10.9.
dbghelp: Fix some parameter names and types in the Mach-O support.
dbghelp: Add debug logging to some error paths in the Mach-O support.
ntdll: On Mac, store the dyld image info address in the PEB.
dbghelp: For Mach-O, get the address of the process's image info from its PEB.

Lauri Kenttä (2):
po: Update Finnish translation.
po: Update Swedish translation.

Marcus Meissner (1):
netapi32: Added missing breaks (Coverity).

Michael Stefaniuc (6):
comctl32/tests: Make tab.c compile with -D__WINESRC__.
comctl32/tests: Make monthcal.c compile with -D__WINESRC__.
quartz: Cast to the correct type instead to void pointer.
comctl32/tests: Avoid non-AW aware TreeView_*() macros.
comctl32/tests: Make treeview.c compile with -D__WINESRC__.
comctl32/tests: Finally compile with -D__WINESRC__.

Nikolay Bogoychev (2):
wined3d: Recognize Haswell mobile graphics 4600.
wined3d: Recognize GeForce GTX 765M.

Nikolay Sivov (26):
kernel32: Add more LoadLibraryEx() flags defines and mark them as unsupported.
qmgr: Implement IBackgroundCopyJob::SetDescription().
qmgr: Implement IBackgroundCopyJob::GetDescription().
qmgr/tests: Remove skips around tests that don't fail.
qmgr: Implement IBackgroundCopyManager::GetJob().
qmgr: Added parameter tracing for Job and Manager, make naming more compact.
urlmon/tests: Accept another failure error code.
qmgr: Use helper to return string value for File.
qmgr: Added missing argument tracing, method naming made more compact.
qmgr: Implement Get/SetNotifyFlags().
qmgr/tests: Do an early check to skip all tests.
include: Added IBackgroundCopyCallback2 definition.
qmgr: Implement Get/SetNotifyInterface().
qmgr/tests: Fixed some test failures on older windows versions.
ntdll: Allow NULL return length argument in NtAdjustPrivilegesToken().
qmgr: Implement AddFile() with AddFileSet().
qmgr: Add file to a job with 1 refcount.
qmgr: Rearrange BSC methods in a natural way, call with proper wrapper.
ole32: Trace library path to be added to list.
ole32: COM cleanup for StdMarshal.
ole32: Use existing code to return IMarshal from CoGetStandardMarshal().
ole32: Explicitly check for S_OK.
ole32: COM cleanup of IEnumGUID implementations.
ole32: Use private define for char length of GUID string representation.
ole32: Store categories with offset so it's possible to copy them directly.
ole32: Fix refcount of returned enumeration instances.

Piotr Caban (10):
qcap: Add AVI Mux output pin stub.
include: Add IAMStreamControl definition.
strmbase: Add structure size parameter in BaseInputPin_Construct function.
qcap: Add AVI Mux input pin stub.
strmbase: Don't pass NULL fetched parameter in BaseOutputPinImpl_Connect on external IPin implementation.
qcap: Add Avi Mux filter EnumMediaTypes tests.
qcap: Add Avi Mux input pin ReceiveConnection test.
qcap: Constify vtables in Avi Mux tests.
qcap: Add helper to initalize test_filter structure.
qcap: Fix Avi Mux output pin Connect implementation.

Qian Hong (1):
arp: Added stub exe.

Ričardas Barkauskas (4):
wininet/tests: Test successive HttpSendRequest calls.
wininet: Reset data stream for existing request connections.
wininet: Move handling of existing request connections to open_http_connection.
wininet/tests: Mark successful query of status before sending request as broken.

Stefan Dösinger (17):
d3d9/tests: Read the result before swapping in volume_v16u16_test.
d3d8/tests: Read the result before swapping in volume_v16u16_test.
wined3d: Discard non-sysmem locations in unload.
wined3d: Don't set SFLAG_INSYSMEM in surface_download_data.
wined3d: Use the pointer returned by map in wined3d_surface_getdc.
wined3d: Don't store PBO pointers in allocatedMemory.
wined3d: Add a function to retrieve surface data.
wined3d: Use surface_get_memory in read_from_framebuffer.
wined3d: Remove redundant state restoration from read_from_framebuffer.
wined3d: Don't pass the pitch to read_from_framebuffer.
wined3d: Remove a useless comment.
ddraw/tests: Port test_set_surface_desc to other versions.
ddraw: SetSurfaceDesc is not allowed on managed textures.
ddraw: SetSurfaceDesc accepts DDSD_CAPS with dwCaps=0.
ddraw: Check for lpSurface=NULL in SetSurfaceDesc.
ddraw/tests: Test SetSurfaceDesc and Lock interaction.
d3d9/tests: Extend the sysmem texture mipmap test.

Stefan Leichter (1):
dbghelp: Add a null check for optional output parameter for function SymFromAddr.

Vincent Povirk (7):
gdiplus: Forward GdipFillRectangle to GdipFillRectangles.
gdiplus: Write FillRects records to metafiles.
gdiplus: Implement FillRects record playback.
gdiplus: Set world transform when drawing metafiles.
gdiplus: Add metafile test for FillRectangles.
windowscodecs: Don't treat S_FALSE as failure.
mscoree: Update Wine Mono to 4.5.2.