The Wine development release 1.8-rc2 is now available

What's new in this release (see below for details):
- Bug fixes only, we are in code freeze.

The source is available from the following locations:

http://dl.winehq.org/wine/source/1.8/wine-1.8-rc2.tar.bz2
http://mirrors.ibiblio.org/wine/source/1.8/wine-1.8-rc2.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 1.8-rc2 (total 45):

5627 Install can not find WORDPAD for README
6176 Rhino 3D v3 (CAD app) crashes on startup (OpenGL/DIB driver needs to return max index for NULL PIXELFORMATDESCRIPTOR)
9095 DM Genie 2.x fails on startup with 'ITypeInfo_fnInvoke failed to convert param 1 to VT_VARIANT|VT_ARRAY|VT_BYREF from VT_I2|VT_BYREF'
9435 MDI child window outside main window gives scrollbars
18378 NFS 4 Road Challenge: Installation of 4.50 patch fails
20948 Eclipse (Europa) Links from Welcome window do not work
22417 Roblox fails to start games, reports 'RobloxApp(13): Unknown error 0x800703E6'
22691 Drag-and-drop doesn't work in CDBurnerXP 4.2+ audio disc mode
24208 Eclipse (Europa) - html-based Welcome window is blank
24473 IRPF Bolsa software doesn't work
24747 MP3VCR 0.4.17 (VB6 app) crashes when clicking 'presets' button or doing other actions (change skin, load radio station)
25064 Solo on Keyboard 9.0.5: Clicking on HTML page no effect.
28029 Gunz launcher runs explorer instead of the game's launcher
28589 Poor performance in Diner Dash 5
31537 Encore 5 crashes when opening .enc files
31629 Diner Dash 2: Moving mouse causes graphics to jump around
31998 Avseq crashes in menu when multisampling enabled in Wine
32006 Multiple games and applications need 'IDXGIOutput::GetDesc' method implementation (Direct3D10 SDK samples, Need for Speed Most Wanted 2012)
33258 Visio 2010 and Office 2010 can't be installed in the same prefix
33720 user32:menu
33736 Excel Viewer 2007: "Open" button does not work on Vista+
34175 Shift-backspace doesn't work as backspace in cmd
35418 some drawing operations in Mixcraft 6 are very slow with client-side graphics enabled
35422 Dashlane (password and forms-fill manager) fails to install
35610 The of user32:msg tests fail in the Hebrew locale
35655 3Dmark 2000 shows considerable performance drop after Wine 1.7.13 (expensive GetPixelFormat() called too frequently)
35734 Pokemon Zeta 1.3.28 crashes on startup (ASProtect SKE v2.72)
35975 Comanche 3 shows only gray screen
36081 mshtml/dom test crashes
36086 Installation of Half-Life Opposing Force fails due to file "ereg.dll" being read-only
36900 Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds Clone Campaigns: no video (regression)
36932 BreezeBrowser: cannot expand directories in file browser
36970 Blue Iris 3.x (video surveillance software) crashes after 30 seconds
37358 FEAR 1: Installer says "wrong serial" even if entered correctly
37859 BOINC 6.x/7.x take a long time to "start" when launched from boincmgr
37939 Keyboard doesnt work for Project IGI 2
37944 Origin's updater crashes before finishing the download process
38669 IBM Endpoint Manager (IEM) Console 9.1 installer hangs at 'Evaluating launch conditions' stage
39039 Popup tooltips missing and buttons don't work on mageia.org/en/downloads/
39247 user32:sysparams fails in a Japanese locale
39445 Drag and drop in Foxit Reader doesn't work anymore
39536 Multiple games render black/garbled screen when anti-aliasing enabled (Guild Wars, Eve Online, Gear Grinder)
39635 Hungarian Excel Viewer 2007: "Open" dialog on Win8 does not refresh correctly
39648 MTA: San Andreas 1.5: failure to process 64-bit FairplayKD.sys driver IRPs due to incorrect alignment/packing of I/O manager structures
39665 dinput: MotoGP 3 demo fails to accept key presses to control the driver.

  Wine 1.8 Release Candidate 2 released