Alexandre Julliard has announced a new development release of Wine. This release comes with 22 bug fixes.
The Wine development release 5.2 is now available.
What's new in this release (see below for details):
- More compatible codepage mapping tables.
- Support for using the null display driver as a real driver.
- Better UTF-8 support in the Resource and Message Compilers.
- Fixes for using ucrtbase as C runtime.
- Various bug fixes.
The source is available from the following locations:
https://dl.winehq.org/wine/source/5.x/wine-5.2.tar.xz
http://mirrors.ibiblio.org/wine/source/5.x/wine-5.2.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 5.2 (total 22):
14697 OllyDbg 2.x freezes sometimes during processing of debug events (debug events can block completion of queued user APCs)
18159 Lotus Approach (MDI app) has extra caption buttons and Control box
18933 Free PDF to Word Doc converter doesn't work, window empty/hangs on launch (appinstall)
34848 PDF-XChange Viewer 2.5.213 crashes when switching between document tabs
36059 Multiple Steam games fail to install DirectX runtime prerequisite, resulting in repeated install attempt on startup ('xinput1_3.dll' locked by client)
36521 Star Wars rebellion update 1.01 crashes on start (quoted process command line only created with special 'My Documents' folder)
43934 SumatraPDF 3.1.2 has very narrow buttons in its installer
45462 PDF X-Change Viewer (all versions) cannot click dialog box in menu
45481 Spintires: MudRunner crashes at launch
46619 Lineage 2 crashes (godworld.ru private server)
46735 Multiple applications need Direct3DShaderValidatorCreate9() implementation (The Sims 2 demo, Armed Assault)
47018 Multiple applications show transparent bitmap images on static controls with black background (comctl32 lacking support for painting 32-bit BMPv3 with alpha channel)
47718 x86_64-w64-mingw32-strip strip dlls make wine failed start
48122 Arturia MIDI Control Center crashes on unimplemented function ntoskrnl.exe.RtlIsNtDdiVersionAvailable
48392 Multiple applications crash on unimplemented function WS2_32.dll.WSCSetApplicationCategory (Verbum 8, Lineage 2's SmartGuard 3.0)
48408 mixthread monopolizes buffer_list_lock if WaitForSingleObject returns quickly, causing livelock and game freeze
48424 xl-r8r: Crashes right after splash screen (apparently because vga.dll is missing)
48480 dlls/krnl386.exe16 - thunk.c argument logic incorrect for CallProcEx32W16
48489 .Net 4.7+ requires GpFontFamily to be referenced counted instead of cloning.
48541 Affinity Photo trial (1.7.2) crashes:Call from 0x7b00fa3d to unimplemented function mscms.dll.WcsGetDefaultColorProfileSize
48561 Cadence Allegro Professional 16.6 crashes at startup
48571 Firefox 72.0.* crashes on every tab (unless dwrite is disabled)
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