Wine release 5.9
The Wine development release 5.9 is now available.
What's new in this release (see below for details):
- Major progress on the WineD3D Vulkan backend.
- Initial support for splitting dlls into PE and Unix parts.
- Support for generating PDB files when building PE dlls.
- Timestamp updates in the Kernel User Shared Data.
- Various bug fixes.
The source is available from the following locations:
https://dl.winehq.org/wine/source/5.x/wine-5.9.tar.xz
http://mirrors.ibiblio.org/wine/source/5.x/wine-5.9.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 5.9 (total 28):
15489 Build should optionally produce .pdb file suitable for use with symbol server
29168 Multiple games and applications need realtime updates to KSYSTEM_TIME members in KUSER_SHARED_DATA (Star Wars: The Old Republic game client, Blizzard games, GO 1.4+ runtime, Denuvo Anti-Tamper x64 #2)
29806 Hype The Time Quest: DirectX Media (DXM) v6.0 runtime installer fails (advpack.ExecuteCab should extract the INF from CAB before running the install part)
30814 Age of Empires II scrolling gets stuck after Alt-Tab away and back
42125 4k/8k demos often fail with 'Bad EXE Format' or 'error c0000020' due to Crinkler executable file compressor's "optimized" usage of PE header fields (loader compatibility)
43959 webservices/reader tests fail on arm
43960 rpcrt4/cstub tests fail on arm
43962 msvcrt/string tests fail on arm
44860 4k/8k demos crash due to Crinkler executable file compressor expecting PEB address in %ebx on process entry
48186 every wine process shows a definite leak in dlls/ntdll/env.c
48289 Grand Theft Auto 5 crashes after loading (GTA5 expects Vista+ PEB_LDR_DATA structure fields)
48441 mouse coordinates cannot exceed initial desktop size during startup of wineserver
48471 Mismatching behavior of GetEnvironmentVariableW for empty / long values
48490 Restored minimized windows have wrong height
48775 Microsoft Teams 1.3.x crashes on unimplemented function IPHLPAPI.DLL.NotifyRouteChange2
49105 Deus Ex GOTY fails to start with Direct3D renderer
49115 Hitman (2016) and Hitman 2 (2018) fail to launch in DX11 mode
49128 Good Company crash on launch
49130 NVIDIA RTX Voice installer crashes on unimplemented function setupapi.dll.SetupDiGetActualSectionToInstallExW
49131 wineboot fails to start
49139 Regression: Wine crashes on startup on FreeBSD >= 5.7
49140 Windows 10 SDK installer hangs on startup
49142 Horizontal mouse scroll events (X11 buttons 6 and 7) should not be translated to back/forward events
49146 Hearts of Iron IV needs api-ms-win-crt-private-l1-1-0.dll._o_sin
49173 widl generates invalid code for Gecko's ISimpleDOM.idl
49175 Duplicated checking canonicalized inside kernelbase/path.c
49200 Steam hangs after login
49203 Possible incorrect usage >= instead <= in shlview.c
Alexandre Julliard has announced the release of Wine development release 5.9 with major progress on the WineD3D Vulkan backend, initial support for splitting dlls into PE and Unix parts, support for generating PDB files when building PE dlls, timestamp updates in the Kernel User Shared Data, and various bug fixes.
