Wine 1.9.11 recently released, comes with a number of new features, improvements and bugfixes. A notable update to this release is Better support for long URLs in WinInet; Various Direct3D 11 improvements; Down-mixing support in DirectSound; Some cosmetic improvements in desktop mode and many others.
Wine 1.9.11 Update
- Safrosoft RoX freezes at start.
- Starship Titanic hanging on video replay
- The Witcher: Character models are sometimes invisible
- Multiple games crash during attempt to write past the end of mip level, expecting contiguous mipchain allocation (League of Legends, Warlock Master of the Arcane, PSOBB)
- Gómez Peer: CPU utilisation diagnostic does not work (requires kernel32.GetSystemTimes implementation)
- valgrind shows a definite leak in comctl32/tests/syslink.c
- NTLM EncryptMessage/DecryptMessage failure
- WBaduk: “Could not obtain OLE control window handle” regression
- Thief: Deadly Shadows: black squares popping up during video playback
- SpinTires has error with ARB shaders enabled
- Cannot insert mpg files in Powerpoint 2010
- wxDatePickerCtrl (wxWidgets) generates an assert on DTM_GETRANGE message result
- Application that copies files from one place to another stoped working in wine versions greater then 1.6.2
- Failure to connect to server in TMUnitedForever
- Black Mirror 3 demo has wrong rendering with ARB shaders enabled
- KSP Trajectory Optimization Tool (MATLAB Runtime (MCR)) crashes at launch
- msvcrt:heap test regression
- Cisco Jabber 11.6 crashes due to missing dbghelp.dll.EnumerateLoadedModulesExW
- Autodesk 123D Design needs msvcr100.dll.mbsrtowcs_s
- Window with CS_OWNDC style cause DC leak when GetDC/ReleaseDC is used.
- BitTorrent Sync Setup won’t start, needs ncrypt.dll
Install Wine 1.9.11 onUbuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus), Ubuntu 15.10 (Wily Werewolf), Ubuntu 15.04(Vivid Vervet), Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty Tahr)
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:wine/wine-builds sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install --install-recommends wine-staging sudo apt-get install winehq-staging
Remove Wine:
sudo apt-get install ppa-purge sudo ppa-purge ppa:wine/wine-builds
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