Wine does not require Microsoft Windows, as it is a completely free alternative implementation of the Windows API consisting of 100% non-Microsoft code, however Wine can optionally use native Windows DLLs if they are available. Wine provides both a development toolkit for porting Windows source code to Unix as well as a program loader, allowing many unmodified Windows programs to run on x86-based Unixes, including Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X, and Solaris.
What's New:
This release represents a year of development effort and over 6,000 individual changes. It contains a large number of improvements that are listed in the release notes below. The main highlights are:
- Android version updated to 4.16
- Various bug fixes
- Sinhala and Tamil translation updates
- Vulkan support.
- Direct3D 12 support.
- Game controllers support.
- High-DPI support on Android.
Bugs fixes:
- 15934 Can't see Worms 2 intro films as they play (mciavi32 missing support to MCI_MCIAVI_PLAY_FULLSCREEN)
- 18099 No keyboard response in Super Mario 3 remake
- 19098 Regedit randomly crashes when deleting registry keys
- 21403 Shiva Editor/Evochron: Mercenary refuse to run with built-in dinput/dinput8.dll
- 23455 FileAlyzer 1.6.0.4, Affinity-installer-1.6.5.123 can't load PE images (needs imagehlp.ImageLoad and imagehlp.ImageUnload implementation)
- 26445 URLDownloadToFileW does not support FTP URLs
- 28847 LabChart Reader 7.x crashes due to missing wmvcore 'IWMProfileManager2', CLSID '{7a924e51-73c1-494d-8019-23d37ed9b89a}'
- 33845 Warframe (Steam) updater fails to replace 'Launcher.exe', reports sharing violation
- 33904 Face Noir demo crashes on start without native d3dx9_36 ('D3DXLoadSkinMeshFromXof' must return 'ID3DXSkinInfo' interface even with no skinning info present)
- 36764 Rogue Squadron 3D 1.3: Unable to setup controller in-game
- 37784 wine-mono does not appear in "wine uninstaller" list on a 64-bit prefix 37871 GOG.com downloader (.NET 3.5 app) wants wininet.GetUrlCacheConfigInfoA/W implementation
- 38087 Settlers III: mouse not working on start screen and menu (after fixing raw input bug 33479)
- 43356 Mass Effect (1) Steam freezes since Steam Update from 8th of July 2017 43411 Older directx games (The Sims, Revenant) - Screen not redrawing properly (needs Set/GetClipStatus implementation)
- 44423 Office 2007/2010 32bit - links not working
- 45429 Inno Setup v5.x based game-installers using 'wintb' plugin fail with: 'Runtime error 229 at ' (Win7+ ITaskbarList3 ThumbBar/Thumbnail semi-stubs needed)
- 45543 Multiple games and applications crash in dwrite due to invalid index access to cluster array (Rekordbox 5.3.0, SpellForce 3)
- 45703 Microsoft Office 365 applications crash on startup (Microsoft AppV ISV virtual filesystem technology requires several native and core API to be hot-patchable)
- 45878 Aruba digital signature crashes on missing hid.dll.HidD_FlushQueue
- 46019 Multiple NSIS 2.x based installers fail due to invalid module handle passed to 'kernel32.FreeLibrary', causing code dll unmapped as data dll (Adobe Digital Editions 4.5.x, ConceptDraw Office 4)
- 46115 Cursor in unity games moving down and to the right one pixel on any mouse interaction
- 46187 Windows PowerShell Core 6.2 Preview 2 for ARM32 crashes due to unhandled trap_no 0 (write watch access causes SIGSEGV)
- 46189 Windows PowerShell Core 6.2 Preview 2 for ARM32 crashes due to ntdll 'set_cpu_context' not restoring Thumb mode during return from exception handling
- 46316 Hauppauge Capture version 36187 crashes during install 46371 FFXI + Ashita random crash ingame
- 46579 F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin screen is completely light grey while playing intro movie
- 46626 UPlay fails to start : "Error at hooking API LoadStringA" (UPlay's hooking engine can't handle ENDBR32 instruction inserted at non-hotpatch API entries due to distro build environments '-fcf-protection')
- 46706 Eventide H9 Control crashes on unimplemented function bthprops.cpl.BluetoothFindDeviceClose
- 46711 Since 3.3 other HID devices than Joysticks not supported anymore 46712 Atelier Firis config tool crashes with "Unhandled page fault on execute access"
- 46713 School days HQ occasional divide by zero
- 46721 Two quotes together (in outer quotes) not parsed correctly in argv
- 46754 Multiple application installers fail in VBscripts due to IWshEnvironment::Item property returning BSTR with embedded null terminator (PostgreSQL 9.3)
- 46761 BigNox VM VirtualBox Support Driver 'YSDrv.sys' (part of NoxPlayer 6.x) crashes on unimplemented function ntoskrnl.exe.MmBuildMdlForNonPagedPool
- 46772 Creo Elements/Direct Modeling Express 6.0 installer fails with VBScript parser error: parser_lex '_' not followed by newline
- 46800 LINE (Powered by Naver): LINE v5.12.XXX series crashes after few seconds
- 46807 The Sims hangs when opening menus 46811 Inquisitor: black screen after start in fullscreen mode
- 46812 PS4 Remote Play installer 2.8.x fails, claims 'You need the Media Feature Pack' (MsiGetDatabaseState is called from a custom action)
- 46845 Freelancer: character glitches in cutscenes after loading a saved game
- 46848 PTC Mathcad Prime 3.0 Web installer crashes on unimplemented function api-ms-win-crt-convert-l1-1-0.dll.wctrans
- 46863 If prefix contains "windows" drive information not available in 64-bit prefix
- 46881 Power World Simulator installer needs unimplemented function msi.dll.MsiSourceListForceResolutionW
- 46894 SIMATIC WinCC V15.1 Runtime installer (.NET 4.0) fails in CoreLib::GetPhysicalMemoryAmountWmi() (missing 'DeviceLocator' property of 'Win32_PhysicalMemory' WMI class)
- 46895 SIMATIC WinCC V15.1 Runtime installer (.NET 4.0) fails due to missing 'OperatingSystemSKU' property of 'Win32_OperatingSystem' WMI class
- 46899 SIMATIC WinCC V15.1 Runtime installer: user can't accept license terms (richedit20 ITextRange::ScrollIntoView lacks handling of 'tomEnd')
- 46902 SIMATIC WinCC V15.1 Runtime installer: S7Inst64.exe sub-installer crashes on unimplemented function msvcr110.dll._wcsnset_s
- 46903 SIMATIC WinCC V15.1 Runtime installer: AdHocSigner.exe tool crashes on unimplemented functions mssign32.dll.SignerSignEx and SignerFreeSignerContext
- 46906 SIMATIC WinCC V15.1 Runtime installer: SeCon tool 'SeCon_Win32.exe' crashes due to hnetcfg 'INetFwRules::get__NewEnum' not initializing out parameter
- 46908 Support msvcp mtx_init 'mtx_try' flag (0x2) to create a mutex object that supports test and return
- 46909 Missing (black) textures in Black & White 46923 X-Tension, X-Beyond The Frontier: Dynamic light breaks after opening up a menu
- 46928 Atelier Firis config tool doesn't show up when launched through Steam
- 46939 propvarutil.h: missing extern "C"
- 46953 Watch_Dogs crashes after intro
- 46971 Multiple Steam games crash with Wine 4.6 (Steam Game Overlay Renderer hook engine requires several API to be hot-patchable) (Sniper Elite V2, Sniper Elite 3, Brawlhalla)
- 46989 Grand Prix Legends: Wheel (Wheel, Gas, Brake) axes inputs aren't recognized
- 46996 Improvements to the 7.1 and 5.1 to stereo conversion
- 47009 msi x64 installation file created by Visual Studio cannot be uninstalled
- 47022 Multiple performance monitor applications fail to display system physical/committed virtual memory usage (Sysinternals Process Explorer v16.x, builtin Taskmgr)
- 47031 widl generates invalid typelib when importing types from multiple typelibs
- 47051 Microsoft Excel 2016 (Office 365) crashes on startup (Microsoft AppV ISV virtual filesystem technology requires kernel32.CreateActCtxW to be hot-patchable)
- 47065 Vocaloid 5 (.NET 4.x app) crashes on startup (needs 'Win32_OperatingSystem' WMI class 'SystemDrive' property)
- 47183 Grand Prix Legends: Only the first two axes are recognized
- 47262 compile error: ‘for’ loop initial declarations are only allowed in C99 mode