The Wine development release 9.7 is now available.

What’s new in this release:

  • Build system support for ARM64X.
  • Some restructuration of the Vulkan driver interface.
  • WIDL improvements for ARM support as well as SLTG typelibs.
  • Various bug fixes.

Bugs fixed in 9.7 (total 18):

#37246 Old C&C titles freeze after the map is loaded.

#44699 Clang 6.0 fails to run under wine

#44812 Multiple applications need NtQueryInformationProcess ‘ProcessQuotaLimits’ class support (MSYS2, ProcessHacker 2.x)

#48080 Oregon Trail II will not start in 32-bit mode

#50111 osu! crashes since 20201110 version with wine-mono (needs native -> managed byref array marshalling)

#54759 Notepad++: slider of vertical scrollbar is too small for long files

#54901 Medieval II Total War some units partly invisible with d3dx9_30 as builtin

#55765 The 32-bit d2d1:d2d1 frequently crashes on the GitLab CI

#56133 explorer.exe: Font leak when painting

#56361 Geovision Parashara’s Light (PL9.exe) still crashes in wine

#56369 Advanced IP Scanner crashes on unimplemented function netapi32.dll.NetRemoteTOD

#56442 Totem Arts Launcher.exe garbled text

#56491 Videos in BURIKO visual novel engine

#56493 PresentationFontCache.exe crashes during .Net 3.51 SP1 installation

#56536 UI: Applications using ModernWPF crash, Windows.Ui.ViewManagment.InputPane.TryShow not implemented

#56538 Mspaint from Windows XP needs imm32.CtfImmIsCiceroEnabled

#56551 HP System Diagnostics crashes when clicking the Devices tab

#56554 ON1 photo raw installs but wont run the application

    • @leopold@lemmy.kde.social
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      1414 days ago

      It’s C++ with Win32 API. Not portable. Very little incentive to do it considering advanced text editors that work on Linux are dime-a-dozen (Kate, VS Code, Notepadqq, Geany, Sublime Text, etc.)

  • @Rubanski@lemm.ee
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    514 days ago

    For a second I got really confused and thought it’s r/outside material. Wine 9.7? Drying cork bug got fixed or sth