news 28 Posted November 20, 2015 The Wine development release 1.8-rc1 is now available. This is the first release candidate for the upcoming Wine 1.8. Please give this release a good testing to help us make 1.8 as good as possible. What's new in this release (see below for details): - Bug fixes only, we are in code freeze. The source is available from the following locations: http://dl.winehq.org/wine/source/1.8/wine-1.8-rc1.tar.bz2 http://mirrors.ibiblio.org/wine/source/1.8/wine-1.8-rc1.tar.bz2 Binary packages for various distributions will be available from: http://www.winehq.org/download You will find documentation on http://www.winehq.org/documentation You can also get the current source directly from the git repository. Check http://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. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Bugs fixed in 1.8-rc1 (total 54): 8712 amstream video demo does not play because of IDirectDrawMediaStreamImpl_CreateSample stub 9872 Leisure Suite Larry 7 fails to run in WinXP mode 16782 Sea3D chat text unreadable 21879 Word95 can't create new document 23817 Creative Writer 2 can't show images in .max files 25263 Biet-O-Matic calculates shipping cost wrong for German locale 25843 Wine causes terminal to lose some inputrc settings 26034 DNAsp5 crashes when trying to copy text from an output 27664 Various Telltale games crash on startup when a joystick is plugged in (application provides EnumDevice callback with wrong calling convention) 27859 Task Coach: Crashes on start (uses python2.7) 28729 EasyBCD: bcdedit complains about lack of privileges (import of registry hive using native API fails/wineserver token privilege check) 29206 Mystery Cases - Madame Fate (Bigfish games): Director Player Error: Unable to load movie playlist 30588 Houdini 12.x (3D animation tool) crashes on startup 30855 Rhymes (Russian rhymes dictionary) doesn't work correctly 31889 Cmd testrunner fails in case of mismatches on synchronization lines 32639 Sega Rally Revo sound stuttering 32701 The Dame In Black Case: installer fails when registering msdxm6.ocx (needs 'HKLM\\Software\\Microsoft\\MediaPlayer' key 'Installation DirectoryLFN' value) 33718 comctl32:propsheet Add button test failure 34123 Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed: the game fails to initiate due to Wine failing to mount its CD images 34261 Sonic and All-Stars Racing Transformed (Steam) crashes during intro video 34953 Message "Application tried to create a window, but no driver could be loaded. Make sure that your X server is running and that $DISPLAY is set correctly." cannot be suppressed 35659 Dassault Systemes CATIA v5 reports 'no certified opengl libary has been found. Check your system installation' on startup (opengl32.dll version resource 'LegalCopyright' mismatch) 35688 iMesh 7.x reports 'You are using an older version of Windows Media Player!' (needs WMP 10 version registry key) 35718 Multiple games have extreme flicker, stutter, slowdown (Path of Exile, Roller Coaster Tycoon, Counter Strike: Global Offensive, Warframe, Crysis, Anno 1602, Splinter Cell: Blacklist) 35970 Wine del returns 1 on error unlike on Windows 36255 World of tanks doesn't run after upgrade to 0.9 36428 valgrind shows a possible leak in scrrun/tests/dictionary.c 37161 D3D_SHADER_VARIABLE_FLAGS is not defined in d3dcommon 37200 Warhammer 40k: Kill Team (Steam version) does not start 37203 Age of Empires II Conquerors 800x600 launch screen black on wine versions later than 1.7.13 37595 cls command does not fill screen attributes 37799 Children of the Nile: crash on start when not using virtual desktop 37881 Multiple applications crash on unimplemented function msvcp120.dll._Cnd_init (Livescribe Echo Desktop 3.0, Acrobat Reader DC 2015) 37955 USB DAC sound problems 37994 AVRStudio 4.18: Editor window text rendered incorrectly (transparent tab characters) 38103 Process Hacker 2.x needs ntoskrnl.exe.ProbeForRead 38252 Candleworks FX Trade Station 2 updater crashes 38391 Deus Ex: Human Revolution does not properly detect speaker configuration 38427 Desura client 0.0.20.2 crashes on unimplemented function msvcp120.dll._Thrd_current 38600 Planetary Annihilation needs msvcp110.dll._Cnd_init 39018 A9CAD fails to start, throws 'X Error of failed request: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation)' 39045 Accuweather.com download page displays only the background image in built-in iexplore 39212 cmd:batch fails if privileges not high enough 39230 odbccp32:misc fails if privileges not high enough 39323 StarForce 3.x: Protection Environment Driver v1.x 'sfdrv01.sys' crashes on unimplemented function ntoskrnl.exe.ExDeleteNPagedLookasideList (Blazing Angels Squadrons of WWII Demo) 39347 World of Warships 0.4.x/0.5.x: incorrect water surface height calculated for unknown reasons, causing ships to appear floating in the air (with GLSL shader backend) 39362 Blazblue Calamity Trigger crash on press start screen 39384 Tencent QQ 7.6 frame manager kernel driver 'QQFrmMgr.sys' crashes on unimplemented function ntoskrnl.exe.CmRegisterCallback 39426 skype crash - unimplemented combase.dll.RoGetActivationFactory 39468 Adobe Photoshop CS2 installer triggers __stack_chk_fail() on Wine builtin 'msiexec' 39517 No music or voices in Skyrim after intro video 39581 iMesh 7.x installer warns about old version of Microsoft Windows Media Player (missing 'HKLM\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Active Setup\\Installed Components\\{6BF52A52-394A-11d3-B153-00C04F79FAA6}' registry key) 39613 Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 fails to install with Wine 1.3.2+ 39630 Issue while building wow64 for Slackware 14.1 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Changes since 1.7.55: Alexandre Julliard (13): winegcc: Force stack alignment on all x86 platforms. winegcc: Disable setting image base address on Android. make_makefiles: Configure substitutions are allowed in the top makefile. configure: Build binaries as PIE on Android. configure: Disable the preloader on Android. configure: Use the standard dll directory on Android. makefiles: Generate makefiles and po rules only for disabled dlls. winex11: Always create direct rendering OpenGL contexts. winex11: Make OpenGL traces more compact and readable. user32/tests: Fix a test that assumes that a menu handle is invalid. user32: Add workaround for removed SC_TASKLIST system menu item. configure: Don't allow doing a 32-bit Wow64 build from inside the source tree. advapi32: Don't try to create the registry root. Alistair Leslie-Hughes (2): odbccp32/test: Correct tests without privileges. configure: Correctly detect OpenAL. Andrew Eikum (2): user32: Use font default height if GetTextExtentPoint returns empty rectangle. kernel32: Always uninitialize the terminal for the console shell process. Andrew Nguyen (1): dinput: Allow EnumDevices callback functions with broken calling conventions. Andrey Gusev (2): wine.inf: Add HKLM\Software\Microsoft\MediaPlayer\Installation DirectoryLFN key. po: Update Ukrainian translation. André Hentschel (2): winepulse: Avoid 32-bit calculation with 64-bit result (Coverity). winepulse: Add missing return after default case in a switch (Coverity). Aric Stewart (2): hidclass.sys: Break the report descriptor into multiple lines. comctl32: ILC_COLORDDB imagelists can be created with 0 sizes. Aurimas Fišeras (1): po: Update Lithuanian translation. Austin English (3): user32: Use winediag debug channel for some error messages. opengl32: Add "Not Microsoft" to Copyright string to satisfy CATIA. ntoskrnl.exe: Add CmRegisterCallback/CmUnRegisterCallback stub. Bruno Jesus (1): user32: Don't add scroll bars to mdiclient if the window style doesn't allow it. Dmitry Timoshkov (3): user32/tests: Add more tests for mixed menu with strings and bitmaps. user32: Menu item with a "magic" bitmap should not have MFT_BITMAP type set. user32/tests: Add some tests for mdiclient scrolling. François Gouget (7): cmd/tests: Fix handling of synchronization line mismatches. cmd/tests: Use net session to verify we have sufficient privileges. wined3d: Make surface_prepare_rb() static. configure: Clean up the winmm module checks. msvcp120/tests: Make i386_Thrd_current() static. advapi32: Fix the FILE_DIR_DISALLOWED spelling. cmd/tests: Fix the %~a check on Windows >= 8. Henri Verbeet (9): d2d1: Validate brush types in d2d_d3d_render_target_FillGeometry(). d2d1: Add support for opacity brushes. d2d1: Add a pixel shader for triangle/bitmap/bitmap draws. d2d1: Add a pixel shader for triangle/bitmap/solid draws. d2d1/tests: Add some tests for opacity brushes. d2d1: Add a pixel shader for triangle/solid/bitmap draws. d2d1: Take the recommended rendering mode into account in d2d_d3d_render_target_DrawGlyphRun(). d2d1: Calculate intersections in a more robust way in d2d_geometry_intersect_self(). wined3d: Ignore "always_offscreen" for ORM_BACKBUFFER in context_create(). Hugh McMaster (4): reg/tests: Fix the add empty type test. cmd: Set colour attributes when clearing the screen with 'cls'. cmd: 'del' should set %errorlevel% to zero, not one, on error. Assorted spelling and grammar fixes. Jacek Caban (5): ole32: Use absolute key path in create_classes_root_hkey. mshtml: Added support for getElementsByTagName in document fragment nodes. ntdll: Added more NtOpenKey tests. kernel32: Call registry functions with full key path. mshtml: Make msec argument of setTimeout optional. Józef Kucia (1): d3d11: Implement d3d11_immediate_context_RSGetViewports(). Ken Thomases (3): winemac: Add resource file. winemac: Enable localization of strings used to build Mac menus. winemac: Use the display unit number rather than display ID for the initial display mode registry key. Nikolay Sivov (12): gdi32/tests: Some empty string tests for GetTextExtentPoint. comctl32/tests: Enable visual tests in interactive mode, fix build failure. winex11: Remove tracing function that was never used. oleaut32: Remove unused tracing macro. user32/tests: Use separate test window for each scrollbar test. kernel32: Fix context initialization for EnumDateFormat[censored]Ex. winmm: Initialize AUXCAPSA.wReserved1 returned from auxGetDevCapsA() (Coverity). dwrite: Return face count of 1 for CFF file type. po: Update Russian translation. d2d1: Properly free brush data buffer is created from. user32/tests: Relax iCaptionWidth test to fix some failures. winmm: Initialize reserved fields of data returned by waveOutGetDevCapsA and waveInGetDevCapsA (Coverity). Piotr Caban (10): oleaut32: Take lcid into account while parsing input variant in VARIANT_FormatNumber. oleaut32: Take lcid into account while parsing input variant in VARIANT_FormatDate. oleaut32: Take lcid into account while parsing input variant in VARIANT_FormatString. msxml3/tests: Add more IXMLDOMNode_get_text tests. msxml3/tests: Add tests for sub-nodes whitespaces trimming while getting node text. msxml3/tests: Show that sub-elements should not be divided with ' ' in IXMLDOMNode_get_text. msxml3/tests: Add CDATA block to whitespace trimming tests. winex11.drv: Send WM_DROPFILES if IDropTarget_Drop failed or DROPEFFECT_NONE was set. winex11.drv: Inform x11 that we're interested in drop if windows expects WM_DROPFILES message. winex11.drv: Don't call IDropTarget::{DragOver,DragLeave,Drop} functions if DragEnter fails. Qian Hong (3): atl100: Implemented semi stub AtlAxCreateControlLic and AtlAxCreateControlLicEx. ntoskrnl.exe: Add PsRemoveCreateThreadNotifyRoutine stub. server: Remove out of date comment. Sebastian Lackner (2): ntdll/tests: Print the correct status code in ok() messages. server: Do not require SeBackupPrivilege in load_registry and unload_registry. Vincent Povirk (1): setupapi: Add a manifest to indicate the tests don't need elevation. -- Alexandre Julliard julliard ( -at -) winehq.org Share this post Link to post
