Wine release 1.5.4

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The Wine development release 1.5.4 is now available.

 

What's new in this release (see below for details):

- A new DirectSound resampler.

- A Negotiate authentication provider.

- OpenGL support in the DIB engine.

- Beginnings of support for .NET mixed assemblies.

- Support routines for Internationalized Domain Names.

- Various bug fixes.

 

The source is available from the following locations:

 

http://ibiblio.org/pub/linux/system/emulators/wine/wine-1.5.4.tar.bz2

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/wine/wine-1.5.4.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.

 

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Bugs fixed in 1.5.4:

 

5253 Starcraft/Diablo/Battle.net crashes from font metrics problem

5703 SpartanDemo crashes

6775 Sony CD Architect 5.2 crashes on startup (msxml domdoc_createTextNode should access/treat input BSTR data as wide-character string)

9665 Kings Quest 8 "Mask of eternity" crashes at startup

12623 yBook: doesn't display page textures

14717 resampled sound is horrible

15508 Risk II crash while loading the game

17306 GTA2 Menu Discoloured and Unresponsive

17443 Launchpad Enhanced gets stuck in a loop trying to download updates

17631 LiteStep 0.3 refuses to install due to failing VC++ runtime detection in WinSxS (needs sxs.dll IAssemblyCache::QueryAssemblyInfo implementation)

17826 NotePad++ search in files

18130 VB APPS: Using edit controls context menu crashes application.

18223 Grim Fandango: unable to install

18231 Adobe Acrobat 7, 8 installers fail due to spooler service being disabled by default

18620 Braid puzzle problem

19643 Mankind: Page fault on program start

20220 Missing windowscodecs.dll.WICCreateImagingFactory_Proxy causes failure for many .NET 3.x/4.x (WPF) based installers/apps

21128 Envisioneer 4.5 Express Setup fails to write various data files under Application Data for the "Public" user

21616 Winamp uses 100% of CPU

21939 Several apps/games need "WMVCore.dll"

22060 regedit crashes when a long length key is renamed or deleted

22181 3D Maze screensaver doesn't work if fullscreen is enabled

22611 WriteWay crashes at startup saying "ActiveX component can't create object" and outputting OLE errors in terminal

22796 PopCap games installers crash with WinVer >= Vista (shell32 SHGetKnownFolderIDList stub needed)

23928 Missing clickable items in Monopoly Tycoon demo

24625 RSA SecurID Soft Token generator fails to start in 64 bit Ubuntu

24907 Can't write '