Wine 2.9 is released with support for tesselation shaders in Direct3D and Binary mode support in WebServices. With this release, the clipboard changes detected through Xfixes. It also brings some user interface improvements in RegEdit and various bug fixes.
Bugs fixed in 2.9 (total 38):
24698 Explorer++ doesn’t show file icons
32473 Acoustica Mixcraft 6 crashes when loading project containing video (DirectShow Editing Services missing ‘AMTimeline’ class, ‘{78530b75-61f9-11d2-8cad-00a024580902}’, ‘qedit.dll’)
33844 Grandia 2 whiteout.
34850 Improve commctl32 TaskDialogIndirect stub to show “content” part in task dialog box (more detailed error messages for various apps/games)
35529 Uninstaller: application list doesn’t fit
37405 The entry “My Computer” in regedit is handled like a registry key
38980 World of Warships/Planes/Tanks client in torrent download mode crashes spuriously on high bandwidth load (i/o completion ports)
39153 Tomb Raider last edition 2013 (Steam version) crashes while starting
41091 1nsane (GOG.com) crashes after launch
41184 DX11 Tesselation tutorial doesn’t work correctly
41837 Way of the Samurai 4 has black blocks in the main menu without native d3dx9
41908 WeChat can’t display and send emoticons.
42080 Listview does not draw correctly in some conditions.
42186 Uplay games don’t work anymore since latest update
42292 The Witcher 3 fails to render correctly after starting a new game
42296 avast installer doesnt start (needs LdrEnumerateLoadedModules)
42348 League of legends installer: “Invalid command line”
42410 Banished (DX11) renders broken geometry (regression)
42673 Battle.net no longer runs after Wow Legion update
42708 Soul Reaver GOG Cinematics stopped working
42783 Terragen 4 needs function KERNEL32.dll.GetActiveProcessorGroupCount
42846 GT Challenge (Boxrun) crashes
42873 Need for Speed: The Run crashes when reacquiring query context
42900 The Testament of Sherlock Holmes rendering issue
42922 GMATPrep 2.4.323 fails to install
42937 Multiply games stuck with stack overflow when using OffscreenRenderingMode=backbuffer
42940 WAtomic: White labels that show name of elements hidden by GL components
42966 World/models are upside-down in multiply games when using ORM=backbuffer
42985 Rise of the Tomb Raider needs unimplemented function USER32.dll.GetPhysicalCursorPos
42993 wine can’t be compiled by gcc-2.95.4 (gdiplus/metafile.c)
43005 secur32/tests/ntlm.ok crashes in DeleteSecurityContext
43012 FFXIV (Realm Reborn) requires patch list primitive type support
43019 redefinition of typedef ‘QWORD’ (wine compilation fails with gcc 4.2.1)
43023 Applications using Windows Script Host Shell Object crash due to added IProvideClassInfo support
43026 SP+ maker won’t run.
43039 Rise of the Tomb Raider needs unimplemented function USER32.dll.PhysicalToLogicalPoint
43048 regedit crashes exporting any HKEY_* entry
43062 Installer from GOG.com displays black rectangles
Download Wine 2.9
The source is available from the following locations:
http://dl.winehq.org/wine/source/2.x/wine-2.9.tar.xz
http://mirrors.ibiblio.org/wine/source/2.x/wine-2.9.tar.xz
Binary packages for various distributions will be available from:
http://www.winehq.org/download