Wine 8.12 Released
Read more: www.winehq.org/announce/8.12
The Wine development release 8.12 is now available.
What’s new in this release:
- Initial support for painting windows in the Wayland driver.
- Command stream performance improvements in WineD3D.
- Various bug fixes.
The source is available at:
dl.winehq.org/wine/source/8.x/wine-8.12.tar.xz
Binary packages for various distributions will be available from:
You will find documentation on www.winehq.org/documentation
You can also get the current source directly from the git repository. Check 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 8.12 (total 31):
- #7767 Zero G Software ‘InstallAnywhere’ installers crash or silently exit (Rosetta Stone, Reading Counts, World Religions, Parashara’s Light Professional 7.0.1)
- #9378 Combat Mission Shock Force DEMO: ‘Could not initialize OpenGL graphics.’
- #17868 tools/widl.c: warning: initialization discards qualifiers from pointer target type
- #38938 SlingPlayer 1.5 crashes when moving the main window
- #47089 32-bit Winamp 5.80 installer crashes in 64-bit WINEPREFIX after pressing ‘Next’
- #49772 Memory safety issues in widl
- #53085 Free Video Converter complains about being unable to install .Net 2.0
- #53086 Free Video Converter needs certutil.exe
- #53907 SierraChart Freezes when allocating more than one account
- #54257 Missing support for Windows 2003 (5.2) in OleAut version detection
- #54532 msidb.exe: page fault on read access to 00000007 when importing a .idt file
- #54978 vbscript fails to compile Sub when End Sub on same line
- #54996 msys2: gpg.exe fails because “NtSetInformationFile Unsupported class (64)” / FileDispositionInformationEx
- #55053 Prometheus exporter for Windows needs DISPATCH_PROPERTYGET support in object_Invoke
- #55062 Starcraft II Graphics Only Work When Window is Out of Focus
- #55096 Moving loader to PIE removed loaded modules chain view from debuggers
- #55099 Excel 2016 crashes on date cell formatting
- #55101 DesignDoll Declaring An Error After Loading All Component In Splash Screen
- #55110 quartz:vmr7 & quartz:vmr9 sometimes exit prematurely in Wine
- #55114 secur32:schannel - The 32-bit test_connection_shutdown() crashes on Windows <= 8
- #55120 kernel32:debugger - test_debug_loop_wow64() gets wrong ntdll count in the new WoW mode
- #55124 Can’t run Flutter SDK (cmd.exe doesn’t support redirecting stderr for a block)
- #55126 Flutter application needs Windows.Devices.Geolocation.Geolocator
- #55128 dbghelp:dbghelp & dbghelp:path - Call to SymSetExtendedOption() prevents running on Windows 7, 8 & 10 <= 1607
- #55137 Missing support for SCARD_AUTOALLOCATE
- #55141 virtual desktop not rendering with some dual monitor setups (regression: 8.10 -> 8.11)
- #55144 Error when I run Navigraph FMS Data Manager
- #55146 Virtual desktop is fullscreen regardless of the desktop size setting in winecfg
- #55160 Loading Bay / Harry Potter Magic Awakened: Unable to install
- #55194 oleaut32:vartest - test_VarImp() fails in Wine
- #55201 Wine fails to build with clang-11.0.1 due to recent nameless unions/structs VARIANT changes