This is release 0.9.55 of Wine, a free implementation of Windows on Unix.

What's new in this release:
  - Direct3D improvements, including driver version emulation.
  - Beginnings of support for OLE objects in Richedit.
  - Several fixes to the animation control.
  - A bunch of fixes for regression test failures.
  - Lots of bug fixes.

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Changes since 0.9.54:

Alexander Nicolaysen Sørnes (1):
      shell32: Use LocalFree in CommandLineToArgvW.

Alexandre Julliard (18):
      winex11: Abstract the depth->bpp conversion and use it in X11DRV_DIB_CreateDIBFromPixmap.
      winex11: Remove unneeded check on bitmap depth, screen bpp cannot be 15.
      shell32: Fix permissions of newly-created directories.
      gdi32: Avoid locking in CreateCompatibleBitmap.
      gdi32: Get rid of a few more uses of DC_GetDCPtr.
      gdi32: Don't hold the GDI lock when calling DC_InitDC.
      gdi32: Avoid locking in BITMAP_CopyBitmap.
      gdi32: Use a separate critical section for freetype locking instead of relying on the GDI lock.
      gdi32: Get rid of DC_GetDCPtr in font functions.
      gdi32: Get rid of DC_GetDCPtr in the GDI object functions.
      winex11: Add a critical section for the palette global variables instead of relying on the GDI lock.
      gdi32: Get rid of DC_GetDCPtr in the palette functions.
      gdi32: DC_GetDCPtr and DC_ReleaseDCPtr are not longer used.
      winex11: Don't erase the desktop window synchronously on resizes to prevent deadlocks.
      winex11: Use the gdi display when initializing the keyboard to avoid creating a second display connection.
      winex11: Only update the virtual screen rect once in xinerama_init to minimize race conditions.
      tests: Add a helper routine to wait for a child process and propagate its result correctly.
      localspl: Avoid sizeof in a trace.

Alistair Leslie-Hughes (7):
      msxml3: Validated attribute name.
      msxml3: Corrected Entity Reference Test.
      msxml3: Correct createElement return value for an invalid type.
      kernel32: Add RegisterApplicationRestart stub.
      gdiplus: Add GdipSetPenMode stub.
      gdiplus: Add GdipSetStringFormatFlags stub.
      msxml3: Corrected test text.

Andre Wisplinghoff (1):
      winecfg: Enable add button when choosing lib from combobox (Libraries tabsheet).

Andrew Riedi (2):
      user32: Test destroying the cursor of a parent process.
      user32: winex11.drv has support for color cursors now.

Andrew Talbot (10):
      winemp3.acm: Remove unneeded casts.
      wineps.drv: Remove unneeded casts.
      winex11.drv: Remove unneeded casts.
      winex11.drv: Remove unneeded casts.
      wininet: Remove unneeded casts.
      winmm: Remove unneeded casts.
      wintab32: Remove unneeded cast.
      msvfw32: Avoid possible dereference of NULL pointer (Coverity).
      wnaspi32: Remove unneeded cast.
      ws2_32: Remove unneeded casts.

Andrey Esin (1):
      cmd: Additions to Russian translation.

Aric Stewart (1):
      gdi32: Child fonts need to be scaled like their parent. With input from Dmitry Timoshkov.

Bang Jun-young (4):
      crypt32: Include wine/port.h for snprintf().
      user32: Fix EndMenu() to match the PSDK.
      riched20: Include wine/port.h for vsnprintf().
      comctl32: Fix invalid syntax.

Christopher Harvey (1):
      winex11: Added WGL_BIND_TO_TEXTURE_DEPTH_NV to ConvertAttribWGLtoGLX.

Colin Finck (2):
      widl: Support Windows paths in dup_basename and make_token.
      widl: Write the TLB file in binary mode, so the line endings won't be changed.

Detlef Riekenberg (7):
      localspl: Initialize pointers in struct PRINTPROVIDOR.
      localspl: Implement fpGetPrinterDriverDirectory.
      winspool: Use the backend for GetPrinterDriverDirectory.
      gdi32: Add stub for GdiInitSpool and GdiGetSpoolMessage.
      url: Add a stub for AddMIMEFileTypesPS.
      localspl: Implement fpAddPrinterDriverEx.
      winspool: Use the backend for AddPrinterDriverEx.

Dmitry Timoshkov (2):
      kernel32: LOADPARAMS16->showCmd can be NULL, do not crash in that case.
      kernel32: Separate modifier from charset before detecting the charset codepage.

Eric Pouech (27):
      dbghelp: Return the size of each directory instead of passing a pointer to it.
      dbghelp: Fixed the suspend count when creating a minidump in the middle of an exception.
      dbghelp: Removed double assignment of checksum.
      dbghelp: Store the PE version information in module block.
      winedbg: Implemented the pXX request in gdb proxy.
      riched20: Start handling OLE objects inside richedit.
      riched20: Handle the zoom in OLE objects.
      riched20: Correctly handle the wrapping when graphics are used.
      riched20: Invert graphics when they are under the selection.
      riched20: Support a couple of paragraphs attributes out of RTF stream reading.
      riched20: Added support for image reading from RTF stream.
      riched20: Start implementing object reading out RTF stream.
      riched20: Make use of the size info in REOBJECT if present.
      dbghelp: Fixed the types we want to load at first.
      dbghelp: Added missing basic types for booleans and integers.
      dbghelp: Pass the 'details' flags to _fetch_type so that we can simplify some code around.
      dbghelp: Fix mixed up return and this type in MFunction V2.
      dbghelp: Added HRESULT as new basic type (and some doc about basic types ids).
      dbghelp: Added support for some V3 fields in structure parsing.
      dbghelp: Added support for register v3 in msc.
      dbghelp: Added preliminary support for a strange stack variable object.
      dbghelp: Added support for labels outside functions (and used it in msc parsing).
      dbghelp: Added basic support for base class information.
      dbghelp: Extended the internal enumeration information so that we know the underlying integral type.
      dbghelp: Attempt to cache some basic symbol types for easier and faster code.
      dbghelp: When sending back information about a global symbol, only demangle the class & field/method name.
      dbghelp: Disable the S_PUB_FUNC_XXX msc symbols until we know what they do (the first guess is wrong anyway).

Francois Gouget (23):
      shell32/tests: Fix a couple of copy/paste errors.
      shell32: Add some SLDF_XXX values, EXP_PROPERTYSTORAGE, and EXP_PROPERTYSTORAGE_SIG.
      user32: Fix a typo in the StretchDIBits stub name.
      winedump: Use the standard SLDF_XXX flag names instead of inventing new ones. Add the missing flags.
      winedump: Track unknown lnk flags and dump them.
      winedump: Dump the raw data when finding an unknown block in an lnk file.
      winedump: Switch the block dumping code to be block-oriented, rather then flag oriented, so it is resilient to order changes.
      winedump: Add support for dumping SZ_LINK and SPECIAL_FOLDER data blocks.
      ddraw/tests: Fix compilation on systems that don't support nameless unions.
      mapi32: Add an API documentation stub to make winapi_check happy.
      ntdsapi: Add an API documentation stub to make winapi_check happy.
      winex11.drv: Add some API documentation stubs to make winapi_check happy.
      msvcrt: __CxxDetectRethrow() and __CxxQueryExceptionSize() are implemented now so export them.
      winapi_check: Update win32.api for acledit.dll, ctapi32.dll and inetcomm.dll.
      winapi_check: Assorted win32.api updates.
      winapi_check: Update win32.api for d3dx8.dll.
      d3dx8core.h: Remove some extraneous #include directives.
      d3dx8: Fix the D3DXMatrixAffineTransformation() prototype.
      d3dx8: Make d3dx8core.h C++ compatible.
      d3dx8: Add the d3dx8mesh.h header and move the relevant function declarations there.
      d3dx8: Fix the D3DXAssembleShaderFromFileA/W() prototypes.
      comctl32/tests: Call InitCommonControlsEx() if available, fall back to InitCommonControls() for the older controls, and skip the tests altogether for the newer ones.
      riched20: Fix the name of the lpUsedDefChar field of GETTEXTEX.

Gerald Pfeifer (2):
      d3d9: Fix the type of three loop variables.
      configure: Use GCC's -Wtype-limits if possible.

Hans Leidekker (3):
      wininet: Make sure not to overwrite any caller supplied authorization header.
      wininet: Send HTTP/1.1 requests by default.
      wininet: Add zero value content length header to POST requests only.

Jacek Caban (28):
      urlmon: Added HlinkParseDisplayNameEx implementation.
      urlmon: Added MkParseDisplayNameEx tests.
      hlink: Call AddRef of correct interface in ExtServUnk_QueryInterface.
      hlink.idl: Added more function declarations.
      hlink: Added HlinkParseDisplayName implementation.
      hlink: Added HlinkParseDisplayName tests.
      hlink: Added HlinkResolveMonikerForData implementation.
      hlink: Added HlinkResolveMonikerForData tests.
      hlink: Added standard comments.
      hlink: Don't prefer native version.
      urlmon: Added comments about missing MIME filters.
      widl: Ignore ATTR_LOCAL in create_msft_typeinfo.
      urlmon: Added CopyStgMedium implementation.
      urlmon: Fixed tests.
      urlmon: Return better error results.
      mshtml: Added more about protocol tests.
      urlmon: Separate buffer from stream object.
      urlmon: Abstract ProtocolStream object.
      urlmon: Don't create stgmed_obj for binding to object.
      urlmon: Added BINDSTATUS_CACHEFILENAMEAVAILABLE support.
      urlmon: Added support for binding to IID_IUnknown storage (cache file).
      urlmon: Correctly handle BINDF_NEEDFILE flag in http protocol.
      urlmon: Added more protocol tests.
      itss: Added BINDF_NEEDFILE test.
      urlmon: Added more tests.
      mshtml: Update wine_url in nsIURI::SetPath.
      urlmon: Added gecko_installer_workaround to url.c tests.
      urlmon: Fixed ref count leak.

James Hawkins (16):
      kernel32: Factor out the VerifyVersionInfo tests into their own function.
      version: Return ERROR_RESOURCE_DATA_NOT_FOUND if the file does not have version information.
      msi: Add tests for using single quotes in an INSERT query.
      msi: Implement the MSIMODIFY_ASSIGN action of MsiViewModify for the streams table.
      msi: Add tests for MsiGetFileVersion.
      msi: Only convert output strings if the call succeeded.
      msi: Translate ERROR_BAD_PATHNAME into ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND.
      msi: Return ERROR_INVALID_PARAMETER if a string pointer is non-NULL and the size pointer is NULL.
      msi: Return ERROR_FILE_INVALID if the file has no version information.
      msi: Leave room for the NULL terminator.
      msi: Return the string length even if the string is NULL.
      msi: Return ERROR_MORE_DATA if the size is too small.
      msi: Add more tests for MsiFormatRecord.
      msi: Reimplement MsiFormatRecord.
      msi: Fix handling of the NULL separator when writing registry values.
      msi: Test using carriage returns in SQL queries and imported tables.

Jens Nestler (1):
      kernel32: Don't fail unconditionally in MoveFile for directories with flag MOVEFILE_REPLACE_EXISTING.

Johan Gardell (1):
      user32: Added support for SPI_SETMOUSESPEED in SystemParametersInfoW.

Juan Lang (1):
      rsaenh: Merge the encrypting and decrypting states, as encrypting and decrypting are allowed with the same key.

Kirill K. Smirnov (2):
      systray: Properly track errors.
      systray: Add support for NIS_HIDDEN flag.

Lars-Ake Fredlund (1):
      winex11: Don't create a mapping if X11DRV_PALETTE_VIRTUAL is set.

Lei Zhang (3):
      comctl32: Use wine_dbgstr_rect() in traces.
      user32: Use wine_dbgstr_rect() in traces.
      quartz: Add VideoRendererDefault.

Marcus Meissner (3):
      wordpad: Remove condition that never triggers.
      atl: Check for NULL.
      pdh: Fixed wrong condition.

Michael Stefaniuc (3):
      user32: Remove duplicated get_hook_proc() function.
      olecli: Remove duplicated typedefs/enums.
      msi: Fix "type of 'x' defaults to 'int'" warnings.

Paul Chitescu (1):
      ntoskrnl.exe: Implement MmPageEntireDriver and MmResetDriverPaging.

Paul Vriens (4):
      include/wintrust.h: Add missing members to CRYPT_PROVIDER_DATA struct (fixes some wintrust tests on Windows).
      wintrust/tests: Use GetModuleHandleA instead of LoadLibraryA.
      rpcrt4/tests: Change test for Windows 2003.
      rpcrt4/tests: Skip rest of the tests if we fail.

Reece H. Dunn (9):
      comctl32: Proper fix redrawing the trackbar background with themes enabled.
      gdiplus: Fix the bezier arc path test on all Windows platforms.
      msxml3: Fix the domdoc test failures.
      cabinet: Make the fdi tests pass on Vista.
      ddraw: Spelling fixes in the d3d test output.
      gdi32: Improve the failure reporting in the bitmap tests.
      uxtheme: Fix the system tests so they pass on Vista.
      comctl32: Vista sends an unidentified message when destroying datetime and monthcal windows.
      user32: Make the listbox tests pass in directories other than dlls/user32/tests.

Rob Shearman (30):
      secur32: Move the detection of NULL credentials from AcquireCredentialsHandle to InitializeSecurityContext.
      secur32: If using cached credentials failed in InitializeSecurityContext then fail with SEC_E_NO_CREDENTIALS instead of carrying on with a blank password.
      secur32: Try to retrive credentials by using the credential manager to retrieve credentials saved for the target server in InitializeContextHandleW, if possible.
      secur32: Initialise more pointers in helper to NULL.
      oleaut32: Fix big memory leak in xCall.
      widl: Don't search for a import file name with a path in the include directories for compatibility with MIDL.
      widl: Output code for initialising and freeing full pointer translation tables.
      mapi32: Add a stub implementation of HrQueryAllRows@24.
      ole32: Add a stub implementation of CreatePointerMoniker.
      oleaut32: Fix a leak of a typelib object in OLEFontImpl_GetTypeInfo.
      oleaut32: Fix a memory leak in the olefont tests.
      rpcrt4: Fix some incorrect checks in RPCRT4_Receive.
      oleaut32: Fix some reference count leaks in the tmarshal test.
      oleaut32: Fix a leak of bmi in OLEPictureImpl_LoadGif.
      comctl32: In certain circumstances, native comctl32's animation control accepts negative start positions for the ACM_PLAY message.
      advapi32: Fix the size calculation in StartServiceW.
      wine.inf: Make UI effects default to on.
      oleaut32: Fix some memory leaks in the safearray tests.
      ole32: Add tests for CreatePointerMoniker.
      ole32: Add pointer moniker implementation.
      wininet: HTTP_Connect should fail if a NULL or empty hostname is passed in.
      rpcrt4: Fix memory leaks in the rpc tests.
      comctl32: Get the background colour in ANIMATE_PaintFrame, instead of just in WM_PAINT.
      ntdll: The FileMailslotSetInformation and FileCompletionInformation cases of NtSetInformationFile don't need the fd.
      server: Always try return a named pipe server that is listening from find_available_server.
      ws2_32: Add a FIXME for WS_SIO_GET_EXTENSION_FUNCTION_POINTER in WSAIoctl.
      rpcrt4: Fix potential memory leaks in RPCRT4_Receive.
      rpcrt4: Fix potential memory leaks on error paths in RPCRT4_io_thread.
      comctl32: Don't get the background colour in ANIMATE_PaintFrame as this can be called inside a critical section.
      comctl32: Move the getting of the DC outside of ANIMATE_DrawFrame.

Roderick Colenbrander (5):
      wined3d: Make sure to set the color key when it is needed including for index_in_alpha.
      wined3d: Reload the palette on a color key change. This fixes the ddex4/ddex5 samples from the dx7 sdk.
      wined3d: Allow read back of P8 surfaces. This fixes some of the redrawing issues in Red Alert.
      wined3d: Redownload the surface data in case of a palette change. This fixes a lot of redrawing problems in Red Alert.
      wined3d: Upload p8 palette using GL_ALPHA instead of GL_RED.

Stefan Dösinger (30):
      wined3d: Beware of texture_rectangle NP2 support in Reset.
      wined3d: Update the auto depth stencil buffer size on reset.
      wined3d: Unload implicit depth stencil buffers correctly.
      wined3d: Destroy FBOs and reset pointers on Reset.
      wined3d: Move some UnLoad code to the base texture class.
      wined3d: Mark textures dirty on UnLoad.
      wined3d: De-Statify depth blit opengl resources.
      d3d9: Some drivers allow non-aligned offsets.
      wined3d: Make Clear aware of the depth stencil sharing.
      wined3d: Update the gl rectangle when adjusting surface sizes.
      wined3d: D3DTADDRESS_WRAP on conditional NP2 textures clamps to edge.
      wined3d: Some texture transform test corrections.
      d3d9/tests: Be less picky about X8L8V8U8 precision.
      d3d9/tests: Accept the rejection of non-standard fixed function attrib types.
      wined3d: Correct the srgb reading check.
      wined3d: Fix dxtn format check.
      wined3d: Move the float format check to the big switch statement.
      wined3d: Move vertex buffer vbo creation to PreLoad.
      wined3d: Recreate the contexts on _Reset.
      wined3d: Restore the stateblock after Reset.
      wined3d: Tear down the dummy textures before resetting.
      wined3d: Move the highpart of the driver version to the gl structure.
      wined3d: Separate OpenGL and driver version.
      wined3d: Create VBOs.
      ddraw: Some drivers return a refresh rate of 0.
      wined3d: Add infrastructure for faking driver versions.
      wined3d: Add some ATI cards to the version database.
      wined3d: Reject unsupported modes when restting the device.
      d3d9: Implement the device lost state.
      wined3d: Restore the Window size on reset.

Stefan Leichter (1):
      advapi32: Fix the failing QueryServiceConfig2 test on platforms win2k3 and vista.

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