This is release 0.9.52 of Wine, a free implementation of Windows on Unix.

What's new in this release:
  - Improved graphics tablet support.
  - Support for RPC context handles.
  - Fixes for some longstanding screen depth issues.
  - Implementation of "My Network Places" shell folder.
  - Lots of bug fixes.

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before the release is available at the public sites. The sources will
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  http://www.winehq.org/site/download

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  http://www.winehq.org/site/documentation

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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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Changes since 0.9.51:

Alex Villacís Lasso (2):
      user32: Fix regression in DlgDirList caused by modified LB_DIR return behavior, with tests.
      comdlg32: Fix another regression in 3.1-style file dialog from LB_DIR fix.

Alexander Dorofeyev (7):
      ddraw: Fix incorrect WARN text.
      wined3d: Rewrite IWineD3DSurfaceImpl_BltOverride colorfill codepath.
      wined3d: Use IWineD3DDeviceImpl_ClearSurface in IWineD3DDeviceImpl_Clear.
      ole32: Fix wrong timeout check.
      ws2_32: Fix timeout check.
      wined3d: Add zero/near zero vertex rhw special case.
      wined3d: Also update alpha test when stage texture is NULL.

Alexander Nicolaysen Sørnes (1):
      comdlg32: PageSetupDlgW: Load paper orientation in ChangePrinterW.

Alexandre Julliard (30):
      Revert "user32: Moved some 16-bit functions."
      oleaut32/tests: Avoid relying on system-dependent rounding.
      server: Fix possible NULL dereference.
      ntoskrnl.exe: Added implementation for IoCreateDriver and IoDeleteDriver.
      ntoskrnl.exe: Allow returning data in ioctls along with a positive non-zero status.
      user32: Set the WSF_VISIBLE flag on the main window station.
      advapi32: Reimplement RegisterServiceCtrlHandler on top of RegisterServiceCtrlHandlerEx.
      advapi32: Fix RegisterServiceCtrlHandler spec entry.
      advapi32: Use exponential backoff when waiting for a service to start.
      advapi32: Replace the list of services with an array.
      advapi32: Return from StartServiceCtrlDispatcher when all services are stopped.
      kernel32: Forward interrupts in 32-bit code to winedos too.
      server: Use SIGQUIT instead of SIGTERM to terminate a thread.
      advapi32: Move the EnumDependentServicesA/W stubs in service.c where they belong.
      wineboot: Simplify the unnecessarily complex code structure.
      wineboot: Add support for starting NT-style services.
      wineboot: Rewrite wininit.ini processing to use GetPrivateProfileSectionW. Convert to Unicode.
      wineboot: Convert the rest of the code to Unicode.
      wine.inf: Mark the spool service as disabled, it's just a stub.
      include: Added the mountmgr.h header.
      server: Don't count system processes as users of a desktop.
      server: Don't give out full access to the system process event.
      explorer: It no longer needs to be made a system process.
      advapi32: Start non-interactive services in a separate window station.
      ntdll: Increase the buffer size dynamically for relay debug lists.
      kernel32: Store the initial directory as a full path in the process parameters.
      kernel32: Yet another workaround for broken apps in GlobalMemoryStatus.
      kernel32: Initialize MaximumLength of the user params directory too.
      winedos: Add the possibility of refusing to emulate some interrupts.
      wintab32: Fix debug traces to use wine_dbg_sprintf.

Alistair Leslie-Hughes (1):
      msxml3: Fix memory leaks in tests.

Andrew Riedi (1):
      gdiplus: Add GdipCreateHBITMAPFromBitmap() stub.

Andrew Talbot (10):
      kernel32: Remove unneeded casts.
      kernel32: Remove unneeded casts.
      kernel32: Remove unneeded casts.
      mapi32: Remove unneeded casts.
      kernel32: Revert the removal of a cast from a macro.
      mciavi32: Remove unneeded casts.
      mciseq: Remove unneeded casts.
      msacm32: Remove unneeded casts.
      msvcrt: Remove unneeded cast.
      msi: Remove unneeded cast.

Andrey Turkin (5):
      server: I/O completion ports can only be used with overlapped I/O.
      server: Store I/O completion information in async structure.
      ntdll: Implement BindIoCompletionCallback.
      dbghelp: Adjust minidump streams ordering and sizing.
      dbghelp: Treat const addresses as const unsigned.

Aric Stewart (1):
      fonts: Correct External leading for japanese small font and enable fontmetric test for the font.

David Adam (4):
      d3dx8: Add definition for MatrixStack.
      d3dx8: Rename d3dx_core_private.h to d3dx8_private.h.
      d3dx8: Add basic functions and stubs for MatrixStack.
      d3dx8: Implement D3DXCreateMatrixStack.

Dmitry Timoshkov (11):
      user32: Always clip the button painting to the client rectangle.
      gdi32: Add a GdiConvertToDevmodeW test, make it pass under Wine.
      gdi32: When compiling with PSDK headers request latest DEVMODE definition.
      gdi32: In the calculations use a fixed dmSize, not a passed in (possibly too large) one.
      user32: Make sure to setup clipping before any painting is done.
      user32: Set the edit text in a combobox only if combobox has strings.
      include: Add CONTEXT86_EXTENDED_REGISTERS and CONTEXT86_ALL definitions.
      gdi32: Add a test for minimal acceptable DEVMODEA size, make it pass under Wine.
      user32: Add a test for an invalid DEVMODE passed to ChangeDisplaySettings, make it pass under Wine.
      riched20: Remove a redundant parameter from trace.
      user32: Reimplement IsHungAppWindow.

Eric Pouech (1):
      valgrind: Made Wine compliant will latest Valgrind macros (the one removed from 3.3.0 and deprecated since 3.2.0).

Francois Gouget (13):
      rpcrt4: Add an rpcasync.h header stub and fix the RpcErrorStartEnumeration() prototype.
      user32/tests: Use GetProcAddress() on ChangeDisplaySettingsExA() because it is missing on Windows 95.
      msi: Add a trailing '\n' to Wine traces.
      secur32/tests: Dynamically load various APIs and don't link with crypt32.dll to make the test run on Windows 95.
      shell32/tests: Avoid SHDeleteKeyA() because shlwapi.dll is missing on Windows 95.
      shell32/tests: Copy the PathRemoveBackslashA() and PathAddBackslashW() implementations because shlwapi.dll is missing on Windows 95.
      shell32/tests: Use GetProcAddress() on SHGetPathFromIDListW() because it is missing on Windows 95.
      shell32/tests: Use GetProcAddress() on Shell_NotifyIconW() because it is missing on Windows 95.
      shell32/tests: Use GetProcAddress() on SHFileOperationW() because it is missing on Windows 95.
      oleaut32/tests: Avoid SHDeleteKeyW() because shlwapi.dll is missing on Windows 95.
      dinput: Make _dump_cooperativelevel_DI() and _dump_EnumDevices_dwFlags() more self-contained.
      Assorted spelling fixes.
      configure: Work around an Xcode 3.0 bug when detecting the libGL library.

Gerald Pfeifer (1):
      msi: Fix error handling in encode_streamname().

Huw Davies (6):
      include: Add IMimeAllocator.
      inetcomm: Add IMimeAllocator implementation.
      inetcomm: Fix spelling typo.
      inetcomm: Implement IMimeBody_GetParameters.
      inetcomm: Unquote parameter values.
      inetcomm: Implement IMimeBody_GetOffsets.

Ivan Sinitsin (1):
      winefile: Save font settings in registry.

Jacek Caban (24):
      mshtml: Remove not used argument of nsACString_GetData.
      mshtml: Remove not used argument in nsAString_GetData.
      shdocvw: Ignore Exec(CGID_Explorer, 66) calls in tests.
      urlmon: Use flag to store protocol lock state.
      urlmon: Fixed protocol tests.
      urlmon: Added BindProtocol::GetBindString implementation.
      urlmon: Added IServiceProvider implementation to BindProtocol object.
      urlmon: Added BindProtocol::Switch implementation.
      urlmon: Added BindProtocol::Continue implementation.
      urlmon: Added BindProtocol::[Un]LockRequest.
      urlmon: Added more BindProtocol::ReportProgress implementation.
      urlmon: Added more binding tests.
      urlmon: Fixed BindToObject tests.
      mshtml: Use IBindCtx passed to Load in BindToStorage call.
      mshtml: Added AboutProtocolInfo::QueryInfo implementation.
      mshtml: Added ResProtocolInfo::QueryInfo implementation.
      mshtml: Added QueryInfo tests.
      urlmon: Added CoInternetQueryInfo implementation.
      urlmon: Added CoInternetQueryInfo tests.
      urlmon: RegisterNameSpace clean up.
      urlmon: Added [Un]RegisterMimeFilter implementation.
      urlmon: Added mime filters tests.
      urlmon: Use heap_alloc_zero to allocate BindProtocol.
      urlmon: Rename BindProtocol's IInternetProtocolSink methods.

James Hawkins (23):
      msi: Release the record when loading the hash data.
      msi: Add more tests for MsiOpenPackage.
      msi: Validate the parameters of MsiOpenPackage.
      msi: If the package doesn't exist, return ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND.
      msi: Verify that the PID_PAGECOUNT and PID_REVNUMBER summary info properties exist.
      msi: Simplify ExpandAnyPath.
      msi: Add tests for MsiEnumClients.
      msi: Validate the parameters of MsiEnumClients.
      msi: Check the user component key for the clients.
      msi: Also check the local system component key for the clients.
      msi: Return ERROR_UNKNOWN_COMPONENT if no products exist.
      msi: Return ERROR_INVALID_PARAMETER if the product list is empty and index is not zero.
      msi: The line control has a height of exactly 2 device units.
      msi: Set the text color after calling the window proc.
      msi: Test sorting a table using a column that is not selected.
      msi: Sort each table of the join separately.
      msi: Free the ordering information.
      msi: Allow NULL parameters to be passed to the local MsiSetProperty.
      msi: Initialize a default COM apartment for custom actions.
      msi: The BS_GROUPBOX style should only be used if the HasBorder attribute is set.
      msi: Fix deleting temporary rows, with tests.
      msi: Allow the not-equal operator in WHERE query string comparisons.
      msi: Allow whitespace after the property name when setting a property in the dialog.

Jeremy White (11):
      wintab32: Store and use the physical device id to match device to cursor.
      wintab32: Do not offset the physical device id by the cursor number.
      wintab32: Add constants for cursor types and use them.
      wintab32: Order the cursor array by the standard Wacom promulgates.
      wintab32: Add additional device tracing.
      wintab32: Compute our physical device characteristics based on the first tablet device that looks like a stylus.
      wintab32: Correctly handle devices with a device id of 0.
      wintab32: Don't return information for non existent cursors.
      wintab32: Implement the ability to return the number of devices and cursors.
      wintab32: Capture the number of buttons earlier, allowing our button maps to be filled in.
      wintab32: Fix the W->A translation for CSR_NAME and CSR_BTNNAMES.

Johannes Stezenbach (3):
      wininet: Implement support for INTERNET_OPTION_VERSION in InternetQueryOptionW.
      wininet: Fix error return code in FindFirstUrlCacheEntryW() stub.
      ws2_32: Set *res = NULL for error return from WS_getaddrinfo().

Kirill K. Smirnov (7):
      winhelp: Remember last added page.
      winhelp: Avoid any keywords comparision during lookup, store pointer to listbox ITEMDATA instead.
      server: Properly notify renderer while activating another screen buffer.
      ws2_32: Fix flags conversion in getnameinfo() function.
      kernel32: ReadConsoleW should wait for at least one character before returning.
      winhelp: When we reuse window structure, old brush should not be reused.
      kernel32: Invalidate local copy of console input event handle while reallocating console.

Lei Zhang (2):
      quartz: Move aggregation tests into separate file.
      quartz: Make filtergraph aggregatable.

Lionel Debroux (2):
      winedevice: Fix memory leak (found by Smatch).
      winspool: Fix memory leak (found by Smatch).

Maarten Lankhorst (3):
      riched20: Implement ECO/EM SELECTIONBAR.
      riched20: Fix bugs in EM_SETOPTIONS.
      winealsa: Add special case for microphone source in mixer.

Marcus Meissner (2):
      msi: Fixed buffer overflow in number parsing.
      d3d9: Initialize pVertexBuffer.

Michael Jung (1):
      ole32: Avoid leaving a critical section twice.

Michael Stefaniuc (3):
      rpcrt4: Add missing LeaveCriticalSection. Found by Smatch.
      secur32/tests: InitFunctionPtrs() needs to use the global crypt32dll variable.
      gdi32: There is no need to cast NULL to a function pointer.

Mike McCormack (1):
      shell32: Implement "My Network Places" shell folder.

Peter Beutner (1):
      d3d9: Add stub for Direct3DShaderValidatorCreate9().

Peter Oberndorfer (2):
      winex11: Remove unused SWAP_INT macro.
      gdi32: Fix a comment typo.

Reece H. Dunn (2):
      include: Added the new Vista messages.
      user32: Added the new Vista messages to spy.

Rico Schüller (3):
      comdlg32: Fix typo.
      kernel32: Fix typo.
      wined3d: Fix some typos.

Rob Shearman (50):
      widl: Clear padding in the buffer due to alignment.
      widl: Return types shouldn't be freed.
      widl: Only base types or reference pointers to base types don't need to be freed.
      include: Add definitions for RPC_FC_SSTRING and RPC_FC_C_SSTRING.
      rpcrt4: Clear padding inserted into the buffer during marshalling because of alignment.
      rpcrt4: Add a FIXME for RPC_FC_P_ALLOCALLNODES in PointerUnmarshall.
      rpcrt4: Fix NdrConformantStringUnmarshall to use buffer memory if possible.
      rpcrt4: Return an error from rpcrt4_conn_tcp_read if recv returns 0.
      rpcrt4: Make a server association when a bind packet is received in the server.
      rpcrt4: Move association code into a separate file.
      hlink: Fix some memory leaks in the tests.
      include: Add more NDR types and function declarations to rpcndr.h.
      include: Add more types and function declarations to the rpcasync.h header file.
      rpcrt4: Don't copy memory from the buffer in NdrConformantStringUnmarshall if we just pointed the memory pointer into the buffer.
      rpcrt4: Add a stub for I_RpcGetCurrentCallHandle.
      include: Add some context handle defines to rpcdcep.h.
      mscoree: Add a stub for GetVersionFromProcess.
      rpcrt4: Implement I_RpcGetCurrentCallHandle.
      widl: The detection of types is highly dependent on the ordering of the various type detection functions.
      widl: Fix the length used when clearing alignment space in generated files.
      rpcrt4: Fix the ALIGN_POINTER_CLEAR macro.
      rpcrt4: Memory should only be cleared in ComplexUnmarshall, not in ComplexMarshall.
      rpcrt4: Initialise memory passed into RPCs in the server test.
      rpcrt4: Don't use BufferEnd in RpcStream_Write.
      rpcrt4: Fix NdrConformantStringUnmarshall to always increment the buffer during unmarshalling.
      ole32: Fix RPC_GetLocalClassObject to wait for 30 seconds, even if messages arrive while we are waiting.
      rpcrt4: Print an error if stub buffer pointer is passed into safe_copy_from_buffer.
      rpcrt4: Fix a memory leak from the get_filename call in the server tests.
      kernel32: Add a test for calling VirtualAlloc on a view of a SEC_RESERVE file mapping.
      widl: Tweak the rules for when to call pfnFree for arrays.
      rpcrt4: Set pStubMsg->BufferMark in NdrConformantVaryingArrayUnmarshall and NdrVaryingArrayUnmarshall.
      widl: Fix the generation of temporary variables for declared arrays.
      widl: Fix pointer detection in structures and arrays.
      include: Remove semi-colons from the end of cpp_quote statements as MIDL likes them.
      rpcrt4: Move low-level NDR context handle functions to a separate file.
      rpcrt4: Implement higher-level NDR server context handle functions.
      rpcrt4: Implement low-level context handle support.
      rpcrt4: Add tests for low-level context handle functions.
      widl: Add support for generating code for out-only context handles by calling NdrContextHandleInitialize.
      rpcss: Use context handles to automatically free running object table entries if the client process quits without calling IrotRevoke.
      hlink: Fix memory leak by freeing extension services This->headers in the release function.
      msi: Fix several memory leaks after using IEnumSTATSTG_Next.
      oleaut32: Fix copy and paste error in VARIANT_UserUnmarshall with VT_UNKNOWN test.
      quartz: Fix memory leak in FilterGraphInner_Release.
      rpcrt4: Add tests for varying and conformant varying arrays.
      rpcrt4: Re-use existing memory for embedded pointers in NdrConformantVaryingArrayUnmarshall.
      rpcrt4: Re-use existing memory for embedded pointers in NdrVaryingArrayUnmarshall.
      rpcss: Zero the memory of several variables before writing them to the pipe to silence Valgrind warnings.
      explorer: Fix memory leak when one or more properties are not present on a hal device.
      server: Initialise the apc_call_t union in async_set_result to all zero to avoid a Valgrind warning.

Roderick Colenbrander (2):
      wined3d: In case of GL_EXT_paletted_textures we use GL_COLOR_INDEX and don't need a GL_RED fixup.
      wined3d: Only store the palette index in the alpha component when the primary render target uses P8.

Roy Shea (2):
      qmgr: Generate C file with local GUID definitions from bits.idl.
      qmgr: AddRef, QueryInterface, and stub functions for queue manager interface.

Stefan Dösinger (37):
      winex11: Distinguish between bpp and depth.
      winex11: Activate the depth-bpp difference.
      d3d9: The refrast returns an error on invalid clear rects.
      d3d9: D3DLOCK_DISCARD is not valid on managed textures.
      d3d9: Do not set NONE MIN and MAG filters.
      d3d9: Remove a few more incorrect D3DLOCK_DISCARDs.
      d3d9: Add a note about a breakage in the refrast.
      wined3d: Disable the SWAPEFFECT_DISCARD clear.
      wined3d: Correct a pixel shader version comparison.
      wined3d: Ignore tesselated and unused streams when comparing attribs.
      wined3d: Filter out some shader compilation spam.
      kernel32: Add a test for BindIoCompletionCallback.
      wined3d: Implement D3DFMT_G16R16.
      wined3d: Split up the render target -> render target blit.
      wined3d: Implement blits from the active render target to swapchains.
      wined3d: Emulate half float vertices if GL_NV_half_float is not there.
      wined3d: Some improvements for SFLAG_CONVERTED checking.
      wined3d: Implement texture -> swapchain blits with stretch_rect_fbo.
      wined3d: Always dump the fbo state on errors.
      wined3d: Store if half float conversion is needed in the decl.
      wined3d: Fixed function vertex attribute types are flexible.
      wined3d: Fix vertex buffers based on type, not semantic.
      wined3d: Move the GL info structure into the adapter.
      wined3d: Add a test for 16 bit floats.
      wined3d: Implement half float vertex buffer conversion.
      wined3d: Change the vertex buffer declaration's data format.
      d3d9: Extend the fixed function vertex declaration test.
      wined3d: Improve some traces.
      wined3d: Add a test for POSITIONT vertex fixups.
      wined3d: Vertex attributes are 4 byte aligned.
      wined3d: Per stream offsets are 4 byte aligned.
      wined3d: Implement and test vertex fixups with per stream offsets.
      d3d9: Accept D3DDEVTYPE_REF devices in the vertex declaration test.
      wined3d: Fix a problem in BltOverride.
      wined3d: Get rid of the invymat.
      wined3d: Combine two glScalef calls into one.
      wined3d: Multiply the half pixel correction with .w.

Stefan Leichter (2):
      gdiplus: Partly implement GdipCreateFromHDC2
      kernel32: Silence a fixme in GetNativeSystemInfo.

Vincent Hardy (1):
      regedit: Window caption correction.

Zhangrong Huang (2):
      gdi32, winex11.drv: Correct default Chinese font name.
      secur32: Fix possible crash while loading SSP providers from registry.

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