| The Wine team is proud to announce that the stable release Wine 1.6 |
| is now available. |
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| This release represents 16 months of development effort and around |
| 10,000 individual changes. The main highlights are the new Mac driver, |
| the full support for window transparency, and the new Mono package for |
| .NET applications support. |
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| It also contains a lot of improvements across the board, as well as |
| support for many new applications and games. See the release notes |
| below for a summary of the major changes. |
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| The source is available from the following locations: |
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| http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/wine/wine-1.6.tar.bz2 |
| http://mirrors.ibiblio.org/wine/source/1.6/wine-1.6.tar.bz2 |
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| Binary packages for various distributions will be available from: |
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| http://www.winehq.org/download |
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| You will find documentation on http://www.winehq.org/documentation |
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| You can also get the current source directly from the git |
| repository. Check http://www.winehq.org/git for details. |
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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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| What's new in Wine 1.6 |
| ====================== |
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| *** User interface |
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| - Window transparency is supported, including both color keying and |
| alpha blending transparency. |
| |
| - All window rendering is done on the client-side using the DIB engine |
| (except for OpenGL rendering). This means that rendering to windows |
| or bitmaps gives identical results. |
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| - Common dialogs correctly scale with the screen DPI resolution. |
| |
| - In virtual desktop mode, shortcuts placed in the Desktop folder are |
| displayed on the desktop, and can be used to launch applications. |
| |
| - The HTML Help control has better support for non-ASCII characters, |
| and for multiple help windows. |
| |
| - Custom painting and images are better supported in listview |
| controls. |
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| - Input validation is improved in the date and calendar controls. |
| |
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| *** Mac driver |
| |
| - A native Mac OS X driver is implemented, for better integration with |
| the Mac desktop environment. The full range of driver features are |
| supported, including OpenGL, window management, clipboard, drag & |
| drop, system tray, etc. |
| |
| - X11 is no longer needed on Mac OS X, but the X11 driver is still |
| supported, e.g. when running remotely. |
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| Note: the Mac driver requires Mac OS X 10.6 or later, it cannot be |
| built or used on 10.5. |
| |
| - FontConfig is no longer needed on Mac OS X and is disabled by |
| default, system fonts are enumerated using the Core Text API |
| instead. |
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| *** X11 driver |
| |
| - X11 server-side font rendering is no longer supported. All fonts are |
| rendered client-side using FreeType. |
| |
| - The big lock around all X11 calls has been removed, we rely on the X |
| libraries internal locking for thread safety. |
| |
| - XRandR versions 1.2 and 1.3 are supported. |
| |
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| *** Graphics |
| |
| - There are significant performance improvements in the DIB engine, |
| particularly for text rendering, bitmap stretching, alpha blending, |
| and gradients. |
| |
| - Bounds tracking is supported for all graphics primitives, to enable |
| copying only the modified portions of a bitmap. |
| |
| - OpenGL rendering is supported in device-independent bitmaps using libOSMesa. |
| |
| - Brush dithering is implemented in the DIB engine. |
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| - Path gradients are implemented in GdiPlus. |
| |
| - More image codecs features are implemented, including JPEG encoding, |
| palette formats, and meta-data support for various image types. |
| |
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| *** Text and fonts |
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| - Sub-pixel font anti-aliasing is supported in the DIB engine, using |
| the system anti-aliasing configuration from FontConfig. |
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| - Dynamic loading of scalable font resources is supported. |
| |
| - Text layout in Uniscribe supports character-specific position |
| adjustments. Right-to-left text handling is also improved. |
| |
| - There is an initial implementation of the DirectWrite text layout |
| engine. |
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| - Built-in fonts are more complete, with the addition of FixedSys and |
| Wingdings fonts, more high-resolution pixel fonts, and a wider range |
| of glyphs in the existing fonts, notably Arabic glyphs in Tahoma. |
| |
| - Bi-directional text support is improved in the RichEdit control. |
| |
| |
| *** Input devices |
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| - The raw input API is supported for keyboard and mouse input. |
| |
| - There is a joystick applet in the control panel, to allow |
| configuring joysticks and testing their behavior. |
| |
| - Force feedback is supported for Mac OS X joysticks. |
| |
| |
| *** Kernel |
| |
| - DOSBox is tried first when running a DOS application. The Wine DOS |
| support is only used as a fallback when DOSBox cannot be found, and |
| will be removed in a future release. |
| |
| - A monotonic time counter is used on platforms that support it, to |
| make timers more robust against system time changes. |
| |
| - File times are reported with nanosecond resolution. |
| |
| - Wine can be configured to report the Windows version as 'Windows 8'. |
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| *** .NET support |
| |
| - The Mono runtime is packaged as an MSI file, and its installation |
| can be managed from the "Add/Remove Programs" control panel. It is |
| automatically installed on Wine prefix updates. |
| |
| - .NET mixed mode assemblies are supported. |
| |
| - The Microsoft .NET 4.0 runtime can be installed for cases where Mono |
| is not good enough yet. |
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| |
| *** OLE / COM |
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| - The typelib writer is reimplemented for better compatibility. |
| |
| - OLE DB supports more data types and conversions. |
| |
| - OLE automation manages a cache of string allocations for better |
| performance and compatibility. |
| |
| |
| *** Internet and networking |
| |
| - HTTPS connections use GnuTLS (or Secure Transport on Mac OS X). |
| OpenSSL is no longer used. |
| |
| - The TLS 1.1 and TLS 1.2 protocols are enabled by default, with |
| automatic fallback to TLS 1.0. The SSL2 protocol is disabled by |
| default. |
| |
| - Security certificate validation errors are handled better. |
| |
| - NTLM and Negotiate authentication protocols are supported. |
| |
| - ActiveX controls can be downloaded and installed automatically. |
| |
| - Internet proxy bypass is supported, and can be enabled either |
| through the registry or with the no_proxy environment variable. |
| |
| - Broadcast packets can be received on interface-bound sockets, which |
| is needed for some networked multi-player games. |
| |
| - The Server Name Indication TLS extension is supported. |
| |
| - Persistent cookies are supported, and URL cache files are managed |
| better. The Internet control panel allows clearing saved cookies and |
| cache files. |
| |
| - Punycode encoding for Internationalized Domain Names is supported. |
| |
| - JavaScript performance is improved. The built-in JavaScript engine |
| is preferred over the Gecko one in most cases. |
| |
| - Many more built-in functions of VBScript are implemented. Regular |
| expressions are also supported. |
| |
| - The Gecko engine is updated to the version from Firefox 21. |
| |
| - The Gecko and Mono installers are cached upon download, to allow |
| installation in multiple Wine prefixes without additional downloads. |
| |
| |
| *** Direct3D |
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| - The Direct3D 9Ex implementation is more complete. In particular: |
| - IDirect3DDevice9Ex::PresentEx is implemented. |
| - IDirect3DDevice9Ex::ResetEx is implemented. |
| - Various Direct3D 9Ex display mode handling functions are implemented. |
| - Direct3D 9Ex style video memory accounting is implemented. |
| |
| - Like the X11 driver, WineD3D no longer uses the big X11 lock when |
| making GL calls. |
| |
| - The WineD3D graphics card database is updated to recognize more |
| graphics cards. |
| |
| - The fallback card detection code for unrecognized graphics cards is |
| improved. This results in a more reasonable card being reported when |
| the graphics card is not already in the WineD3D database. |
| |
| - WineD3D has GLSL based implementations of Direct3D fixed-function |
| vertex and fragment processing. In some cases this allows |
| functionality that's not present in fixed-function OpenGL to be |
| implemented, in other cases it allows functionality to be |
| implemented in a more efficient way. |
| |
| - On drivers that support it, GL_ARB_debug_output is used to get more |
| detailed debugging output from the OpenGL driver. |
| |
| - On drivers that support it, GL_ARB_framebuffer_sRGB is used for |
| rendering to frame buffers in the sRGB color space. |
| |
| - On drivers that support it, GL_ARB_instanced_arrays is used for more |
| efficient instanced drawing. |
| |
| - On drivers that support it, and return useful information, |
| GL_ARB_internalformat_query2 is used for more accurate reporting of |
| surface / texture format capabilities. |
| |
| - There is an initial implementation of a HLSL compiler. |
| |
| - Improvements to various parts of the D3DX9 implementation, including: |
| - The surface and texture handling functions. This includes code for |
| loading, saving, filling, and rendering to surfaces and textures. |
| - The effects framework. |
| - The constant table implementation. |
| - A number of spherical harmonics functions have been implemented. |
| - Support for .x files. |
| |
| - Improvements to the Direct3D 10 implementation, including: |
| - Support for more shader model 4 opcodes and register types. |
| - Support for shader model 4 indirect addressing. |
| - Initial geometry shader support. |
| - Improved binary effect parsing. |
| - Support for Direct3D 10 style instanced draws, using |
| GL_ARB_draw_instanced. |
| |
| |
| *** DirectDraw |
| |
| - Vertex buffers are created with WINED3DUSAGE_DYNAMIC when locked with |
| DDLOCK_DISCARDCONTENTS, resulting in improved performance in some cases. |
| |
| - The 2D-only fallback in WineD3D for using DirectDraw without a |
| working OpenGL implementation is more robust. Note that this still |
| isn't a recommended configuration. |
| |
| |
| *** Audio and video |
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| - DirectSound has a better resampler. |
| |
| - Audio device enumeration is improved, and multi-channel devices are |
| better supported. |
| |
| - VMR-9 video rendering is implemented. |
| |
| |
| *** Printer support |
| |
| - The PPD files of already installed printers are automatically |
| refreshed when needed. |
| |
| - Printing resolution can be configured from the print dialog. |
| |
| - Simulated italic fonts can be printed. |
| |
| - On Mac OS X, the default paper size is retrieved from the system |
| configuration. |
| |
| |
| *** Internationalization |
| |
| - Japanese vertical text is correctly supported. |
| |
| - Translated font names are used when there is a match for the current |
| language. |
| |
| - Wine is translated to French, German, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, |
| Swedish, Finnish, Portuguese, Catalan, Hungarian, Polish, Danish, |
| Russian, Slovenian, Lithuanian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and |
| Arabic. It has partial translations for another fifteen languages. |
| |
| - Various additional Mac OS code pages are supported, namely Japanese, |
| Traditional Chinese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Romanian, |
| Ukrainian, Thai, and Croatian code pages. This improves support for |
| loading translated font names from Mac OS font files. |
| |
| |
| *** Built-in applications |
| |
| - The new 'netstat' application displays information about active |
| network connections. |
| |
| - The 'cabarc' application supports multi-cabinet archives. |
| |
| - The 'attrib' application supports recursing in sub-directories. |
| |
| - The 'ipconfig' application can display IPv6 addresses. |
| |
| - The 'start' application allows setting process priority and affinity. |
| |
| - The 'cmd' application support arithmetic variable expansion, |
| comparison operators, and various extra features in 'for' loops. |
| |
| - All graphical built-in applications have a 256x256 icon for use with |
| the Mac driver. |
| |
| |
| *** Build environment |
| |
| - The configure script uses pkg-config when possible to find library |
| dependencies. Compiler and linker flags can be passed explicitly for |
| each dependency to override pkg-config where necessary. |
| |
| - The IDL compiler supports nameless structs and unions and generates |
| portable C code for them. |
| |
| - The IDL compiler generates the same header guards as the Microsoft |
| one for better header compatibility. |
| |
| - Generated assembler files are built by invoking the C compiler when |
| possible, for better compatibility with the Clang tool chain. |
| |
| - The Winedump tool can display the contents of typelib files. |
| |
| - The Fnt2bdf tool has been removed since X11 server-side fonts are no |
| longer used. |
| |
| |
| *** Platform-specific changes |
| |
| - On Linux, dynamic device management supports the UDisks2 service. |
| |
| - On Mac OS X, the Recycle Bin is mapped to the Mac OS Trash. |
| |
| - Debugging support for ARM platforms is improved, including the |
| ability to display ARM assembly in the Wine debugger, and support |
| for relay tracing. |
| |
| - Building Wine for the ARM64 platform is supported. |
| |
| - There is preliminary support for building Wine for Android using the |
| Android NDK. |
| |
| - The DragonFly FreeBSD variant is supported. |
| |
| - The Alpha and Sparc platforms are no longer supported. |
| |
| |
| *** Miscellaneous |
| |
| - XML namespaces are better supported. XML parsing is also implemented |
| in the XMLLite library. |
| |
| - Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) is implemented, with a wide |
| range of WBEM system classes. |
| |
| - A number of forwarding libraries are added to support the API Sets |
| feature added in Windows 8. |
| |
| - More of the latest functions of the C runtime are implemented, |
| particularly the locale functions. Exception handling and RTTI are |
| supported on 64-bit. |
| |
| - The standard C++ class libraries are more complete, particularly the |
| math functions and the stream classes. |
| |
| |
| *** New external dependencies |
| |
| - LibOSMesa is used for OpenGL rendering to device-independent bitmaps. |
| |
| |
| *** Useful configuration options |
| |
| Note: More details about these and other configuration options can be |
| found at http://wiki.winehq.org/UsefulRegistryKeys |
| |
| - Client-side window rendering can be disabled if necessary by setting |
| "ClientSideGraphics" to "N" under HKCU\Software\Wine\X11 Driver. |
| |
| - On Mac OS X, in case an application doesn't work properly with the |
| Mac driver, it is possible to go back to the X11 driver by setting |
| "Graphics" to "x11" under HKCU\Software\Wine\Drivers. |
| |
| - Some X11 compositors do not cope properly with transparent windows |
| that use non-rectangular shapes. In that case, window shaping can be |
| disabled by setting "ShapeLayeredWindows" to "N" under |
| HKCU\Software\Wine\X11 Driver. |
| |
| - The "VertexShaderMode" and "PixelShaderMode" settings under |
| HKCU\Software\Wine\Direct3D have been replaced by the "MaxShaderModelVS", |
| "MaxShaderModelGS" and "MaxShaderModelPS" (DWORD) settings. These allow |
| limiting the maximum supported shader model version. Setting these to 0 |
| disables support for the corresponding shader type, like "VertexShaderMode" |
| and "PixelShaderMode" did. |
| |
| - The default value for the "AlwaysOffscreen" setting under |
| HKCU\Software\Wine\Direct3D is "enabled". It can still be disabled |
| by setting it to "disabled". |
| |
| |
| *** Known issues |
| |
| - The addition of DirectWrite causes Steam to be unable to display |
| text. This can be fixed either by setting dwrite.dll to disabled for |
| steam.exe using Winecfg, or by running Steam with the -no-dwrite |
| option. |
| |
| - The removal of the big X11 lock can reveal locking bugs in old Xlib |
| versions, notably on RHEL 5. The only solution is to upgrade the X |
| libraries. |
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| -- |
| Alexandre Julliard |
| julliard@winehq.org |