The Wine development release 1.7.7 is now available.

What's new in this release (see below for details):
  - Support for configuring remote shares using Samba's NetAPI library.
  - Multiple keyboard layouts support in the Mac driver.
  - Improved embedding support through XEMBED.
  - Support for arrays in VBScript.
  - Various bug fixes.

The source is available from the following locations:

  http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/wine/wine-1.7.7.tar.bz2
  http://mirrors.ibiblio.org/wine/source/1.7/wine-1.7.7.tar.bz2

Binary packages for various distributions will be available from:

  http://www.winehq.org/download

You will find documentation on http://www.winehq.org/documentation

You can also get the current source directly from the git
repository. Check http://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.

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Bugs fixed in 1.7.7 (total 49):

   9853  Splinter Cell: CT crashes with an unahandled exception
  14752  Blood 2 (v. 2.1): mouse input not working
  15808  wine's system tray should not wake the cpu when idle
  15868  Tomb Raider underworld demo big troubles
  16121  Word 2003/2007 Bold Face Type Bug
  17037  mountmgr.sys: Wine does not recognise empty DVD-ROMs
  18394  Touhou 9 - Phantasmagoria of Flower View, patching from 1.00 to 1.50a breaks the game
  18763  Program error window for DVD Profiler (with no obvious error)
  20068  Monster Jam: No textures
  21400  PowerPoint 2007 never displays slides 2 or 3 in normal view when paging down
  21561  Frontpage 2003 crashes when adding URL or exiting the program
  21739  Mouse in Nostale not working
  21884  Resident Evil 2: no sound and annoying dialog window
  24849  toolbar buttons in .chm file viewer are not working
  24960  BioEdit crashes with "setup_exception_record stack overflow"
  25635  Every single line is underlined in Dreamweaver codeview
  25877  Mirror does not render properly in Sims 3 sim customization scene
  25923  UltraNitroRacers: Fails to launch with built-in quartz
  25924  UltraNitroRacers: Graphics garbled
  26475  Homefront (Steam) crashes at launch
  26641  CivCity Rome 1.1: text and graphics missing
  26702  Desert Gunner crashes in the main menu
  26860  Tomb Raider Underworld crashes on startup
  27925  IBExpert cease work from 1.3.25
  28862  cannot download watchtower library 2010
  28888  Alt-tabbing from windowed Kanon makes it think alt is held down
  29691  Anno 1404 addon 2.1 update installer after clicking the next-button crashes
  31025  vbscript doesn't support arrays
  31347  Windows Performance Toolkit "xperf.exe" tool for Windows on ARM (WoA) needs KERNEL32.dll.ResolveDelayLoadedAPI
  32734  Caesar IV crashes at launch
  32970  Installing Microsoft Fix it 50356 fails
  33668  Physx 9.12.1031 : Installation fails in 64-bit WINEPREFIX
  33695  Mafia 2 - Failed to create a vertex buffer object
  34034  Locale settings broke shader program generator.
  34055  Textures missing in Age of Empires II: Steam
  34458  No line wrapping in Tweet Attacks Pro
  34637  WinLaunch 0.4.6.1 (OSX Style free Launcher) needs IShellDispatch5 (.NET shell32 COM interop XP vs. Vista)
  34669  Odorik.cz app - crash: Page fault on read access to 0x001809c8
  34786  Dungeons & Dragons Online (ddo) fails to open data files with 1.7.4+
  34811  Crash when copy by ctrl+c or in-app copy, cmd+c works fine (using MacDriver) on OS X Mavericks
  34840  Internet Chess Club (ICC) Dasher 1.5.x fails to run due to unimplemented HTMLBodyElement_put_scroll stub
  34894  Version 1.7.6 Compile Failure - Ubuntu 12.04
  34908  TERA Online patcher fails to start
  34911  WinLaunch 0.4.6.1 (OSX Style free Launcher) needs windowscodecs.dll.IPropertyBag2_Write_Proxy
  34912  GEOVIA Surpac 6.x (geology and mine planning software) needs scrrun IFileSystem3::BuildPath
  34948  Chessmaster 10th Edition: title bar covers part of the player login window (Mac OS X only bug)
  34949  Chessmaster 10th Edition: no graphics in the menu, you can't run the game (Mac OS X only bug)
  34968  Freespace becomes unresponsive and showing only black screen
  34969  wininet: In Trackmania Nations Forever new online user registration fails

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Changes since 1.7.6:

Akira Nakagawa (1):
      advapi32: Remove extra comma.

Alexandre Julliard (23):
      makefiles: Merge the relpath functionality into makedep.
      makefiles: Output clean rules for generated files from makedep.
      makefiles: Remove the no longer needed EXTRASUBDIRS variables.
      makefiles: Add a makedep pragma to mark source files that are parts of the import library.
      makefiles: Generate explicit rules for building mo files.
      dbghelp: Remove a useless DllMain, msvcrt can't be unloaded.
      comctl32/tests: Fix a test that fails on Windows.
      makefiles: Add support for building from source files from a parent directory.
      msvcp80: Share the implementation with msvcp90.
      msvcp71: Share part of the implementation with msvcp90.
      makefiles: Generate rules from makedep for running tests.
      makefiles: Rename translated manpages according to their destination directory.
      makefiles: Generate rules from makedep for building and installing man pages.
      makefiles: Add support for parent source directory in c2man.
      makefiles: Only generate auto-documentation rules for dlls.
      makedep: Use string arrays for include paths and object extensions.
      makefiles: Generate include path options from makedep.
      kernel32/tests: Make the page size a global variable.
      kernel32/tests: Add a helper function for creating a test dll.
      kernel32/tests: Add some tests for invalid image section mappings.
      server: Check PE file architecture at mapping creation time.
      kernel32: Determine the module architecture for all binary types.
      kernel32: Validate the architecture of newly created processes on the server side.

Alistair Leslie-Hughes (2):
      mscoree: Attempt to load the assembly from the application directory.
      mscoree: Implement IMetahostPolicy GetRequestedRuntime.

Andrew Eikum (4):
      mmdevapi: Fill buffer with silence in IAudioRenderClient::GetBuffer.
      winmm: Also try MSACM conversions with WAVE_FORMAT_QUERY.
      winecoreaudio.drv: Don't return 0 absolute position if AudioQueue call fails.
      dsound: Don't change play position if IAudioClient methods fail.

André Hentschel (16):
      dinput8/tests: Enable compilation with -D__WINESRC__.
      ntdll: Improved reporting of CPU Level and Revision on ARM.
      wineboot: Add environment registry keys on ARM.
      wineboot: Add hardware registry keys on ARM.
      wineboot: Don't add registry keys for unsupported IA64 architecture.
      include: Add more ARM processor feature flags.
      include: Add more vfw error codes.
      kernel32/tests: Improved tests for the ResolveDelayLoadedAPI callback.
      ntdll: Implement LdrResolveDelayLoadedAPI.
      user32/tests: Fix GetSystemMetrics test on Win8.
      ntdll: Adjust NtAreMappedFilesTheSame to win8 behaviour.
      user32/tests: Allow win8 error code.
      mscoree/tests: Don't expect a 2.x runtime.
      crypt32/tests: Fix tests for win8.
      ntdll/tests: Mark win8 behaviour as failing.
      quartz/tests: Don't use DebugInfo of critical sections in tests.

Daniel Lehman (2):
      msvcp90: Return last index in string::find_last_not_of_cstr_substr if input is empty.
      oleaut32: Return FALSE from SystemTimeToVariantTime if day > 31 or year is negative.

Detlef Riekenberg (1):
      wintrust/tests: Accept the CryptCATAdminAcquireContext win8 results.

Dmitry Timoshkov (12):
      gdiplus: Determine type of the path at the time the region data are written instead of the path creation time.
      gdiplus: Get rid of no longer needed path and region fields.
      server: Make it possible for WaitCommEvent to detect recursive requests.
      gdiplus/tests: Add some invalid parameter tests for GdipGetRegionData.
      gdiplus/tests: Test GdipGetRegionData behaviour with an integer path that can't be stored as an array of shorts.
      gdiplus: Add a check for passed buffer size to GdipGetRegionData.
      gdiplus: Check whether region path points really fit into shorts.
      gdiplus/tests: Convert expect_float() to macro to make failure messages print correct line numbers.
      gdiplus/tests: Reset the buffer contents before each GdipGetRegionData test and check the tail of the returned data.
      gdiplus/tests: Add a test for bezier data returned by GdipGetRegionData.
      gdiplus: Slightly simplify write_path_types.
      gdiplus: Use GdipFree instead of HeapFree to free memory allocated with GdipAlloc.

Erich Hoover (2):
      advapi32/tests: Add tests for creating directories with specific security attributes.
      server: Create directories with the specified security attributes.

François Gouget (7):
      shlwapi/tests: Make test_SHCreateStreamOnFileEx_CopyTo() static.
      vbscript: Fix a trailing FIXME() '\n'.
      mshtml: Add a trailing '\n' to a TRACE().
      shlwapi/tests: Fix compilation on systems that don't support nameless unions.
      netapi32: Remove WINAPI on static functions where not needed.
      wined3d: Make wined3d_device_create_cursor_texture() static.
      po: Remove an extraneous full stop in an error message.

Frédéric Delanoy (31):
      comctl32: Use BOOL type where appropriate.
      winedbg: Use BOOL type where appropriate.
      winegstreamer: Use boolean type where appropriate.
      dbghelp: Use BOOL type where appropriate.
      mmdevapi: Use BOOL type where appropriate.
      mscms: Use BOOL type where appropriate.
      shell32: Use BOOL type where appropriate.
      netapi32/tests: Use BOOL type where appropriate.
      gdiplus/tests: Use BOOL type where appropriate.
      dsound/tests: Use BOOL type where appropriate.
      mapi32/tests: Use BOOL type where appropriate.
      winedbg: Amend parameter name in *_fetch_integer.
      winedbg: Use BOOL type where appropriate.
      comctl32/tests: Use BOOL type where appropriate.
      imm32: Use BOOL type where appropriate.
      msgsm32.acm: Use BOOL type where appropriate.
      itss: Use BOOL type where appropriate.
      odbc32: Use BOOL type where appropriate.
      gdiplus: Use BOOL type where appropriate.
      kernel32/tests: Use BOOL type where appropriate.
      shell32: Use BOOL type where appropriate.
      opengl32: Use BOOL type where appropriate.
      localspl: Use BOOL type where appropriate.
      ole32: Use BOOL type where appropriate.
      riched20: Use BOOL type where appropriate.
      user32: Use BOOL type where appropriate.
      oleaut32: Use BOOL type where appropriate.
      propsys/tests: Use BOOL type where appropriate.
      propsys: Use BOOL type where appropriate.
      scrrun: Use BOOL type where appropriate.
      Assorted spelling fixes.

Hans Leidekker (20):
      netapi32: Move NetBios functions to netbios.c.
      netapi32: Merge apibuf.c into netapi32.c.
      netapi32: Merge share.c into netapi32.c.
      netapi32: Merge wksta.c into netapi32.c.
      netapi32: Merge access.c into netapi32.c.
      netapi32: Merge browsr.c into netapi32.c.
      netapi32: Merge ds.c into netapi32.c.
      netapi32: Merge local_group.c into netapi32.c.
      netapi32: Perform a case-insensitive string comparison in NETAPI_IsLocalComputer.
      netapi32: Add support for remote computers in NetServerGetInfo.
      advapi32: Return a fake handle from LogonUserW.
      advapi32: Forward LogonUserA to LogonUserW.
      include: Add some missing defines.
      netapi32: Add support for remote computers in NetWkstaGetInfo.
      netapi32: Add support for remote computers in NetShareAdd.
      netapi32: Add support for remote computers in NetShareDel.
      netapi32: Add helpers to initialize and destroy a libnetapi context.
      netapi32: Add support for info level 502 in NetShareAdd.
      netapi32: The last parameter to Samba's NetShareAdd is not optional.
      wininet: Reading past end-of-file in chunked mode returns success.

Henri Verbeet (46):
      d3d8: Clear pBits and Pitch when d3d8_surface_LockRect() fails.
      ddraw: Introduce a ddraw_texture structure as parent for textures.
      ddraw: Create wined3d textures before ddraw surfaces.
      ddrawex: Get rid of the IDirectDrawImpl typedef.
      ddrawex: Get rid of the IDirectDrawSurfaceImpl typedef.
      ddraw: Create textures for swapchain surfaces.
      ddraw: Create textures for "standalone" surfaces.
      ddraw: Create textures for additional surfaces.
      wined3d: Create textures for converted surfaces.
      wined3d: Don't map the destination surface read-only in surface_convert_format().
      ddraw: Set WINED3D_SURFACE_PIN_SYSMEM directly in ddraw_surface_create_texture().
      ddraw: Move the surface desc fixups from ddraw_surface_init() to ddraw_surface_create_texture().
      ddraw: Pass the ddraw texture to ddraw_surface_init().
      ddraw: Set the cube map flags for the root surface in ddraw_surface_create_texture() as well.
      wined3d: Create a texture for the logo surface.
      ddraw: Move the mipmap count fixup from CreateSurface() to ddraw_surface_create_texture().
      ddraw: Move the display mode related surface desc fixups from CreateSurface() to ddraw_surface_create_texture().
      wined3d: Create surfaces inside wined3d.
      wined3d: Pass a wined3d_resource_desc structure to surface_init().
      wined3d: Set the surface container in surface_init().
      wined3d: Create a proper texture for the software cursor.
      wined3d: Avoid calling wined3d_surface_set_mem() in surface_cleanup().
      wined3d: Surfaces always have a container in draw_textured_quad().
      wined3d: Surfaces always have a container in surface_bind().
      wined3d: Surfaces always have a container in surface_unload().
      wined3d: Surfaces always have a container in surface_add_dirty_rect().
      wined3d: Surfaces always have a container in surface_internal_preload().
      wined3d: Surfaces always have a container in surface_prepare_texture().
      wined3d: Surfaces always have a container in fb_copy_to_texture_direct().
      wined3d: Surfaces always have a container in surface_modify_ds_location().
      wined3d: Surfaces always have a container in surface_invalidate_location().
      wined3d: Surfaces always have a container in ffp_blit_set().
      wined3d: Surfaces always have a container in arbfp_blit_set().
      wined3d: Get rid of the redundant texture_name and texture_name_srgb fields in struct wined3d_surface.
      wined3d: wined3d_texture_bind() should never fail.
      wined3d: Merge texture2d_bind() and texture3d_bind() into wined3d_texture_bind().
      wined3d: Return early in wined3d_texture_bind() if the GL texture already has a name.
      wined3d: Get rid of surface_bind().
      wined3d: Merge surface_bind_and_dirtify() and volume_bind_and_dirtify() into wined3d_texture_bind_and_dirtify().
      wined3d: Merge texture2d_unload() and texture3d_unload().
      wined3d: Reimplement wined3d_ftoa().
      wined3d: surface_load() should never fail.
      wined3d: Merge texture2d_preload() and texture3d_preload() into wined3d_texture_load().
      wined3d: Get rid of surface_internal_preload().
      wined3d: Get rid of the WINED3DSRGB enum.
      wined3d: Swap the container's texture name in flip_surface().

Huw D. M. Davies (7):
      user32: Add a GetKeyboardLayoutList driver entry.
      winemac: Implement GetKeyboardLayoutList.
      winemac: Update the layout list if the enabled input sources change.
      winemac: Update the thread's active_keyboard_layout on keyboard change.
      winemac: Retrieve the real keyboard layout where appropriate.
      winemac: Actually set the system's keyboard layout.
      riched20: Simplify the code by using an ME_Paragraph pointer.

Jacek Caban (21):
      mshtml: Added IHTMLBodyElement::scroll attribute implementation.
      widl: Include resource id in typelib path if not default.
      vbscript: Added parser support for arrays.
      vbscript: Store variables in declaration order.
      vbscript: Added bytecode support for arrays.
      vbscript: Added interp_dim implementation.
      vbscript: Added support for getting array elements.
      vbscript: Added support for setting array elements.
      vbscript: Added some array tests.
      mshtml: Added IHTMLSelectElement::multiple property implementation.
      winhttp: Moved netconn_query_data_available calls to query_data_available.
      urlmon: Fixed internet features tests on IE10.
      urlmon: Simplify get_feature_from_process.
      urlmon.idl: Added missing BINDSTATUS values.
      urlmon: Fixed protocol tests on IE10.
      urlmon: Fixed url tests on IE10.
      mshtml: Fixed activex tests on IE10.
      mshtml: Added IHTMLDocument3::getElementsByName implementation.
      msxml3: Return NULL instead of empty string in IXMLElement::get_tagName.
      msxml3: Compile tests with __WINESRC__ defined.
      urlmon: Fixed tests on IE10.

Ken Thomases (16):
      winemac: Allow ordering a window into Cocoa's window list even if it's positioned outside of the desktop.
      winemac: Avoid moving owned windows when programmatically moving the owner.
      winemac: Make macdrv_set_cocoa_window_frame() synchronous again.
      winemac: Defer attaching OpenGL context to a view which is zero-sized or outside its window's bounds.
      winemac: Take WS_EX_TOOLWINDOW into account when computing how much of a window is replaced by the Mac decorations.
      winemac: Add support for a "Decorated" registry setting to control whether windows get Mac-style decorations.
      winemac: Ignore Mac-originating pasteboard types which aren't mapped to standard clipboard formats.
      winemac: Add support for the CF_METAFILEPICT clipboard format.
      winemac: Add support for the CF_ENHMETAFILE clipboard format.
      winemac: Synthesize CF_ENHMETAFILE from CF_METAFILEPICT.
      winemac: Synthesize CF_METAFILEPICT from CF_ENHMETAFILE.
      winemac: Synthesize text clipboard formats in CF_TEXT, CF_OEMTEXT, CF_UNICODETEXT order.
      winemac: Add a function to find the "natural" clipboard format entry for a format ID.
      winemac: Cache the "natural" clipboard format entry associated with synthesized built-in entries at startup.
      winemac: Make macdrv_EnumClipboardFormats() always use macdrv_copy_pasteboard_formats().
      winemac: Put clipboard formats synthesized from other standard clipboard formats at the end of the list.

Marcus Meissner (1):
      quartz: Use FreeLibrary instead of CloseHandle (Coverity).

Michael Müller (2):
      quartz: Improve stubs for AMCertifiedOutputProtection.
      quartz: Partial implementation of VMR7MonitorConfig and VMR9MonitorConfig.

Nikolay Sivov (13):
      atl80/tests: Add SxS manifest to make it run on windows.
      ole32: Added activation context support for OleRegGetMiscStatus().
      oleaut32: Always set LIBFLAG_FHASDISKIMAGE when loading from file.
      include: Added IShellDispatch3,4,5 definitions.
      shell32: Update to IShellDispatch5.
      scrrun: Implement BuildPath method.
      msctf: COM interface cleanup.
      msctf: Pass QueryInterface arguments properly to main interface method.
      shell32: Cache typeinfo instances.
      msctf: Fix some interface casts left from cleanup.
      msctf: Remove some duplication.
      kernel32/tests: Some more tests for SearchPath().
      kernel32/tests: Test for LoadLibraryEx() with full path without extension.

Patrick Rudolph (1):
      ddraw: Fill dwNumFourCCCodes in ddraw7_GetCaps.

Piotr Caban (13):
      kernel32/tests: Fix IdnToNameprepUnicode tests.
      wininet/tests: Fix urlcache tests on IE10.
      qcap: Support compression filter in ICaptureGraphBuilder2::RenderStream.
      qcap: Don't ignore type and category parameters in ICaptureGraphBuilder2::FindPin.
      qcap: Warn if additional filters should be used in ICaptureGraphBuilder2::RenderStream.
      qcap: Add initial ICaptureGraphBuilder2::RenderStream tests.
      qcap: Add ICaptureGraphBuilder2::RenderStream test with intermediate filter.
      include: Add IConfigAviMux definition.
      include: Add IConfigInterleaving definition.
      include: Add IPersistMediaPropertyBag definition.
      qcap: Add AVI Mux filter stub.
      qcap: Add AVI Mux QueryInterface tests.
      qcap: Fix ICaptureGraphBuilder2::RenderStream test failures.

Qian Hong (4):
      server: Fixed winstation object leak in open_input_desktop.
      wscript: Get extension name by strrchrW instead of strchrW.
      urlmon: Accept uppercase extension name in AsyncInstallDistributionUnit.
      msi: Get extension name by strrchrW instead of strchrW.

Rico Schüller (6):
      d3dx9/tests: Fix variable names.
      d3d10/tests: Enable DepthEnable for reproducible results.
      d3d10: Fix a comment.
      d3d10/tests: Remove some device creation traces.
      d3d10/tests: Create a new device for each device test.
      shell32: Use lParam for BFFM_SETOKTEXT.

Sebastian Lackner (2):
      winex11: Implement additional XEMBED events.
      winex11: Send XEMBED_REQUEST_FOCUS request for embedded windows.

Stefan Dösinger (6):
      wined3d: Remove broken ddraw overlay support.
      wined3d: Remove partial surface update support.
      wined3d: Remove surface->dirtyRect.
      d3d9/tests: Add a test for AddDirtyRect.
      d3d8/tests: Add a test for AddDirtyRect.
      wined3d: Don't create a DIB section in gdi_surface_map.

Vincent Povirk (6):
      gdiplus: Allow excluding from infinite regions.
      explorer: Use StrRetToStrW to convert STRRET result.
      windowscodecs: Implement IPropertyBag2_Write_Proxy.
      windowscodecs: Use alpha options in CreateBitmapFromHBITMAP.
      gdiplus: Fix StringFormatFlagsLineLimit handling.
      mscoree: Fix runtime shutdown code.

Vitaly Lipatov (1):
      ipconfig: Distinguish between IPv4 and IPv6 addresses in normal mode.

Zhenbo Li (3):
      shell32/tests: Add tests for SHFileOperationA.
      shell32/tests: Add a missed init_shfo_tests() call.
      shell32/tests: Delete a nonexistent file in an existent dir or a nonexistent dir.

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