Wine 1.1.11 esce allo scoperto con nuove importanti correzioni.

Il team di wine non finisce più di stupire e con disarmante puntualità continua lo sviluppo del suo non emulatore di windows.

Esce oggi l’ultima versione ovvero la 1.1.11 che potete scaricare o aggiornare direttametne dai repo ufficiali, tra le altre cose si vocifera che verranno aggiunti direttamente nei repo di Ubuntu dalla prossima versione.

Questo il changelog ufficiale ripreso dal sito di wine…

The Wine development release 1.1.11 is now available.

What's new in this release (see below for details):
  - Numerous fixes for IE7 support.
  - Support for 64-bit cross-compile using Mingw64.
  - User interface support for crypto certificates.
  - Better support for MSI installation patches.
  - Various Direct3D optimizations.
  - Various bug fixes.

The source is available from the following locations:

  http://ibiblio.org/pub/linux/system/emulators/wine/wine-1.1.11.tar.bz2
  http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/wine/wine-1.1.11.tar.bz2

Binary packages for various distributions will be available from:

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

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

You can also get the current source directly from the git
repository. Check http://www.winehq.org/site/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 1.1.11:

    986  ODBC.dll unimplemented
   1973  Bug in StretchDIBits with biBitCount=32
   4293  text invisible in myODBC installer 2.5 -buggy refresh?
   5182  Wrong Time read into program
   5241  X BadAlloc failure (X_CreatePixmap) in StrePla.exe
   5463  ie6 installs now, but doesn't work...
   6126  SoulSeek crashes
   6139  Spanish Vocabulary Builder won't install => devision by zero
   6458  Wing Commander Prophecy: Objects are no longer rendered correctly
   6618  Warcraft III Crash on intro movie playback
   6921  C&C Tiberian Sun menu disappears after save
   7292  SystemDrive and a bunch other variables not set
   7543  Window position geometry not saved between app executions
   7795  Zoo Tycoon 2 D3D Device error
   8264  Streaming Media Player v5.0: "Unspecified error" when "Play from remote playlist..." is attempted
   9350  Cannot change country in iTunes 6.0 due to unimpletmented 'TrackPopupMenuEx' function
   9462  Mouse cursor appears only when clickling left mouse button (Star Wars: KOTOR)
   9500  StarCraft Battle.net-Hitting the Browse button hangs the game
   9528  Battlefield 2142 breaks on startup with ReportEventW errors
   9839  Game cannot connect using DirectPlay8.1
   ETC...
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Continuano immancabili gli aggiornamenti atti a portare miglioramenti nel codice e correzione di bugs di wine, l’ormai stranoto non emulatore di windows per linux.

Presa direttamente dal sito ufficiale ecco alcuni dei miglioramenti apportati:

- Support for virtual memory write watches.
- Workarounds for the WINAPI compiler bug on Mac OS.
- Several fixes for the 64-bit build.
- Some more GdiPlus functions.
- Various bug fixes.

709 riched32.dll needs to be improved a lot (was:Richedit does not handle input with PTE)

1114 Winrar2.90/3.00: Comboex doesn’t trigger a event when you mouse-click in some value of it

1700 Failed to detect Serial Port

1990 modifier keys not released when switching desktop

2872 Superpower2 fails to install

2934 Microsoft Masked Controls 6 Problem

3552 Unhandled dwRenderStateType playing DeusEx

3769 photodex plug in or self contained exe’s uses 100% CPU

4090 eMule Plus text entry behavior is broken. cursor is lost in some conditions.

4095 Warcraft III Polish installer crashes

4678 DirectX sound doesn’t work with OSS Sound driver

4752 wine client error:1e: write: Bad file descriptor

5462 Half-Life 2 runs in only part of screen instead of fullscreen (no window)

5786 Crash while using MSRDO in a Visual Basic 5 Application

5810 Squeak won’t start, complains “failed to create pipe”

5828 Command and Conquer Generals (Zero Hour) doesn’t change the mouse cursor from the default X mouse

6256 Ankh Demo crashes in DirectX mode

6314 Emperor.exe crashes when -c is not given in commandline options

6343 a-10 cuba fails to change resolution and to be topmost window

6393 Ocad crash report

6413 Floating point bug exposed in Director MX

6453 MPLAB 7.43 crashes at startup

6491 Chief Architech: resizing kde window creates several cloned wine buttons next to file in the bar

6557 Classic99 v3.7 starts runs extremely slowly

6587 Missing COM interface Release call in the IGraphBuilder implementation

6588 Strange return value of the GraphBuilder_Connect function

6693 wink 2.0 can’t capture

6760 warn:palette:GDISelectPalette invalid selected palette (nil)

6801 gpstrack help windows are empty

6807 Sunbird crashes on first run

6821 Graphical artifacts in HL2:EP1

6882 vb3 app hornresp won’t run, complains “Invalid property value” on startup.

6883 vb3 app hornresp crashes on startup

7113 Hitman Contracts hangs when using Direct3D mode

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Nel sito la lista dell’intero Bugs fixed:)

News veloce veloce:)

Wine ormai raggiunge la versione 1.1.7 che introduce nuove migliorie e correzioni di bug. Qui potete trovare la lista completa dei cambiamenti dalla precedente versione:)

BUON AGGIORNAMENTO

Ed eccoci ai miei nuovi test con wine…questa volta tocca a Pes 2009…poche parole, ecco il video.