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Wine 2.18 Released with Radial gradients in Direct2D

Wine running Windows apps on Linux

The Wine development 2.18 was released a day ago. Here’s how to install it in Ubuntu via its official repository. Wine 2.18 features radial gradients in Direct2D, asynchronous message support in WebServices, virtual memory write watches improvements, freeType 2.8.1 compatibility fixes, as well as a total of 22 bug-fixes. How to Install Wine 2.18 in Ubuntu: The official Wine repository ...

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Wine 2.17 Released with DirectWrite Improvements & Various Fixes

Wine running Windows apps on Linux

The latest Wine development has reached the 2.17 release with DirectWrite, virtual memory improvements and various bug-fixes. Wine 2.17 brings better support for grayscale mode in DirectWrite, per-application StartupWMClass in desktop files, virtual memory compatibility improvements, palette handling improvements in WindowsCodecs, reply messages improvements in WebServices, and a total of 20 bug fixes. How to Install Wine 2.17 in Ubuntu: ...

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Wine 2.16 Released with New Features and Various Fixes

Wine running Windows apps on Linux

The latest Wine development release, Wine 2.16, was released last night with some new features and various bug fixes. Wine 2.16 adds support for pasting metafiles in RichEdit, better support for grayscale PNG images, support for safety features in library loading, better handling of transforms in GdiPlus, rendering improvements in DirectWrite, and a total of 19 bug-fixes. How to Install ...

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Wine 2.15 Released with AES Encryption Support

Wine running Windows apps on Linux

The Wine development release has reached version 2.15 earlier today. Wine 2.15 added support for AES encryption, improved Bezier support in Direct2D, improved chunked transfer in WinInet, and fixed bugs for running Illustrator CS6, emClient, Bricscad, Joystick, Microsoft Outlook 2010, XM6 TypeG, Peavey Revalver IV, FUJITSU Software ATLAS,and Magic Online. How to Install Wine 2.15 in Ubuntu: The official Wine ...

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New Wine 2.14 Dev Released with Updated Mono Engine

Wine running Windows apps on Linux

The new Wine development release has reached the 2.14 release days ago with new features and a total of 18 bug-fixes. The official repository has made the binary packages for Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 17.04, and their derivatives. What’s New in Wine 2.14: Mono engine updated with some bug fixes. C++ calling convention workarounds in the IDL compiler. Z-order ...

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Wine 2.13 released, How to Install it in Ubuntu

Wine running Windows apps on Linux

The Wine development release has reached version 2.13 a few days ago with some new features, performance improvements and a total of 33 bug-fixes. What’s New in Wine 2.13: Unicode data updated to Unicode 10.0.0. Nicer looking default mouse cursors. Persistent connections support in WinHTTP. Message Framing protocol support in WebServices. Improved metafile support in GdiPlus. Debug registers support in ...

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Wine Dev 2.12 Released with Audio driver for Android

Wine running Windows apps on Linux

Wine, an open-source compatibility layer allows to run Windows applications on Unix-like systems, announced a new development release 2.12 yesterday. Wine 2.12 features: Audio driver for Android. Some performance improvements with async I/O. More RegEdit file parser improvements. Beginnings for MSI user interface support. And following bugs has been fixed in this release: Lost Horizon crash/page fault during Chapter 2 ...

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Wine 2.9 Released! How to Install it in Ubuntu

Wine running Windows apps on Linux

The Wine development 2.9 was released earlier today. It features Direct3D tesselation shaders support, WebServices Binary mode support. Wine 2.9 also features clipboard changes detected through Xfixes, user interface improvements in RegEdit, and a total of 38 bug-fixes. See the announcement for details. How to Install Wine 2.9 in Ubuntu: The official Wine repository has built the packages for Ubuntu ...

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