Wine 1.0 RC3 Was Released

A few days after RC2 was released, today Wine release another update, Wine 1.0 RC3. Wine is an open source implementation of the Windows API on top of X, OpenGL, and Unix. Wine enables you to run Windows applications on Linux platform.

Wine 1.0 RC3 is a bug-fixed release, there's nothing new in the release because Wine is currently in code freeze.

Buge Fixed in Wine 1.0 RC3

• Wine loses its X-Window when switching to another virt. desktop in Fvwm
• advapi32: Fulltilt Poker hangs (GetCurrentHwProfileA is a stub)
• Adobe Dreamweaver MX 2004 installs well but does not run.
• riched20:Live Person crashes
• wine_dbg_vprintf: debugstr buffer overflow (contents: 'err:msvcrt:demangle_datatype Unknown type ')
• supertux 0.3 freezes (dsound bug)
• C&C 3 setup displays empty window
• S.t.a.l.k.e.r. - some objects appear over-bright or too dark
• Dreamfall: speech gets skipped in dialogues
• Acomba: Freezes after closing an unsaved invoice
• unimplemented function ntoskrnl.exe.memset
• Textures on vehicles are too dark in GTA Vice City!
• Cyrillic glyphs are missing in built-in Tahoma Bold
• fixme:winsock:WSASocketW Unsupported socket family -1!
• ABBYY FineReader 7.0 Professional Edition crashes at start
• All applications over VNC: Applications freeze for any letters input
• DestroyContext in dlls/wined3d/device.c causes regression in Everquest2
• Audiosurf: Questviewer.exe crashes with page fault.
• Arindal.exe Text-Windows not displayed correctly
• OpenGL regression in Hitman 2 and Hitman 3
• SupCom Addon: No units visible
• Sacrifice game crashes in full screen mode
• Warcraft III 1.21b - Crashes with Fatal Error on Switch Desktop
• Favourites menu doesn't work as expected
• WinterMute Engine drawing window bug
• dzh2 crashes on startup
• Guitar Pro 5 Crashes (maybe audio problem)
• Jedi Academy: launcher freezes when button clicked
• Return to Mysterious Island crashes
• Winedbg doesn't handle longlong's well
• Adobe Acrobat Pro 8 / Acrobat Reader 8 -- install fails
• Guild wars not start
• fcc hangs , unless using native dbghelp
• Hang on first keypress
• Sytray icon totally transparent
• SQLyog community edition : Cannot connect to a remote DB through gSTM tunnel

You can download Wine 1.0 RC3 from http://ibiblio.org/pub/linux/system/emulators/wine/wine-1.0-rc3.tar.bz2

Wine 1.0 RC Useful Resources

• Download Wine Binary Package
• Wine Documentation
• CVS Repositories