WINE 11.5 arrives with improved support for C++ and almost 200 total changes

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WINE 11.5

Continuing with the bi-weekly schedule, and this will continue until the end of the year, WineHQ launched WINE 11.5, version that succeeds the 11.4 from two weeks agoInitially, it's not a particularly exciting iteration, as it doesn't have any newsworthy features and there haven't been as many hundreds of changes as in the development of WINE 9 or 10, which saw close to or exceeding 600 changes every two weeks.

WINE 11.5 arrives with C++ support in the build system, bundled UCI libraries, support for sending Syscall users on Linux, and several VBScript compatibility fixes, along with the usual numerous bug fixes. In numbers, the following improvements have been made: 198 changes and corrected 22 bugs, those in the following list.

Bugs fixed in WINE 11.5

  • gedit preferences cannot be edited.
  • The USB connection is not recognized by Axon MultiClamp Commander 700B.
  • Evernote installation fails.
  • The PCG Tools application fails to install.
  • Multiple applications fail due to the direct use of the x86_64 SYSCALL instruction (Detroit: Become Human, Red Dead Redemption 2, Arknights: Endfield).
  • get_timezone_info performs a binary search incorrectly.
  • Reading an indexed bitmap incorrectly returns 32 bits instead of 8 bits.
  • vbscript: Colons on a new line after Then fail.
  • The typographical quotation marks in the code example confuse clang.
  • Stratego (1997) does not start with the error message "Unable to 'CreateScalableFontResource()".
  • Time-lapse export fails in Clip Studio Paint.
  • Sony Home Memories throws an unrecoverable error during installation.
  • Swift fails due to the unimplemented function ADVAPI32.dll.SaferiIsExecutableFileType.
  • The creation of MDI child windows does not respect the window attribute (not WS_MAXIMIZEBOX).
  • bcrypt: Implements RSA-OAEP padding defaults (fixes Wallpaper Engine mobile sync).
  • The file dialog fails in .NET applications such as UndertaleModTool.
  • VOCALOID6 fails to start due to unimplemented wminet_utils stubs.
  • jscript: GetScriptDispatch(«») returns E_INVALIDARG instead of the global dispatch.
  • The performance of time()/localtime() has worsened significantly.
  • CertCreateCertificateChainEngine fails with an invalid argument in rustls-platform-verifier.
  • Replacing bass.dll with samp.dll causes freezing/black screen in Wine, while samp.dll works correctly in Windows.
  • CEF fails to write while browsing The Verge (strange font file).

Now available

Wine 11.5 is now available for download from the button below. Its download page also contains information on how to install this and other versions on Linux operating systems, as well as others like macOS and even Android.

In two weeks, if the usual schedule holds and nothing suggests otherwise, WINE 11.6 will arrive, also with dozens of changes to prepare for WINE 12.0, which, based on past releases, will arrive in early 2027. This pace will continue until the end of the year, when the release frequency will increase to weekly Release Candidates, then stable (WINE 12), and then development of WINE 13.0 will begin.