Following its usual schedule, WineHQ He launched yesterday night WINE 11.7A new development version of the software for running Windows applications on other operating systems. Among other things, it's the foundation that enables the magic of Proton and the ability to play almost anything on Steam on Linux. This release arrived two weeks after the previous one. 11.6.
The list of key new features includes the beginning of the MSXML reimplementation without libxml2, VBScript compatibility fixes and optimizations, support for the sRGB filter in D3DX, and a 7.1 speaker configuration in DirectSound, along with the usual miscellaneous bug fixes. In numbers, 311 have been performed In total, 35 bugs were changed and corrected, as listed below.
Bugs fixed in WINE 11.7
- msxml4 emits too many xmlns attributes.
- Adding the bin.base64 attribute causes a duplicate datatype attribute.
- FTDI Vinculum II IDE V2.0.2-SP2 suffers an OLE error 80020006 and closes; native msxml3 is a workaround.
- ABBYY FineReader 12 Professional freezes in test mode.
- Compilation in Cygwin fails with undefined references to _alldiv, _allmul, _allrem, _aulldiv, _aullrem in dlls/ntdll.
- Windows 10 is used by default when creating a prefix.
- VBScript gets stuck in an infinite loop when UBound is used on Empty with On Error Resume Next.
- SimTower (setup.exe) cannot open the file "h:\wine64…".
- The experimental mode wow64 causes errors in some 3D graphics code.
- In VBScript, the boolean condition in an if statement should work without parentheses.
- VBScript has a problem with an extra End If.
- VBScript has problems with line continuation using underscores.
- VBScript fails when Const is used before its explicit declaration.
- VBScript generates an error when running scripts when Dictionary contains an array.
- VBScript produces a parsing error when accessing Dictionary Keys/Items.
- VBScript returns Empty when directly indexing the result of Split.
- Backgrounds and characters cannot be displayed in MapleStory World.
- VBScript fails when using Split with empty string in For Each.
- Kinco Dtools does not start due to unsupported encoding gb2312.
- Inserting XML fragments adds the fragment in place of its content.
- Interaction is not possible in the Falsus demo.
- VOCALOID6 6.11 crashes after using a VOCALOID:AI track.
- HID devices report incorrect DeviceType causing FILE_TYPE_DISK in GetFileType().
- Songbookpro crashes with RoFailFastWithErrorContext().
- IWICFormatConverter does not support BlackWhite as a destination format.
- Fade In Pro freezes after the home screen.
- Cabinet.dll lacks compression interfaces.
- The HTTP 200 response arrives with an empty body from the regression in Wine 11.5.
- Stratego (1997) displays a black screen on startup.
- Act of War: Direct Action freezes when loading the main menu.
- Case 64 is missing in key_asymmetric_verify.
- Kakaowork freezes on startup.
- VC_redist does not start due to a regression.
- SHCreateStreamOnFileW truncates 64-bit offsets to 32-bit in IStream::Seek, breaking files >4GB.
- Xara Designer Pro+ is crashing due to an unimplemented function in icuuc.dll.udata_setCommonData_70.
Now available
Wine 11.7 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 11.8 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.