As every two weeks, something that will change in a couple of months, when they start releasing Release Candidates, WineHQ delivered to us yesterday another development version of Wine Is Not an Emulator. This time they have given us WINE 9.19, a release where the numbers are still within the average, but on the downside. This may be because there are fewer bugs to fix, which would mean that the software is reaching maturity.
In total, there have been 264 changes, with a list of 11 bug fixes, also fewer than usual. As for highlights, WINE 9.19 includes updates to the character tables to Unicode 16.0.0, better window positioning in the Wayland driver, more support for network sessions in DirectPlay and support for plug&play device change notifications, plus the usual smattering of bug fixes.
Bugs fixed in WINE 9.19
- Songr 1 installation fails.
- Malus crashes on unimplemented function WS2_32.dll.WSCGetApplicationCategory.
- WordSmith 9.0 displays an error message on startup.
- Death to spies: black screen during video playback.
- Quicken WillMaker Plus 2007 requires unimplemented msvcp70.dll.?getline@std@@YAAAV?basicistream@DU?basic_istream@DU?basicistream@DU?
char_traits@D@std@@@1@AAV21@AAV?basicstring@DU?basic_string@DU?basicstring@DU?char_traits@D@std@@V?$allocator@D@2@@1@@Z
SET changes the error level in .bat files. - exit /B does not break the for loop.
- FL Studio – ALL RECENT VERSIONS – After Wine 9.17 I can't drag and drop audio files from the file manager to the application, and then the file manager crashes.
- cnc-ddraw The OpenGL renderer breaks again in 9.18.
- Wine 9.18 – Regression – FL Studio (and probably other applications) no longer export the correct file formats.
- Quicken WillMaker Plus 2007 requires unimplemented msvcp70.dll.??0?basicofstream@DU?basic_ofstream@DU?basicofstream@DU?char_traits@D@std@@@std@@QAE@PBDH@Z.
WINE 9.19, which has arrived two weeks after the previous version, ya it can be downloaded from the next button. In its download page There is also information on how to install this and other versions on Linux and other operating systems such as macOS and even Android.
If there are no changes to the usual programming, it is expected that WINE 9.20 will arrive within two weeks with hundreds of tweaks to continue preparing the 2024 stable version that will arrive in January or February.