Wine 1.3.29 Plays Better With VB Script, X Render

Written by Michael Larabel in WINE on 24 September 2011 at 04:50 AM EDT. Add A Comment
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It's time for another bi-weekly development release of Wine... This new release, Wine 1.3.29, has noteworthy changes when it comes to Visual Basic Script (VBScript) and X Render support.

The official 1.3.29 release announcement mentions the following prominent changes.

- Extensive support for VBScript.
- Various improvements to the calendar common control.
- A number of XRender fixes and optimizations.
- Several new functions in the MSVCP runtime.
- A number of audio fixes.
- DirectDraw cleanups.
- Various bug fixes.

The bug fixes and other work found in the Wine 1.3.29 development build can found at WineHQ.org.
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