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Wine 1.8-rc4 Takes Care Of Another 26 Bugs

Written by Michael Larabel in WINE on 12 December 2015 at 11:55 AM EST. 5 Comments

The fourth weekly release candidate to Wine 1.8 is now available.

Being in a code freeze, this was just another week of bug fixing for Wine developers working to make Windows programs/games run better on Linux and other operating systems. Over the past week, a total of 26 known bugs were fixed.

More details on Wine 1.8-rc4 via WineHQ.org. Wine 1.8 should be officially released around the end of the year and brings a ton of stable features over Wine 1.6.

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