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931 WINE open-source and Linux related news articles on Phoronix since 2006.

The Wine 1.4 Release Criteria

Last week Wine 1.3.31 was released. If you have been wondering when the next stable release, Wine 1.4, will arrive now that many development releases have occurred in the 1.3 series and it's been more than a year since the last major release (Wine 1.2), here's some information.

26 October 2011 - Wine 1.4 - 3 Comments
The Wine Project Was Compromised

Jeremy White of CodeWeavers has announced that the WineHQ database system, used by Wine for its BugZilla and for its application rating system, was compromised by hacker(s).

11 October 2011 - WineHQ - 34 Comments
Wine 1.3.30 Has New DirectSound & More

New Wine development releases normally come every other Friday, but last week there wasn't any Wine 1.3.30 release. Fear not, however, as the Wine developers have went forward with the Wine 1.3.30 release this Monday. Wine 1.3.30 does offer up a few interesting features.

10 October 2011 - New Release - 8 Comments
Wine 1.3.28: Fun With DirectDraw/OpenGL, VBScript

Wine 1.3.27 brought Direct3D multi-sampling support and other features just two weeks ago, but it's been replaced today by Wine 1.3.28. There's some exciting changes in this release too with DirectDraw now defaulting to the OpenGL renderer, an initial version of the VBScript parser, and other changes.

9 September 2011 - New Release - 20 Comments
Wine 1.3.27 Brings Direct3D Multi-Sampling

It's been three weeks since the last Wine development release (Wine 1.3.26), compared to the usual two weeks between issuing new snapshots, but Wine 1.3.27 has arrived this Friday afternoon.

26 August 2011 - New Features - Add A Comment
Wine 1.3.25 Presents Rewritten Audio Support

While released on an unfortunate day, Wine 1.3.25 has made it out into the world per the usual bi-weekly development cycle. Prominently featured in Wine 1.3.25 is rewritten audio support based upon the Windows 7 architecture.

22 July 2011 - New Release - 15 Comments
Wine 1.3.24 Continues Direct3D 9.0 Implementation

Two weeks ago marked the release of Wine 1.3.23, which implemented more Direct3D 9.0 functionality, but for many users -- as pointed out in the forums -- it regressed a great deal. A lot of Windows games were now crashing and other Direct3D-related issues emerged with the newly-implemented functions. Wine 1.3.24 has now been released and it continues work on the Direct3D 9.0 support.

8 July 2011 - And More - 5 Comments
Wine 1.3.22 Brings Various Changes

A new development release of Wine is available this weekend for those wishing to take their eyes off the Dirndl project that looks like it may be delayed until next week Monday or Tuesday (but there's a special article planned for Saturday).

10 June 2011 - Nothing Too Spectacular - 8 Comments
Wine 1.3.21 Does MSI Rollbacks, Fixes X Input 2

If you are part of the large US population that has an extended weekend due to Memorial Day, perhaps you may want to give the latest release of Wine a whirl this weekend while enjoying some wine (or beer). The new Wine 1.3.21 release isn't the most exciting development build, but there are some new items worth pointing out.

27 May 2011 - Memorial Release - 6 Comments
Wine 1.3.19 Improves Direct3D 9 Support

It's time for another bi-weekly Wine development snapshot. This release though is somewhat more interesting than some of the other mundane snapshots in the past in that it improves the D3DX9 support, has a new sound driver architecture, etc.

30 April 2011 - Yeah - 25 Comments
Wine 1.3.18 Adds Support For XI2 Raw Mouse Events

Following last week's release of the stable Wine 1.2.3, it's now time for a new development snapshot of Wine 1.3. The Wine 1.3.18 is a particularly interesting release since it finally takes advantage of raw mouse events with X Input 2.

15 April 2011 - X Input 2 Fun - 7 Comments
A New Stable Release Of Wine: 1.2.3

While exciting work continues going into the Wine 1.3 development branch, for those reliant upon running their Windows programs under Linux in a more well-tested configuration, a new Wine 1.2 stable point release has arrived. Wine 1.2.3 is this new version.

8 April 2011 - Wine 1.2.3 - 2 Comments
Wine 1.3.17 Does Vista File Dialogs

Two weeks have passed since the Wine 1.3.16 development release that integrated the Firefox 4.0 engine so now it's time for another development snapshot. This new update, Wine 1.3.17, isn't particularly exciting but there are a few items to note.

1 April 2011 - Plus Other Changes - 4 Comments
Half-Life 2 On The Phoronix Test Suite

As some may have heard, via Twitter or in other communications, with Phoronix Test Suite 3.2-Grimstad we'll be ramping up several key areas of our open-source benchmarking software and with our collaborative testing platform, OpenBenchmarking.org, and our continuous integration system, Phoromatic. From this already, Half-Life 2 and 3DMark are running by the Phoronix Test Suite.

27 March 2011 - Helping Out Wine - 18 Comments
Wine 1.3.13 Improves The Clipboard

While CodeWeavers recently released CrossOver Impersonator, a.k.a. CrossOver Games 10.0 and CrossOver Office 10.0, for those looking towards a polished product to run their Windows applications under Linux and Mac OS X, the Wine developers are out with a new bi-weekly development snapshot for those looking to the bleeding-edge of the Wine development.

4 February 2011 - New Development Release - Add A Comment
CodeWeavers Introduces CrossOver Impersonator

The Minnesota developers at CodeWeavers have made the surprise release this morning of CrossOver Impersonator and CrossOver Games Impersonator. The "Impersonator" is their name for the version 10.0 family of CodeWeavers products since they feel that this Wine-based software does a very nice job impersonating Microsoft Windows under Linux and Mac OS X operating systems.

27 January 2011 - CrossOver 10.0 - 3 Comments
Wine 1.3.12 Brings Initial DOSBox Integration

Wine 1.3.11 wasn't too interesting as the inaugural Wine development release of 2011, but Wine 1.3.12 has been released today and it carries a bit more weight, such as an initial stab at integrating DOSBox.

21 January 2011 - Plus Other Work - 21 Comments
GameTree Linux Is Trying To Be Its Own Steam-Like Platform

This morning we reported on the soft announcement that TransGaming would be replacing Cedega with something known as GameTree Linux. Not much information was available at the time, just that it was built upon Cedega technology, would replace the subscription-based Cedega Gaming Service, and would be distributed as a free program. Now though a few more details have come to light.

8 January 2011 - Massive Fail - 72 Comments
Wine 1.3.11 Comes About As GameTree Linux Is Introduced

While unrelated to one another, the Wine development community has released their newest development build (Wine v1.3.11) following TransGaming's announcement earlier this morning of GameTree Linux replacing Cedega for running Windows games under Linux.

7 January 2011 - New Development - 2 Comments
Cedega To Be Replaced By GameTree Linux Software

Here's something interesting, but all of the details are not yet known at this time as the official announcement doesn't seem to have been issued yet. TransGaming, the company behind the Cedega software for running Windows games on Linux, is going to be replacing the Cedega Gaming Service with something now called GameTree Linux.

7 January 2011 - Huh? - 20 Comments
A Christmas Eve Wine Release (v1.3.10)

There's the release of Wine 1.3.10 on this Christmas Eve for those with extra time to test the newest Wine over the holidays. Wine 1.3.10 has a number of changes worth checking out.

24 December 2010 - Wine For The Holidays - 13 Comments
Wine 1.3.9 Brings An OpenCL 1.0 Library Wrapper

Wine 1.2.2 was released last week as the second point release in the Wine 1.2 stable series, but this week the Wine developers are back to working on Wine 1.4 in the Wine 1.3 development series. Wine 1.3.9 was just-issued and it's back to bringing some more interesting changes to this free software project, including in-browser ActiveX support and an OpenCL 1.0 library wrapper.

10 December 2010 - Drinking Some Wine - 9 Comments
Wine 1.2.2 Brings Animated Cursors, Bug Fixes

While development in the Wine 1.3 unstable series is going along nicely for the eventual stable release of Wine 1.4, the Wine developers today have announced the stable 1.2.2 update for existing Wine 1.2 users. Wine 1.2.0 was released this past July and then just in October there was Wine 1.2.1 to bring a bunch of bug-fixes. Now just in time for the holidays, there is Wine 1.2.2 to improve the Window application/gaming experience on Linux and other non-Microsoft operating systems.

3 December 2010 - New Stable Release - Add A Comment
Wine 1.3.8 Brings Various Changes

There's a new Wine development release arriving on this "Black Friday", but this version doesn't bring any early Christmas presents like Wayland support, DirectX 11.0 capabilities, or usage of the Direct3D 10/11 Gallium3D state tracker. It does though bring a few minor changes.

26 November 2010 - Nothing Too Great - 10 Comments
Wine 1.3.7 Has Improved System Tray Support

There's a new Wine development release out this Friday afternoon that incorporates a few new features that have been brewing within the development community over the past two weeks. This release is Wine 1.3.7.

12 November 2010 - New Work - 5 Comments
Wine 1.3.6 Supports GStreamer Filters, Etc

Wine 1.3.5 came two weeks ago with better Shader Model 4.0 support for Windows applications/games and the ability to use the CUPS print server directly, among other features, while today Wine 1.3.6 has been released with support for more features.

29 October 2010 - New Wine Features - 3 Comments
CodeWeavers Releases CrossOver 9.2

CrossOver 9.1 was released in July based off the Wine 1.2 code-base, but this week CrossOver 9.2 is now available with more enhancements. CrossOver 9.2 was actually released two days ago, but CodeWeavers' RSS feed and/or Mozilla Thunderbird was acting up so we didn't receive notice until this afternoon.

21 October 2010 - CrossOver Games 9.2 - Add A Comment
Wine 1.3.5 Betters Its Shader Model 4 Support

Wine 1.2.1 arrived last week as a bug-fix release for Wine 1.2 that was introduced back in July, but for those living with the bi-weekly development snapshots to leverage new features already in Wine 1.3 like ARM support for winelib, Wine 1.3.5 is out with more feature activity.

15 October 2010 - And Printing, Cursors - 7 Comments
Wine 1.2.1 Brings A Bunch Of Fixes

While a lot of new code has already been introduced into the Wine 1.3 development series such as for improved 64-bit MSI support and ARM support for the Wine library, for those living with the Wine 1.2 stable series there is the first bug-fix release.

8 October 2010 - New Stable Release - Add A Comment
Wine Devs Have Mixed Feelings Over Direct3D In Gallium3D

Two days ago we reported on Direct3D being natively implemented in Gallium3D that now allows Direct3D (the 3D portion of the DirectX API) to work on Linux via this advanced graphics driver architecture and unlike Wine's implementation it does not simply translate the calls to OpenGL. This has generated much interest among developers and end-users with there being more than 200 comments in our forums and plenty of discussion elsewhere too. However, some Wine developers seem to be in objection to this work.

23 September 2010 - Hmmm - 159 Comments
Wine 1.3.3 Brings Various New Features

While new Wine development snapshots are generally released on a bi-weekly basis with the release almost always taking place on a Friday, the Wine 1.3.3 release came out today on a Saturday. The Wine 1.3.3 release has a variety of fixes and other improvements.

18 September 2010 - New Release - 9 Comments
Wine 1.3.2 Updates Gecko, Other Changes

Two weeks have passed since Wine 1.3.1 was released, so Wine 1.3.2 has been pushed out this Friday afternoon. Though there isn't too much to get excited about in the Wine 1.3.2 release with there only being a few noteworthy changes.

3 September 2010 - New Development Milestone - 35 Comments
Wine 1.3.1 Brings Small Improvements

Following Wine's monumental 1.2 release last month that carried more than 23,000+ changes, the second bi-weekly development snapshot of Wine 1.3 is now available.

20 August 2010 - New Wine Release - 12 Comments
Wine 1.3.0 Begins A New Development Cycle

It was just two weeks ago that Wine 1.2.0 was released as the second major stable release of Wine in the nearly two decades that this free software project has been around, but the developers are now out today with their first development release of Wine 1.3. The Wine 1.3.0 release already pulls in a great deal of new code.

30 July 2010 - Wine 1.3.0 Released - Add A Comment

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