The Wine development release 1.3.27 is now available

[solin]

Wine 1.3.27 Released

August 26, 2011

What's new in this release

- Support for multisampling in Direct3D.
- New version of the Gecko engine.
- Improvements to the network proxy handling.
- Better write support in MSXML.
- Side-by-side manifests for built-in libraries.
- Various bug fixes.

The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.

Bugs fixed in 1.3.27:

2841 Missing Minimize Button
5883 Printing does not work for ole visual basic 6
6278 PITy crashes on exit
6399 Crash with debugging tools of Gameboy Advance emulator "Visualboy Advance"
6687 Visual Basic crashes when running a program and pressing a button in it
8354 Mouse is constantly recentered is some games
8724 Total Annihilation: PCM mute/unmute/change in WineOSS
10245 Half-life 2 font issue with 0.9.48 (works 0.9.40)
10340 Pro evolution soccer 2008
12818 Age of Mythology GOLD crashes when exiting the game
12912 Torque Game Builder: Blanks the screen.
13070 Deus Ex 1.1 - Invisible War fails to launch new game
13085 TH06: No FPS limit in fullscreen mode
14377 Crusader Kings: Instant crash when using bride ledger (and some other ledgers)
14762 GeforceFX series: fullscreen PP effect issues / RECT texcoord fixup
17040 Portal crashes when facing towards the exit on the first level
18873 Civilization IV beyond the sword crashing at startup
20413 AtcWindows - sound broken
20758 Missing nul termination in string passed to callback of RtlQueryRegistryValues()?
21102 Hitman 2: Silent Assassin fails to draw intro cinematic
21492 Creating new/opening existing project fails in WinterMute Engine
21785 The Westerner: no background in menu + errors when loading
21805 The game "Which" has incorrect rendering with whitewashed visuals
21814 The game "Which" fails to load a d3dxof object file
21850 Sonic & Knuckles Collection's game window can't be decorated by window managers
22261 Love: "device already allocated" handling - requires patching winealsa.drv or using esound backend
22722 Wine running out of address space (MacOS)
23870 Text not displayed in King's Bounty: the Legend
23871 Stuttering animation in Devil May Cry 4
23952 Fullscreen DirectX applications with enabled DRI won't start
25047 NFS Porsche: Some car paints aren't rendered properly
25065 NFS Porsche: Video track isn't played in intro
25067 NFS Porsche: Background slides are flickering in main menu
26090 graphics output broken in commercial app "Stoe X-Area Recipe"
26796 Deadlock and crash in "gstdemux.c: GSTImpl.csFilter"
26890 winecfg fails to update configuration
27155 averasell crashes on load
27326 DiRT 3 game fails to launch (SecuROM 8.x and SecuROM Data File Activation 2.x/Product Activation)
27834 Photosynth installer crashes in msi
27903 IBExpert crashes on start after upgrading wine (IBExpert was Platinum before)
27920 ComboBoxEx doesn't process WM_ENABLE properly
27924 NVIDIA GeForce GTX560 Ti not being detected
27932 Starcraft II does not render correctly, eventually crashes
27950 fr08 graphical demo crashes on startup
27954 X-Lite 4 installer aborts after failing to start FontCache3
27955 Warspear Online sound stops after a while (Pulseaudio + patched alsa-plugins)
27962 regression stops Age of Wonders from working
27966 iexplore crash whenever click on any links
27984 Starcraft 2 Editor: Renaming an item in the trigger tree suggests it's displayed text and not the item name.
27988 ibexpert can't start since wine 1.3.25
27990 Freespace 2 launcher: buttons not drawn correctly
28003 The Elder Scrolls III Morrowind: object positions are changed
28006 RC Cars demo installer fails to start (installer complains about inadequate processor features)
28015 Rome Total War crashes at startup
28026 chromium crash if --no-sandbox hasn't set
28046 Process Explorer crashes
28069 Skype 5.5: Fails to launch after installation from msi with: Failed to get proc address for DnsFree (DNSAPI.dll)
28084 Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II segfaults when Display Hardware Acceleration is enabled
28088 Wine can play audio despite of disabled sound drivers
28105 NFS Porsche: Crash after changing graphics options
28137 Bloxx It crashes
28146 GODS:Lands of Infinity changes the gamma to an overly bright level
28180 Operation Flashpoint crashes with sound enabled

[LizardMan]

Thanks for the update solin A lot of bugs have been fixed!

[hellnoire]

Wonder how many new bugs got in trying to fix those ones. It's the bad thing about Wine... hit and miss with a lot of stuff. Great program... but if it hits compatibility with one thing of yours, it doesn't assure an update could keep it.