Experimental Release of Wine 8.18 Introduces Significant Changes
The experimental release of the open implementation Winapi – Wine 8.18 recently took place. Since the launch of version 8.17, the Wine team has closed a total of 44 errors and made 260 changes to improve the software.
Key Updates and Enhancements
- The WineWayland.drv driver now supports the development of windows controls, allowing the use of Wine in Wayland-based environments without relying on XWayland and X11 components.
- The library Fluidsynth has been added for API Directmusic usage.
- Additional effects support has been implemented for Direct3D 10.
The latest release also addresses several issues reported by users. The following applications had error reports closed:
- Motorola Ready for Assistant
- Vitis 2020.1
- Finale 27
- WordPad
- Microsoft Paint
Furthermore, the update resolved errors related to various games, including:
- Patrician 4
- Unreal Tournament 2004
- Battle Bugs
- Shadow of Memories
- Inner Chains
- Feeding Frenzy 2
- Sniper Elite 5
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