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The Wine development release 9.7 is now available.

What's new in this release:

• Build system support for ARM64X.
• Some restructuration of the Vulkan driver interface.
• WIDL improvements for ARM support as well as SLTG typelibs.
• Various bug fixes.

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Bugs fixed in 9.7 (total 18):

#37246 Old C&C titles freeze after the map is loaded.

#44699 Clang 6.0 fails to run under wine

#44812 Multiple applications need NtQueryInformationProcess 'ProcessQuotaLimits' class support (MSYS2, ProcessHacker 2.x)

#48080 Oregon Trail II will not start in 32-bit mode

#50111 osu! crashes since 20201110 version with wine-mono (needs native -> managed byref array marshalling)

#54759 Notepad++: slider of vertical scrollbar is too small for long files

#54901 Medieval II Total War some units partly invisible with d3dx9_30 as builtin

#55765 The 32-bit d2d1:d2d1 frequently crashes on the GitLab CI

#56133 explorer.exe: Font leak when painting

#56361 Geovision Parashara's Light (PL9.exe) still crashes in wine

#56369 Advanced IP Scanner crashes on unimplemented function netapi32.dll.NetRemoteTOD

#56442 Totem Arts Launcher.exe garbled text

#56491 Videos in BURIKO visual novel engine

#56493 PresentationFontCache.exe crashes during .Net 3.51 SP1 installation

#56536 UI: Applications using ModernWPF crash, Windows.Ui.ViewManagment.InputPane.TryShow not implemented

#56538 Mspaint from Windows XP needs imm32.CtfImmIsCiceroEnabled

#56551 HP System Diagnostics crashes when clicking the Devices tab

#56554 ON1 photo raw installs but wont run the application

``` The Wine development release 9.6 is now available. What's new in this release:

Support for advanced AVX features in register contexts. More Direct2D effects work. Support for RSA OAEP padding in BCrypt. Interpreted mode fixes in WIDL. Various bug fixes.

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Bugs fixed in 9.6 (total 18):

#20694 Mozart 10/11: Cannot save gif jpg or tiff, png + bmp are empty, emf only partial.

#26372 TI-83 Plus Flash Debugger buttons are not visible

#28170 "Text Service and Input Languages" needs unimplemented function USER32.dll.LoadKeyboardLayoutEx called

#41650 SolidWorks 2016 crashes on launch

#43052 ChessBase 14 - crashes right after start

#46030 Trackmania Unlimiter 1.3.x for TrackMania United Forever 2.11.26 crashes at account selection screen (heap manager differences, incorrect assumptions of mod on internal game engine data structures)

#47170 nProtect GameGuard Personal/Anti-Virus/Spyware 3.x/4.x kernel drivers crash due to 'winedevice' PE module having no export table

#49089 nProtect Anti-Virus/Spyware 4.0 'tkpl2k64.sys' crashes on unimplemented function 'fltmgr.sys.FltBuildDefaultSecurityDescriptor'

#50296 Multiple 32-bit applications fail due to incorrect handling of 'HKLM\Software\Classes' key in 64-bit WINEPREFIX (shared key under Windows 7+ WOW64)(Autocad 2005)

#53810 [Regression] Visual Novel Shin Koihime Eiyuutan crashes after opening movie plays

#54378 VrtuleTree calls unimplemented function ntoskrnl.exe.ExGetPreviousMode

#56188 d2d1:d2d1 frequently fails on the GitLab CI

#56376 Nerf Arena Blast Demo only displays a black screen

#56394 Final Fantasy XI Online: Mouse/pointer cursor activates at unintended times.

#56438 Multiple games have texture glitches (Iron Harvest, The Hong Kong Massacre)

#56469 configure incorrectly setting ac_cv_lib_soname_vulkan value on macOS

#56487 wshom tests timeout on Wine

#56503 CryptStringToBinary doesn't adds CR before pad bytes in some cases

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``` The Wine development release 9.4 is now available. What's new in this release:

Bundled vkd3d upgraded to version 1.11. Initial OpenGL support in the Wayland driver. Support for elevating process privileges. More HID pointer improvements. Various bug fixes.

The source is available at https://dl.winehq.org/wine/source/9.x/wine-9.4.tar.xz Binary packages for various distributions will be available from https://www.winehq.org/download You will find documentation on https://www.winehq.org/documentation Wine is available thanks to the work of many people. See the file AUTHORS for the complete list. ```

Bugs fixed in 9.4 (total 25):

#11629 Add optional start menu and taskbar to explorer

#24812 Explorer++ 1.2: right-click menu (in the main listview) degrades to nothing when opened multiple times

#34319 Total Commander 8.x: Context menu does not contain 'paste' entry

#34321 Total Commander 8.x: cut/copy/paste keyboard shortcuts don't work

#34322 Total Commander 8.x: 'cut' works like 'copy'

#44797 Visio 2003 does not read the complete list of fonts present in the system.

#46773 Skype 4 MSI installer fails to create trigger for task using Task Scheduler (unimplemented type 7, TASK_TRIGGER_REGISTRATION)

#48110 Multiple .NET 4.x applications need TaskService::ConnectedUser property (Toad for MySQL Freeware 7.x, Microsoft Toolkit from MS Office 2013)

#48344 Luminance HDR / qtpfsgui 2.6.0: Empty file select dialog

#49877 Minecraft Education Edition shows error during install: Fails to create scheduled task

#52213 Thread crashes when pthread_exit is called in a SIGQUIT handler

#55487 winpcap: pcap_dispatch doesn't capture anything with count argument -1

#55619 VOCALOID AI Shared Editor v.6.1.0 crashes with System.Management.ManagementObject object construction

#55724 mfmediaengine:mfmediaengine sometimes gets a threadpool assertion in Wine

#55821 Desktop Window Manager crashes when launching a WPF app

#56147 Real time Receiving data freezes for 1-5 seconds

#56271 Free Download Manager no longer works after it updated (stuck at 100% CPU, no visible window)

#56299 imm32.dll: CtfImmIsGuidMapEnable could not be located in the dynamic link library

#56334 Page fault when querying dinput8_a_EnumDevices

#56337 battle.net: tray icon is not displayed with wine-9.2

#56345 EA app installer has no text

#56357 Zero sized writes using WriteProcessMemory succeed on Windows, but fail on Wine.

#56360 FoxVox window is rendered as a blank surface instead of expected user interface

#56388 Regression: Fullscreen apps show on wrong monitor and don't respond to mouse events properly

#56401 Some ARM unwinding testcases broken by "ntdll: Use the correct structure for non-volatile registers"

``` The vkd3d team is proud to announce that release 1.11 of vkd3d, the Direct3D to Vulkan translation library, is now available.

This release contains improvements that are listed in the release notes below.

The main highlights are:

• Initial support for compiling legacy Direct3D bytecode to SPIR-V.
• Initial HLSL compiler support for compiling effect profiles.
• Miscellaneous bug fixes and performance improvements. ```

``` The Wine development release 9.3 is now available. What's new in this release:

Improvements to Internet Proxy support. New HID pointer device driver. Timezone database update. More exception fixes on ARM platforms. Various bug fixes.

The source is available at https://dl.winehq.org/wine/source/9.x/wine-9.3.tar.xz Binary packages for various distributions will be available from https://www.winehq.org/download You will find documentation on https://www.winehq.org/documentation Wine is available thanks to the work of many people. See the file AUTHORS for the complete list.

Bugs fixed in 9.3 (total 23):

#33050 FDM (Free Download Manager) crashes with page fault when any remote FTP directory opened

#46070 Basemark Web 3.0 Desktop Launcher crashes

#46263 Final Fantasy XI crashes after accepting EULA when using Ashita; World of Warships hangs at login screen

#46839 Happy Foto Designer Font not found "Fehler (Code 1) [Font is not supported: Roboto]"

#50643 IK Product Manager: Unable to download plugins

#51458 Western Digital SSD Dashboard displays black screen

#51599 cmd.exe incorrectly parses an all-whitespace line followed by a closing parenthesis

#51813 python fatal error redirecting stdout to file

#52064 Solidworks 2008 crashes on startup

#52642 Virtual Life 2 freezes

#54794 Autodesk Fusion360: New SSO login will not open web browser

#55282 Flutter SDK can't find "aapt" program (where.exe is a stub)

#55584 Possibly incorrect handling of end_c in ARM64 process_unwind_codes

#55630 DPI_AWARENESS_CONTEXT_PER_MONITOR_AWARE_V2 is not handled in GetAwarenessFromDpiAwarenessContext

#55810 Finding Nemo (Steam): window borders gone missing (virtual desktop)

#55897 cpython 3.12.0 crashes due to unimplemented CopyFile2

#56065 Missing GetAnycastIpAddressTable() implementation

#56139 scrrun: Dictionary does not allow storing at key Undefined

#56222 Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 (steam) needs unimplemented function GDI32.dll.D3DKMTEnumAdapters2

#56244 SplashTop RMM client for Atera crashes on unimplemented function shcore.dll.RegisterScaleChangeNotifications

#56273 [Sway] winewayland.drv: cursor does not work in Dead Island 2

#56328 LMMS 1.2.2 SF2 soundfonts no longer work in Wine 9.1

#56343 Multiple applications fail to start after de492f9a ```

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