The Wine deveplopment 1.7.7 has been released recently. The mainly changes are:
support for configuring remote shares using Samba’s NetAPI library multiple keyboard layouts support in the Mac driver improved embedding support through XEMBED support for arrays in VBScript As well as that, Wine 1.7.7 fixed 49 bugs:
Splinter Cell: CT crashes with an unahandled exception Blood 2 (v. 2.1): mouse input not working wine’s system tray should not wake the cpu when idle Tomb Raider underworld demo big troubles Word 2003/2007 Bold Face Type Bug mountmgr.sys: Wine does not recognise empty DVD-ROMs Touhou 9 – Phantasmagoria of Flower View, patching from 1.00 to 1.50a breaks the game Program error window for DVD Profiler (with no obvious error) Monster Jam: No textures PowerPoint 2007 never displays slides 2 or 3 in normal view when paging down Frontpage 2003 crashes when adding URL or exiting the program Mouse in Nostale not working Resident Evil 2: no sound and annoying dialog window toolbar buttons in .chm file viewer are not working BioEdit crashes with “setup_exception_record stack overflow” Every single line is underlined in Dreamweaver codeview Mirror does not render properly in Sims 3 sim customization scene UltraNitroRacers: Fails to launch with built-in quartz UltraNitroRacers: Graphics garbled Homefront (Steam) crashes at launch CivCity Rome 1.1: text and graphics missing Desert Gunner crashes in the main menu Tomb Raider Underworld crashes on startup IBExpert cease work from 1.3.25 cannot download watchtower library 2010 Alt-tabbing from windowed Kanon makes it think alt is held down Anno 1404 addon 2.1 update installer after clicking the next-button crashes vbscript doesn’t support arrays Windows Performance Toolkit “xperf.exe” tool for Windows on ARM (WoA) needs KERNEL32.dll.ResolveDelayLoadedAPI Caesar IV crashes at launch Installing Microsoft Fix it 50356 fails Physx 9.12.1031 : Installation fails in 64-bit WINEPREFIX Mafia 2 – Failed to create a vertex buffer object Locale settings broke shader program generator. Textures missing in Age of Empires II: Steam No line wrapping in Tweet Attacks Pro WinLaunch 0.4.6.1 (OSX Style free Launcher) needs IShellDispatch5 (.NET shell32 COM interop XP vs. Vista) Odorik.cz app – crash: Page fault on read access to 0x001809c8 Dungeons & Dragons Online (ddo) fails to open data files with 1.7.4+ Crash when copy by ctrl+c or in-app copy, cmd+c works fine (using MacDriver) on OS X Mavericks Internet Chess Club (ICC) Dasher 1.5.x fails to run due to unimplemented HTMLBodyElement_put_scroll stub Version 1.7.6 Compile Failure – Ubuntu 12.04 TERA Online patcher fails to start WinLaunch 0.4.6.1 (OSX Style free Launcher) needs windowscodecs.dll.IPropertyBag2_Write_Proxy GEOVIA Surpac 6.x (geology and mine planning software) needs scrrun IFileSystem3::BuildPath Chessmaster 10th Edition: title bar covers part of the player login window (Mac OS X only bug) Chessmaster 10th Edition: no graphics in the menu, you can’t run the game (Mac OS X only bug) Freespace becomes unresponsive and showing only black screen wininet: In Trackmania Nations Forever new online user registration fails The source is available now . DEBs will be available in Wine PPA soon, run commands below in terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) to add the PPA and install wine 1.7:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install wine1.7