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
