The release of Wine Launcher 1.4.55 is available, developing a sandbox environment for running Windows games. Key features include: isolation from the system, a separate Wine and Prefix for each game, compression into SquashFS images to save space, a modern launcher style, automatic saving of changes in the Prefix directory, and generation of patches from this. The project's code is distributed under the GPLv3 license.
Significant changes compared to the previous release:
- Fixed version detection of glibc for older versions of wine (3.20 and below).
- An option to delete associated files has been implemented in the configuration file deletion popup.
- Support for MS-DOS applications has been added.
- Russian localization has been added to dosbox (enabled if RU is selected in Wine Launcher).
- Fixed the problem with loading from the Proton GE repository.
- An optional setting to hide the Wine Launcher window when creating a shortcut has been added.
- Silent mode has been fixed.
- Fixed incorrect argument substitution when generating shortcuts.
- After the initial setup, the start file is now automatically moved to the .\/bin directory.
- Filtering by platform has been added to the 'My Patches' section.
- MangoHud has been updated to 0.6.3.
- VkBasalt has been updated to 0.3.2.4.
- Fixed a regression that prevented enabling VkBasalt.
Source: opennet.ru
