Release of Wine 5.2

Took place experimental release of the open implementation of WinAPI — Wine 5.2. Since the release of version 5.1 22 bug reports were closed and 419 changes were made.

The most significant changes:

  • Compatibility with Windows character encoding mapping tables has been improved. Files with encodings from the Microsoft Open Specification set have been utilized. Encodings that are not present in Windows have been removed. The generation of NLS files for encoding tables has been implemented, and the ability to use external tables for Unix encodings has been added.
  • The ability to use the null screen driver as a regular graphics driver has been implemented.
  • Support for UTF-8 has been improved in the resource compiler wrc and the resource management utility wmc, and the ability to use external NLS files has been added.
  • Issues with using ucrtbase as the C runtime have been resolved.
  • Bug reports related to the operation of games and applications have been closed
    OllyDbg 2.x, Lotus Approach, PDF-XChange Viewer 2.5.213, Star Wars, SumatraPDF 3.1.2, PDF X-Change Viewer, Spintires: MudRunner, Lineage 2, The Sims 2, Armed Assault, Arturia MIDI Control Center, Verbum 8, SmartGuard 3.0, Affinity Photo, Cadence Allegro Professional 16.6.

Additionally, it can be noted publication the updates of the package by Valve Proton 5.0-2, based on the developments of the Wine project and aimed at enabling the launch of gaming applications created for Windows and available in the Steam catalog. The developments of the project is distributed under the BSD license. The new version fixes regressions introduced in the 5.0 branch that led to crashes during video and audio playback. Additionally, graphics issues in the game Subnautica and a crash on launching Planet Coaster have been resolved.

Source: opennet.ru

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