The experimental branch of the open implementation of WinAPI - Wine 6.21 has been released. Since the release of version 6.20, 26 bug reports have been closed and 415 changes have been made.
The most significant changes:
- WinSpool, GPhoto, and some other modules have been converted to the PE (Portable Executable) format.
- DbgHelp has improved support for inline functions.
- The implementation of the OLE DB provider MSDASQL has begun.
Bug reports related to the following games have been closed: Call of Duty: Black Ops II, Hitman: Sniper Challenge, Sniper Elite series, Resident Evil 0 HD Remaster, Homesick, Call of Juarez: Gunslinger, Riot Vanguard, Memento Mori, Rise of Legends, Resident Evil 4, Resident Evil 6, Internet Explorer 8, Skyrim SE, and games using the Unreal Engine 4.
- Bug reports related to the following applications have been closed: Aero Glass, Affinity Designer 1.x, Astrotoaster, Gaea-1.0.16.8020, easyHDR 3.13.0, SimIon, BlueSkyPlan, Home Designer Suite 21.3.1.1, and Samsung SDK 1.2.2 for Java ME.
Additionally, the formation of the Wine Staging 6.21 release can be noted, which includes extended Wine builds with not fully ready or risky patches that are not yet suitable for acceptance into the main Wine branch. Compared to Wine, Wine Staging provides 558 additional patches.
The new release has been synchronized with the Wine 6.21 codebase. Five patches related to the implementation of the DLL uiautomationcore, mouse movement handling in winex11.drv, addition of critsection.c to ntdll, and a test suite for ntdll have been integrated into the main Wine. Updated patches for user32-rawinput-mouse. A patch has been added that attaches the '.exe' string to the mask in case of an unsuccessful registry search.
Source: opennet.ru
