An experimental release of the open implementation of WinAPI — Wine 7.8 has occurred. Since the release of version 7.8, 37 bug reports have been closed, and 470 changes have been made.
The most significant changes:
- The X11 and OSS (Open Sound System) drivers have been transitioned to using the PE (Portable Executable) file format instead of ELF.
- Sound drivers now support WoW64 (64-bit Windows-on-Windows), a layer for running 32-bit programs on 64-bit Windows.
- Number formatting has been implemented using a new locale database built on the Unicode CLDR (Unicode Common Locale Data Repository) repository.
- Bug reports related to the operation of games have been closed: Assassin’s Creed IV Black Flag, The Evil Within, Guilty Gear XX.
- Bug reports related to the operation of applications have been closed: Adobe Lightroom 2.3, Powershell Core 7, FreeHand 9, dnSpy, dotnet-sdk-5.0.100-win-x64, Metatogger 7.2, GuiPy.
Source: opennet.ru
