Wine 5.6 and Wine Staging 5.6 Release

Took place experimental release of the open implementation of WinAPI - Wine 5.6. Since the release of the version 5.5 38 bug reports were closed and 458 changes were made.

The most important changes:

• Implemented new calls to the Media Foundation framework;
• Improved support for Active Directory, resolved issues with compiling wldap32 on systems without LDAP support installed;
• Continued conversion of modules to PE format;
• Improved support for using the gdb debugger in proxy mode;
• Closed bug reports related to the operation of games and applications:
  Passmark 7.0, AVG Free 8.x/9.x Antivirus Edition, MSYS2, Explorer++, Cossacks II, Keygener Assistant 2.x, Monogram GraphStudio v0.3.x, Star Wars KOTOR II: The Sith Lords, Evernote 5.5.x, Roblox Player, Roblox Studio, LEGO Lord of the Rings, ChurchBoard, Diablo 3, Dead Space, OB Accounting v18.5. 8.0.x, MySQL 0.3.x, Webex Meetings, Cairo Shell v2.x, Late Shift, Star Wars: The Old Republic, Panzer Corps XNUMX, Magic The Gathering Online, Warframe.

Simultaneously submitted project release Wine Staging 5.6, within which extended builds of Wine are formed, including patches that are not fully ready or risky, not yet suitable for acceptance into the main Wine branch. Compared to Wine, Wine Staging provides 853 additional patches. The new release is synchronized with the Wine 5.6 codebase.

2 patches related to support of the FileFsVolumeInformation class in ntdll and the use of _lopen instead of
OpenFile in winmm. Added 2 new patches with GetMouseMovePointsEx stub in user32 and LDR_IMAGE_IS_DLL caching in ntdll.

Updated ntdll-Syscall_Emulation patches,
xactengine-initial,
ntdll-Junction_Points,
ntdll-NtDevicePath,
user32-rawinput-nolegacy and
ntdll-RtlIpv4StringToAddress.

Source: opennet.ru