An experimental release of the open implementation of WinAPI - Wine 6.3 has taken place. Since the release of version 6.2, 24 bug reports have been closed and 456 changes have been made.
The most important changes:
- Improved debugger support in the system call interface.
- The WineGStreamer library has been converted to the PE executable file format.
- WinRT IDL (Interface Definition Language) support has been expanded in the WIDL (Wine Interface Definition Language) compiler.
- Added optional support for build IDs.
- Closed bug reports related to games and applications: Seagate Crystal Enterprise 8.0, iTunes 12.1.3.6, Achieve Planner 1.9.0, Monopoly Deluxe, Logos 4.x-9.x, Yet Another Process Monitor, Macromedia Director Player 4. x, WRC 4, Far Manager 3.0, Atomic Mail Sender 4.25, RSSeditor 0.9.54, High Impact eMail 5, Miranda, Notepad2,
At the same time, the release of the Wine Staging 6.3 project was formed, within which extended Wine builds are formed, including incomplete or risky patches that are not yet suitable for acceptance into the main Wine branch. Compared to Wine, Wine Staging provides 694 additional patches.
The new release is synchronized with the Wine 6.3 codebase. 14 patches have been transferred to the main Wine package, mainly related to WIDL support and ntdll enhancements. Added patches to support DiscordSetup.exe and use UAC (User Account Control) when running WhatsApp Desktop, Smartflix, Squirrel and OneDrive installers and applications with reduced privileges. Updated patches packager-DllMain, nvcuda-CUDA_Support, api-ms-win-Stub_DLLs, nvapi-Stub_DLL and ntdll-Junction_Points.
Additionally, we can mention the publication by Valve of VKD3D-Proton 2.2, a fork from the vkd3d codebase, created to improve Direct3D 12 support in the Proton game launcher. VKD3D-Proton supports Proton-specific changes, optimizations and enhancements to improve the quality of Windows games based on Direct3D 12, which are not yet accepted into the main part of vkd3d. The new version adds support for VRS (Variable Rate Shading) and started implementing support for DXR (DirectX Raytracing). Fixed issues with Cyberpunk 2077, Horizon Zero Dawn, Death Stranding, Polaris, DIRT 5.
Source: opennet.ru