Wine 7.12 release and Wine staging 7.12

An experimental release of the open implementation of WinAPI - Wine 7.12. Since the release of version 7.11, 13 bug reports have been closed and 266 changes have been made.

The most important changes:

• For applications using Qt5, added support for themes.
• The vkd3d package with the Direct3D 12 implementation working through call translation to the Vulkan graphics API has been updated to version 1.4.
• Support for effects has been improved in the Direct2D API.
• Registry utilities now support QWORD (UINT64) values.
• Closed bug reports related to the operation of games: Star Citizen, Shogun Total War 2, Argentum 20 RPG.
• Closed error reports related to the operation of applications: MetaTrader4, Approach (Smart Suite), Wireshark.

Additionally, we can mention the formation of the release of the Wine Staging 7.12 project, within which extended builds of Wine 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 543 additional patches.

The new release is synchronized with the Wine 7.12 codebase. Of the changes, only the update of the “winepulse-PulseAudio_Support” patch is noted, which solves problems with the choice of sound devices when using the PulseAudio sound backend, adds support for GetPropValue, implements the mode of exclusive access to the sound device and passes the KEY_AudioEndpoint_PhysicalSpeakers property to the driver for PulseAudio.

Source: opennet.ru