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