An experimental release of an open implementation of WinAPI - Wine 8.4 - took place. Since the release of version 8.3, 51 bug reports have been closed and 344 changes have been made.
The most important changes:
- The core package includes initial support for using Wine in environments based on the Wayland protocol without the use of XWayland and X11 components. At the current stage, the driver winewayland.drv and unixlib components have been added, and files with Wayland protocol definitions have been prepared for processing by the assembly system. They plan to include changes to enable output in the Wayland environment in a future release.
Once the changes to the Wine mainstream are complete, users will be able to use a pure Wayland environment that supports running Windows applications without requiring the installation of X11-related packages, which allows for better performance and responsiveness of games by eliminating unnecessary layers.
- Improved support for IME (Input Method Editors).
- Fixed crashes when executing test functions test_enum_value(), test_wndproc(), test_WSARecv(), test_timer_queue(), test_query_kerndebug(), test_ToAscii(), test_blocking(), test_wait(), test_desktop_window(), test_create_device(), test_setvalue_on_wow64(), as well as when passing tests such as gdi32:font, imm32:imm32, advapi32:registry, shell32:shelllink, d3drm:d3drm, etc.
- Error reports related to the operation of the games are closed: Thief, Hard Truck 2: King of The Road, Amazon Games, Secondhand Lands, SPORE, Starcraft Remastered.
- Application bug reports closed: foobar2000 1.6, Motorola Ready For Assistant, ldp.exe.
Source: opennet.ru