An experimental release of the open implementation of WinAPI - Wine 8.5. Since the release of version 8.4, 21 bug reports have been closed and 361 changes have been made.
The most important changes:
- Added support for customizing the dark WinRT theme.
- The vkd3d package with the Direct3D 12 implementation working through call translation to the Vulkan graphics API has been updated to version 1.7.
- Improved error reporting in the IDL compiler.
- WoW64, a layer for running 32-bit programs on 64-bit Windows, added support for the HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT registry key.
- Improved support for IME (Input Method Editors).
- Closed bug reports related to the operation of games: Deus Ex: invisible War 1.2, Fair Strike, Bible Black La Noche de Walpurgis, Sins of the Solar Empire Rebellion, Ultimate Race Pro.
- Closed bug reports related to applications: Notepad++ 7.6.3, VARA FM, Treecomp, LibreVR Revive, LDAP Explorer.
Additionally, we can mention the formation of the release of the Wine Staging 8.5 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 537 additional patches.
The new release of Wine Staging is synchronized with the Wine 8.5 codebase. Removed patchinstall.sh script, instead use staging/patchinstall.py to install patches. A patch with support for mapping control characters to dinput has been moved to the main Wine package. Added new patches to resolve issues with launching Diablo IV and installing battle.net updates. Updated patch to support mfplat-streaming.
Source: opennet.ru