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posted by martyb on Monday April 02 2018, @10:35AM   Printer-friendly
from the making-apps-more-compatible dept.

WINE (Wine Is Not an Emulator) is a compatibility layer that allows some application programs written for Microsoft Windows to run under other operating systems.

Phoronix reports

Following [the March 30] debut of Wine 3.5, a new Wine-Staging release is now available that continues to carry close to one thousand patches on top of the upstream Wine code.

Wine-Staging 3.5 was able to drop some of the patches now that the BCrypt patches have been upstreamed, but they still are dealing with around 950 experimental/testing patches for code not yet in Wine trunk.

There are new patches to Wine-Staging 3.5 to support Implicit MTA, stubbing out some more functions that are needed for the BattlEye game anti-cheat software, adding in a function needed to make Rise of the Tomb Raider happy, fixed 1D texture support, and other fixes and code additions.

Wine-Staging 3.5 binaries for popular Linux distributions are available here.

Phoronix earlier noted

Wine 3.5 continues the recent theme of enabling Vulkan support. Wine 3.5 most notably on this front introduces their new basic Vulkan loader. This means Wine users no longer need to manually install the LunarG SDK for Windows in order to have Vulkan support but rather this custom-developed loader library is shipped by default. This implementation though doesn't support multiple drivers and notably doesn't include support for Vulkan layers, so those needing such features will still want to manually install LunarG's SDK.

The Vulkan library in its current form paired with the recent of Wine's ongoing Vulkan support is good enough for handling Wolfenstein, Doom, and the various Windows VK demos, etc.

Wine 3.5 also includes support for RSA and ECDSA crypto keys, improves its manifest file parser, and supports the Places toolbar within file dialogs.

In its announcement, WINE Headquarters has a list of fixes.

Bugs fixed in 3.5 (total 58)

Some keywords: Empire Earth; Age of Mythology; Mega Man Unlimited; Need for Speed; Rush for Berlin Gold; Battlefield 3 (Origin); Galactic Civilizations III; Starcraft 2; Doom (2016); Grand Theft Auto V; Titanfall2; Wolfenstein 2: The new Colossus; The Witcher 3; Divinity: Original Sin 2.
The list also includes some productivity apps.

See anything in their list that makes you say "That's worth a try"?


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  • (Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 02 2018, @11:08AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 02 2018, @11:08AM (#661395)

    https://wine-staging.com [wine-staging.com]

    Wine Staging is the testing area of winehq.org. It contains bug fixes and features, which have not been integrated into the development branch yet. The idea of Wine Staging is to provide experimental features faster to end users and to give developers the possibility to discuss and improve their patches before they are integrated into the main branch.

    Wine Staging is maintained as a set of patches which has to be applied on top of the corresponding Wine development version. Package maintainers can decide if they want to include our full patchset, or only want to cherry-pick patches for specific bugs. Our current version includes fixes for about 450 bugs and over 1000 patches total, and new patches are added frequently.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 02 2018, @04:47PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 02 2018, @04:47PM (#661571)

    Back in the day, Linux kernels were such that you could tell something from the number assigned to it: [google.com]
    Even numbers such as 2.4 or 2.6 were stable versions and odd numbers such as 2.3 or 2.5 were development versions.
    Wine-Staging is kinda like that.

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