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Third release candidate of Wine version 1.8 is out

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Wine development team released today the third release candidate of upcoming stable version 1.8
Because at the moment Wine source code is in feature freeze, no new capabilities were added this time. Only 40 bugfixes were introduced.

To learn more about this release pleas visit this announcement.

The source code for this release is available here:
http://dl.winehq.org/wine/source/1.8/wine-1.8-rc3.tar.bz2
http://mirrors.ibiblio.org/wine/source/1.8/wine-1.8-rc3.tar.bz2

To get the most recent changes, a git repository is a good starting point.

Binary packages should be available for a download as soon as the build process is finished.

Check out Page 2 for the list of fixed bugs and if you can please support Software Freedom Conservancy 2015 Fundraiser Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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Keizgon Dec 4, 2015
Ubuntu 15.10 has yet to receive any working beta branch version for WINE, despite it being out for a couple months. Hopefully this can be remedied soon. I may not use it very much these days, but it's nice to test with it and have the option.
Liam Dawe Dec 4, 2015
Ubuntu 15.10 has yet to receive any working beta branch version for WINE, despite it being out for a couple months. Hopefully this can be remedied soon. I may not use it very much these days, but it's nice to test with it and have the option.

I've emailed the PPA admins to see why it's so out of date.
mrdeathjr Dec 4, 2015
In this wine version appears correct screen down border render in red faction guerilla

Before

View video on youtube.com

Now

View video on youtube.com

^_^


Last edited by mrdeathjr on 4 December 2015 at 7:27 pm UTC
mrdeathjr Dec 4, 2015
Ubuntu 15.10 has yet to receive any working beta branch version for WINE, despite it being out for a couple months. Hopefully this can be remedied soon. I may not use it very much these days, but it's nice to test with it and have the option.

Maybe can try ricotz ppa, this ppa stay more frequently updated than official ppa

https://launchpad.net/~ricotz/+archive/ubuntu/unstable

Some 1 hour have wine 1.8rc3 ready for ubuntu 12.04, 14.04, 15.04, 15.10 and 16.04

Also can try this ppa too

https://launchpad.net/~wine/+archive/ubuntu/wine-builds

Them have wine 1.8rc3 for ubuntu 14.04, 15.04, 15.10 and 16.04

^_^


Last edited by mrdeathjr on 4 December 2015 at 7:37 pm UTC
Keizgon Dec 4, 2015
I've emailed the PPA admins to see why it's so out of date.

Thanks.

Maybe can try ricotz ppa, this ppa stay more frequently updated than official ppa

https://launchpad.net/~ricotz/+archive/ubuntu/unstable

Some 1 hour have wine 1.8rc3 ready for ubuntu 12.04, 14.04, 15.04, 15.10 and 16.04

Also can try this ppa too

https://launchpad.net/~wine/+archive/ubuntu/wine-builds

Them have wine 1.8rc3 for ubuntu 14.04, 15.04, 15.10 and 16.04

Thanks, I'll check these out when I get the time. Hard to find a reliable PPA, which is why I tend to stick with the launchpad / official one.
sr_ls_boy Dec 5, 2015
I was unable to find a ppa providing wine newer than 1.7.44, in Ubuntu. That's
too old for my tastes. I'm right now working on compiling wine myself.
This third release candidate still doesn't fixed bug #39403. That would fix the
built in browser in steam. Staging has provided a patch but still has yet to be
merged.
tuubi Dec 5, 2015
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What's wrong with this one? It has "official wine builds" of 1.8 rc3 for all Ubuntu releases starting with Trusty and even one for 12.04 (Precise). I rarely use wine for anything but these packages seem to install and work just fine, at least on Mint 17.
legluondunet Dec 5, 2015
The best way for me to manage Wine versions and my Windows games/apps on Linux is PlayOnLinux.
Each new version of Wine is available on less that 48h and you could associate a different Wine version for each app.


Last edited by legluondunet on 5 December 2015 at 12:22 pm UTC
sobkas Dec 5, 2015
Debian have:
1.8~rc2-1 501
501 ftp://ftp.pl.debian.org/debian unstable/main i386 Packages
So ppa should be able to just grab the code and compile it for Ubuntu
sr_ls_boy Dec 5, 2015
Thanks to those pointing out the ~/...wine-builds ppa. The staging package was
compiled by Lackner. He wrote the patch for the steam browser. Good deal.
Liam Dawe Dec 6, 2015
What's wrong with this one? It has "official wine builds" of 1.8 rc3 for all Ubuntu releases starting with Trusty and even one for 12.04 (Precise). I rarely use wine for anything but these packages seem to install and work just fine, at least on Mint 17.

Is that actually the official one? If so, they should really update their site.
mrdeathjr Dec 7, 2015
FarCry 3 needs new step to run in recent wine version (maybe can relation with DX10 and upper changes)

View video on youtube.com

Before only needs limit pixel shader and vertex shader to 3 but now is needed put this libraries in winecfg as disabled : d3d10, d3d10core and d3d11 (is possible affect farcry 3 blood dragon too)

And minimum fps up around 5 to 10fps depending scene without forget sound improves (pulse audio support)

^_^


Last edited by mrdeathjr on 7 December 2015 at 3:00 pm UTC
mrdeathjr Dec 7, 2015
repeated post, delete please


Last edited by mrdeathjr on 7 December 2015 at 2:59 pm UTC
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