Wine 2.19 Released

By Liam Dawe - 14 Oct 2017 at 6:24 pm UTC

The latest Wine development release 2.19 is now available with various improvements, enhancements and bug fixes.

Here's the highlights:

Support for 32-bit float audio on Android.
Named pipes now fully handled by the Wine server.
Support for a new Microsoft root certificate.
More transform fixes in GdiPlus.
Some heap allocation optimizations.
Various bug fixes.

In regards to bug fixes, they closed 16 bugs. Something to note, is that the bugs they note as fixed are not necessarily fixed in this specific new version. Often, bugs are left open for many versions and they bundle them into the release notes.

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mrdeathjr 14 Oct 2017

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In this wine version fable III works

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And farcry 3 - blood dragon works (with vanilla 2.18 dont work in my tests)

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^_^

Last edited by mrdeathjr on 14 Oct 2017 at 7:00 pm UTC

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TheRiddick 15 Oct 2017

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Far Cry 3 in Spanish? seems more intense lol.

Wine is really coming along, I do wonder how well it all performs at 4k and how that performance compares to windows. Might do some testing myself sometime soon.

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mrdeathjr 15 Oct 2017

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Far Cry 3 in Spanish? seems more intense lol.

Wine is really coming along, I do wonder how well it all performs at 4k and how that performance compares to windows. Might do some testing myself sometime soon.

Yeah normally spanish dub sometimes is dont good but in farcry 3 vaas voice is really good and psycho

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