Wine 9.19 released bringing improvements for Wayland, Unicode and DirectPlay

By Liam Dawe - 5 October 2024 at 8:41 am UTC

Developer Alexandre Julliard announced the release of Wine 9.19, the Windows compatibility layer that allows thousands of apps and games to run on Linux.

The main changes of this release are:

Character tables updates to Unicode 16.0.0.
Better window positioning in the Wayland driver.
More support for network sessions in DirectPlay.
Support for plug&play device change notifications.
Various bug fixes.

11 bugs were noted as solved from this release across various expected Windows behaviour, along with some regressions being fixed.

Is there a particular bug or feature you're waiting on being sorted in Wine?

Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.

Tags: Misc, New Release, Open Source, Wine

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mrdeathjr about 2 hours ago

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This wine version add more work related remi bernon ffmpeg implementation, in my case tomb raider angel of darkness cinematics (mpeg format) stay work

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sadly wmv+audio still dont work in my case

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