The Wine development release 9.7 is now available.
What’s new in this release:
- Build system support for ARM64X.
- Some restructuration of the Vulkan driver interface.
- WIDL improvements for ARM support as well as SLTG typelibs.
- Various bug fixes.
Bugs fixed in 9.7 (total 18):
#37246 Old C&C titles freeze after the map is loaded.
#44699 Clang 6.0 fails to run under wine
#44812 Multiple applications need NtQueryInformationProcess ‘ProcessQuotaLimits’ class support (MSYS2, ProcessHacker 2.x)
#48080 Oregon Trail II will not start in 32-bit mode
#50111 osu! crashes since 20201110 version with wine-mono (needs native -> managed byref array marshalling)
#54759 Notepad++: slider of vertical scrollbar is too small for long files
#54901 Medieval II Total War some units partly invisible with d3dx9_30 as builtin
#55765 The 32-bit d2d1:d2d1 frequently crashes on the GitLab CI
#56133 explorer.exe: Font leak when painting
#56361 Geovision Parashara’s Light (PL9.exe) still crashes in wine
#56369 Advanced IP Scanner crashes on unimplemented function netapi32.dll.NetRemoteTOD
#56442 Totem Arts Launcher.exe garbled text
#56491 Videos in BURIKO visual novel engine
#56493 PresentationFontCache.exe crashes during .Net 3.51 SP1 installation
#56536 UI: Applications using ModernWPF crash, Windows.Ui.ViewManagment.InputPane.TryShow not implemented
#56538 Mspaint from Windows XP needs imm32.CtfImmIsCiceroEnabled
#56551 HP System Diagnostics crashes when clicking the Devices tab
#56554 ON1 photo raw installs but wont run the application
Wait, there still isn’t a Linux version of Notepad++? I’m kinda surprised by that.
It’s C++ with Win32 API. Not portable. Very little incentive to do it considering advanced text editors that work on Linux are dime-a-dozen (Kate, VS Code, Notepadqq, Geany, Sublime Text, etc.)