The Wine development release 8.16 is now available.

What’s new in this release:

  • Beginnings of a DirectMusic revival.
  • Many fixes and improvements in the regression tests.
  • Various bug fixes.

The source is available at:

https://dl.winehq.org/wine/source/8.x/wine-8.16.tar.xz

Binary packages for various distributions will be available from:

https://www.winehq.org/download

You will find documentation on https://www.winehq.org/documentation

You can also get the current source directly from the git repository. Check https://www.winehq.org/git for details.

Wine is available thanks to the work of many people. See the file AUTHORS in the distribution for the complete list.

Bugs fixed in 8.16 (total 33):

  • #42809 GPS Track Editor: arrows not shown
  • #51561 Wine’s built-in gdiplus.dll lags in Paint.NET compared to native (Win 7) gdiplus.dll
  • #51995 Roblox’s bad performance on Wine
  • #52196 BENNING PC-Win ST 750-760 Designer crashes on start, needs GdipSetPenCompoundArray implementation
  • #53435 user32:msg - test_SendMessage_other_thread() sometimes gets a wrong status on Windows
  • #54202 mscoree:mscoree breaks user32:msg - subtest_hvredraw() fails on most Windows 7 test configurations
  • #54331 Game “Antecrypt”: Black screen after launch
  • #54368 ::DrawGeometry doesn’t respect stroke style
  • #54655 user32:msg - test_InSendMessage() sometimes gets unexpected flags on Windows
  • #54683 shlwapi:ordinal - test_SHFormatDateTimeA() fails due to daylight saving time on Windows
  • #54944 ntdll:exception - test_extended_context() crashes on Window 11
  • #54945 ntdll:exception - test_virtual_unwind() fails on Windows 11
  • #54998 DnsQuery(DNS_TYPE_SRV) fails to parse some of the server answers
  • #55225 kernel32:thread - The 32-bit test_stack() gets an unexpected values for -2 & -3 indexes on Windows
  • #55227 wtsapi32:wtsapi - The 32-bit check_wts_process_info() fails to get the user token on Windows 7 & 8
  • #55237 oleaut32:usrmarshal - The 64-bit test_marshal_VARIANT() gets bad values for wv[5&6] on Windows 8+
  • #55238 ntdll:exception - The 64-bit test_nested_exception() fails on Windows 11
  • #55244 mshtml:misc - test_HTMLStorage() crashes in Wine
  • #55246 ntdll:om - The 64-bit test_object_types() crashes on Windows 8+
  • #55317 user32:msg - test_hotkey() finds no free WinKey+letter on Windows 11
  • #55354 user32:msg - test_dialog_messages() sometimes gets a bad sequence on Windows 7
  • #55366 The GitLab CI sometimes tries to link winscard with libpcsclite on macOS
  • #55459 Softerra LDAP Browser fails to turn off LDAP_OPT_ENCRYPT, LDAP_OPT_ROOTDSE_CACHE, and LDAP_OPT_SIGN
  • #55501 PS Core (pwsh.exe) fails to start:Call to unimplemented function wldp.dll.WldpGetLockdownPolicy
  • #55505 Vitis 2020.1 needs support for if exist "" in batch file
  • #55507 Softerra LDAP Browser needs LDAP_OPT_CLIENT_CERTIFICATE
  • #55508 Wine 8.15: compiles successfully in Flatpak but fails during runtime with a SIGSEGV
  • #55531 combase:roapi - test_ActivationFactories() fails on Windows and Wine
  • #55532 kernel32:actctx - test_two_dlls_at_same_time() crashes on Windows 7+ and Wine
  • #55533 setupapi:devinst & setupapi:install - test_class_installer() fails on Windows 7+ and Wine
  • #55534 ucrtbase:thread - test_thread_library_reference() fails on Windows 7+ and Wine
  • #55535 The dinput:hid test summary line fails to take skip messages into account on Windows 7
  • #55539 user32:msg test_hvredraw fails in win1709 with unexpected re