Recently it was announced release of the new development version of Wine 7.14, which since the release of version 7.13, 19 bug reports have been closed and 260 changes have been made.
For those who do not know about Wine, they should know that this is a popular free and open source software which allows users to run Windows applications on Linux and other Unix-like operating systems. To be a bit more technical, Wine is a compatibility layer that translates system calls from Windows to Linux and uses some Windows libraries, in the form of .dll files.
Wine is one of the best ways to run Windows applications on Linux. In addition, the Wine community has a very detailed application database.
Main news of Wine 7.14
In this new version of Wine 7.14 that is presented, it is highlighted that se has made a seamless transition from the USER32 library to a program interface based on system calls.
Besides that, DirectWrite has improved font handling when accessing a missing source, plus issues with closing sockets have been fixed.
As for the reports of closed bugs related to the operation of the games Mentioned for: Sid Meier's Civilization IV, Colonization, Warlords, Beyond the Sword, World of Tanks, Roblox, Total War Shogun 2.
And closed bug reports related to the operation of thes applications: Waves Central 12.0.5, Windows 95 Electron, Adobe Digital Editions 2.0.1, Cheat Engine, Sigma Data Center.
Of the other changes that stand out from this new version:
- Several applications require the 'shell32.SHOpenFolderAndSelectItems' implementation to open the browser window with specified items in a selected home folder (Firefox 42.0, Windows 95 Electron Application)
- Waves Central 12.0.5 fails to start: __call__ pywintypes.error: (1336, 'AddAccesAllowedAce', 'Invalid ACL.')
- Rust apps using tokyo library crash with "failed to park" error
- The IShellItemImageFactory implementation for the ShellItem is missing.
- Wine prefix not ready to use after running wineboot
- Incorrect socket reconnection behavior for sockets
- Certain specific dialogs are permanently full screen
- Icons are not rendered correctly in the window title bar
- Cheat Engine crashes when opening a dropdown menu
- Richedit not implemented ITextDocument::Undo and ITextDocument::Redo causes strange undo entries
- Nothing can be entered with the CJK (fcitx) input method.
- Wrong font used in NtUserDrawCaptionTemp()
Finally if you want to know more about this new development version of Wine released, you can check the registry of changes in the following link.
How to install the development version of Wine 7.14 on Ubuntu and derivatives?
If you are interested in being able to test this new development version of Wine on your distro, you can do so by following the instructions we share below.
The first and most important step will be to enable the 32-bit architecture, that although our system is 64-bit, performing this step saves us many problems that usually occur, since most of the Wine libraries are focused on 32-bit architecture.
For this we write about the terminal:
sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
Now we must import the keys and add them to the system with this command:
wget -nc https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/Release.key sudo apt-key add Release.key
Done this now we are going to add the following repository to the system, for this we write in the terminal:
sudo apt-add-repository "deb https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/ $(lsb_release -sc) main" sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get --download-only install winehq-devel sudo apt-get install --install-recommends winehq-devel sudo apt-get --download-only dist-upgrade
Finally we can verify that we already have Wine installed and also what version we have on the system by executing the following command:
wine --version
How to uninstall Wine from Ubuntu or some derivative?
As for those who want to uninstall Wine from their system for whatever reason, They should only execute the following commands.
Uninstall the development version:
sudo apt purge winehq-devel sudo apt-get remove wine-devel sudo apt-get autoremove