This is release 0.9.56 of Wine, a free implementation of Windows on Unix.

What's new in this release:
- Proper handling of OpenGL/Direct3D windows with menu bars.
- Stubs for all the d3dx9_xx dlls.
- Several graphics optimizations.
- Many installer fixes.
- Improved MIME message support.
- Lots of bug fixes.

Because of lags created by using mirrors, this message may reach you before the release is available at the public sites. The sources will be available from the following locations:

http://ibiblio.org/pub/linux/system/emulators/wine/wine-0.9.56.tar.bz2
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/wine/wine-0.9.56.tar.bz2

Binary packages for various distributions will be available from:

http://www.winehq.org/site/download

You will find documentation on

http://www.winehq.org/site/documentation

You can also get the current source directly from the git or CVS repositories. Check respectively http://www.winehq.org/site/git or http://www.winehq.org/site/cvs for details.

If you fix something, please submit a patch; instructions on how to do this can be found at http://www.winehq.org/site/sending_patches

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