Wine Staging serves as a playground for trying out new and exciting features that haven't made their way into the main development branch of Wine. It's all about making things faster and giving developers a chance to collaborate and enhance their patches before they become part of the main branch.
The change log for Wine Staging 9.17 includes a rebase against Wine 9.17, some updates to the vkd3d-latest patchset, odbc32-fixes patchset, and cmd-launch-association patchset.
Alexandre Julliard has announced the latest Wine release, version 9.17. Now, you can enjoy window surface scaling on High DPI displays, an upgraded vkd3d to version 1.13, and an updated Mono engine to version 9.3.0. Not only that, but there is also improved CPU detection on ARM64 and a bunch of bug fixes.
A new version of the FEX-EMU, which allows the execution of x86 and x86-64 binaries on an AArch64 host, has been released. Performance has been significantly improved with the release of FEX-2409, which is mostly attributable to enhancements made to flags.
Because flags are bits that reflect the status of the processor, and because both x86 and Arm have flags, it is possible to emulate x86 functionality on Arm. Calculations involving arithmetic, such as subtracting and verifying the carry flag, are performed with their assistance. In addition to being able to implement additions of 128 bits, the carry flag is also able to indicate whether or not the result overflowed. These two operations are comparable; however, the carry flag is activated whenever there is a borrow, which is the more natural of the two. In most cases, the inverted convention emerges victorious, and FEX has been modified to do inversion carry, which has resulted in a few percent acceleration of typical workloads. FEX's translations of address modes, push/pop, AVX load/stores, and other translations have also been improved as a result of this, which has led to benchmarks being up to ten percent quicker since the previous release. Additionally, the FEXConfig tool, which is a Qt application, has been redesigned in order to enhance its aesthetics, usability, and accessibility.
Dylan Baker has announced the release of Mesa 24.2.2.
The first release candidate for PostgreSQL 17 is now available for testing. PostgreSQL 17 has had its fair share of bug fixes since Beta 3. One of the notable fixes was the reversal of the MERGE/SPLIT partition feature. Additionally, there has been a performance improvement in the logical decoding of subtransactions.
Auto-Cpufreq 2.4.0, the latest version of the automatic CPU speed and power optimizer for Linux, has just been released. It keeps a close eye on your laptop's battery state, CPU usage, temperature, and system load, giving you the power to enhance battery life without sacrificing anything.
A number of enhancements have been included in the change log, such as the addition of support for the "Platform Profile" parameter, the addition of a section for the Gentoo Install, and the addition of support for the dinit (Artix) init system. It also stops the battery switch on the Xbox controller from being made to the battery profile. Among the bugs that have been fixed are those related to performance EPP in AMD CPUs, using the Repology badge for automatic AUR version updating, making it more compatible with Arch-based distributions, fixing important name mistakes in auto-cpufreq, refactoring the charging function, updating the version of nix requests, and working around problems with Artix Linux.
GloriousEggroll has released GE-Proton9-13 with a bunch of updates. It comes with a fix for MSAA in World of Warcraft, as well as some updates for vkd3d-proton, wine, dxvk, and protonfixes.
The second release candidate for Proton 9.0-3 is now available for testing. Proton is a Steam client tool that allows Windows games to be played on Linux using Wine.
AM-Application-Manager 8.2 has been released. "AM"/"AppMan" is a collection of scripts and modules designed to handle AppImage packages and other portable formats, taking inspiration from the Arch User Repository.
Some of the improvements include updating install.am and management.am, rewriting database.am, fixing modules source in developer mode, adding.png or.svg symlinks to icons management, and adding an option to remove icon path. Additionally, there is an improvement to using while instead of for loop sandboxes.
Audacity 3.6.2 has been released. One of the highlights is the addition of a "Legacy" effects section, which is sure to bring some nostalgic vibes.
Not only that, but this patch release also takes care of pesky bugs and resolves various issues. It tackles problems with cloud projects, stereo-to-mono splitting, multi-channel OGG and Wavpack import, crashes after recording long sessions, and CPU maxing when minimized. Some other changes have been made, like consolidating the time track range dialog into a single one and reverting the selection change behavior when importing a clip.
The OWASP CRS v4.6.0 is a collection of attack detection rules designed for ModSecurity or compatible web application firewalls. It's all about keeping web applications safe from a range of attacks, including the notorious OWASP Top Ten, while keeping false alarms to a minimum. Some of the highlights in this release are the prevention of backslashes in file names, the addition of an invalid character in multipart headers, an update to 932270's version, and the inclusion of pem in the list of restricted file extensions.
Roundcube Webmail 1.6.9 is a stable version that comes with two regression fixes. It addresses problems with printing, scaling, and rotating image attachments, as well as unstyled HTML messages. It is highly recommended for all productive installations to backup their data.
Roundcube Webmail 1.5.9 brings some stability to version 1.5 with two regression fixes. It addresses problems with printing, scaling, and rotating image attachments, as well as unstyled HTML messages. It is highly recommended for all productive installations to back up their data.
Samba 4.21.0 marks the debut of the stable release for the Samba 4.21 release series. It introduces new features like the mandatory handling of "valid users", "invalid users", "read list", and "write list". This change ensures that users or groups cannot be skipped without notification, which helps to maintain secure communication with domain controllers. In addition, the LDAP server has now added support for SASL binds using kerberos or NTLMSSP over TLS connections.
GE-Proton9-12 has been released with several changes, including upstream proton and steamclient updates, updated wine, dxvk, and vkd3d. Proton fixes include building libmspack, xrandr, and cabextract as part of the proton-ge build process, updating winetricks, and fixing Full Metal Daemon Muramasa.
Darktable nightly build 20240901 allows you to test new features before they are officially released. It eliminates existing bugs and adds complex code, but stability may suffer. New versions may change the database structure, so use a different library. AppImage is compatible with glibc 2.35 or later releases. The *.AppImage.zsync file includes technical data.
AM-Application-Manager 8.1.1 has been released.
AM-Application-Manager 8.1 has been released.
Alexandre Julliard has announced the release of a new version of the Direct3D to Vulkan translation library, vkd3d.
Mesa 24.2.1 has been released.
