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 9.19 includes a rebase against Wine 9.19 and some updates to the vkd3d-latest patchset.
The latest development release of Wine features updates to the Unicode 16.0.0 character tables, enhanced window alignment in the Wayland driver, increased support for network sessions in DirectPlay, plug-and-play device change notifications, and a number of bug fixes. The update addresses 11 defects, including Songr 1 installation difficulties, Malus crashes, WordSmith 9.0 error messages, Death to Spies, Quicken WillMaker Plus 2007 requirements, and OpenGL renderer issues.
OBS Studio 31.0.0 Beta 1 is now available, with new features like NVIDIA Blur Filter and Background Blur, preview scrollbars, v210 format support for AJA device capture, Amazon IVS service integration, QSV AV1 Screen Content Coding, and first-party YouTube Chat.
Changes include updating the browser source/docks CEF to version 127 (6533) on all platforms, changing scene items to use relative coordinates, splitting NVIDIA audio effects from noise suppression, changing the Image Slideshow's Playback Mode property from radio buttons to a dropdown, disabling the built-in Automatic Scene Switcher when using Wayland on Linux, improving error messages for macOS Virtual Camera, and changing display and window capture on Windows and Linux. The NVENC implementation has been refactored with several improvements, and new functionality from previous SDKs are now supported. Bug fixes include two Linux crashes with the QSV encoder, a race problem with multitrack video output reconnect, MP4 muxer deadlocks, potential memory failures, buffer overruns during UTF-8 text conversion, and audio clipping indicator issues.
Mesa bugfix release 24.2.4 is now available, with the next release coming in two weeks on October 16th. The Change logs include fixes for quad group helper invocation masking, llvmpipe, nvk, nir_op_pack_uvec4_to_uint, caio oliveira, vulkan/video, radv/video, virgl, zink, radv/video/enc, mad.x24, freedreno/ir3, radeonsi/vcn, frontends/va, AV1 packed header parsing, and more.
Godot 4.4 dev 3 has been released, with more than 330 commits merged in recent weeks. The release includes bug patches that will be backported to Godot 4.3 and released as 4.3.1. It is pre-release software, therefore, make frequent backups or use a version control system like Git. Users can try out the Web, XR, and Android editors, as well as join the Android editor testing group to gain access to pre-release releases.
GloriousEggroll has released GE-Proton9-15, a hotfix release that fixes video playback issues, NVIDIA card stuttering, black textures, and xalia issues, and removes a deprecated workaround.
Darktable 4.9.0 Nightly Build 20240929 has been released, enabling users to test new features prior to their official release. It resolves outdated flaws and implements intricate code; however, stability may be compromised. The database schema may be altered in newer versions; therefore, it is recommended to utilize a distinct library. AppImage is compatible with distributions that utilize glibc version 2.35 or higher. UCRT (Universal C Runtime) is necessary for Windows, while macOS 13.5 or 14.0 is required for macOS.
VirtualBox 7.1.2 is an updated version that includes various fixes and new features. Among these, you can find translation and multiple window layout changes, an option to enable remote display security, and the BETA label removed from the macOS/Arm UI. Windows host speed concerns, 3D acceleration, API loading issues, guest additions, SDK development code, and DHCP are among the other changes.
ROCm 6.2.2 has been released, with just minor changes between versions. The release notes list the compatibility matrix for each ROCm release, which contains a fix for the Instinct MI300X error recovery failure. This modification guarantees that error recovery works as expected, preserving system stability and increasing the reliability of AMD Instinct MI300X accelerators in uncorrectable fault circumstances.
AM-Application-Manager 8.3 has been released and makes a substantial modification by adding support for "torsocks" as an optional dependency. This enables users to utilize most apps securely with Tor, including processing DNS requests and rejecting communication other than TCP. The new functionality enables endless updates and installations, allowing users to achieve super-fast connections and circumvent API access restrictions.
The new feature also supports the parameters -u or update, -i or install, -e or extra, and -ia or install-appimage. Users can install "torsocks" by searching for it in the system package management. Since the previous version, the database has grown by 140 new products to install, comprising 2400 distinct apps and 346 standalone/portable packages.
The PHP 8.1.30 security update fixes issues with CGI, FPM, and SAPI. It gets rid of CVE-2024-4577, fixes problems with cgi.force_redirect configuration, stops children from changing logs, and fixes issues with processing multipart form data.
PostgreSQL 17 has been released. It enhances performance and scalability while responding to changing data access and storage patterns. The update features major overall performance enhancements, such as an overhauled memory management system for vacuum, storage access optimizations, improvements for high concurrency workloads, bulk loading and export speedups, and index query execution improvements.
The DXVK DirectX to Vulcan translation layer has been upgraded to version 2.4.1, which addresses a number of issues and enhancements.
Memory chunk sizes are now dynamically set based on the application's memory allocation, which improves out-of-the-box functionality in game launchers. The Vulkan swap chain issue was resolved, as were the descriptor pools. The default shader code generation for DXBC crazy instructions has been altered to address flickering issues in games with multiple vertex shaders. The D3D8 implementation was modified to handle errors and fix memory leaks. Optimizing vertex buffer uploads improved performance marginally. Some games utilizing software vertex processing were also improved.
The MariaDB Foundation announced MariaDB 11.7.0, a preview of the MariaDB 11.7 series, which includes new features such as methods for generating UUID versions 4 and 7, near-instant binlogging of big transactions, faster crash recovery, cost-based subquery optimization strategy selection, and additional GIS functions.
The release also allows you to change system-versioned tables, return ROW values from stored functions, explicitly name columns in derived tables, and use arbitrary key/value pairs with the CREATE SERVER statement. The update also addresses issues with Daylight Saving Time adjustments and includes MariaDB Vector Search.
PHP 8.4's first release candidate has been released and features enhancements to BcMath, DOM, MBString, Opcache, PHPDBG, PCRE, PDO_PGSQL, SimpleXML, SOAP, SPL, Standard, TSRM, Windows, and ZIP. BcMath's speed has improved, while ext/bcmath has solved scale overflow and included bcdivmod.
Debugging has been corrected, as have DOM properties. MBString has been upgraded to Unicode 16.0. PHPDBG has resolved issues with PCRE, PDO_PGSQL, and PQclosePrepare. Reflection has added the missing ReflectionProperty::hasHook[s]() methods are now fixed, SimpleXML has segmentation errors fixed, SOAP has issues solved, and TSRM prevents unrelated handles from being closed. Windows has been addressed, and Zip has added ZipArchive::ER_TRUNCATED_ZIP to libzip 1.11.
PHP 8.3.12 has been released, with bug fixes for CGI, core, DOM, fileinfo, FPM, MySQLnd, Opcache, SAPI, standard, and streams. The update includes fixes for parameter injection vulnerabilities, configuration problems, CRC32 API build errors, uninitialized lineno, curl_multi_select overflow, segmentation faults, fileinfo, FPM, MySQLnd, Opcache, SAPI, standard, and streams. The improvements address issues such as MSan false-positive, configure errors, CRC32 API build errors, uninitialized lineno, curl_multi_select overflow, DOM, fileinfo, FPM, MySQLnd, Opcache, SAPI, standard, and streams.
PHP 8.2.24 has been released, with bug fixes for CGI, Core, Curl, DOM, Fileinfo, FPM, MySQLnd, Opcache, SAPI, SOAP, Standard, and Streams.
OWASP CRS v4.7.0 is a collection of attack detection rules that are designed to be compatible with ModSecurity or other web application firewalls. The latest version includes new features such as the addition of sendgrid.env to restricted files, modifying the regex to match multiple whitespaces, updating XSS detection, and code refactoring.
GloriousEggroll has released GE-Proton9-14, packed with fixes for a bunch of problems, including a workaround for God of War Ragnarok SteamDeck=1, a libcuda nvidia fix for Star Citizen, a Plain Site fix, a Worms: Blast fix, and an Elden Ring fix.
The pgAdmin Development Team has released pgAdmin 4, version 8.12, which includes 13 bug fixes and new features. Notable improvements include restoring preferences to their default values, creating a new configuration variable for special email domains, and allowing non-continuous selected SQL code chunks in the query tool.
The release also tackles security vulnerabilities, increases the flexibility of SchemaView and DataGridView, and resolves server disconnection issues. The update also adds support for OIDC-based OAuth2 authentication, resolves cursor movement issues, and improves confirmation modals.
