GloriousEggroll has announced the release of GE-Proton9-16, featuring multiple updates to the game engine. This encompasses the importation of upstream makefiles, modifications to proton, adjustments to steam_helper, updates to vkd3d-shader, and the upgrade of wine to the latest bleeding edge version.
The proton updates address a problem with game_titles not being retrieved accurately for UMU, enabling users to install or import games beyond the prefix with greater ease. The newly integrated drives into the prefix are expected to resolve this issue, enabling users to access their mount locations or existing game folders for installation or importing purposes. Support for modifications in various Bethesda games has been introduced, along with protonfixes for Metal Gear Solid 2, Kingdom Hearts HD Remix, Gothic Playable Teaser, and Star Citizen.
VirtualBox 7.1.4 is a maintenance release featuring various fixes and enhancements. The latest NLS update encompasses Turkish, Indonesian, and Italian languages, addresses improved screen update issues with recent Linux kernels, resolves problems with restoring saved states, corrects system DLL size checking, introduces initial support for kernel 6.12, enables automatic upgrade of Guest Additions through the Devices menu, and reinstates broken network boot support.
The Bottles 51.15 release contains a redesigned Windows version switching system that uses the classic wine configuration tool to ensure consistent behavior and registry key settings.
Samba 4.21.1 is the latest stable version in the Samba 4.21 series. Changes since 4.21.0 include error handling for DH reconnects, stale sharemode entries, and FreeIPA domain member integration difficulties. Other issues include missing conversions for msDS-UserTGTLifetime, msDS-ComputerTGTLifetime, and msDS-ServiceTGTLifetime when running "samba-tool domain auth policy modify". Other concerns include irpc_destructor crashes after shutdown, DH reconnect errors, and the use of incorrect secrets.
"AM" Application-Manager 8.3.2 has been released, with updates such as new apps and a check and warning for restricted access to user namespaces.
A new major version of Inkscape, a powerful open source vector design tool, is now available for download. This version includes new and improved features that enhance customization and accessibility.
The Filter Gallery dialog serves as a new access point for users, providing previews and search functionalities for filters. Modular grids have been implemented, enabling users to modify grid parameters independently. The Swatches dialog has undergone a redesign, now incorporating a drop-down menu that showcases previews of color palettes. The SVG Font Editor is now accessible for users interested in font customization. A unified font browser preview is currently under testing, enabling users to view visual previews for fonts. On-canvas handles can now be tailored according to size, color, stroke width, outline, and opacity. The Shape Builder tool facilitates efficient modifications on raster images, and the Object Properties dialog has been consolidated into a single interface. Updates for Import & Export are now available, enabling users to incorporate links within PDF documents and access Affinity Designer files.
VSCodium 1.94.2.24286 has been released, which includes an update to VScode version 1.94.2 and a fix to read the user's product.json.
Bottles 51.14 has been released, with new features including a "Native" Force Stop all Processes option, Win11 compatibility, support for personal repositories, updates to the GNOME runtime and Wine base, translations, a Pre-Run script, corrections for bottles with varied names and directories, and HyperBit SRLs as a sponsor.
VSCodium 1.94.2.24284 has been released to update vscode to 1.94.2.
AM-Application-Manager 8.3.1 has been released to resolve issues with AppImageLauncher, a command-line application that may generate errors when attempting to run an AppImage from the command line. A system daemon that may have altered other files during the installation is the problem's root cause. To prevent issues with AM/AppMan and other AppImages helpers, use AppImageLauncher's standalone AppImage, which may also be installed using "AM". The daemons in question are appimagelauncherd and appimaged, which may add new launchers to the menus and cause issues with the "AM"/"AppMan" updating mechanism.
VSCodium 1.94.1.24283 has been released, with changes such as updating vscode to 1.94.1, adding basedpyright to the alternative extension list, and manually specifying the correct commit ID.
Ardour 8.8 has problems with sporadic crashes and disregarded MIDI notes. Ardour 8.9 addressed these difficulties and restored the nightly website, allowing customers to download the app as usual.
PHP 8.3.13 RC1 has been released with several fixes and improvements. These include fixes for calendar, jdtounix overflow, easter_days/easter_date overflow, jddayofweek overflow, jewishtojd overflow, CLI, core, DOM, JSON, GD, LDAP, MBString, OpenSSL, PCRE, PHPDBG, Reflection, SAPI, SimpleXML, SOAP, SPL, Standard, TSRM, and Windows.
VSCodium 1.94.0.24282 has been released, which brings VScode to 1.94.0. Changes include the proper build of PR to produce assets and the removal of an extraneous hook for reh.
PHP-8.4.0RC2 has several bug fixes and improvements. BcMath has seen performance improvements, including bcpow() and ext/bcmath. XML serializer errors have been fixed, and MBString has been updated to Unicode 16.0. Opcache has fixed issues with dasm_x86.h and opcache_jit_blacklist(). PHPDBG has fixed issues with ifuncs, PCRE has been fixed, and PDO_PGSQL has fixed issues with PQclosePrepared. Reflection has added missing ReflectionProperty::hasHook[s]() methods, SimpleXML has fixed issues with spl_fixedarray. SOAP has fixed bugs with stream context HTTP headers in array form, and TSRM prevents the closing of unrelated handles. Windows has been fixed, and Zip has added ZipArchive::ER_TRUNCATED_ZIP in libzip 1.11.
PHP-8.2.25RC1 has been released with several fixes and improvements. These include fixes for calendar, jdtounix overflow, easter_days/easter_date overflow, jddayofweek overflow, jewishtojd overflow, CLI, core, date, DOM, GD, LDAP, MBString, OpenSSL, PCRE, PHPDBG, Reflection, SAPI, SimpleXML, sockets, SOAP, streams, TSRM, and XML.
FEX-2410, a tool for executing x86 and x86-64 binaries on an AArch64 host, has been released. This is a slower release as developers gear up for the X.Org Developer's Conference 2024 and the GStreamer Conference 2024. ARM64EC modifications were made to fix AVX problems related to state saving and restoring while running under Wine, as well as to dynamically determine Windows syscall numbers under WINE. The call checker also helped to resolve difficulties caused by applications hooking function calls too early utilizing the Win32 APIs.
VSCodium 1.94.0.24281 updates VScode to 1.94.0, fixes arm64 and aarch64 bugs, and updates patches and the build process.
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.
