What's new in this release (see below for details):
- Various bug fixes.
- Small translation updates.

The source is available from the following locations:

http://dl.winehq.org/wine/source/1.8/wine-1.8.1.tar.bz2
http://mirrors.ibiblio.org/wine/source/1.8/wine-1.8.1.tar.bz2

Binary packages for various distributions will be available from:

http://www.winehq.org/download

You will find documentation on http://www.winehq.org/documentation

You can also get the current source directly from the git
repository. Check http://www.winehq.org/git for details.

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

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Bugs fixed in 1.8.1 (total 24):

7938 Gyldendal dictionary needs ole2disp.dll.SAFEARRAYALLOCDATA
11023 Lack of ole2disp.dll.SAFEARRAYDESTROYDESCRIPTOR causes Nota Bene to refuse to launch
22581 Internet Explorer 3.01 crashes on some web pages (unimplemented function ole2disp.dll16.VARIANTINIT)
24658 Unimplemented function ole2.dll16.READCLASSSTM
28113 winverbs doesn't work, needs ole2disp.dll16.SAFEARRAYALLOCDESCRIPTOR
32852 BioEdit: changing the install directory doesn't show the change in the GUI
34185 Castlevania: Lords of Shadow demo doesn't work after intro movies
38076 GameRanger: unimplemented function dnsapi.dll.DnsFlushResolverCacheEntry_A
38818 Umax Astra 4100 USB scanner driver installer needs setupx.dll16.DiBuildDriverIndex in Win9X mode
39454 64-bit StarCraft II v3.0 client crashes immediately on startup (SetThreadContext on self with only DRx registers/CONTEXT_DEBUG_REGISTERS provided)
39611 Any Video Converter (AVC) crashes after converting a video, needs msvcr100.dll._wtmpnam_s
39660 some *-config scripts in configure.ac are not crosscompiling friendly
39678 Zararadio can not read folder/file name path with Latin characters
39739 Cobra 11 - Burning Wheels demo: crashes when starting the tutorial
39752 The elder scrolls IV: Oblivion issues
39805 GTAIV rendering is broken
39811 GetLongPathName not working on case insensitive filesystems when short path is passed
39904 Spurious "You must use msvcrt" error even when __MSVCRT__ is defined (-mno-cygwin)
39943 Worms Armageddon opens wine explorer instead of running
39952 trackbar thumb always at zero on dialog load.
39953 StarCraft II: 64bit client crashing regularly due to access violation (0xC0000005)
39954 StarCraft II: 64bit client only runs with lowest shader settings
39974 Thumb slider doesn't respond to key events
40052 Opening an RTF file with "A Wine application" fails with "File not found"

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Changes since 1.8:

Alex Henrie (1):
maintainers: Add Wine Staging maintainers.

Alexandre Julliard (4):
Update copyright info for 2016.
explorer: Support a quoted /desktop option.
wine.inf: Fix the wordpad.exe path in associations.
wine.inf: Add quotes around the wordpad.exe path.

Alistair Leslie-Hughes (2):
msi: Allow PathEdit controls to be updated.
msi: Refreh controls after spawned dialog is closed.

Andrew Eikum (1):
maintainers: Add DirectShow section.

André Hentschel (1):
include: Add more OID defines.

Anthony Fok (1):
include: Suppress "use msvcrt" error in tchar.h when -mno-cygwin is used.

Austin English (1):
setupx.dll16: Add DiBuildDriverIndex stub.

Frédéric Delanoy (2):
loader: Update French translation of wine manpage.
po: Update French translation.

Hans Leidekker (1):
dnsapi: Add a stub implementation of DnsFlushResolverCacheEntry_A/UTF8/W.

Henri Verbeet (1):
wined3d: Set WINED3D_BUFFER_DOUBLEBUFFER for managed buffers as well.

Jactry Zeng (1):
po: Update Simplified Chinese translation.

Józef Kucia (1):
d3d9: Implement d3d9_device_CreateDepthStencilSurfaceEx().

Matteo Bruni (1):
wined3d: Regenerate FFP replacement VS on changes to the normal attribute in the vertex declaration.

Nikolay Sivov (10):
ole2disp: Implement VariantInit().
ole2: Fix error handling in ReadClassStg().
ole2: Implement ReadClassStm().
ole2disp: Implement SafeArrayAllocDescriptor().
ole2disp: Implement SafeArrayDestroyDescriptor().
ole2disp: Implement SafeArrayAllocData().
msvcrt: Fix char to int promotion that breaks pattern lookup.
comctl32/tests: Separate individual Trackbar tests from each other.
comctl32/trackbar: Update thumb immediately on TBM_SETPOS.
comctl32/trackbar: Update thumb immediately on key press.

Piotr Caban (4):
ntdll: Fix NtQueryDirectoryFile behavior on short file names on case insensitive file systems.
msvcrt: Add tmpnam_s implementation.
msvcrt: Add _wtmpnam_s implementation.
msvcrt: Fix modff signature.

Sebastian Lackner (2):
ntdll: Check ContextFlags before restoring registers on x86_64.
ntdll: Receive debug registers from server on x86_64.

Stefan Dösinger (1):
wined3d: Prepare GL textures in surface_load_ds_location.

Thomas Petazzoni (1):
configure: Allow to override the location of the *-config scripts.