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The Wine development release 1.8-rc4 is now available



What's new in this release (see below for details):
- Bug fixes only, we are in code freeze.

The source is available from the following locations:

http://dl.winehq.org/wine/source/1.8/wine-1.8-rc4.tar.bz2
http://mirrors.ibiblio.org/wine/source/1.8/wine-1.8-rc4.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-rc4 (total 26):

8258 Dolphin Smalltalk IDE fails when requesting trial on urlmon.dll.URLOpenBlockingStreamA
16698 Sandboxie installer needs 'HKLM\\System\\CurrentControlSet\\Services\\Eventlog\\System' registry key
17501 Cockpit Crash hangs
17814 HLMV from Source SDK crashes while starting
18964 BioEdit: Minimized windows icons become garbaged
19041 WinNER5 database client crashes on startup
23377 Buried in Time demo does not start
31817 Tencent RTX Client 2010 installer fails to register Shell extension handler 'RTXShlMenu.dll' (missing 'HKCR\\*\\shellex\\ContextMenuHandlers' and 'HKCR\\folder\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers' registry keys)
31862 "The Network" demo fails to start without native d3dx9
32383 Configure script can't find 32-bit freetype libraries on 64-bit debian squeeze
32655 Miro 5.x/6.x installer does not go beyond "initializing..." phase
33438 Wine builtin 'explorer' crashes in Win98 mode when browsing virtual 'C:' drive
33917 Voyage: Journey to the Moon demo shows white screen
34308 Gazillionaire has transparency issues
36726 DVD Profiler: black squares in the gui
37899 Adobe Photoshop 5.0: Type tool fails with stack overflow
38293 Setting PROMPT in a batch file resets on exit of batch file
38371 Winfiol crashes when changing program preferences
38480 RuneScape crashes when switching to OpenGL renderer (glCopyTexSubImage3DEXT blacklisted by extension filtering)
38723 Ad-Aware 11.6.306.7947 wants msi.dll.MsiJoinTransaction
38778 Blade of Darkness demo hangs with a black screen on start
39119 Heroes of the Storm 13.0.37117 crashes on exit needing wevtapi.dll.EvtClose
39535 PowerISO 6.4 (32 bits) crashes on installation (needs fusion.dll.CopyPDBs)
39710 Hitman 2: Silent Assassin shows wrong colors with environment bump mapping
39747 Original War: user interface gets corrupted after opening the help screen
39758 Desktop Holiday Light app crashes
  Wine 1.8 Release Candidate 4 released