It also brings support for TIFF metadata and improvements for printing

Jun 23, 2012 05:10 GMT  ·  By

The Wine development team revealed, on June 23rd, that a new development version of the famous framework used to run Windows applications on Linux, has been announced by Alexandre Julliard, the leader of the Wine project.

Highlights of Wine 1.5.7:

• A new version of the Gecko engine based on Firefox 13; • Dynamic device support with UDisks2 has been added; • More stream classes have been implemented in the C++ runtime; • Support for metadata in TIFF files has been added; • Improved support for printer paper sizes has been implemented.

For more details you can always view the complete changelog, which contains all the improvements and fixes.

Download Wine 1.5.7 right now from Softpedia. Remember that this is a development release and it should NOT be installed on production machines. It is intended to be used for testing purposes only.

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