14 DAY TRIAL // A new development version of Wine, 1.7.25, has been announced by Alexandre Julliard and it comes with more features and improvements for various apps and games.
The Wine developers are working to improve the support for numerous games and applications that only work on the Windows platform, and this latest version brings quite a lot of fixes in that regard.
According to the changelog, the implementation of the packet capture library has been started, a few more DirectWrite functions have been added, a number of improvements have been added in HTML table support, more VBScript math functions have been implemented, and some bug fixes have been added.
Every Wine version usually features lots of smaller fixes for various applications and games. They might not be as glorious as the main ones, buy they are usually the bulk of the release and many users will find many fixes for their favorite apps and games.
Wine 1.7.25 also brings bug fixes for the following Windows games and tools: Medieval Total War, Space Empires V, Irfanview, ZENcast Organizer, Skype 3.5, Thief: Deadly Shadows, JFlothows Wuerfel, DVDDecrypter, KeePass, Python 2.6/2.7, CDBurnerXP, Bonzai3D, OriginPro, World of Warcraft, Mario Forever, WebGallery, Open General, Magic MP3 Tagger, Project I.G.I, UltraVNC, Adobe Creative Cloud, and Wireshark.
According to the changelog, Medieval total war demo no longer crashes with the built-in amstream, a number of Space Empires V 1.44 crashes have been fixed, Irfanview no longer crashes in the thumbnail mode when previewing certain text file, Skype 3.5 no works properly, Thief: Deadly Shadows no longer crashes, DVDDecrypter 3.5.4.0 no longer fails to detect CDROM drive, a crash in Tales of Monkey Island has been corrected, World of Warcraft no longer crashes at startup, and Adobe Creative Cloud Setup now works in the “Windows 7” mode.
Wine (which stands for wine is not an emulator) can be usually found in every major repository, but only the stable version. You can easily install the development build of Wine with the help of a PPA. All you need to do is to open a terminal and enter the following commands (you will need to be root in order for it to work).
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install wine
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.