14 DAY TRIAL // Wine developers have announced that a new version of the application has been made available, and it comes with some DirectWrite changes, a few other features, and some various bug fixes.
Each time a new Wine update is released more improvements are made to the underlying code. Sometimes it's important stuff, but other times it's just about fixes. The latest version of Wine is not a major update, but the small changes that have been implemented are quite numerous and cover a lot of games and other various Windows apps.
In fact, there are two different changelogs for each new edition of Wine. According to what the developers have said, more progress has been made towards the DirectWrite implementation, a few RichEdit control fixes have been implemented, the implementation of the old MSVCIRT C++ runtime has started and smaller fixes have been made.
What's new in Wine 1.7.45
Wine 1.7.45 comes with changes for the following Windows games and tools: Utopia, Gothic 2, Adobe Reader 6, GTA: San Andreas, Bioware games, Street Fighter 4, Outlook Express, Fallout 3, Gridrunner Revolution, StarCraft 2, Guild Wars, Ancient Gems, PES2015, Waldorf Spectre, and more.
Wine (which stands for wine is not an emulator) can be usually found in every major repository, but only the stable version. Users can easily install the development build of Wine with the help of a PPA. This can be done by opening a terminal and entering these commands in a terminal (root is needed):
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install wine