14 DAY TRIAL // The second stable maintenance release of the Wine 1.8 free and open-source implementation of Windows on Unix has been released today, April 12, 2016.
According to the announcement, Wine 1.8.2 appears to be a small bugfix release that resolves a total of 32 bugs for issues reported by users since Wine 1.8.1 with various Windows games and applications. Additionally, the second Wine 1.8 maintenance build contains various minor translations updates.
Among the Windows games that received improvements and should work better in Wine 1.8, we can mention Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas 2, Ultima IX, Splinter Cell: Blacklist, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II, Far Cry 4, Jade Empire: Special Edition, Jagged Alliance 2, Crimzon Clover, Wreckfest, XIIZEAL, Starcraft, Diablo II, SuperTux 0.3.5a, Romance of the Three Kingdoms 13, and Heroes of the Storm.
Adobe CC 2015 received some improvements too
Now that we've learned about the Windows games that received improvements in Wine 1.8.2, it's time to take a look at the Windows applications that should work better with the latest stable version of Wine, and no longer crash. Among these, we can mention Adobe CC 2015, Adobe After Effects 4, Kontakt, Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003/2007, Legrand Xl Pro 3, and Internet Explorer 8.
Moreover, applications like MinGW installer 0.5-beta-20120426-1, Process Hacker 2.x, Bleem! 1.4, Desura client, Steam client, IDEA 1.7, Skype 7.18.0.112, EccoPro, CPU-Z 1.72, and many other Visual Basic 5/6 apps using ActiveX components have also been improved in Wine 1.8.2, whose sources you can download right now via our website or directly from the project's homepage.
Wine 1.8.2 is a recommended upgrade for anyone using the stable Wine 1.8 branch to run Windows applications and games on their GNU/Linux operating systems. Please check the main software repositories of your distributions for the Wine 1.8.2 update in the coming days. More details about what exactly has been changed in the second point release of Wine 1.8 can be found in the changelog attached below.