Also implements a udev bus driver for HID

Sep 16, 2016 19:45 GMT  ·  By

The Wine software has been updated today, September 16, 2016, to version 1.9.19, a development milestone towards Wine 2.0, bringing various bug fixes and improvements.

According to the release notes, Wine 1.9.19 appears to be a minor update that only implements an initial version of a udev bus driver for HID, improves joystick support, as well as the metafile support in GDI+, and introduces the DC rendering functionality in Direct2D.

Wine 1.9.19 also fixes a total of 19 issues reported by users since the previous development release, namely Wine 1.9.18, thus improving support for various Windows applications and games. It looks like many Direct2D and Delphi 7 applications should now work a lot better with this version of Wine.

Among the Windows apps that received improvements in Wine 1.9.19, we can mention WinUAE, The Geometer's Sketchpad 5.03, ElsterFormular, KORG Legacy Collection - MS-20 1.3.0, Captvty 3, Microsoft PowerPoint Viewer 14.0, Microsoft Expression Web 4, Xebra, QQ Lite, 2050 IP Softphone, and Cambridge Final Exam (CIE) 4.

World of Tanks 9.16 and No Limits 2 games get patched

It looks like Wine 1.9.19 only patches issues for three Windows games, namely World Of Tanks 9.16, No Limits 2, and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, which should no longer crash when running on your GNU/Linux operating system. The Battle.net launcher has been improved as well, and there's also better support for Japanese and Korean locales.

Wine 1.9.19 is available for download right now via our website, but it's only the source code, which you'll have to compile on your Linux box. Otherwise, you need to wait for this version to land in the main software repositories of your distribution before you can update the current version installed. Below, we've attached the full changelog if you're curious to see what exactly has been changed.

Wine 1.9.19 Changelog