The palette support in windowscodecs.dll was improved

Oct 7, 2016 01:30 GMT  ·  By

The Wine Staging development team announced recently the release and immediate availability of the Wine Staging 1.9.20 maintenance update for GNU/Linux operating systems.

Coming hot on the heels of the Wine 1.9.20 development release, which brought reimplementation of the clipboard API (Application Programming Interface), message handling in WebServices component, multiple new API Set libraries, as well as a bunch of bug fixes, Wine Staging 1.9.20 adds some improvements on its own end.

For example, it attempts to improve the palette support in the windowscodecs.dll shared dynamic-link library, which is used by numerous Windows applications and games, in particular those that are also compatible with the Wine implementation of Windows on Unix.

Wine Staging 1.9.20 also contains various bug fixes

Being based on Wine 1.9.20, Wine Staging 1.9.20 also contains various bug fixes that have been reported by users since the previous release. Among these, we can mention better support for the Windows 10 DISM, Marvelous Designer 6, ComboFix, Ellisys Visual USB, Battle.net, GOG Galaxy, and MeterBasic Windows apps.

Additionally, it offers improved support for the Age of Mythology: Extended Edition and World Of Tanks games, better detection of the AMD Radeon HD 6480G graphics card, and support for Nvidia GeForce GTX 690 GPUs. We recommend checking out the upstream changelog for all the technical details on the bug fixes.

In the meantime, if you're running Wine Staging 1.9.19 or a previous version, we strongly recommend that you update to Wine Staging 1.9.20 as soon as possible via the stable repositories of your GNU/Linux distributions. Package maintainers and tech-savvy users who want to compile the app can download the Wine Staging 1.9.20 sources right now via our website.