The Wine development team announced the availability of a new development release of the open-source and cross-platform application that lets Linux and Mac users install and use games and apps made only for Microsoft Windows operating systems.
Wine 2.3 is now the newest development release, the third of its kind after the release of the major Wine 2.0 stable series earlier this year. Prominent features include improvements to ODBC (Open Database Connectivity) support on 64-bit platforms, more Shader Model 5 instructions, and additional work on the Direct3D command stream.
Other than that, it looks like the underline rendering was improved in DirectWrite and the deprecated wineinstall script has been finally removed. Of course, numerous bugs reported by users since previous development releases have been addressed. According to the release notes, a total of 41 iss… (read more)
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