September 2023 - Wine-Devel

Mailing list traffic
by Francois Gouget April 19, 2024

April 19, 2024

With GitLab and the spinning off of commit messages to wine-gitlab I think the traffic estimates on the mailing list page need to be updated... at least for wine-devel: it no longer has 50 messages per day. https://www.winehq.org/forums (unfortunately there is no unit on the little per mailing-list graph) -- Francois Gouget <fgouget(a)free.fr> http://fgouget.free.fr/ Theory is where you know everything but nothing works. Practice is where everything works but nobody knows why. Sometimes they go hand in hand: nothing works and nobody knows why.

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The future of WineConf
by Alexandre Julliard Jan. 27, 2024

Jan. 27, 2024

Folks, As you may have noticed, we haven't been making any plans for WineConf this year. Jeremy has been busy preparing his retirement, and I haven't been pushing it either, mostly because I'm not convinced that we want to continue the traditional WineConf model. Even though we skipped a few years because of the pandemic, attendance at last year's WineConf wasn't great. We also suggested meeting at FOSDEM in February, like we did in previous years, but essentially no one showed up. So I'm wondering whether there is still enough interest for a traditional WineConf, or whether we should try a different approach, to maybe capture some of the recent excitement around gaming and downstream uses of Wine in general. I'd like to hear your thoughts. Should we do a Proton conference, or join some kind of gaming-related event? Do people even want to travel to conferences anymore? What kind of event would you be interested in, particularly those of you who don't show up to the traditional WineConf? -- Alexandre Julliard julliard(a)winehq.org

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Wine staging 8.17 release
by Alistair Leslie-Hughes Sept. 29, 2023

Sept. 29, 2023

Binary packages for various distributions will be available from: https://www.winehq.org/download Summary since last release * Rebased to current wine 8.17 (494 patches are applied to wine vanilla) Upstreamed (Either directly from staging or fixed with a similar patch). * systeminfo: add basic functionality. Added: * [39876] d3dx9: D3DXLoadMeshHierarchyFromXInMemory return a dummy ID3DXAnimationController. Updated: * vkd3d-latest to latest. * user32-recursive-activation Where can you help * Run Steam/Battle.net/GOG/UPlay/Epic * Test your favorite game. * Test your favorite applications. * Improve staging patches and get them accepted upstream. * Suggest patches to be included in staging. As always, if you find a bug, please report it via https://bugs.winehq.org Best Regards Alistair.

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TestBot News
by Francois Gouget Sept. 26, 2023

Sept. 26, 2023

* GitLab bridge The bridge to add the TestBot failures as comments on GitLab is broken. It seems like it happened near the end of August. So be sure to look at the wine-gitlab mailing list to not miss issues in your merge requests. * VM changes debian11, debian11b and debiant now have UsePPosition in their fvwm configuration. See the full fvwm configuration below: https://wiki.winehq.org/Wine_TestBot_VMs#Unix_configuration These VMs also got an update to the latest packages. Also there is an ongoing experiment to figure out the best window manager for the tests. And who knows, maybe we'll event keep more than one? Anyway we currently have: - debian11 fvwm2 - debian11b fvwm2 - debian12 openbox - debiant fvwm3 * Test result changes Thanks to Esme's work, user32:msg now has a lot fewer failures, most notably on Windows 7 and 11: https://test.winehq.org/data/patterns.html#user32:msg d3d9:device also got quite a bit better thanks to Stefan's work: https://test.winehq.org/data/patterns And Alexandre fixed a bunch of stack, pointer and parameter size failures in various tests: https://test.winehq.org/data/patterns.html#kernel32:loader https://test.winehq.org/data/patterns.html#kernel32:thread https://test.winehq.org/data/patterns.html#ntdll:om https://test.winehq.org/data/patterns.html#oleaut32:usrmarshal https://test.winehq.org/data/patterns.html#winmm:capture ... Unfortunately there are other tests that started failing: 09-18 - 55650 dbghelp:dbghelp fails on macOS 09-14 - 55648 ntdll:wow64 - test_peb_teb() crashes on macOS - 55658 psapi:psapi_main - test_EnumProcessModules*() fails on macOS - 55655 user32:dialog - test_IsDialogMessageA_proc() fails in the Hindi locale on Wine - 55656 user32:dialog - test_IsDialogMessage() fails in the hi-u8 and mx-MX locales on Windows (bug 55656) 09-12 - 55649 quartz:vmr9 - test_changed3ddevice() fails on the TestBot's w11pro64-amd & -nv VMs 09-11 - 55637 dmime:dmime - test_performance_pmsg() sometimes fails due to bad timing on Windows and Wine - 55656 ntdll:exception - test_thread_context() fails on macOS 09-08 - 55583 d3d8:device - test_wndproc() often is missing a WM_WINDOWPOSCHANGING in Wine 08-30 - 55569 mshtml:dom - The 32-bit test_attr_collection_attr() crashes on Windows 10 2004+ 08-23 - 55588 mf:mf - test_scheme_resolvers() crashes on Windows 7 -- Francois Gouget <fgouget(a)codeweavers.com>

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Wine staging 8.16 release
by Alistair Leslie-Hughes Sept. 16, 2023

Sept. 16, 2023

Binary packages for various distributions will be available from: https://www.winehq.org/download Summary since last release * Rebased to current wine 8.16 (495 patches are applied to wine vanilla) Upstreamed (Either directly from staging or fixed with a similar patch). * dnsapi/tests: Add some tests for DNS_TYPE_SRV messages. * dnsapi: Accept name records of exact size at the end of the packet. * dnsapi: Set correct wDataLength for DNS_TYPE_SRV records. Added: * [10729] ddraw: Implement Pick() and GetPickRecords(). Updated: * vkd3d-latest to latest. Where can you help * Run Steam/Battle.net/GOG/UPlay/Epic * Test your favorite game. * Test your favorite applications. * Improve staging patches and get them accepted upstream. * Suggest patches to be included in staging. As always, if you find a bug, please report it via https://bugs.winehq.org Best Regards Alistair.

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Recent ntdll/unix/signal_x86_64.c changes
by Gerald Pfeifer Sept. 15, 2023

Sept. 15, 2023

commit ea640f6cece7660ffc853b7d574fbe52af34901a Author: Alexandre Julliard <julliard(a)winehq.org> Date: Mon Sep 11 11:25:29 2023 +0200 ntdll: Ignore attempts to change segment registers on x86-64. moved the following code +#ifdef DS_sig + DS_sig(sigcontext) = ds64_sel; +#else + __asm__ volatile( "movw %0,%%ds" :: "r" (ds64_sel) ); +#endif +#ifdef ES_sig + ES_sig(sigcontext) = ds64_sel; +#else + __asm__ volatile( "movw %0,%%es" :: "r" (ds64_sel) ); +#endif into static inline void leave_handler( const ucontext_t *sigcontext ) Alas this has "const ucontext_t *sigcontext", so platforms like FreeBSD that define DS_sig will try to do DS_sig(sigcontext) = ds64_sel; which results in GCC rightfully diagnosing: dlls/ntdll/unix/signal_x86_64.c: In function ‘leave_handler’: dlls/ntdll/unix/signal_x86_64.c:822:24: error: assignment of member ‘mc_ds’ in read-only object 822 | DS_sig(sigcontext) = ds64_sel; | ^ I submitted https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/merge_requests/3845 which restores the build on FreeBSD and presumably NetBSD, but wonder: Could FreeBSD/NetBSD align with Linux and macOS which d not define DS_sig (and ES_sig) and thus use into different code paths in leave_handler? Gerald

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Wine staging 8.15 release
by Alistair Leslie-Hughes Sept. 1, 2023

Sept. 1, 2023

Binary packages for various distributions will be available from: https://www.winehq.org/download Summary since last release * Rebased to current wine 8.15 (496 patches are applied to wine vanilla) Upstreamed (Either directly from staging or fixed with a similar patch). * None. Added: * None Updated: * vkd3d-latest to latest. * user32-rawinput-mouse * mshtml-TranslateAccelerator Where can you help * Run Steam/Battle.net/GOG/UPlay/Epic * Test your favorite game. * Test your favorite applications. * Improve staging patches and get them accepted upstream. * Suggest patches to be included in staging. As always, if you find a bug, please report it via https://bugs.winehq.org Best Regards Alistair.

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