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Gitlab News
by Alexandre Julliard Sept. 15, 2025

Sept. 15, 2025

Folks, As you may have noticed, now that the ARM64 support is done (just kidding), I've picked up the work on the Gitlab migration: 1. The Wiki has been moved to Gitlab, it's now at [1]. Existing URLs to the previous Wiki are redirected to the appropriate page. There are also separate Wikis for appdb, vkd3d and wine-staging, under their respective project pages. As part of the migration I've done some minor edits, but most of the Wiki is badly out-of-date, and could use some love. Help is welcome! Check the Writers page [2] for details on how to contribute. 2. We are now hosting the Mono project on the WineHQ Gitlab [3]. Please join me in welcoming the Mono developers to our community! 3. We have new hardware for the Gitlab server, which is now noticeably faster. Thanks to Jeremy Newman for setting this up! This also made it possible to enable robots.txt again so that our content is indexed. The next step will be to install new hardware for the Gitlab runners to offer more CI bandwidth. 4. The Gitlab issue tracker is currently disabled because it was attracting too much spam. I'm going to re-enable it, first for use by Mono, and then ultimately also for Wine itself. To fight the spam I'm planning to add an explicit user verification step, modelled along the procedure used by Freedesktop.org [4]. 5. As part of the new sign-up process, I think it would be a good idea to have an explicit Code of Conduct to spell out our expectations. Instead of reinventing the wheel, I propose that we adopt the Contributor Covenant [5] that many other projects (including Mono) are already using. Thoughts? Questions? Comments? [1]: https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/wikis [2]: https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/wikis/Writers [3]: https://gitlab.winehq.org/mono [4]: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/freedesktop/freedesktop/-/wikis/home [5]: https://www.contributor-covenant.org/ -- Alexandre Julliard julliard(a)winehq.org

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Wine staging 10.0-rc3 release
by Alistair Leslie-Hughes Dec. 20, 2024

Dec. 20, 2024

Right subject this time. Binary packages for various distributions will be available from: https://www.winehq.org/download Summary since last release * Rebased to current wine 10.0-rc3 (346 patches are applied to wine vanilla) Upstreamed (Either directly from staging or fixed with a similar patch). * None Removed (No longer required). * None Added: * None Updated: * vkd3d-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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Wine staging 10.0-rc2 release
by Alistair Leslie-Hughes Dec. 20, 2024

Dec. 20, 2024

Binary packages for various distributions will be available from: https://www.winehq.org/download Summary since last release * Rebased to current wine 10.0-rc2 (346 patches are applied to wine vanilla) Upstreamed (Either directly from staging or fixed with a similar patch). * None Removed (No longer required). * None Added: * None Updated: * vkd3d-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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Wine staging 10.0-rc2 release
by Alistair Leslie-Hughes Dec. 13, 2024

Dec. 13, 2024

Binary packages for various distributions will be available from: https://www.winehq.org/download Summary since last release * Rebased to current wine 10.0-rc2 (349 patches are applied to wine vanilla) Upstreamed (Either directly from staging or fixed with a similar patch). * None Removed (No longer required). * None Added: * None Updated: * vkd3d-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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[PATCH v7 00/30] NT synchronization primitive driver
by Elizabeth Figura Dec. 13, 2024

Dec. 13, 2024

This patch series implements a new char misc driver, /dev/ntsync, which is used to implement Windows NT synchronization primitives. NT synchronization primitives are unique in that the wait functions both are vectored, operate on multiple types of object with different behaviour (mutex, semaphore, event), and affect the state of the objects they wait on. This model is not compatible with existing kernel synchronization objects or interfaces, and therefore the ntsync driver implements its own wait queues and locking. This patch series is rebased against the "char-misc-next" branch of gregkh/char-misc.git. == Background == The Wine project emulates the Windows API in user space. One particular part of that API, namely the NT synchronization primitives, have historically been implemented via RPC to a dedicated "kernel" process. However, more recent applications use these APIs more strenuously, and the overhead of RPC has become a bottleneck. The NT synchronization APIs are too complex to implement on top of existing primitives without sacrificing correctness. Certain operations, such as NtPulseEvent() or the "wait-for-all" mode of NtWaitForMultipleObjects(), require direct control over the underlying wait queue, and implementing a wait queue sufficiently robust for Wine in user space is not possible. This proposed driver, therefore, implements the problematic interfaces directly in the Linux kernel. This driver was presented at Linux Plumbers Conference 2023. For those further interested in the history of synchronization in Wine and past attempts to solve this problem in user space, a recording of the presentation can be viewed here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjU4nyWyhU8 == Performance == The performance measurements described below are copied from earlier versions of the patch set. While some of the code has changed, I do not currently anticipate that it has changed drastically enough to affect those measurements. The gain in performance varies wildly depending on the application in question and the user's hardware. For some games NT synchronization is not a bottleneck and no change can be observed, but for others frame rate improvements of 50 to 150 percent are not atypical. The following table lists frame rate measurements from a variety of games on a variety of hardware, taken by users Dmitry Skvortsov, FuzzyQuils, OnMars, and myself: Game Upstream ntsync improvement =========================================================================== Anger Foot 69 99 43% Call of Juarez 99.8 224.1 125% Dirt 3 110.6 860.7 678% Forza Horizon 5 108 160 48% Lara Croft: Temple of Osiris 141 326 131% Metro 2033 164.4 199.2 21% Resident Evil 2 26 77 196% The Crew 26 51 96% Tiny Tina's Wonderlands 130 360 177% Total War Saga: Troy 109 146 34% =========================================================================== == Patches == The intended semantics of the patches are broadly intended to match those of the corresponding Windows functions. For those not already familiar with the Windows functions (or their undocumented behaviour), patch 27/28 provides a detailed specification, and individual patches also include a brief description of the API they are implementing. The patches making use of this driver in Wine can be retrieved or browsed here: https://repo.or.cz/wine/zf.git/shortlog/refs/heads/ntsync7 == Previous versions == Changes from v6: * rename NTSYNC_IOC_SEM_POST to NTSYNC_IOC_SEM_RELEASE (matching the NT terminology instead of POSIX), * change object creation ioctls to return the fds directly in the return value instead of through the args struct, which simplifies the API a bit. * Link to v6: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20241209185904.507350-1-zfigura(a)codeweavers.… * Link to v5: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240519202454.1192826-1-zfigura(a)codeweavers… * Link to v4: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240416010837.333694-1-zfigura(a)codeweavers.… * Link to v3: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240329000621.148791-1-zfigura(a)codeweavers.… * Link to v2: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240219223833.95710-1-zfigura(a)codeweavers.c… * Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240214233645.9273-1-zfigura(a)codeweavers.co… * Link to RFC v2: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240131021356.10322-1-zfigura(a)codeweavers.c… * Link to RFC v1: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240124004028.16826-1-zfigura(a)codeweavers.c… Elizabeth Figura (30): ntsync: Return the fd from NTSYNC_IOC_CREATE_SEM. ntsync: Rename NTSYNC_IOC_SEM_POST to NTSYNC_IOC_SEM_RELEASE. ntsync: Introduce NTSYNC_IOC_WAIT_ANY. ntsync: Introduce NTSYNC_IOC_WAIT_ALL. ntsync: Introduce NTSYNC_IOC_CREATE_MUTEX. ntsync: Introduce NTSYNC_IOC_MUTEX_UNLOCK. ntsync: Introduce NTSYNC_IOC_MUTEX_KILL. ntsync: Introduce NTSYNC_IOC_CREATE_EVENT. ntsync: Introduce NTSYNC_IOC_EVENT_SET. ntsync: Introduce NTSYNC_IOC_EVENT_RESET. ntsync: Introduce NTSYNC_IOC_EVENT_PULSE. ntsync: Introduce NTSYNC_IOC_SEM_READ. ntsync: Introduce NTSYNC_IOC_MUTEX_READ. ntsync: Introduce NTSYNC_IOC_EVENT_READ. ntsync: Introduce alertable waits. selftests: ntsync: Add some tests for semaphore state. selftests: ntsync: Add some tests for mutex state. selftests: ntsync: Add some tests for NTSYNC_IOC_WAIT_ANY. selftests: ntsync: Add some tests for NTSYNC_IOC_WAIT_ALL. selftests: ntsync: Add some tests for wakeup signaling with WINESYNC_IOC_WAIT_ANY. selftests: ntsync: Add some tests for wakeup signaling with WINESYNC_IOC_WAIT_ALL. selftests: ntsync: Add some tests for manual-reset event state. selftests: ntsync: Add some tests for auto-reset event state. selftests: ntsync: Add some tests for wakeup signaling with events. selftests: ntsync: Add tests for alertable waits. selftests: ntsync: Add some tests for wakeup signaling via alerts. selftests: ntsync: Add a stress test for contended waits. maintainers: Add an entry for ntsync. docs: ntsync: Add documentation for the ntsync uAPI. ntsync: No longer depend on BROKEN. Documentation/userspace-api/index.rst | 1 + Documentation/userspace-api/ntsync.rst | 385 +++++ MAINTAINERS | 9 + drivers/misc/Kconfig | 1 - drivers/misc/ntsync.c | 992 +++++++++++- include/uapi/linux/ntsync.h | 42 +- tools/testing/selftests/Makefile | 1 + .../selftests/drivers/ntsync/.gitignore | 1 + .../testing/selftests/drivers/ntsync/Makefile | 7 + tools/testing/selftests/drivers/ntsync/config | 1 + .../testing/selftests/drivers/ntsync/ntsync.c | 1343 +++++++++++++++++ 11 files changed, 2767 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-) create mode 100644 Documentation/userspace-api/ntsync.rst create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/drivers/ntsync/.gitignore create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/drivers/ntsync/Makefile create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/drivers/ntsync/config create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/drivers/ntsync/ntsync.c base-commit: cdd30ebb1b9f36159d66f088b61aee264e649d7a -- 2.45.2

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Clarification regarding clean room guidelines and headers / prototypes
by Fabian Maurer Dec. 13, 2024

Dec. 13, 2024

Hello, Not sure who, apart from Alexandre, could help here, but I wanted to ask for some clarification on the clean room guidelines (https://gitlab.winehq.org/ wine/wine/-/wikis/Clean-Room-Guidelines) Let's say we want to add a few new COM classes / interfaces from WinRT for some program. What is the official way to get those header definitions? Copy paste from the official SDK? Or worse, there is some windows adjacent dlls that only contain typelibs - can we decompile those typelibs to get the COM interface definitions? Or how about undocumented functions that are documented by third parties? ROS is off limits, all others as well? There are for example C# projects that provide P/Invoke definitions of otherwise undocumented functions. I think it would be helpful for the wiki to be updated with a bit of clarification. Thanks in advance, Regards, Fabian Maurer

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wine Conformance-Tests page download url broken
by zhengxianwei Dec. 12, 2024

Dec. 12, 2024

https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/wikis/Conformance-Tests - https://test.winehq.org/builds/winetest-latest.exe for the 32-bit Windows executable. - https://test.winehq.org/builds/winetest64-latest.exe for the 64-bit Windows executable. download link broken

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Photoshop 2023 flink
by zhengxianwei Dec. 12, 2024

Dec. 12, 2024

Hello, I am trying to run Photoshop 23 using the DLL generated by VKD3D-Proton. I noticed that after opening an image, dragging it causes display issues. Here’s a video showing the problem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgWrsFx4GrM (Because I have not been using the successful obs recording, so I switched to recording with my cell phone, the result is worse, sorry!) When I capture frames with RenderDoc, the images appear normal. I suspect the issue might be related to the desktop gui composition process, but I’m unsure how to analyze such problems. Do you have any suggestions? Software information Photoshop23 System information - GPU: GTX 1070ti - Driver: 535.183.01 - Wine version: 9.2 (latest, not proton-wine) - VKD3D-Proton version: (latest)

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Re: [PATCH v6 00/28] NT synchronization primitive driver
by Elizabeth Figura Dec. 9, 2024

Dec. 9, 2024

On Monday, 9 December 2024 14:24:36 CST Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Mon, Dec 9, 2024, at 19:58, Elizabeth Figura wrote: > > == Previous versions == > > > > No changes were made from v5 other than rebasing on top of the 6.13-rc1 > > char-misc-next tree. > > > > I would like to repeat a question from the last round of review, though. Two > > changes were suggested related to API design, which I did not make because the > > APIs in question were already released in upstream Linux. However, the driver is > > also completely nonfunctional and hidden behind BROKEN, so would this be > > acceptable anyway? The changes in question are: > > If it was impossible to use the driver, there is no regression. > I feel the entire point of marking it as broken was to be able > to add that type of change. Makes sense. [I figured that the BROKEN was just there to prevent anyone from trying to use a half-finished driver, and the point of committing a half-finished driver was just to reduce the number of patches that needed to be resent.] I'll make these changes and resend. > > * rename NTSYNC_IOC_SEM_POST to NTSYNC_IOC_SEM_RELEASE (matching the NT > > terminology instead of POSIX), > > No objections my me on either name. > > > * change object creation ioctls to return the fds directly in the return value > > instead of through the args struct. I would also still appreciate a > > clarification on the advice in [1], which is why I didn't do this in the first > > place. > > > > [1] https://docs.kernel.org/driver-api/ioctl.html#return-code > > The git log tells me that I have written that, but I don't remember > why I put that in, maybe someone else suggested it. > > My feeling right now is that returning a file descriptor number > as a small positive integer from the ioctl() return code makes > sense. On the other hand, returning pointers, negative signed > integers or large (> 32bit) 'unsigned long' values can cause > a number of issues, so I would avoid all those the same way we > discourage passing those integers as a literal 'arg' into ioctl() > instead of going through a pointer. Ah, that makes sense to me, thanks.

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[PATCH v6 00/28] NT synchronization primitive driver
by Elizabeth Figura Dec. 9, 2024

Dec. 9, 2024

This patch series implements a new char misc driver, /dev/ntsync, which is used to implement Windows NT synchronization primitives. NT synchronization primitives are unique in that the wait functions both are vectored, operate on multiple types of object with different behaviour (mutex, semaphore, event), and affect the state of the objects they wait on. This model is not compatible with existing kernel synchronization objects or interfaces, and therefore the ntsync driver implements its own wait queues and locking. This patch series is rebased against the "char-misc-next" branch of gregkh/char-misc.git. == Background == The Wine project emulates the Windows API in user space. One particular part of that API, namely the NT synchronization primitives, have historically been implemented via RPC to a dedicated "kernel" process. However, more recent applications use these APIs more strenuously, and the overhead of RPC has become a bottleneck. The NT synchronization APIs are too complex to implement on top of existing primitives without sacrificing correctness. Certain operations, such as NtPulseEvent() or the "wait-for-all" mode of NtWaitForMultipleObjects(), require direct control over the underlying wait queue, and implementing a wait queue sufficiently robust for Wine in user space is not possible. This proposed driver, therefore, implements the problematic interfaces directly in the Linux kernel. This driver was presented at Linux Plumbers Conference 2023. For those further interested in the history of synchronization in Wine and past attempts to solve this problem in user space, a recording of the presentation can be viewed here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjU4nyWyhU8 == Performance == The performance measurements described below are copied from earlier versions of the patch set. While some of the code has changed, I do not currently anticipate that it has changed drastically enough to affect those measurements. The gain in performance varies wildly depending on the application in question and the user's hardware. For some games NT synchronization is not a bottleneck and no change can be observed, but for others frame rate improvements of 50 to 150 percent are not atypical. The following table lists frame rate measurements from a variety of games on a variety of hardware, taken by users Dmitry Skvortsov, FuzzyQuils, OnMars, and myself: Game Upstream ntsync improvement =========================================================================== Anger Foot 69 99 43% Call of Juarez 99.8 224.1 125% Dirt 3 110.6 860.7 678% Forza Horizon 5 108 160 48% Lara Croft: Temple of Osiris 141 326 131% Metro 2033 164.4 199.2 21% Resident Evil 2 26 77 196% The Crew 26 51 96% Tiny Tina's Wonderlands 130 360 177% Total War Saga: Troy 109 146 34% =========================================================================== == Patches == The intended semantics of the patches are broadly intended to match those of the corresponding Windows functions. For those not already familiar with the Windows functions (or their undocumented behaviour), patch 27/28 provides a detailed specification, and individual patches also include a brief description of the API they are implementing. The patches making use of this driver in Wine can be retrieved or browsed here: https://repo.or.cz/wine/zf.git/shortlog/refs/heads/ntsync5 == Previous versions == No changes were made from v5 other than rebasing on top of the 6.13-rc1 char-misc-next tree. I would like to repeat a question from the last round of review, though. Two changes were suggested related to API design, which I did not make because the APIs in question were already released in upstream Linux. However, the driver is also completely nonfunctional and hidden behind BROKEN, so would this be acceptable anyway? The changes in question are: * rename NTSYNC_IOC_SEM_POST to NTSYNC_IOC_SEM_RELEASE (matching the NT terminology instead of POSIX), * change object creation ioctls to return the fds directly in the return value instead of through the args struct. I would also still appreciate a clarification on the advice in [1], which is why I didn't do this in the first place. [1] https://docs.kernel.org/driver-api/ioctl.html#return-code * Link to v5: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240519202454.1192826-1-zfigura(a)codeweavers… * Link to v4: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240416010837.333694-1-zfigura(a)codeweavers.… * Link to v3: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240329000621.148791-1-zfigura(a)codeweavers.… * Link to v2: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240219223833.95710-1-zfigura(a)codeweavers.c… * Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240214233645.9273-1-zfigura(a)codeweavers.co… * Link to RFC v2: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240131021356.10322-1-zfigura(a)codeweavers.c… * Link to RFC v1: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240124004028.16826-1-zfigura(a)codeweavers.c… Elizabeth Figura (28): ntsync: Introduce NTSYNC_IOC_WAIT_ANY. ntsync: Introduce NTSYNC_IOC_WAIT_ALL. ntsync: Introduce NTSYNC_IOC_CREATE_MUTEX. ntsync: Introduce NTSYNC_IOC_MUTEX_UNLOCK. ntsync: Introduce NTSYNC_IOC_MUTEX_KILL. ntsync: Introduce NTSYNC_IOC_CREATE_EVENT. ntsync: Introduce NTSYNC_IOC_EVENT_SET. ntsync: Introduce NTSYNC_IOC_EVENT_RESET. ntsync: Introduce NTSYNC_IOC_EVENT_PULSE. ntsync: Introduce NTSYNC_IOC_SEM_READ. ntsync: Introduce NTSYNC_IOC_MUTEX_READ. ntsync: Introduce NTSYNC_IOC_EVENT_READ. ntsync: Introduce alertable waits. selftests: ntsync: Add some tests for semaphore state. selftests: ntsync: Add some tests for mutex state. selftests: ntsync: Add some tests for NTSYNC_IOC_WAIT_ANY. selftests: ntsync: Add some tests for NTSYNC_IOC_WAIT_ALL. selftests: ntsync: Add some tests for wakeup signaling with WINESYNC_IOC_WAIT_ANY. selftests: ntsync: Add some tests for wakeup signaling with WINESYNC_IOC_WAIT_ALL. selftests: ntsync: Add some tests for manual-reset event state. selftests: ntsync: Add some tests for auto-reset event state. selftests: ntsync: Add some tests for wakeup signaling with events. selftests: ntsync: Add tests for alertable waits. selftests: ntsync: Add some tests for wakeup signaling via alerts. selftests: ntsync: Add a stress test for contended waits. maintainers: Add an entry for ntsync. docs: ntsync: Add documentation for the ntsync uAPI. ntsync: No longer depend on BROKEN. Documentation/userspace-api/index.rst | 1 + Documentation/userspace-api/ntsync.rst | 398 +++++ MAINTAINERS | 9 + drivers/misc/Kconfig | 1 - drivers/misc/ntsync.c | 989 +++++++++++- include/uapi/linux/ntsync.h | 39 + tools/testing/selftests/Makefile | 1 + .../selftests/drivers/ntsync/.gitignore | 1 + .../testing/selftests/drivers/ntsync/Makefile | 7 + tools/testing/selftests/drivers/ntsync/config | 1 + .../testing/selftests/drivers/ntsync/ntsync.c | 1407 +++++++++++++++++ 11 files changed, 2850 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) create mode 100644 Documentation/userspace-api/ntsync.rst create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/drivers/ntsync/.gitignore create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/drivers/ntsync/Makefile create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/drivers/ntsync/config create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/drivers/ntsync/ntsync.c base-commit: cdd30ebb1b9f36159d66f088b61aee264e649d7a -- 2.45.2

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