February 2026 - Wine-GitLab

[PATCH 0/2] MR8414: Fix EV Nova game text truncation.
by Zhiyi Zhang (＠zhiyi) April 29, 2026

April 29, 2026

Fix the rectangle from DrawText(..., DT_CALCRECT) with a selected font might not be enough to actually draw text with the font for the EV Nova game. This ensures that text extent calculated with a font selected in a device context is enough when drawing texts using the same font and device context. The root cause is that FreeType might report different font metrics for different GGO formats. GetTextExtentExPoint() gets text extent with GGO_METRICS. And GGO_METRICS gets font metrics from glyphs loaded with FT_LOAD_TARGET_NORMAL, so when drawing bitmap fonts, which is of GGO_BITMAP format loaded with FT_LOAD_TARGET_MONO, with the calculated text extent, the result text might get truncated because of the font metrics difference. On Windows, anti-aliased font and bitmap font of the same face font reports the same font metrics so such a problem doesn't happen. The ultimate fix is to let FreeType hint the bitmap fonts with the same font metrics as anti-aliased fonts but there are no settings that can achieve it unless we write a new FreeType hinter. Wine-Bug: https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57309 -- https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/merge_requests/8414

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[PATCH v4 0/1] MR8794: shell32: Restore the ability of running unix executables via unix paths
by Yuxuan Shui (＠yshui) April 17, 2026

April 17, 2026

MobaXTerm tries to ShellExecute "/bin/sh" when running under wine. This ability to run unix executables on the host via unix paths was accidentally removed in the attemp to align ShellExecute more closely with native, while fixing the problem that sometimes wrong executable is started by ShellExecute (e.g. in Motor Race Collection). Related: a2548c8db3096963012939c82e340f6b867f3efd Fixes: 85d029e3b01f6dd35a86cc07796af982d66e4a03 -- v4: shell32: Restore the ability of running unix executables via unix paths https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/merge_requests/8794

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[PATCH 0/1] MR3527: include: disable GCC bug workaround for more recent compilers
by Yuxuan Shui (＠yshui) April 17, 2026

April 17, 2026

-- https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/merge_requests/3527

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[PATCH 0/2] MR10072: shell32: Always update `outlen` (`pcchOut`) when querying strings
by Marijn Suijten (＠Marijn) April 15, 2026

April 15, 2026

At least `AssocQueryStringW()` is documented to update the character count in `pcchOut` to "the number of characters actually placed in the buffer" which requires us to update the value of `*outlen` even when the buffer size was sufficient: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/shlwapi/nf-shlwapi-asso… Wine-Bug: https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59402 -- https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/merge_requests/10072

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[PATCH 0/1] MR8911: ole32: Add widl-generated proxy for IInspectable.
by Vibhav Pant (＠vibhavp) April 12, 2026

April 12, 2026

IUnknown and IInspectable use the same PSFactoryBuffer CLSID (`00000320-0000-0000-c000-000000000046`) -- https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/merge_requests/8911

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[PATCH 0/2] MR1338: msxml3: Escape special characters in xml nodes
by Evan Tang (＠etang-cw) April 12, 2026

April 12, 2026

Allows the Adobe Photoshop Elements installer to get slightly further than before The `E_FAIL` check for switching to int while there's a non-integer string isn't needed for the installer and is just something I hit accidentally when trying to write the test cases. Should I leave it in? -- https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/merge_requests/1338

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[PATCH 0/1] MR3928: msxml3: Add GB2312 support for builtin character converter.
by Jactry Zeng (＠jactry) April 10, 2026

April 10, 2026

-- https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/merge_requests/3928

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[PATCH v10 0/11] MR9628: Implement pointer input APIs for multi-touch support
by Hecheng Yu (＠kde-yyds) April 9, 2026

April 9, 2026

These patches implemeted core pointer input APIs required by modern applications with touchscreen support, particularly Chromium and Qt-based applications. Implemented APIs: - GetPointerType: Query pointer input type (touch, pen, mouse) - GetPointerTouchInfo: Retrieve detailed touch pointer information - GetPointerFrameTouchInfo: Get all active touch pointers in current frame Added stubs: - SkipPointerFrameMessages: Used by applications to skip pointer frame processing like Qt - GetPointerFrameTouchInfoHistory: Historical touch frame data (not yet implemented) - GetPointerPenInfoHistory: Historical pen data (not yet implemented) System metrics changes: - SM_DIGITIZER: Reports touch capabilities (NID_INTEGRATED_TOUCH | NID_MULTI_INPUT | NID_READY) - SM_MAXIMUMTOUCHES: Returns maximum simultaneous touch points (10) Limitations: - We explictly set pointer type to PT_TOUCH when storing pointer info to queue, so GetPointerType will always return PT_TOUCH - GetPointerFrameTouchInfo returns 0 pointers after finger lift, while Windows returns 1 pointer with UP flags. And SkipPointerFrameMessages is currently a stub returning TRUE. Qt's pointer message processing uses both of them, but it's just working well Application requirements: - Chromium: Requires GetPointerType and GetPointerTouchInfo for touch input - Qt applications: Need GetPointerFrameTouchInfo and proper system metrics for multi-touch support - Qt5: Additionally checks for presence of all pointer APIs at runtime, requiring stubs to enable pointer messages processing -- v10: user32: Implement GetPointerFrameTouchInfo win32u: Implement NtUserGetPointerFrameTouchInfo user32: Implement GetPointerTouchInfo win32u: Implement NtUserGetPointerTouchInfo user32: Implement GetPointerType win32u: Implement NtUserGetPointerType win32u: Add pointer information cache and storage user32: Stub GetPointerPenInfoHistory user32: Stub GetPointerFrameTouchInfoHistory user32: Stub SkipPointerFrameMessages win32u: Add SM_DIGITIZER and SM_MAXIMUMTOUCHES system metrics https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/merge_requests/9628

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[PATCH v4 0/1] MR9038: Draft: msi: implement MsiProvideAssembly[AW]()
by Ratchanan Srirattanamet (＠ratchanan.sr) March 31, 2026

March 31, 2026

TODO: - make awstring version of MsiProvideComponent() and use that. - Actually implement MsiProvideAssemblyA() using the above. - Write conformance test? Dependency: - Have ACTION_PublishAssemblies() record feature (https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/merge_requests/9037) - Have MsiEnumFeatures() fixed. Currently it seems to just look for features at the wrong place and thus is useless for this purpose. (https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/merge_requests/9041) Wine-Bug: https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58578 -- v4: [WIP] msi: implement MsiProvideAssembly[AW]() https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/merge_requests/9038

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[PATCH 0/1] MR6527: dinput8: Prefer the native DLL.
by Aida Jonikienė March 30, 2026

March 30, 2026

Many mod/ASI loaders hijack this DLL to do their work so accommodate this fairly common case by preferring their library. -- https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/merge_requests/6527

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