This is release 20041019 of Wine, a free implementation of Windows on Unix. This is still a developers only release. There are many bugs and unimplemented features. Most applications still do not work correctly.
WHAT'S NEW with Wine-20041019: (see ChangeLog for details) - Beginnings of an architecture for Direct3D 9 support. - Many debugger regressions fixed. - Improvements to the IDL compiler and the COM headers. - New MSCMS dll (color management support). - Lots of bug fixes.
See the README file in the distribution for installation instructions.
Because of lags created by using mirror, this message may reach you before the release is available at the ftp sites. The sources will be available from the following locations:
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/ALPHA/wine/development/Wine-20041019.tar.gz http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/wine/Wine-20041019.tar.gz
It should also be available from any other site that mirrors ibiblio.org. These locations also hold pre-built documentation packages in various formats: wine-doc-html.tar.gz, wine-doc-txt.tar.gz, wine-doc-pdf.tar.gz and wine-doc-ps.tar.gz.
You can also get the current source directly from the CVS tree. Check http://www.winehq.org/cvs for details.
Patches should be submitted to "wine-patches@winehq.org". Please don't forget to include a ChangeLog entry. If you submitted a patch, please check to make sure it has been included in the new release.
If you want to receive by mail a patch against the previous release when a new one is released, you can subscribe to the mailing list at http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-releases .
Wine is available thanks to the work of many people. See the file AUTHORS in the distribution for the complete list.
-- Alexandre Julliard julliard@winehq.org