Wine 8.17 and Wine Staging 8.17 Released

The experimental release of open implementation Winapi – Wine 8.17 took place. From the moment of release of version 8.16, 19 errors were closed and 287 changes were made.

The most important changes:

• The development of functionality continues to be the implementation of the possibility of using Wine in the environment based on the Wayland protocol without the use of XWayland and the X11 components. Winewayland.drv driver has been added initial windows control.
• In the API Directmusic, support for collections, instruments and sound samples in the soundfont format has been added.
• Built-in VKD3D package with the implementation of the Direct3D 12, which works through the call transmission into the graphic API Vulkan, is updated to version 1.9.
• Errors related to applications such as Megui, Sumatra PDF 3.0, Cemu 1.12.0, Tonex, Finale 27, Softether VPN Server Manage, Metatrader 4 were closed.
• Errors related to the work of The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion, Ragemp, Dwarf Fortress,
• Recore, as well as SRPG Studio games were closed.

You can additionally mention the formation release of the project wine staging 8.17, forming extended assemblies of Wine, including not fully finished or risky patches, so far unsuitable for the main branch of Wine. Compared to Wine, Wine Staging is provided with 494 additional patches.

In the new issue of Wine Staging, synchronization with the code base Wine 8.17 was carried out. The main composition of Wine is moved by patch with the implementation of the basic functionality of Systemin Fo. A patch has been added with the initial implementation of the D3DXLOADMESHIERCHYFROMXINMEMEMIRY method, which returns a plug with ID3dxanimationController. Updated patch