Experimental Release of Wine 8.16 Brings Exciting Changes
A new experimental release of the open implementation Winapi, called Wine 8.16, has taken place. This release follows the previous version, 8.15, and includes the closure of 33 errors and 489 changes.
Key Updates
- The development of functionality for using Wine in Wayland-based environments without XWayland and X11 components continues. The Winewayland.drv driver has been enhanced to support processing WL_POINTER events necessary for mouse application interaction. It also allows updating the cursor image using Windows raster image.
- An initial implementation of the directmusic API has been introduced.
- The system of regressive tests has been improved.
- Errors related to various applications, including GPS Track Editor, PC-Win St 750-760, Softerra LDAP Browser, PS Core (Pwsh.exe), and Vitis 2020.1, have been resolved.
- Issues concerning the functioning of games like Roblox and Antecrypt have been addressed.
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