A new development version of Wine has been released, version 9.16. Wine is an open source application for Windows.API It allows DOS and Windows programs to run on Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, and macOS. A large community of developers contribute to Wine and it has been decided to release a new development version every two weeks rather than waiting until a number of new features are ready. A stable version is published several times a year. Database With applications running under Wine, with or without the help of minor tweaks, it has 29,318 titles at the time of writing, the same number as it was two weeks ago. The following changes and improvements have been made in this release:

What’s new in this release:

• Initial implementation of the driver store.
• Pbuffer support in Wayland driver.
• More prototype objects in MSHTML.

Bugs fixed in 9.16 (25 total):

• #30938 Update XIM filter position when cursor position changes
• #37732 Corel Paint Shop Pro X7 installation failed
• #41607 Piggi 2 beta fails to start and causes runtime and fatal error
• #42997 Installing Opera Neon has the opposite effect
• #43251 The play and settings button in the Anarchy Online login window disappears after minimizing and maximizing the window
• #44516 Anarchy Online does not start on Windows7 prefix
• #45105 Heap buffer overflow in gdi32 (Countering Violent Extremism-2018-12932)
• #45106 OOB type in gdi32 (Countering Violent Extremism-2018-12933)
• #45455 Many DIFxApp-based USB device driver installers fail due to missing ‘setupapi.dll.DriverStoreFindDriverPackageW’ stub (Cetus3D-Software UP Studio 2.4.x, Plantronics Hub 3.16)
• #46375 Vietcong: Save game thumbnails (screenshots) have corrupted colors
• #48521 StaxRip 2.0.6.0 (.NET 4.7 application) reports “System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception (0x80004005): Invalid function” when converting AVI (PowerRequest stubs need to return success)
• #53839 Anarchy Online (Old Engine) installer stops after downloading game files
• #54587 GMG-Vision – ShellExecuteEx failed: Invalid EXE format for install.exe.
• #55841 Lotus Approach: Print Properties button ignored.
• #56622 Systray icons now have a black background without a component, and in some panels they can be misaligned or not redrawn, becoming invisible.
• #56825 Unable to see Harmony Assistant version 9.9.8d (64-bit) screen
• #56884 FoxitPDFReaderUpdateService displays the crash dialog box.
• #57003 Naver Line tray icon is always gray since 9.13
• #57036 Splashtop RMM client crashes on Wine 9.14
• #57055 Empty window surfaces
• #57059 Regression – UI is broken with winewayland
• #57070 cnc-ddraw OpenGL performance degradation in Wine 9.15
• #57071 Incorrect window drawing
• #57073 StaxRip 2.0.6.0 crashes inside gdiplus
• #57083 ClickStamper: Stamp circle missing.