Wine 1.9.20 Has New Clipboard API Reimplementation

Written by Michael Larabel in WINE on 1 October 2016 at 12:15 PM EDT. 16 Comments
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Wine 1.9.20 is now available as the latest bi-weekly development release of this cross-platform program to run Windows programs/games on other operating systems.

Wine 1.9.20 ships with 18 known bug fixes while the release highlights are:
- Reimplementation of the clipboard API.
- Message handling in WebServices.
- Many more API Set libraries.

The reimplementation of the clipboard API in Wine 1.9.20 appears to be most prominent. Then in other news, going through the change-log there's just a few Direct3D 11 (D3D11) changes for this release. Also still no complete Direct3D Command Stream Multi-Threading (CSMT) support yet.

More details on Wine 1.9.20 via WineHQ.org.
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