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Wine 2.4 Released, Still Working Towards Direct3D CSMT

Written by Michael Larabel in WINE on 17 March 2017 at 04:24 PM EDT. 2 Comments

Wine 2.4 was released a few minutes ago as the newest bi-weekly development release for this program to run Windows games/applications on Linux and other operating systems.

Wine 2.4 provides built-in implementations of some crypto hashes, the Mono engine was updated with fixes, there is the ongoing work of Direct3D command stream (CSMT) preparations, simulated bold and italic support in DirectWrite, improvements to the XML reader, and at least 32 known bug fixes.

More details on the Wine 2.4 changes via WineHQ.org.

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