Wine-Staging 6.4 Released With 686 Patches Rebased Against Upstream

Written by Michael Larabel in WINE on 15 March 2021 at 06:13 AM EDT. 8 Comments
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Building off Friday's release of Wine 6.4 is now Wine-Staging 6.4 with an extra 686 patches atop this code-base for allowing Windows games and applications to run on Linux.

Wine-Staging 6.4 comes in at 686 patches in size, which is slightly fewer than the prior bi-weekly release candidate. Wine-Staging 6.4 upstreamed its WOW64CPU DLL stub, a basic ACE viewer added with ACLUI, NTDLL additions, K32GetMappedFileName support in Kernel32m and SETUPAPI fixes were all now accepted in mainline.

Wine-Staging 6.4 did update some of its NTDLL patches it has been carrying along with a fix for the Waves Central software failing to start. This is part of the Waves audio production and mixing tools/plugins.

More details on the Wine-Staging 6.4 changes via the release announcement. The latest Wine and Wine-Staging downloads are available from WineHQ.org.
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