Wine-Staging 9.8 Comes In At 430 Patches, Fixes A 16 Year Old Game
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Wine-Staging 9.8 comes in at 430 patches over the current Wine 9.8 upstream state. Wine-Staging 9.8 is slightly leaner than prior releases due to having upstreamed a number of WIDL patches as well as the stdole32.tlb patch that fixed the Microsoft Office 97 installation issue. Plus a few patches were dropped from Wine-Staging 9.8 for Pipelight, Wine X11 XEMBED, and others.
Wine-Staging 9.8 does update its bundled VKD3D Git code as well as pulling in a few other updated patches. The only new patch this two-week cycle is for fixing Bug 46012. This bug is a six year old report around invisible textures with the game Command & Conquer 3: Kane's Wrath.
The patch is for implementing ID3DXEffect::SetRawValue so it's possible other games/software may benefit too.
Those wanting to download the new v9.8 releases of Wine or Wine-Staging can find the new builds up on WineHQ.org.
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