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Wine 1.5.1 Likes Its Built-In JavaScript

Written by Michael Larabel in WINE on 30 March 2012 at 07:44 PM EDT. Add A Comment

Wine 1.5.1 was released today as the second development release following last month's stable Wine 1.4 release.

Key features of Wine 1.5.1, just another bi-weekly development snapshot, include:

- Built-in JavaScript now preferred over Gecko in most cases.
- Support for scalable font resources.
- Fixes for audio and video playback.
- Support for script decoding in JScript.
- Various bug fixes.

Find out more at WineHQ.org.

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