Wine 1.7.21 Supports Unicode 7.0, Interlanced PNG Encoding

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Wine 1.7.21 Supports Unicode 7.0, Interlanced PNG Encoding

Written by Michael Larabel in WINE on 27 June 2014 at 10:50 PM EDT. 16 Comments

The latest Wine bi-weekly development release is now available.

Wine 1.7.21 adds the following features and functionality:

- Support for critical sections in the C runtime.
- Unicode data updated to Unicode 7.0.
- Support for interlaced PNG encoding.
- Initial stub for the Packager library.
- Various bug fixes.

More details on this routine Wine 1.7 development release leading up to Wine 1.8 can be found via the official release announcement posted to WineHQ.org.

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