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The Wine development release 9.12 is now available. (gitlab.winehq.org)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/linux

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cross-posted from: https://reddthat.com/post/21374304

cross-posted from: https://reddthat.com/post/21374246

What's new in this release:

Initial support for user32 data structures in shared memory.

Mono engine updated to version 9.2.0.

Rewrite of the CMD.EXE engine.

Fixed handling of async I/O status in new WoW64 mode.

Various bug fixes.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I wonder if that was intentional, before I knew the acronym I always thought the WIN part stood for windows. But they added an E so it would spell Wine instead. Calling a program Win would just be confusing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

In the days of DOS you would run 'win' to open windows assuming it was installed and not in your autoexec