Wine 8.5 is now available. Included in this release is the upgrade to VKD3D 1.7. A WinRT dark theme can be configured, there’s better error handling in the IDL compiler, cleanups in IME support, and 21 bug fixes.

Bug fixes are as follows (gaming fixes are in bold):

  • #44547 Deus Ex: invisible War v1.2 crashes when using the hotkey to quickload a saved game
  • #54701 Ultimate Race Pro crashes after intro movies
  • #47326 Fair Strike fails to map joystick due to IDirectInputDevice8 SetActionMap being a semi-stub.
  • #53704 Bible Black ~La Noche de Walpurgis~ won’t start
  • #53794 Sins of the Solar Empire Rebellion (Gog 1.975.1) crashes on unimplemented function concrt140.dll.?_CheckTaskCollection@_UnrealizedChore@details@Concurrency@@IAEXXZ
  • #54679 Conspiracy’s Clean Slate 64K demo crashes due to HLSL shader compilation failure
  • #46562 Notepad++ 7.6.3 crashes when searching twice and first time found results
  • #53981 Chromium broken sandbox due to GetSecurityInfo giving access denied
  • #54560 mscoree:mscoree - test_loadpaths_execute() sometimes gets directory creation errors
  • #54618 VARA FM crashes on unimplemented function pdh.dll.PdhVbGetDoubleCounterValue
  • #54640 Treecomp listviews and possibly other widgets are not drawn
  • #54675 Chocolatey OpenSSH installer fails
  • #54687 LibreVR Revive fails to run (CertGetNameStringW with dwType=CERT_NAME_ATTR_TYPE and pvTypePara missing additional fallbacks)
  • #54691 reg.exe:copy, reg.exe:delete, reg.exe:export, reg.exe:import & reg.exe:query (+32-bit reg.exe:add) - The 64-bit tests fail due to ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED errors in Wine
  • #54702 ldp.exe crashes when attempting to add, delete, modify, or compare an entry without a name
  • #54707 adsldp:ldap - test_DirectorySearch() fails on Windows and Linux
  • #54710 imm32:imm32 - test_ImmEscape() fails in the Korean locale on Windows
  • #54711 imm32:imm32 - test_ImmGetProperty() fails in the Korean locale on Windows
  • #54724 LDAP bind over SSL to a server and port that do not support SSL hangs forever
  • #54727 LDAP Explorer (LEX) throws an exception when attempting to connect over SSL
  • #54729 wine build fails with bison 3.0.5

See the patch notes on WineHQ.