14 DAY TRIAL // A new version of the Wine Staging software for running various Windows apps and games on your Linux box has been released, 1.9.19, with various new features and improvements.
Coming hot on the heels of Wine 1.9.19, and after only one week from the previous maintenance update, namely Wine Staging 1.9.18, the new version includes, as expected, all the improvements introduced upstream, such as an experimental udev bus driver for HID, better joystick support, metafile support in GDI+, and the new DC rendering functionality in Direct2D.
However, Wine Staging 1.9.19 comes with its own new features and improvements, among which we can mention the implementation of a tool for reading CIF files, an Active Setup download functionality through the inseng.dll, as well as support for creating the 32-bit Wine prefix in an existing directory.
"With Wine Staging 1.9.19 the WINEARCH=win32 setting is no longer ignored if the target directory already exists and wasn't used by Wine yet," said the devs. "The inseng.dll changes allow the DirectX web installer to work and fixes in the Setup API prevent repeated executions of the DirectX installer every time a game is started in Steam."
Various bugs have been addressed
As expected, the Wine Staging developers also managed to fix several of the bugs and annoyances reported by users since last week's release or previous versions, and it includes all the bugfixes addressed upstream in the Wine 1.9.19 release as well, which means that more Windows apps and games should work better.
Wine Staging 1.9.19 and Wine 1.9.19 are both available for download right now via our website if you feel the need to run certain Windows applications or games on your Linux box. The binary packages of Wine Staging 1.9.19 should be available for download soon from the project's website.