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Wine 1.4 released

Wine 1.4 released

Posted Mar 8, 2012 11:23 UTC (Thu) by nye (guest, #51576)
In reply to: Wine 1.4 released by krakensden
Parent article: Wine 1.4 released

>A new, faster DIB engine has been talked about *forever*, and it's great to see that someone finally wrote it, and Alexandre finally committed it.

Right. The DIB engine has been a blocker for countless bugs that I've been interested in for...over a decade.

Plus all the other changes (several of which are also major improvements), this sounds like the most significant Wine release *ever*.


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Wine 1.4 released

Posted Mar 9, 2012 3:51 UTC (Fri) by skitching (subscriber, #36856) [Link]

And the "embedded gecko supports active X" looks *very* interesting. Finally a way to access all those "windows only" sites, eg many internet banking services?

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