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Alexandre Julliard officially announces the release of Wine 1.7.27 with several improvements and fixes for games and Windows apps. Well this is another maintenance release which comes with bug fixes which were reported since Wine 1.7.26 release. As you know that Wine is a software which allows you to run Windows applications on Linux or Mac systems.

According to official announcement, Wine 1.7.27 comes with various improvements to RichEdit interfaces along with initial support for ICMP version 6. The developers also did some more work on Direct2D support along with numerous bug fixes. This release contains lesser fixes than earlier release. You can also download the source tarball of Wine 1.7.27 to compile it on your Linux machine.

The Wine 1.7.27 comes with fixing of Windows games and apps like World of Warcraft crashes while changing the display resolution, Skyrim freezes on loading screen, Visual Studio 2005 trial crashes quickly building Wine, prince of persia 2008 game crashes, XMP failed to start, services.exe has crashed and Iexplore cookie related crashes. You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website.

- WiX Toolset v3.8 installer doesn't open with Wine-Mono (unimplemented CorBindToCurrentRuntime).

- msvcmaker generated wine.dsw fails to load with Visual Express 2005.

- Adobe Premiere Pro 2 deadlocks when opening additional windows (glu32 wrapper functions not sufficient).

- dlls/wbemprox/builtin.c fails to build on NetBSD 6.1.4.

- Multiple games and applications need bcrypt.dll.BCryptGetFipsAlgorithmMode (Chess Position Trainer, Terraria, .NET System.Security.Cryptography).

- Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0 exits silently on startup ('GetMenuItemInfo' must zero out 'cch' if mask doesn't specify 'MIIM_TYPE').

- Multiple game installers wait indefinitely for cmd.exe during execution of batch files (argv[0] is not 'cmd.exe') (Shroud of the Avatar: Forsaken Virtues, Aura Kingdom).

These are some of the fixes which are made in Wine 1.7.27 release. If you wish to check out complete list of all fixes then you must visit their official changelog page.

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