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Alexandre Julliard, developer at Wine, officially announces the release of Wine 1.7.29 with minor new features along with several bug fixes. This is another maintenance release under 1.7.x branch which again includes various fixes for Windows games and applications. This is one of the most used branch of Wine because it updates quite often with several fixes which entice its users to use it. As we all know that Wine software allows its users to run Windows applications on Linux and Mac machines.

According to official announcement, Wine 1.7.29 comes with support for shaping and BiDi mirroring in DirectWrite along with few more C runtime functions. It also includes fixes for some page fault handling along with various other bug fixes. You can also download the source tarball of Wine 1.7.29 to compile or build on your Linux machines.

The game applications like Indiana Jones demo, Touhou Hisoten, Galactic Civilizations Digital, Doom3 CD version installer, winebrowser, Heroes of Might and Magic V Map editor, Firefox 4, Silhouette Studio, Heroes of Newerth and fifa11_demo are fixed in this release. We have also enlisted some of the issues which are fixed in this release. You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website.

- Multiple applications crash on initialization of audio host APIs using cross-platform 'PortAudio' library (missing 'ksuser.dll')(WSJTX, MAP65, LMMS).

- wine doesn't detect Logitech rumblepad 2 joystick.

- TurboTax 2012 wants dwmapi.dll.DwmAttachMilContent (Vista/Win7 mode).

- Many GFWL (Games For Windows Live) 1.x/2.x/3.x games crash or exit silently on startup (DiRT 2/3, GTA IV Steam).

- Lego Harry Potter (Years 1-4) crashes instantly when trying to load.

- Last Half of Darkness-Shadows of the Servants demo crashes.

- Multiple apps wrapped with Armadillo software protection scheme fail with unexpected guard page fault caused by Wine's ATL thunk check (Advantage Cooking, Wayne Gould's Sudoku).

- Final Fantasy XI crashes with page fault before main menu.

- HTC Synchronization Manager 2.4 doesn't run: needs setupapi.dll.CM_Get_Device_Interface_List_SizeW.

- Lotus Notes 9 'cacheset.exe' utility needs KERNEL32.dll.SetSystemFileCacheSize.

- Multiple applications need IDWriteFontFamily::GetFontCount implementation (Behringer x32 Edit, Fractal-Bot).

- SIV 4.46 Beta-15 crashes on unimplemented function slc.dll.SLGetWindowsInformation.

- Imagelist invisible dragimage.

- Multiple applications need IDWriteFontFamily::GetFont implementation (Molot VST plugin, Behringer x32 Edit, Fractal-Bot).

- Jupiter crashes on startup.

- Matlab 2009a, 2010 crashes on unimplemented function msvcr80.dll._fread_nolock.

- Mario Forever 5.0.1 hangs on startup (ieframe 'IEnumOLEVERB::Next' always returns 'S_OK' even with no items retrieved).

- Cannot override window.ActiveXObject().

- Windows tree view control auto-collapses.

These are some of the major fixes which are made in Wine 1.7.29 release. If you wish to check out complete list of all fixes then you must visit their official changelog page.

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