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The Wine developers made the first development release of the upcoming stable revision of Wine(1.6).
This release brings many changes, most notably:

  • New implementation of the typelib creation support.
  • GLSL-based support for fixed function vertex shaders.
  • Support for desktop launchers in virtual desktop mode.
  • Fixes for Japanese vertical text.
  • New Croatian translation.
  • Various bug fixes.


Overall 65 bugs were fixed with this release. 

If You want to learn more, You can check this announcement 

The source is available from the following locations:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/wine/wine-1.6-rc1.tar.bz2
http://mirrors.ibiblio.org/wine/source/1.6/wine-1.6-rc1.tar.bz2

You can also get the current source directly from the git. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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2 comments

Sabun Jun 11, 2013
I was going to start asking about what might be the situation of DirectX10/11 in Wine, but then I saw your summarized biography. Chicken chicken chicken hahaha couldn't stop chuckling when I first saw it :D
Ba7a7chy Jun 11, 2013
There are 2 things which really bugs me in wine

1) DirectX 10\11
2) .net 3.5/4.0 support

this will make everything I currently need wine for to work ;)
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