The Wine development release 8.20 is now available.

What’s new in this release:

• More DirectMusic implementation.
• Protocol associations exported to the Unix desktop.
• Code cleanups in preparation for code freeze.
• Various bug fixes.

The source is available at:

https://dl.winehq.org/wine/source/8.x/wine-8.20.tar.xz

Binary packages for various distributions will be available from:

https://www.winehq.org/download

You will find documentation on https://www.winehq.org/documentation

You can also get the current source directly from the git repository. Check https://www.winehq.org/git for details.

Wine is available thanks to the work of many people. See the file AUTHORS in the distribution for the complete list.

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Bugs fixed in 8.20 (total 20):

• #22904 Register URL protocol handlers under Linux
• #52716 Sending key stroke (using [System.Windows.Forms.SendKeys]::SendWait) fails (seems to go into a loop?)
• #53213 d3d10core:d3d10core & d3d11:d3d11 - test_texture() fails in the TestBot VMs
• #53217 d3d10core:d3d10core & d3d11:d3d11 - test_cube_maps() crashes on gitlab-debian-32
• #53218 d3d10core:d3d10core & d3d11:d3d11 - test_uint_shader_instructions() fails on llvmpipe
• #54399 d3d11:d3d11 - test_vertex_formats() fails on Windows 11 + AMD
• #54519 d3d9:visual - test_mipmap_upload() fails on AMD and Nvidia GPUs
• #54780 UndertaleModTool display regression since wine-staging 8.4
• #55316 d3d10core:d3d10core & d3d11:d3d11 fail systematically on w11pro64-amd
• #55608 NAM won’t open on new update
• #55679 warframe doesn’t start in experimental wow64 mode
• #55715 Folio Views 4 crashes when storing a changed file
• #55742 wine crashes when launching Captvty V3
• #55782 System.Windows.Forms expects CreateActCtx() to succeed with truncated ACTCTX structure
• #55789 Spectralayers 9 Pro crashes on audio playback
• #55797 Max Payne (2001) has no sound
• #55838 wget.exe fails to download anything (regression)
• #55839 NtCreateSymbolicLinkObject fails with STATUS_OBJECT_TYPE_MISMATCH
• #55842 Neverwinter Nights 2 Complete (GOG.com) crashes while starting a new game from the menu
• #55856 cygwin hangs during installation at libzstd1-1.5.5-1

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