-This is release 20040408 of Wine, a free implementation of Windows on
-Unix. This is still a developers only release. There are many bugs
-and unimplemented features. Most applications still do not work
-correctly.
+This is release 0.9.16 of Wine, a free implementation of Windows on Unix.
-WHAT'S NEW with Wine-20040408: (see ChangeLog for details)
- - DOS devices and drives are now configured through symlinks.
- - Many shell32 improvements.
- - New task manager merged from ReactOS.
- - First version of wineprefixcreate tool for initial setup.
- - Lots of bug fixes.
+What's new in this release:
+ - More work on Direct3D shaders.
+ - Major DirectDraw rewrite on top of Direct3D.
+ - Support for debug information in Dwarf format.
+ - Beginnings of an OleView Winelib application.
+ - Lots of bug fixes.
-See the README file in the distribution for installation instructions.
+Because of lags created by using mirrors, this message may reach you
+before the release is available at the public sites. The sources will
+be available from the following locations:
-Because of lags created by using mirror, this message may reach you before
-the release is available at the ftp sites. The sources will be available
-from the following locations:
+ http://ibiblio.org/pub/linux/system/emulators/wine/wine-0.9.16.tar.bz2
+ http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/wine/wine-0.9.16.tar.bz2
- http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/ALPHA/wine/development/Wine-20040408.tar.gz
- http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/wine/Wine-20040408.tar.gz
+Binary packages for various distributions will be available from:
-It should also be available from any other site that mirrors ibiblio.org.
-These locations also hold pre-built documentation packages in various
-formats: wine-doc-html.tar.gz, wine-doc-txt.tar.gz,
-wine-doc-pdf.tar.gz and wine-doc-ps.tar.gz.
+ http://www.winehq.org/site/download
-You can also get the current source directly from the CVS tree. Check
+You will find documentation on
+
+ http://www.winehq.org/site/documentation
+
+You can also get the current source directly from the git or CVS
+repositories. Check respectively http://wiki.winehq.org/GitWine or
http://www.winehq.org/cvs for details.
Patches should be submitted to "wine-patches@winehq.org". Please
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