-This is release 20010112 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 of Wine, a free implementation of Windows on Unix.
+After 12 years of development, this release marks the beginning of the
+beta testing phase. Everybody is encouraged to try it; while there
+are still bugs, most applications are expected to at least install and
+do something useful.
-Patches should be submitted to "wine-patches@winehq.com". Please don't
-forget to include a ChangeLog entry.
+Because of lags created by using mirrors, this message may reach you
+before the release is available at the ftp sites. The sources will be
+available from the following locations:
-WHAT'S NEW with Wine-20010112: (see ChangeLog for details)
- - Many fixes for Winelib support on Sparc.
- - Major DirectDraw restructuration.
- - Unicode combobox and listbox.
- - New MSVCRT dll.
- - Lots of bug fixes.
+ http://ibiblio.org/pub/linux/system/emulators/wine/wine-0.9.tar.bz2
+ http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/wine/wine-0.9.tar.bz2
-See the README file in the distribution for installation instructions.
+Binary packages for various distributions will be available from:
-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://www.winehq.org/site/download
- http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/ALPHA/wine/development/Wine-20010112.tar.gz
- ftp://ftp.infomagic.com/pub/mirrors/linux/sunsite/ALPHA/wine/development/Wine-20010112.tar.gz
- ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/unix/linux/mirrors/sunsite.unc.edu/ALPHA/wine/development/Wine-20010112.tar.gz
- ftp://orcus.progsoc.uts.edu.au/pub/Wine/development/Wine-20010112.tar.gz
-
-It should also be available from any other site that mirrors ibiblio.org.
-For more download locations, see http://ftpsearch.lycos.com.
+You will find documentation on http://www.winehq.org/site/documentation.
You can also get the current source directly from the CVS tree. Check
-http://www.winehq.com/dev.html for details.
-
-If you submitted a patch, please check to make sure it has been
-included in the new release.
+http://www.winehq.org/cvs for details.
-If you want to get the new releases faster, you can subscribe to the
-wine-patches mailing list by sending a mail containing 'subscribe
-wine-patches your_address' to majordomo@tiger.informatik.hu-berlin.de.
-You will get a patch against the previous release when a new one is
-released.
+Patches should be submitted to "wine-patches@winehq.org". Please
+don't forget to include a ChangeLog entry. If you submitted a patch,
+please check to make sure it has been included in the new release.
Wine is available thanks to the work of many people. See the file
AUTHORS in the distribution for the complete list.
--
Alexandre Julliard
-julliard@winehq.com
+julliard@winehq.org