Wine 1.2-rc1 Released

"Wine lets you run Windows software on other operating systems. With Wine, you can install and run these applications just like you would in Windows.

The Wine development release 1.2-rc1 is now available.

This is the first release candidate for Wine 1.2. It marks the beginning of the code freeze period. Please give this release a good testing to help us make 1.2 as good as possible.

What's new in this release:

Many new toolbar icons.

Support for alpha blending in image lists.

Much more complete shader assembler.

Support for Arabic font shaping and joining.

A number of fixes for video rendering.

Font antialiasing configuration through fontconfig.

Improved handling of desktop link files.

Various bug fixes.


The source is available now."