Windows 模擬器 Wine 1.4 穩定版發布

Wine提供了一個用來運行Windows程序的平臺。Wine(Wine Is Not an Emulator的縮寫，即Wine不僅僅是一個模擬器)是一個在X-Windows和Unix上執行的Windows APIs(應用程序接口)，也可以認為Wine是一個Windows兼容層。

經過 20 個月的開發，全新的 Wine 穩定版 —— 1.4 正式發布了，該版本帶來了全新的 DIB 圖形引擎，重寫了音頻處理堆棧，使用 Gstreamer ，完全支持雙向文本、ARM 支持等等，同時支持更多的應用程序，包括微軟的 Office 2010.

• New graphics engine for rendering into Device Independent Bitmaps (DIB). DIB can also be used as a fall-back for some graphics primitives, like alpha blending, when the driver doesn't supports it
• More image codecs are implemented, including support for TGA and CMYK JPEG decoding, as well as BMP, TIFF, PNG, and ICNS encoding.
• The audio stack is completely redesigned, based on the Vista model
• The Alsa, OSS, and CoreAudio drivers have been rewritten to use the new model
• The Jack, NAS, AudioIO, OSS3 and ESD audio subsystems are no longer supported
• Joystick action mapping is supported, including a configuration dialog
• Full support for bidirectional text
• New Vista style file dialogs
• Wine can now make use of GStreamer for audio and video playback
• Implemented system tray notification balloons
• The built-in (Gecko-based) web browser engine supports ActiveX
• Dynamic device management can use the new UDisks service in addition to HAL
• Wine now compiles on ARM too

完整的改進記錄請看 changelog

注：目前還無法通過 PPA 安裝 Wine 1.4。