Linux. Wine Team recently released Wine 1.7.39 development version with many bug fixes and improvements. Let’s see what’s new in this release. Wine is an Open Source, command line and most popular software that allows users to install and run Microsoft Windows applications and games on. Wine Team recently released Wine 1.7.39 development version with many bug fixes and improvements. Let’s see what’s new in this release.

Wine more often sees a new release with bug fixes and improvements and this time Wine (Wine is not an emulator) 1.7.39 released with 24 bug fixes and many improvements.

What’s New In Wine 1.7.39?

WinMM joystick support on Mac OS X.

Kerning support in DirectWrite.

Support for DirectX Media Objects filters.

Better support for animated GIFs in GdiPlus.

Improved support for Known Folders in Shell32.

Various bug fixes. For the complete list of changes, please refer to the official post.

How To Install Wine 1.7.39 In Ubuntu 14.04/14.10 and Mint 17/17.1?

The easiest way to install Wine 1.7.39 is to use PPA.

Uninstall old version of Wine

If you have installed an older version, first uninstall using the below command –

$ sudo apt-get remove –purge wine

Add the repository and Install Wine 1.7.39 –

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa $ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install wine1.7 winetricks