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Wine changelog for 1.5.4

The Wine development release 1.5.4 is now available.

What's new in this release (see below for details):
  - A new DirectSound resampler.
  - A Negotiate authentication provider.
  - OpenGL support in the DIB engine.
  - Beginnings of support for .NET mixed assemblies.
  - Support routines for Internationalized Domain Names.
  - Various bug fixes.

The source is available from the following locations:

  http://ibiblio.org/pub/linux/system/emulators/wine/wine-1.5.4.tar.bz2
  http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/wine/wine-1.5.4.tar.bz2

Binary packages for various distributions will be available from:

  http://www.winehq.org/download

You will find documentation on http://www.winehq.org/documentation

You can also get the current source directly from the git
repository. Check http://www.winehq.org/git for details.

Wine is available thanks to the work of many people. See the file
AUTHORS in the distribution for the complete list.

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Bugs fixed in 1.5.4:

   5253  Starcraft/Diablo/Battle.net crashes from font metrics problem
   5703  SpartanDemo crashes
   6775  Sony CD Architect 5.2 crashes on startup (msxml domdoc_createTextNode should access/treat input BSTR data as wide-character string)
   9665  Kings Quest 8 "Mask of eternity" crashes at startup
  12623  yBook: doesn't display page textures
  14717  resampled sound is horrible
  15508  Risk II crash while loading the game
  17306  GTA2 Menu Discoloured and Unresponsive
  17443  Launchpad Enhanced gets stuck in a loop trying to download updates
  17631  LiteStep 0.3 refuses to install due to failing VC++ runtime detection in WinSxS (needs sxs.dll IAssemblyCache::QueryAssemblyInfo implementation)
  17826  NotePad++ search in files
  18130  VB APPS: Using edit controls context menu crashes application.
  18223  Grim Fandango: unable to install
  18231  Adobe Acrobat 7, 8 installers fail due to spooler service being disabled by default
  18620  Braid puzzle problem
  19643  Mankind: Page fault on program start
  20220  Missing windowscodecs.dll.WICCreateImagingFactory_Proxy causes failure for many .NET 3.x/4.x (WPF) based installers/apps
  21128  Envisioneer 4.5 Express Setup fails to write various data files under Application Data for the "Public" user
  21616  Winamp uses 100% of CPU
  21939  Several apps/games need "WMVCore.dll"
  22060  regedit crashes when a long length key is renamed or deleted
  22181  3D Maze screensaver doesn't work if fullscreen is enabled
  22611  WriteWay crashes at startup saying "ActiveX component can't create object" and outputting OLE errors in terminal
  22796  PopCap games installers crash with WinVer >= Vista (shell32 SHGetKnownFolderIDList stub needed)
  23928  Missing clickable items in Monopoly Tycoon demo
  24625  RSA SecurID Soft Token generator fails to start in 64 bit Ubuntu
  24907  Can't write '