WineTricks Changelog

What's new in WineTricks 20120819

Aug 21, 2012
  • Many download URLs went inactive all at once.
  • This release fixes the most commonly used ones, though the new URLs don't all provide the same version of the DLLs as the old URL.

New in WineTricks 20110310 Alpha (Mar 11, 2011)

  • This release adds two games (CSI: Fatal Conspiracy Demo and Farming Simulator 2011 Demo) and a new version of mono (2.10).
  • It also adds a help button, a button to unhide broken titles,and a scary warning on the dinput and directx9 verb menu items.
  • It also fixes a number of bugs: in particular, corefonts should download properly again.

New in WineTricks 20101222 (Jan 5, 2011)

  • Detlef Riekenberg:
  • wmi: new verb
  • Andrew Nguyen:
  • steam: install corefonts first
  • gfw: Avoid extracting the entire Win2k SP4 redist for msasn1.dll
  • Austin English:
  • Always use quiet and overwrite options for unzip. (issue 196)
  • Lots of win64 fixes
  • audioio: removed
  • cmake: support silent install
  • d3dx9_xx: only extract the desired dll (faster)
  • dotnet11: work around wine bug 25120
  • eadm: remove, it's useless and its sha1sum changes way too often
  • ie6: get rid of ie6 online installer, rename ie6_full to ie6 (which works around the inseng bug), support quiet installs
  • mono28: bump to mono 2.8.1
  • mono28: remove mono registry keys, they are set by default in Wine since 1.2
  • msxml3: fix install
  • opensymbol: added font
  • set_psm: should set PixelShaderMode, not RenderTargetLockMode. (Issue 197)
  • unset_winver: wine changed version setting, so make this a synonym for winver xp
  • vcrun2003: use the correct programfiles directory. Fixes win64 install.
  • w_call: if the subshell fails, exit immediately, otherwise w_die() is useless
  • winver: update how setting a windows version works.
  • w_warn: should return 0 in case of no-gui
  • xact: fix for WINEPREFIXes with spaces/special characters
  • Dan Kegel:
  • Many small changes to start obeying new coding convention.
  • Fix a few bugs found when running on windows
  • Fix places where paths weren't quoted (bug 179). Thanks to Roberto Neri.
  • Add --option, --optout options to control experimental opt-in usage tracking.
  • crypt32: it was really broken, but works now.
  • dcom98: it's obsolete, and causes problems, so removed.
  • dotnet30: have to set XP mode now for install to work
  • dotnet35: improved recipe per Louis, good enough to let some apps start
  • icodecs: brought back, thanks to Alan Alberghini for the new URL.
  • msasn1: new verb.
  • urlmon: remove for now
  • wsh57: improve so wscript hello.vbs works
  • xmllite: new verb. (Hangs at end unless you give -q)

New in WineTricks 20100316 (Mar 17, 2010)

  • Dan Kegel:
  • Don't detect desktop environment, detect individual programs.
  • Make warnings more obvious on console.
  • flash: updated
  • gecko: updated
  • ie6: improved prerequisite checking
  • psdkwin7: requires native gdiplus for the moment, so make that a prerequisite for now.
  • psdkwin7: some important registry keys (kludge)
  • steam: added
  • win7: added
  • Austin English:
  • Don't consider missing cabextract fatal, unless it's actually being used
  • Don't use cabextract directly, use the wrapper for all uses (issue 95)
  • Use a more sane path for C:. Patch from 'arielco'. Issue 96.
  • adobeair: add to winetrickstest, add missing decorations
  • dotnet20: Check for mscorlib.dll rather than l_intl.nls
  • icodec: remove, it's no longer online
  • mpc: Update
  • Andrew Nguyen:
  • Suppress STDERR messages from which command
  • 7zip: added
  • adobeair: added
  • d3dxof: added
  • msxml4/msxml6: add override before installing
  • vc2005trial: Use 7-zip to extract the UDF image rather than mounting it (so we can avoid sudo/root)
  • Pavel Zinin:
  • directx9: update to February 2010 version