What is Wine Staging?

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Wine Staging (formerly wine-compholio) is a special wine version containing bug fixes and features that are not yet available in regular wine versions. The idea behind Wine Staging is to provide new features faster to end users and to give developers the possibility to discuss and improve their patches before they are sent upstream. We also intend to create a community of wine developers to share experience and to make it easier for beginners to start hacking on wine.

Although we are reviewing all patches before adding them, you may encounter additional bugs, which are not present in regular wine. Make sure to report such issues in our bug tracker instead of winehq.org so that we can try to solve them in future versions. Thanks!

How to install and use Wine Staging

Ready-to-use packages for Wine Staging are available for a variety of different Linux distributions directly for download. Just follow the instructions available on the website.

When using Wine Staging there are a few differences compared to regular Wine. The main difference is that it is not sufficient to type wine to run it, but instead you will have to type /opt/wine-compholio/bin/wine. Besides that there are also some other differences, for example additional configuration options to tweak performance, which are not available in regular Wine. All those differences are also documented on the Wiki.

Included bug fixes and improvements

Bugfixes and features included in the next upcoming release [8]:

• Add support for GetPropValue to PulseAudio backend
• Fix condition mask handling in RtlVerifyVersionInfo (Wine Bug #36143)
• Fix possible segfault in pulse_rd_loop of PulseAudio backend
• Fix return value of ScrollWindowEx for invisible windows (Wine Bug #37706)
• Set last error when GetRawInputDeviceList fails (Wine Bug #37667)
• Support for StrCatChainW
• Support for combase HSTRING objects
• wininet should allow Accept-Encoding header for HTTP/1.0 (Wine Bug #37046)

Bugs fixed in Wine Staging 1.7.32 [108]:

• ATL IOCS data should not be stored in GWLP_USERDATA (Wine Bug #21767)
• Add Dynamic DST exceptions for Israel Standard Time (Wine Bug #36374)
• Add default ACLs for user shell folders
• Add stub for NtSetLdtEntries/ZwSetLdtEntries (Wine Bug #26268)
• Adobe Reader needs ITextSelection_fnGetDuplicate implementation
• Allow selection of audio device for PulseAudio backend
• Allow special characters in pipe names (Wine Bug #28995)
• Anno 1602 installer depends on Windows 98 behavior of SHFileOperationW
• Audio stuttering and performance drops in multiple applications (Wine Bug #30639)
• Avoid crashing when broken app tries to release surface although refcount is zero (Wine Bug #18477)
• Avoid race-conditions of async WSARecv() operations with write watches.
• Black & White needs DXTn software decoding support (Wine Bug #14939)
• Correctly treat '.' when checking for empty directories (Wine Bug #26272)
• D3DCompileShader should filter specific warning messages (Wine Bug #33770)
• Do not fail when a used context is passed to wglShareLists (Wine Bug #11436)
• Don't fill KdHelp structure for usermode applications (Wine Bug #37272)
• Emulate access to KI_USER_SHARED_DATA kernel page on x86_64 (Wine Bug #33849)
• Emulate write to CR4 register (Wine Bug #30220)
• Ensure NtProtectVirtualMemory and NtCreateSection are on separate pages (Wine Bug #33162)
• Exception during start of fr-043 caused by missing DXTn support (Wine Bug #37391)
• FEAR 1 installer expects basic_string_wchar_dtor to return NULL (Wine Bug #37358)
• FairplayKD.sys needs KeSetSystemAffinityThread (Wine Bug #36822)
• Fix black screen on startup introduced by pixelformat changes. (Wine Bug #35950)
• Fix comparison of punctuation characters in lstrcmp (Wine Bug #10767)
• Fix crash of Trine Demo on start (Wine Bug #19231)
• Fix crash of winedevice when relocation entry crosses page boundary (Wine Bug #28254)
• Fix flickering introduced by pixelformat changes. (Wine Bug #35718)
• Fix for ConnectNamedPort return value in overlapped mode (Wine Bug #16550)
• Fix for programs leaking wndproc slots (Wine Bug #32451)
• Fix gray screen on startup introduced by pixelformat changes. (Wine Bug #35975)
• Fix handling of empty section and key name for profile files. (Wine Bug #8036)
• Fix handling of invert_y in DrawTextExW (Wine Bug #22109)
• Fix issues when driver dispatch routine returns different status codes (Wine Bug #30155)
• Fix issues with dragging layers between images in Adobe Photoshop 7.0 (Wine Bug #12007)
• Fix missing video introduced by pixelformat changes. (Wine Bug #36900)
• Fix ordering of IP addresses by metric if two addresses have the same metric.
• Fix passing of unicode environment from msvcrt to CreateProcessW. (Wine Bug #37635)
• Fix texture corruption in CSI: Fatal Conspiracy (Wine Bug #33768)
• Fix unintentional leaks with ntdll internals
• Fix wined3d performance drop introduced by pixelformat changes. (Wine Bug #35655)
• Games For Windows Live 1.x expects a valid linker version in the PE header (Wine Bug #28768)
• GetSecurityInfo returns NULL DACL for process object (Wine Bug #15980)
• Implement a Microsoft Yahei replacement font (Wine Bug #13829)
• Implement an Arial replacement font (Wine Bug #32323)
• Implement exclusive mode in PulseAudio backend (Wine Bug #37042)
• Improvement for heap allocation performance
• Initialize irp.Tail.Overlay.OriginalFileObject with stub file object (Wine Bug #37537)
• Lego Stunt Rally requires DXTn software de/encoding support (Wine Bug #25486)
• Limit cross thread access to ImmSet* functions (Wine Bug #35361)
• Lockfree algorithm for filedescriptor cache (improves file access speed)
• MSVCRT crashes when NULL is passed as string to atof or strtod (Wine Bug #32550)
• Make it possible to change media center / tablet pc status (Wine Bug #18732)
• Multiple applications need EnumDisplayDevicesW implementation (Wine Bug #34978)
• Need for Speed 3 installer requires devices in HKEY_DYN_DATA (Wine Bug #7115)
• Other Pipelight-specific enhancements
• Prevent window managers from grouping all wine programs together (Wine Bug #32699)
• Reduced SetTimer minimum value from 10 ms to 5 ms (improves Silverlight framerates)
• Return an error when trying to open a terminated process (Wine Bug #37087)
• Return correct IMediaSeeking stream positions in quartz (Wine Bug #23174)
• Return correct values for GetThreadTimes function (Wine Bug #20230)
• Return more context attributes in schan_InitializeSecurityContextW (Wine Bug #37527)
• SO_CONNECT_TIME returns the appropriate time
• Send WM_PAINT event during dialog creation (Wine Bug #35652)
• Support for AllocateAndGetTcpExTableFromStack (Wine Bug #34372)
• Support for BindImageEx (Wine Bug #3591)
• Support for D3DXGetShaderInputSemantics (Wine Bug #22682)
• Support for DOS hidden/system file attributes (Wine Bug #9158)
• Support for Dynamic DST (daylight saving time) information in registry
• Support for GdipCreateRegionRgnData (Wine Bug #34843)
• Support for GetFinalPathNameByHandle (Wine Bug #36073)
• Support for GetSystemTimes (Wine Bug #19813)
• Support for GetVolumePathName
• Support for ID3DXSkinInfoImpl_UpdateSkinnedMesh (Wine Bug #32572)
• Support for ITextDocument_fnRange function (Wine Bug #12458)
• Support for ITextRange, ITextFont and ITextPara (Wine Bug #18303)
• Support for Junction Points (Wine Bug #12401)
• Support for K32EnumProcessModulesEx (Wine Bug #34864)
• Support for KF_FLAG_DEFAULT_PATH in SHGetKnownFolderPath (Wine Bug #30385)
• Support for LoadIconMetric (Wine Bug #35375)
• Support for NtQuerySection (Wine Bug #37338)
• Support for NtSetInformationFile class FileDispositionInformation (Wine Bug #30397)
• Support for PulseAudio backend for audio (Wine Bug #10495)
• Support for RtlDecompressBuffer (Wine Bug #37449)
• Support for SHCreateSessionKey (Wine Bug #35630)
• Support for TOOLTIPS_GetTipText edge cases (Wine Bug #30648)
• Support for TransmitFile (Wine Bug #5048)
• Support for UTF7 encoding/decoding (Wine Bug #27388)
• Support for WTSEnumerateProcessesW (Wine Bug #29903)
• Support for extra large and jumbo icon lists in shell32 (Wine Bug #24721)
• Support for inherited file ACLs (Wine Bug #34406)
• Support for interface change notifications (Wine Bug #32328)
• Support for pasting HTML from Unix applications (Wine Bug #7372)
• Support for process ACLs (Wine Bug #22006)
• Support for setcap on wine-preloader (Wine Bug #26256)
• Support for stored file ACLs (Wine Bug #31858)
• Support for wine64 on FreeBSD/PC-BSD (Wine Bug #34330)
• Tumblebugs 2 requires DXTn software encoding support (Wine Bug #29586)
• Unity3D Editor requires ProductId registry value (Wine Bug #36964)
• Update a XIM candidate position when cursor location changes (Wine Bug #30938)
• Use manual relay for RunDLL_CallEntry16 in shell32 (Wine Bug #23033)
• Voobly expects correct handling of WRITECOPY memory protection (Wine Bug #29384)
• Wine ignores IDF_CHECKFIRST flag in SetupPromptForDisk (Wine Bug #20465)
• Wintrust doesn't reset data->pWintrustData->u.pFile->hFile after closing handle (Wine Bug #36257)
• Workaround for shlwapi URLs with relative paths
• XEMBED support for embedding Wine windows inside Linux applications
• nVidia driver for high-end laptop cards does not list all supported resolutions
• vSphere needs IoCsqInitialize (Wine Bug #36777)
• wglDescribePixelFormat should return max index for NULL descriptor (Wine Bug #6176)