Wine 1.7.5 Released, Install it in Ubuntu 13.10, 13.04, 12.04

What’s new in Wine 1.7.5:

• Support for registration-free COM using activation contexts.
• Improved support for simulated bold fonts.
• Unicode data updated to Unicode 6.3.
• Better support for typelib registration on 64-bit.
• Various bug fixes.

Bugs fixed in 1.7.5:

• Wine doesnt show embedded web browser interface on Clarion applications
• Crash when creating a DC
• url.dll FileProtocolHandler does not open URLs in browser.
• Main Steam window disappears when entering Exposé
• Bioshock not work
• Risen – No space between words in Risen
• GetTabbedTextExtent() returns non-zero value when nCount == 0
• chromium-based apps can’t load https sites
• wine iexplore can’t load hotmail.com (gives a blank page)
• Steam freezes
• Internet Explorer 8 fails to submit a URL to VirusTotal for analysis
• Spotify crashes on startup
• GOG.com version of Soulbringer crashes on startup (GetModuleHandleExW needs to support GET_MODULE_HANDLE_EX_FLAG_PIN)
• 32-bit Visual C++ 2010 Express full installer complains “Unknown Error” with Mono (mscoree CLR v4 shim needs CreateInterface)
• Basic WPF applications using .NET 3.5 WPF fails to handle images (windowscodecs {7543696a-bc8d-46b0-5f81-8d95728972be} = IMILBitmapSource unsupported)
• Wargame: Airland Battle needs msvcr110.dll._libm_sse2_atan_precise
• installer of iTudou needs atl90
• window titlebar names
• Fullscreen Window scaling issue (MacDriver)
• __unDName doesn’t use flags UNDNAME_NO_LEADING_UNDERSCORES and UNDNAME_NO_MS_KEYWORDS for “__ptr64″
• __unDName doesn’t support flag UNDNAME_NO_THISTYPE
• J2SE Runtime Environment 5.0 Update 10 installer ‘patchjre’ tool crashes due to unbuffered io on redirected stdout pipe
• e-carte bleue la banque postale doesn’t work at all
• Miranda crashes on start up
• cabinet_open{,_stream} returns 0 on failure but doesn’t compliant to _open interface
• Photoscape: crashes selecting some filters
• PageFault when generating a MD5 Hash
• Tray icons don’t attach to the native notification area
• explorer.exe does not start
• IE7 can’t install

How to Install

Open the terminal then enter

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install wine1.7