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9.1.0 CrossOver Linux - July 28, 2010
- Application Fixes:
- Improved installation of Office 2007 service packs.
- Fixed product registration of Office 2007 and Office 2003.
- Fixed some unimportant errors during installation of some versions of Office 2003.
- Improved several connection and importation issues with Quicken 2010.
- Fixed product registration of Project and Visio 2003.
- Fixed Excel 2007 hyperlinks.
- Fixed document saving in Publisher 2003.
- Fixed playing of mp3 files in Windows Media Player 9.
- Fixed custom installs of Office 2007.
- Improved print to PDF in Office 2007.
- Some minor improvements to Internet Explorer 6 and 7.
- CrossOver Fixes:
- Improved proxy handling on the Gnome desktop.
- Fixed a Mac upgrade problem related to the CD-helper being in use.
- Fixed full-screen mode for Macs with auto-switching GPUs.
- Fixed Menus and Associations for Pardus Linux.
- Updated Dutch and French localizations.
- Made several application profile tune-ups.
- Merged with Wine version 1.2. Many improvements and bug fixes.
- CrossOver Changes:
- Certain bottles never stopped initializing; now they start up properly.
- Renamed downloaded installer files so that you can tell what they are.
- Fixed demo registration on Mandriva 2010.
- Fixed a bug with accessing very old CrossOver bottles.
- Fixed auto-opening of C4P files (previously the file-type association was broken.)
- A few minor cosmetic and behavior changes in the CrossOver Installer.
- Application support improvements:
- Fixed file importation of .qif files into Quicken 2010.
- Fixed serious performance problems for certain large Quicken data files.
- Fixed an Outlook crash during connection to an Exchange server.
- Fixed an Outlook 2003 printing crash.
- Fixed a variety of other Outlook freezes and crashes.
- Improved Office 2003 service pack installation.
- Fixed a crash in Access 2000; this application should be usable again.
- Fixed HTML editing in Outlook 2003.
- Fixed a crash in Internet Explorer 7 when 'help' was selected.
- Fixed printing in Internet Explorer 7.
- Fixed a crash associated with the JVM in Internet Explorer 6.
- Fixed a crash in Visio 2003 and 2007.
- Fixed server connections in Architecture 7.5 (requires reinstall).
- CrossOver changes:
- Bold new look!
- Entirely redesigned application install process.
- Much faster bottle creation and manipulation times.
- Our application installation process is now guided by 'C4 Profiles'; XML files that should allow the process to be extended by anyone.
- Application support improvements:
- Some improvements in Internet Explorer, particularly Internet Explorer 7.
- Major improvements in Microsoft Office; notably Word clipart and Excel Macros should now work. Outlook stability should continue to improve.
- Limited support for Quicken 2010.
- Merged with Wine version 1.1.34. This represents a years work in Wine, 7578 patches in all, far too many to describe.
- Resolve a number of issues with Internet Explorer 6 and 7 support
- Fixes to a number of minor Snow Leopard issues
- Improve RPM and Debian package creation
- New application support:
- Quicken 2009
- Internet Explorer 7
- Photoshop CS2
- Application fixes:
- MS Office 2003:
- Non-English language service packs should now apply
- Word 2003: 'Insert Field' should now work properly
- Word 2003: Table calculations fixed
- Word 2003: Insert... Picture... From File improved
- Outlook 2003: NTLM proxy authentication fixed
- Excel 2003: Insert Picture improved
- Outlook 2003: Problem with dropping into 'disconnected' mode is resolved
- MS Office 2007:
- Service Packs 1 and 2 now apply.
- Enterprise, Pro, and Corporate editions should now install
- Word 2007: Fixed misbehavior when using the 'insert image' function
- Several other Office service packs and add-ons should work better.
- QuickTime 7:
- Intermittent hanging bugs should be fixed
- Several other general fixes
- Outlook 2000: e-mail attachments should now work
- Acrobat 5 and 7: "Save As" dialog no longer causes crashes
- FrameMaker: Handling of PPD files improved on systems without CUPS.
- Word XP: "Combine Documents" fixed
- Equation Editor should install and run
- MS Office 2003:
- Other crossover improvements:
- A 'symbol' font has been added. This should improve Equation Editor behavior.
- A couple of improvements were made to dual-monitor support on the Mac
- Fixed problem with resizing windows on dual-head Linux systems
- KDE systray on SUSE 10.1 fixed
- KDE Printer improved
- Fixed a problem with demo registration and gksu version 2.0.2.
- Improved copy and paste
- Added better 64-bit support in the RPM package
- Updated many components to fix behavior on the upcoming Snow Leopard release of OS X.
- Outlook fixes:
- Restored use of the Rules and Alerts dialog
- Improved connectivity with Exchange servers
- Fixed installation of several custom versions of Outlook
- Improved copy and paste behavior
- Fixed 'reply all' behavior
- Improved printing
- Partial support for signed emails
- Fixed some address autocompletion in Outlook 2007
- Fixed ability to create new contacts, appointments & tasks
- 2003 & 2007 now exit cleanly on the Mac
- Can now open recurring Calendar Items
- Application installation changes:
- Many more versions of Office 2007 (including Enterprise editions) now install properly.
- Office 2003 Service Pack 3 now installs.
- Office 2003 one-shot updates now apply.
- Several more versions of Office 2003 now install.
- MS Office language packs now install
- Visio 2003 SP1 now installs.
- Other fixes:
- Office 97 now works better.
- PowerPoint 2003 slide preview improved.
- Bidirectional text behavior is improved.
- Access 2002 reporting is improved.
- Improved Java behavior.
- Use the native FreeType library on Leopard systems.
- On Linux, add the ability to generate Debian bottle packages.
- Fixed a CrossOver installation error specific to Estonian locales.
- Fixed: Word 2003: Can't open Word doc, Out of Memory
- Pull-down menus now appear more than once (WordArt)
- Can now open Project 2007 files with Project 2003 (with the add-on installed)
- Rotating text boxes now works in the proper direction
- Bug fixes:
- Fixed a bug in 7.0 which prevented printing in upgraded installs.
- Fixed running of Office 2000 and Office XP on some 64-bit machines.
- Fixed a saving failure in some Word 2003 and Excel 2003 documents.
- New application support:
- Office 2007 (Including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and limited Outlook)
- Photoshop CS and CS2
- Bug fixes:
- Greatly improved online banking integration in Quicken 2007 and 2008
- Fixed service pack support for several versions of Office
- Improved IE support in win2000 and winxp bottles (though win98 is still better)
- Improved support for modern Linux distributions (especially Ubuntu)
- This build also includes countless Wine fixes. Many small bugs should be fixed, and unsupported application behavior should be greatly improved.
- Linux specific changes:
- Updated Japanese, Italian, German, Russian and French localizations.
- Fixed an EVE Online install bug that occurred on systems with Arial installed as a system font.
- Improved QuickTime 7 support.
- Fixed a problem with cross-bottle file associations.
- New application support:
- Added support for Team Fortress 2 via Steam
- Application fixes:
- Fixed Outlook encryption regressions.
- Fixed printing from Delphi applications
- More time-zone fixes for Outlook
- Fixed 'advanced edit' of Outlook signatures
- Fixed font rendering in several applications, including Quicken 2007
- Dramatic improvement in Outlook 2003, particularly when it is installed without Internet Explorer. Many more features are now available.
- Fixed support for Flash Player 9.
- Many small bug fixes and improvements in stability.
- Fixes for printing to printers without default fonts
- Fixes to structure storage files to correct corruptions
- Ejection of DVDs now works
- Improvement in TreeView control behavior
- Improved Mac IME integration allowing for Korean, Atok and Ebridge input
- Comctl32.dll reports correct version
- Many fixes to the behavior and location of the default IME input window
- Saving files with IE now properly complete in multibyte locales.
- Linux specific changes:
- Some improvements to Windows Media Player support
- Improved handling of SELinux
- Improved QuickTime 7 support
- New application support:
- EVE Online
- QuickTime 7
- Ichitaro 2006 and 2007 (Japanese locale only)
- Ichitaro Viewer (Japanese locale only)
- IBM HomePage Builder 10 and 11 (Japanese locale only)
- Application fixes:
- Fixed some font problems in FrameMaker 7.1
- Added support for RPC over HTTP in Outlook 2003 when running in a Windows XP bottle. This allows use of HTTP mail in Outlook.
- Improved authentication support in Outlook 2003.
- Lots of widespread graphics improvements. Game rendering and performance should be much improved.
- Improved the Equation Editor installation process.
- The Half-Life 2 Intro now plays properly
- Several IE fixes: Wikipedia.org and Microsoft.com now load properly. Improved IE launch times.
- Improved Quicken window rendering.
- Lots of doc revisions.
- Fixed a problem with black icons in the Outlook shortcut bar.
- Fixed autocompletion in Outlook
- General CrossOver fixes and improvements:
- Major update of DirectX support.
- Added the ability to automatically download and install localized versions of some installers and service packs, including IE.
- Linux specific changes:
- Improved compatibility with Fedora Core 6's directory hashing.
- Improved compatibility with openSUSE 10.2.
- Application fixes:
- Fixed some Outlook 2003 crashes, in particular one related to right-clicks and one occurring on startup on some systems.
- Fixed handling of emails containing quotes in Outlook 2003.
- Fixed some copy/paste issues in Office 2003.
- Fixed Lotus Notes hangs on certain emails.
- Now all Internet Explorer installs will include DCOM98. This improves stability in many ways. In particular, it fixes a crash during printing.
- Fixed an installation bug with Quicken 2006.
- General CrossOver fixes and improvements:
- Updated the timezone information to comply with the revised 2007 DST rules.
- Fixed a few bugs in the 5.0 to 6.0 upgrade path.
- Fixed an issue with running Office 2003, Photoshop and FrameMaker in managed bottles.
- Updated the Portuguese translation.
- Updated the French translation.
- New Application Support:
- Flash Player 9
- QuickTime 7
- World of Warcraft
- Steam
- Half-Life
- Half-Life 2
- Counter-Strike
- Counter-Strike: Source
- Major improvements for games:
- Support for Steam games (notably Half Life 2), Prey, and World of Warcraft.
- Numerous other Direct3D improvements.
- CrossOver Linux specific changes:
- Extensive improvements in the handling of QuickTime 7.
- Extensive improvements in the handling of QuickTime 6.5.
- Most CrossOver Setup operations are now much faster.
- Fixed the CrossOver Setup Associations tab so it correctly maintains related associations in sync.
- Fixed the CrossOver Setup Menus tab so it displays readable menu names. Also display the menu descriptions.
- Improved the 'Run a Windows Command' application.
- Improved the 'Terminate Windows Applications' dialog.
- Improved support for 64-bit kernels.
- Improved support for the Flash and Shockwave Players.
- Application fixes:
- Major improvements in Outlook behavior; except for composing HTML mail, it seems to perform basic functions well (and installing Word or IE will make HTML composition work).
- Improved the installation and operation of Internet Explorer. If installed in a Windows 98 bottle, it should work much better than it did before.
- Improved installation of Quicken. All versions but Quicken 2007 should be usable now. Quicken 2007 is partially usable but has some issues with rendering and online integration
- Fix a bug with Remedy.
- Fixed a freeze in Internet Explorer when accessing Windows Update.
- Much better support for Outlook 2003 and other Office 2003 applications.
- Improved OLE embedding support for Office 2003 applications.
- Fixed DCOM detection for Office XP. Should dramatically improve behavior of Office XP applications.
- Fixed font detection in Visio 2003.
- Many miscellaneous bug fixes
- General CrossOver fixes and improvements:
- CrossOver is now much better at creating program icons that work and have the correct icons.
- Added a Windows XP bottle template, which is useful for some unsupported applications.
- Improved handling of CD detection and ejection. Installers that require multiple CDs should now install more graciously.
- Replaced support for QuickBooks 2002-2004
- Improved Bottle upgrade behavior
- Slight improvement in Quicken 2007 web integration
- Improved CD detection which should improve the Office 2003 service pack behavior for fresh installs.
- Several documentation changes
- Fixed the IE screen-flicker that appeared for pages with Flash content
- Many other improvements to IE behavior
- Improved handling of CD detection and ejection. Installers that require multiple CDs should now install more graciously.
- Some fixes to Outlook 2003 behavior, including printing fixes.
- Improved support for Equation Editor
- Corrected display of fonts in DirectX 8.x games, like Half-Life 2.
- Changes resolution in full-screen games should work better.
- Fixed network play in Half-Life 1.
- Fixed a bug with window sizing in Quicken
- Fixed problems with some Quicken versions that cause windows to become non-responsive.
- Fixed several issues with the connection between Outlook and Exchange.
- Office 2003 service packs can now be installed.
- Slipstream editions of Office 2003 can now be installed.
- Fixed popup menus in Photoshop
- Fixed the windows version setting in WinXP bottles.
- Added a few entries to the Bottle Control Panel.
- Added GIF support that was missing for some applications.
- Major changes (since 5.0.1):
- Fix the 'no-execute' and SELinux compatibility issues that happen on recent Fedora Core 4 and Fedora Core 5 distributions.
- If ClamAV is installed, then CrossOver's wine script will now scan executables and attachments before running them. This should not be seen as an ironclad anti-virus shield but as one more step to prevent accidental infection through CrossOver's associations.
- Make it possible to upgrade bottle RPMs. Many other bottle RPM fixes and improvements.
- Added support for repackaging an existing CrossOver installation as an RPM for distributing site-specific customizations.
- Add support for side-by-side installation of multiple versions of the Loki, RPM and Solaris packages.
- Added a Polish translation (thanks go to Mandriva Poland).
- Updated the Portuguese translation (thanks go to José Melo).
- Updated the Japanese translation (thanks go to Takeshi KOUNO).
- Application fixes:
- Fixed iPod support.
- Fixed an authentication issue which should let iTunes access the Music Store again.
- Work around an Internet Explorer 6 installer bug which causes it to complain about the 'download information' being 'damaged', including on Windows. The workaround should make this condition less likely.
- Fix some copy and paste failures in Word 2003 and Excel 2003.
- Fixed a number of crashes in PowerPoint 2003.
- Fixed some scrolling issues in FrameMaker.
- Fixed regression when installing the Microsoft JVM.
- Fixed a crash which occurred when printing some large documents.
- Fixed most sticky Alt key issues.
- Server Edition changes:
- Added full bottle support.
- Each client can connect to multiple servers, one per bottle.
- Added Netscape plugin support (but only on the server, not on the clients).
- Desktop menu fixes:
- Work around a KDE 3.5.1 bug so the 'Windows Applications' menu is visible on SUSE 10.1.
- Work around a KDE 3.5.1 and 3.5.2 bug so the CrossOver associations appear in the 'Open with...' list. This fixes recent Fedora Core 5 versions, SUSE 10.1 and Ubuntu 6.06.
- Work around a Mandriva 2006.0 bug so '&' and ';' won't break all the menus.
- Fix menu duplication issue for root installs on Mandriva 2006.0.
- Fix menu duplication issue on Debian 3.1, Mandrake 10.1 and others.
- Fix menus on SUSE 9.0.
- Avoid creating icons on Gnome's legacy desktop. This means users of modern Gnome should no longer get the annoying 'Link To Old Desktop' icon.
- Fix handling of KDE's desktop icons for root installs.
- Improve handling of the Windows 2000 menus. Installing an unsupported application in a Windows 2000 bottle should now always result in the creation of the corresponding menus.
- Desktop association fixes:
- Make associations work with email tools that create temporary files with no extension. Strictly check the extension against the association's MIME type.
- Fixed XDG associations so that they now work with Evolution.
- Work around a Mozilla bug to make the associations work again in that browser.
- More Excel association fixes.
- Add aliases for the PowerPoint MIME types. This should stop PowerPoint associations from being ignored on some systems.
- Ignore bad MIME types used by some Windows applications so their associations can be exported anyway.
- Fix a bug which caused garbage to be put in the description of a couple of rarely used Internet Explorer MIME types.
- Rename 'alternate associations' to 'alternative associations' for more clarity.
- General CrossOver fixes:
- The CrossOver RPM packages now minimize the 'rpm --verify' output and correctly identify documentation files.
- Fixed some issues with spaces in the bottle names, especially with managed bottles.
- Improved the default browser detection in Gnome and KDE.
- Improved the Windows Application CD detection.
- Improved cxreset so it catches all hung Wine processes.
- Improved support for CD-ROMs that are auto-mounted by means of Supermount (Mandriva), Subfs (SUSE) or HAL (recent distributions). In practice this means CrossOver Setup should no longer get into a loop trying to fix your CD-ROM configuration over and over again.
- Made it easier to install Multi-CD applications on Supermount systems.
- Improved CrossOver's cxsu tool which is used to run commands as root so it automatically knows when to use sudo (e.g. on Ubuntu) and when to use su.
- Fix the conversion of icons to PNG format. This should avoid some xpmtoppm error messages.
- Application fixes:
- Fixed a crash in Project that appeared when opening a recently-saved document
- Fixed EMF drawing in Word and PowerPoint XP
- Fixed the launching of Lotus Notes via the application menu
- Fixed the creation of Office 2000 shortcuts
- Fixed occasional crashes in Outlook 2000 and XP
- Improved EndNote's ability to connect to remote databases
- Fixed a problem in MS Office that produced files with multiple extensions like foo.xls.xls.xls
- Replaced the icons that indicate which components are being included during custom installation of MS Office 2000 and XP.
- Fixed installation of the Office 2003 spellchecker and equation editor.
- Fixed the Lotus Notes minimization bug that cause Notes windows to bounce back after being minimized.
- Fixed a problem that caused IE to lose focus whenever a tooltip was displayed
- General CrossOver fixes:
- Patched the WMF security flaw
- Added support for Gnome mime associations
- Improved Debian package support
- Improved general mime association behavior
- Fixed menu support for Xandros and Linspire
- Fixed menu support for Ubuntu 5.1
- Fixed pasting of Cyrillic and German text
- Updated Russian and German messages
- Lots of changes to the Demo code
- Improved time zone handling
- Improved the upgrade process from previous versions
- Fixed support for the KDE printing subsystem
- Fixed the CrossOver setup tools so that they still work on systems with SCIM enabled.
- New Application support (since 4.2):
- Microsoft Office 2003 (excluding Outlook)
- New Features (since 4.2):
- Major improvements in installer technology so that most applications should now install with CrossOver.
- Support for virtual Windows environments running either in traditional Windows 98 compatibility or for environments supporting Windows 2000/XP.
- 'Bottle Manager' - the ability to manage multiple simultaneous virtual Windows environments simply and easily. This allows you to segregate applications into different environments (aka 'bottles') to simplify testing and to improve stability. Bottles can be backed up, archived, and restored, and bottles can be deployed via RPM, making the process of deploying a Windows application as simple as pushing an RPM around.
- Plugin support for 64-bit browsers
- New Technical Details (since 4.2):
- Major changes in the underlying Wine technology base
which should bring a wide range of improvements,
including:
- Window manager rewrite; windows should interoperate properly with X window managers; odd flickers and painting issues should be greatly reduced.
- COM / MSI implementation, which now enables CrossOver to install a far wider range of applications.
- Better sound support.
- Improved game support.
- Many, many other improvements.
- Major changes in the underlying Wine technology base
which should bring a wide range of improvements,
including:
- New Application support:
- EndNote 8
- Quicken 2005
- iTunes 4.70
- Application bug fixes:
- Fixed the importation of databases into Excel (via Data -> Import External Data -> New Database Query)
- Fixed the viewing of 'shared desktops' in NetMeeting
- Fixed broken URLs for MS file viewers
- Fixed an error (1321) that appeared when running Outlook 2000 in Managed Multi-user mode
- Fixed a crash that happened when printing 16-bit dibs
- Fixed the saving of attachments in Lotus Notes
- Fixed a bug that caused QuickTime to freeze at startup on some systems
- Fixed the 'sideways text' bug in Outlook
- CrossOver improvements:
- Added Portuguese localization, thanks to the translation work of José Melo
- Fixed documentation-browser startup on Fedora Core 3
- Fixed associations on systems that don't have KDE
- Fixed some occasional VFolder errors when creating menus
- Resolved some installation warning messages
- Resolved issues with cross-product rpm upgrades
- Fixed support for floppy drives
- Fixed the upgrading of 3.1-style drives
- Many other upgrade fixes
- Fixed some association issues on Mandrake 10.1
- Fixed menu translations for some locales
- Fixed reading of PPD files in some locales
- Improved menu support on some newer distributions
- iTunes:
- Drastically improved responsiveness on 2.6 kernels; eliminated many skipping problems
- Improved menu redrawing
- Eliminated several potential crashes
- Fixed drag and drop
- Other Applications:
- Improved font appearances in some Microsoft Office applications
- Fixed a hang that happened after certain cuts and pastes in Microsoft Office
- Installation:
- Fixed the /etc/auto.master installation bug; now we are much more tolerant of variations in that file
- Disabled DGA, as that was causing the screen to go blank with some video hardware
- Improved error reporting for some menu problems
- Fixed menu problems on several newer Linux distributions
- Fixed shortcut corruption when installing iTunes with Office
- Fixed menu creation of Fedora Core 3 and in some other settings
- Other CrossOver changes:
- Improved --save-state and --restore-state behavior (important for buildrpm users.)
- Fixed a couple of minor Office Setup bugs
- Fixed a bug with printing on SUSE in certain locales.
- Fixed a serious problem with Windows->Unix associations
- New application support:
- Support for iTunes and iTMS. Limited iPod support; drivers for ripping are not supported.
- Support for Adobe FrameMaker 7.1
- Support for QuickTime 6.5.2
- Reviewed plugin support: removed some, updated others
- Application bug fixes:
- Office:
- Fixed a bug that was causing IE to crash when a 'favorite' was added.
- Fixed a bug that prevented Office 2000 and Project from being installed together.
- Some bug fixes for Outlook 2000
- Fixed a bug that prevented Windows Media Player from playing local media files
- Quicken:
- Cleaned up Quicken installation process
- Fixed several Quicken bugs
- Reviewed and improved Quicken 2004 support
- Others:
- Fixed Dreamweaver uninstallation
- Fixed several Dreamweaver bugs
- Fixed installation problems with Scientific Word
- Office:
- CrossOver changes and improvements:
- Installation:
- Fixed several CrossOver installation and uninstallation issues
- Improved CrossOver upgrade support
- Fixed a bug that caused the menu database to be erased when additional office components (such as the Equation Editor) were added
- Improved menu support for (among others) SUSE 9.2 and Fedora Core 3
- OfficeSetup:
- Added the 'Control Panel' tab to OfficeSetup
- Improved OfficeSetup startup time
- Several improvements to OfficeSetup user interface; fixed keyboard navigation
- Fixed uninstallation of unsupported software
- Solved a bug that sometimes corrupted downloadable installers
- General:
- CrossOver now deals with prelinking and Exec Shield without the need for disabling them
- Fixed handling of SIGCHLD. This fixes several install failures and should improve general stability quite a bit.
- Switched to a new, more modern build machine. This may affect installation dependencies.
- Improved serial port support
- Added volume labels for Windows drives
- Improved font caching
- Dramatic improvement in application speed
- Adopted new, simpler system for drive-letter mapping
- Fixed a crash when LANG=zh_TW.utf8
- Installation:
- Major Fedora Core 2 Bug fixes:
- Properly quote the PRELINK_OPTS in /etc/sysconfig/prelink which should ensure that exec shield remains disabled
- Set the personality to PER_LINUX32 to work around the 4G address space
- Fix cases where an upgrade on Fedora could result in duplicate links.
- Fix the proxy password dialog, should allow proxy installations to work.
- Fix for FrameMaker dialog crashing issues
- Minor fixes to gradient printing.
- Bug fix where right clicking in the file dialog can cause crashes.
- Fix issues where deleted printers don't go away in managed multi-user mode.
- Process TEMP and TMP a bit better when invoking Unix programs, should make calling Unix programs from Windows ones work a bit better.
- Tweak to the system tray window so that it's resizable
- Minor tweaks to sound support
- Fix rare bug with strange names in installed plugins
- Minor bug fixes for managed multi user mode
- Minor bug fixes for rpms built with buildrpm
- Enable Photoshop to work properly in managed multi user mode.
- Support Gnome's change to '~/Desktop'
- Minor tweaks to creating icons so things like Acrobat Reader now makes desktop icons
- Fix for Notes failing to open HTML attachments
- Fix the problem with IE crashing each time a bookmark was added
- Support for Lotus Notes 6.5.1.
- Support for Microsoft Project 2000.
- Support for Microsoft Outlook XP.
- Made Remedy usable.
- CrossOver now detects Exec Shield and Prelink systems and offers to disable Exec Shield since it interferes with Windows Applications. This should be especially useful for Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux users.
- The Standard and Pro editions now include support for the Netscape plugins which was previously only present in CrossOver Plugin. Now a single CrossOver installation can handle all your needs!
- Improved localization: now all of the application interface, including the desktop menus and scripts can be localized. A complete translation to French is provided.
- Improved internationalization support: CrossOver Setup should now correctly list applications that use non-ASCII characters. The application menus should also be created with the right character encoding.
- Made it possible to switch from the demo to the full version without reinstalling.
- Added a tool to capture the system configuration. This should help us better diagnose issues.
- Systematically log a trace of the Windows application installations to help diagnosis in case of a problem. The size of this log is capped so it cannot fill the disk.
- General bug fixes:
- Sound should now work on i810-based sound cards, provided that you configure CrossOver to use the winealsa sound driver.
- The cxuninstall script now offers to clean up the CrossOver environment when run by a non-root user in private or managed multi-user mode. It will also remind you of all the steps to take to fully uninstall CrossOver in these modes.
- The cxuninstall script now also works for RPM and Debian installations.
- The old Loki uninstaller does not work on new Linux distributions. We now upgrade it to make sure the uninstallation proceeds smoothly.
- Fixed the Netscape plugin removal when uninstalling.
- Fixed many bugs in cxwinassoc. Associating file types with Unix applications should now be more reliable.
- Fix the Windows drive setup when there are many floppy or CD-ROM drives.
- CrossOver Setup:
- CrossOver Setup should start faster and be more responsive.
- Better detect whether an application installed successfully or not.
- Made it possible to install all the fonts in one go.
- Fix the handling of bad paths in the 'My Documents' field.
- The menu tab has been improved and a new fonts tab added.
- Fixed an issue where a bad symbolic link to the CrossOver configuration file would cause an infinite loop in CrossOver Setup.
- Desktop integration:
- Added support for the Ximian Desktop 2 desktop menus. Fixed an issue where uninstalling CrossOver would remove the 'Office' Ximian menu.
- The desktop menus should no longer have a tendency to disappear on SuSE 8.x systems configured to use the SuSE-specific menus.
- Uninstalling CrossOver Office should no longer delete the CrossOver Plugin menus on VFolder systems.
- Many other menu issues have been fixed.
- Fixed the association creation on Mandrake.
- Managed multi-user support (a Pro and Server Edition feature):
- In the Pro Edition, it is now possible to choose between the private and managed multi-user modes at install time.
- Made it possible to make a copy the managed multi-user environment in a non-root account.
- Made it possible to disable the 'running as root' warning.
- In the Server Edition a new users tab lets you manage the CrossOver user accounts.
- Fixed many bugs in buildrpm. The RPMs it generates can now be upgraded.
- Made it possible to use hard-links when creating the per-user environment to limit the inode usage.
- Application-specific fixes:
- Fixed the toolbar flicker, occasional freezes when opening a new window and many other issues in Internet Explorer.
- Associating a file type, like PDF files, with a Unix application, like Acrobat Reader, now works in Internet Explorer too.
- In some cases installing Office XP would not create the desktop menus. This should now be fixed.
- Word XP should no longer systematically prompt to save 'normal.dot' when exiting.
- Fixed the font list drop-down in Word.
- Most movies should now play correctly in PowerPoint.
- Fixed the entries in the 'Windows' menu in Visio.
- Fixed drawing issues in Visio.
- It is now possible to sort the files by date or other criteria in Excel 97's open file dialog.
2.1.0 - October 22, 2003
- Support for all known versions of glibc, including the new Native Posix Thread Library (NPTL) interface. This represents a major technical advance for Wine, as glibc instability has been a problem throughout 2003.
- Support for the Dreamweaver MX Studio.
- Support for Minitab 13, Geometer Sketchpad, and Scientific Word.
- Beginning support for Remedy Help Desk
- Provide dynamic loading of OpenGL; this allows a much greater range of unsupported applications, especially games such as Half-Life, to run.
- Fixes for latest versions of Gnome and KDE; CrossOver should now interact properly with all known versions of Gnome and KDE.
- Implement basic proxy support, allows IE to function even when an authenticating proxy is in use.
- Significant improvements in Internationalization
- General bug fixes:
- Many printing fixes, including full and proper support for the HP4000.
- Fix printing using gimp-print filters
- Support for a kprinter entry in the printer list (thanks for the suggestion, Josh)
- Numerous other border condition fixes and improvements
- Bug fix with interaction with various clipboards, including Klipper
- CrossOver Setup:
- A bug fix for uninstalling Windows applications; this should allow many more Windows uninstallers to operate properly
- Add an option to hide the system tray (for environments where Wine system tray integration does not work).
- A modest boost in performance in creating menus
- Many other subtle improvements
- Bug fixes with Microsoft Office:
- Resolve a number of PowerPoint display problems
- Fix a bug when cropping certain charts in Excel
- Significant reduction in Office XP installation failures
- Prevent several crashes in Word XP operation
- Expand shared heap pool which prevents a resource problem in Outlook.
- Many other miscellaneous bug fixes in both Office 2000 and Office XP
- Miscellaneous bug fixes for Quicken, Visio, and Lotus Notes.
2.0.1 - May 21, 2003
- Added a Xandros edition.
- Added an RPM (Red Hat, Mandrake, SuSE) edition.
- Add further internationalization, including some German documentations.
- Fixed a critical bug with Quicken painting in certain areas.
- Fix a bug where Photoshop would hang at exit.
- Fixed the 'Updater' problem with root upgrades which was occurring when CrossOver 1.x was installed in a non-default location.
- Improved the upgrade of some (of the less often used) 1.x configuration settings.
- Fixed 'wait4' error with pre 2.2.19 kernels.
- Fixed 'Other .exe' display in cxsetup.
- Fixed issues occurring when fstab or mtab are not readable.
- Fixed a bug while printing with gimp-print.
- Fixed printing on the HP4000.
- Allow a CUPS port to be redirectable.
- Added more known Unix TrueType font directories.
- Fixed a bug in running newer versions of DCOM95 that come with updated versions of MS Office 2000.
- Potentially fixed a bug in which searching for DCOM95 could take a long time.
2.0.0 - April 22, 2003
- Support for Photoshop 7.
- Support for Access 2000.
- Support for Word, Excel and PowerPoint XP.
- Support for Internet Explorer 6.
- Support for glibc 2.3, including NPTL-based ones. This adds support for Red Hat 9.0 and Mandrake 9.1.
- Microsoft Office:
- More work on getting service packs to install fully and correctly.
- Fix hangs in the installation.
- Fix the Internet Explorer 'Favorites' menu.
- The Outlook folders no longer remain bold when they should not.
- Word should now be able to start Access for mail-merge operations.
- Fix copy/paste issues between Word and X applications.
- Fix a display problem in Word Draw.
- Fixed an issue with the Office 97 splash window.
- Fix the chart display in Excel 2000 and XP.
- PowerPoint is no longer sent to the background when doing an 'Insert Slide' or clicking in the XP registration window.
- Fix printing to a second printer from PowerPoint.
- Fix display bugs in the Office 2000 help application.
- Visio:
- Fixed some installation issues.
- Fix the cursor position in text editing.
- Fixed drawing of the 'Target' logo (from the Marketing diagrams stencil).
- Fix 'Save As JPEG': prevents Visio 2000 from running out of memory when saving large diagrams as a JPEG.
- CrossOver Configuration:
- Major changes to the CrossOver configuration program to hopefully clarify and simplify its usage.
- Autodetect X directories containing TrueType fonts and register them for use by CrossOver. Fixed compatibility issues with some fonts.
- Make it possible to delete or recreate individual menus.
- Added a button to make the preferred Unix browser the default after Internet Explorer has set itself as the default.
- Major improvement to the way we handle CDs: we now truly run the Autorun off the CD. This should improve behavior for obscure versions of MS Office and unsupported applications.
- Improved CD mounting. Detect CDs that are affected by the unhide bug so we know when to fix fstab. Improved fstab handling.
- Correctly detect installed fonts.
- Improve the online help.
- General:
- Added file locking and file change notification support.
- Printing speed ups and improved printer compatibility.
- Make the PPD file handling more resilient. This should fix issues with CUPS.
- Fix the CUPS default printer detection.
- Add support for tablets for Photoshop.
- Add scripts so the technically inclined can have Windows applications open specific file types using Unix applications, for instance opening PDF files with the Unix Acrobat Reader.
- Way too many other cleanups and bug fixes to list here.
1.3.1 - November 4, 2002
- Dramatic improvements in support for Visio 2000, including bug fixes which caused random crashes, bug fixes in a wide range of templates, and many others. This also includes a fix to permit the installation of Visio Enterprise edition.
- Critical installation bug fix: prevent older installers from overwriting newer DLLs This should avoid the situation where installing a miscellaneous 'old' software product suddenly breaks something that had been working
- Quicken
- Bug fixes in printing
- Fix a bug that entering a memo would clear the category
- Fix with short file names
- Bug fixes in IE that better enable Quicken to perform web based transactions
- Fix a bug with Quicken flickering too much.
- Better support for Quicken 2003 (but bugs do remain)
- Enable MathType to install (though we have not really tested its behavior) Enable Remedy to install (though we have not really tested its behavior) 'Anti-Klez' patch to prevent users from accidentally opening Windows executable attachments
- Support for Red Hat 8.0, Mandrake 9.0, and SuSE 8.1
- Office Bug fixes
- Print embedded eps files
- Prevent crash in PowerPoint on 'Insert->Movies'
- Bug fix in a property sheet in Outlook
- Enable HTML printing in Outlook
- Bug fix for crashes in Outlook contact handling
- Fix incorrect pie chart printing
- Fix crashes in PowerPoint on certain presentations
- Make the IE toolbar customization work
- Improve IE content rating behavior
- Enable IE to save files (helps Quicken)
- Fix Office 97 saving problems
- Fix for 'n-up' printing in MS Word
- Fix for printing bugs with WordArt and other misc Word documents
- Autodetect a more reasonable default for the "My Documents" setting
- Fix an incorrect date appearing in Outlooks calendar
- Fix many bugs with the Save As/Open dialogs.
- Fix handling of attachments with unknown mime types
- Don't create the IE "Connect to the Internet" icon
- Lotus Notes
- Fix a bug with multiple file attachments
- Implement a 'skeleton' based method for root installations With this approach, we will be able to advocate root installs, and the CrossOver executables are shared, but each user has a private Windows environment.
- Minor graphical improvements in OfficeSetup
- Improve the CrossOver Interaction with Linux clipboard, notably for rtf files
- Better support for Type 42 fonts and non RENDER enabled X servers
- Fix a bug with installations in multibyte locales
- Enable HTML help in certain applications
- Make a change that will hopefully permit CrossOver to interoperate with new versions of glibc 2.3
- Many other minor bug fixes
- Support for Quicken.
- Support for Visio 2000.
- Support for QuickBooks 2000 and QuickBooks Pro 6.0.
- Improving support for international versions of MS Office: Includes specific fixes for Greek, Brazilian, Bulgarian, and several more. Includes a fix to allow the use of Unicode file names.
- Enable the Office 2000 Service Pack, Release 1, to install smoothly.
- Allow the user to change the location of the "My Documents" directory, set default to the home directory.
- Major bug fix that corrects occasional hangs during Office installations.
- Started work on FreeBSD support (not there yet :-( ).
- Clipboard handling improvements (should fix some cut & paste issues).
- More font handling improvements.
- Automate the version number used by buildrpm.sh.
- Better handle Mime types and descriptions.
- Improve upgrade handling (should make the 1.x --> 1.2 process a bit smoother).
- Fix bugs involving paths with spaces.
- Fix menu and desktop handling, notably for Debian and KDE 3. This includes adding the ability to recreate the menus and icons.
- Fix for Insert->Picture->Clipart.
- Fixed bugs related to installations needing the CD. For example, you can now add the Analysis toolpack in Excel.
- Improve behaviour of cxoffice_reset script and add a '-f' option to eliminate the prompt.
- Fixed a bug in Excel handling certain files.
- Now compatible with FreeType 2.0.x and 2.1.x, which helps if not using the internal FreeType library.
- Improved installation support for some non supported applications.
- Add A3 paper size.
- Get the initial paper size from the locale information.
- Major improvements in time zone handling which improves Outlook calendaring
- Fixed a bug with IE displaying PNG images (requires IE reinstall, though)
- Fixed a bug with IE crashing right away (but bug may sometimes recur, added FAQ to tell user how to repair situation)
- Many other bug fixes.
- Improved on-screen font rendering, especially in small types. Our internal FreeType library now includes Apple's patented hinting technology so that fonts will render as cleanly and crisply as on Windows.
- Very much improved printing quality. Now the fonts used for printing always match the fonts used for on-screen display. Printed documents and should match Windows printouts.
- Improved support for non U.S. versions of Office: Added support for dead keys. Better detection/installation of non English 'SETUP.EXE' files.
- Fully support multi-user (i.e. root) installations, including in NFS environments.
- Improved support for remote displays, in particular non Intel (big endian) X terminals.
- Added support for Internet Explorer 5.5 as well as 5.0 when installed as part of Office 2000.
- Major bug fixes in Outlook and Internet Explorer.
- Added a new facility to secure Outlook by preventing it from launching external applications.
- Improved the Wine socket handling. cxoffice_reset should not be necessary anymore after a crash. The bugs which prevented cxoffice_reset from working correctly in 1.0.0 have been fixed too.
- Detect and setup CD drives, including multi-cd configurations.
- Detect and optionally fix fstab CD drive entries that do not include the 'unhide' and 'user' options. This solves an issue with some MS Office CDs that include 'hidden' files.
- Fix: Make Internet Explorer work in multi-user configurations.
- Fix: Make the Outlook account wizard work.
- Fix: Display of icons and images in Outlook.
- Fix: PowerPoint should not longer issue errors when saving files.
- Fix: Word 97 should no longer issue the 'unable to save' error.
- Fix: The equation editor should work in Word 97.
- Fix: Office 95 should now install. But note that its operation has not been tested.
- Fix: Some movement keys (home, etc) would not work with Num lock set.
- Fix: Building RPMs on non i386 kernels.
- Improved Visual Basic script support in all Office applications.
- Improved the Office 97 installation process.
- Improved the KDE, Gnome and Mailcap associations handling. In particular, associations should now work with Mozilla and Netscape 7.
- Improved drag and drop support.
- Improved handling of applications which require a 'reboot' during their installation process.
- Improved the uninstaller. It should no longer leave any KDE, Gnome or other setting behind.
- Added a menu entry to perform a simulated reboot.
- Added a script to manually create icons, if they have been lost.
- A minor fix that improves Spaceward Ho! behavior. (but doesn't fix it, yet...)
- Many, many more fixes and improvements.
- Initial release.
