Change Log For CrossOver Mac
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9.1.0 CrossOver Mac - 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 Media Player 9.
- Fixed custom installs of Office 2007.
- Improved print to PDF in Office 2007.
- Some minor improvements to IE6 and IE7.
- 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 a bug with accessing very old CrossOver bottles./li>
- Fixed handling of custom C4P files on Mac OS X Tiger.
- 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<./li>
- 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
- Improve sound on the Mac
- Fixes to a number of minor Snow Leopard issues
- 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.
- Fixed an incompatibility with the quartz-wm packaged in XQuartz 2.3.3.2.
- 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.
- Re-enabled use of the 'default bottle' on the Mac.
- 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.
- Changes to improve compatibility with OS X 10.5 (Leopard):
- Repaired Input-Method behavior.
- Fixed a crash with certain non-US keyboards.
- Fixed a small GUI error which appeared when creating new bottles for supported applications.
- Fixed a potential hang-on-exit problem.
- Made the preference setting "Enable keyboard modifiers for mouse buttons" take effect
- Fixed transparent and incorrectly colored cursors.
- Application fixes:
- Extended the Team Fortress 2 font fix to Half-Life 2: Episode 2 and Portal.
- Mac OS X specific changes:
- Added a dock presence for running Applications. This provides some Mac-like interfaces for applications, including the activation of applications and quitting via the dock. There is rudimentary systray support, but this only provides notification services -- tray-based menus are still unavailable.
- Fixed the chronic regeneration of application icons. These should be produced less frequently and at more appropriate times.
- Fixed association upgrade behavior so that documents opened via their extensions should now be referred to the corresponding application rather than opened directly by CrossOver.
- Dramatic improvements in performance on OS X Leopard
- Improved 'Star Map' performance in EVE Online on some graphic setups.
- Improved timezone support.
- Fixed intermittent display update failures in several applications.
- Added DirectSound support. This should fix the audio in EVE Online.
- Added preliminary MIDI support (which may or may not work.)
- Improved audio input -- support mismatched sample rates.
- Fixed the icons for documents associated with Windows programs.
- Improved support for Korean keyboard layouts.
- Fixed a bug that prevented Wine programs from finding all available fonts.
- 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.
- Mac OS X specific changes:
- Added handling of mailto: links, both within and outside of CrossOver.
- Added support for installing a set of Windows-specific TrueType fonts.
- Fixed a problem with Quartz-wm on new Tiger install disks. Previously this problem caused CrossOver to crash on some new Macs.
- Added a feature that will check for available updates.
- Improved support on Leopard.
- Added Japanese localization.
- Improved support for composed characters
- Some cosmetic changes to the GUI. No major redesigns.
- Improved the menu-syncing algorithm.
- 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.
- Mac OS X specific changes:
- Fixed a bug in the 'eject' button. Previously many multi-CD
installs failed when performed in any non-default bottle.
Now multi-CD installations should succeed in any bottle. - Fixed a problem with registering the Demo version in non-English locales.
- A few minor improvements in rendering performance. More coming in the next release.
- Fix color printing on some printers.
- Fixed a catastrophic failure that arose on systems with certain PostScript Type 1 fonts installed.
- Fixed a bug in the 'eject' button. Previously many multi-CD
installs failed when performed in any non-default bottle.
- 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.
- Initial release of CrossOver Mac.

