Building off Friday's release of Wine 11.10 is now the Wine-Staging 11.10 experimental/testing flavor with nearly 300 additional patches atop that upstream code.

First up with Wine-Staging 11.10 is adding a new patch to deal with the PDF Annotation program crashing on second start-up of the app. This 2012 bug report noted that PDF Annotation would crash when starting the program for the second time under Wine. With some updates to the Inkobj code, that issue should be fixed after 14 years in Wine-Staging.

Also fixed with Wine-Staging 11.10 is a 2018 bug report over Frostpunk being too dark. The game Against The Storm was also found to have the same dark rendering issues too when being Vulkan rendered. Ultimately there was a Vulkan swapchain issue in the WineD3D code for needing to properly handle UNORM to SRGB. With the code in Wine-Staging 11.10, dark rendering issues such as these should be a matter of the past.

Wine-Staging 11.10 also adds a patch for implementing KERNEL32.dll.SetThreadpoolTimerEx as needed by Adobe Creative Cloud software. There is also a fix for a 2017 bug report over the Rebelle demo crashing when using the Microsoft Ink compatible tablet.

Plus Wine-Staging 11.10 pulls in the latest VKD3D development code as usual. Wine 11.10 and the experimental Wine-Staging 11.10 can be downloaded from WineHQ.org.