Wine Staging 9.11 Released with A Patch For A 17 Year Old Bug

Building off Friday's release of Wine 9.11, the development team has now also released Wine Staging 9.11 with some 428 patches, reports Phoronix founder Michael Larabel: Catching my interest was a patch for Bug 7955. That right away catches my attention since the latest Wine bug reports are at a bug ticket number over 56,000.... Yep, Bug 7955 dates back 14 years ago to April 2007.

The #7955 bug report is over the S-Hoai Windows client displaying an application exception when clicking the "File" or "Projects" menu. S-Hoai is a Windows application used in Germany by architects and building engineers/contractors for managing estimates and billing according to German laws.

9.11

[dbialac]

I probably would have left the version numer off of the headline. At least the bug wasn't from 23 years ago.

Re:

[bill_mcgonigle]

It's 17 years old.

1-7

1 is the shape of the tower.

7 is its number.

The software they fixed is used by engineers and architects [uaf.edu].

Release is 9.11.

They're trying to tell you they /know/, dude.

Re: 9.11

[dbialac]

Some of us lost a lot of people we know that day, so we might have a bit of sensitivity to it.

Re:

[Anonymous Coward]

its a version number, nothing else intended or implied

do you lose your shit twice a day looking at the clock too?

forget your meds today?

Re:

[Anonymous Coward]

Why is the version number significant? What happened on 9 November 2020 (or so)? Were you that upset about GWB getting elected?

The office runtime is probably key here

[Mirnotoriety]

S-Hoai client displays app exception dialog when clicking 'File' or 'Projects' menu [winehq.org]

“The office runtime is probably key here, since the app wants to open an MS Access file called KLM.mdb (Kobold License Manager?) on startup.”

Re: The office runtime is probably key here

[unfriendlyLLM]

This bug might be even older than that.... The ultima online client used wine components and had this exact behavior even had a fix that included manually opening the file you mentioned....

Pelco

[markdavis]

WINE can be quite impressive at times. Example, at work we have an ancient Pelco DVR and it is used locally. No web interface, no Linux client. Generally just used locally (at the console). We had a need last year to access video remotely. Pelco only provides an MS-Windows client binary. We decided to try it with WINE and, to my great surprise, it worked really well. Starts up quickly, operates fast, doesn't peg the CPU, doesn't crash with regular use, and all the major functions seem to work. No MS-Windows, no licensing, no spyware, no huge virtual machines or non-native "drives." Granted, it is a really old binary. I don't know if the means it is more or less likely to work well under WINE.

Generally, I have no interest in running MS-Windows software of any type. But there are times where it can be quite useful.

Re:

[drinkypoo]

Granted, it is a really old binary. I don't know if the means it is more or less likely to work well under WINE.

IME, a bit less. The new stuff gets the most attention. Older software either followed standards very well and works fine, or didn't and probably doesn't unless some dev wanted to run that software.

Re:Pelco

[John Allsup]

My main use case for Wine is music software. There is some native for Linux (Reaper, Bitwig, U-He, Pianoteq and a few others). Quite a bit also runs under wine via yabridge.

Can't wait for the next ReactOS

[jfdavis668]

Maybe I can get it to work on something other than a VM.

Great

[backslashdot]

Just what I need fixed, some accounting package for shuffling bean counting paperwork. So exciting.

More old bugs need fixing!

[Gravis Zero]

I love that mention they fixed one very old bug but there are still a LOT of very old tickets that nobody has bothered to address. Instead of working on adding the latest Windows features, I would prefer they work on fixing old bugs.