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PlayOnLinux 4.3.2 released

Sun, 18 Nov 2018 00:00:00 +0000

PlayOnLinux, the software, which makes it easy to use Windows-only-software using WINE, has released the version 4.3.2. Changelog:

4.3 Various fix on OSX Phoenicis (POL 5) winebuild compatibility. POL 4 winebuilds will be deprecated. (See https://github.com/PhoenicisOrg/phoenicis-winebuild)

Source: Playonlinux

PlayOnLinux: Version 4.2.12 released

Mon, 19 Jun 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Only a short time after the release of Version 4.2.11, Version 4.2.12 of PlayOnLinux has arrived. Sadly the developers did not publish a changelog this time. But by looking at the commit on Github, we can see that only changes to the Makefile and minimal changes to the GUI have been done.

PlayOnLinux: Version 4.2.11 released

Wed, 31 May 2017 00:00:00 +0000

It has been more than one year since the version 4.2.10 of PlayOnLinux, which has been released in January 2016. Today the version 4.2.11 of PlayOnLinux has been released, but the list of changes is small:

4.2.11
* Fix POL_SetupWindow_download clobbering $FILENAME * Fix small typo in first use “send report” message

PlayOnLinux: Installation of The Saboteur (GOG-Version) explained

Sun, 13 Nov 2016 00:00:00 +0000

The Installation of the GOG-Version of the game The Saboteur using PlayOnLinux is explained in this Forum-post.

PlayOnLinux: Installation of The Vanishing of Ethan Carter (GOG-Version) explained

Sun, 13 Nov 2016 00:00:00 +0000

In this Forum-post I explain the Installation of the GOG-Version of the game The Vanishing of Ethan Carter using PlayOnLinux.

Playonlinux 4.2.10 released

Sun, 03 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Playonlinux, the Software, which makes it easy to use Windows-Titles on Linux (using WINE), has released the Version 4.2.10. Changelog:

PlayOnLinux and PlayOnMac 4.2.10 are now released. Here is the changelog: Wine 1.8 staging is now the default wine version on OSX. The build process has been improved thanks to wine-staging team so that the compiler supports ms_hook_prologue, allowing function hotpatching. This should improve the compatibility of some applications like Steam. Some wine staging instructions have been added so that they are fully supported by the scripts. The wineprefix tab in the configuration panel has been improved.

Playonlinux 4.2.9 released

Thu, 10 Sep 2015 00:00:00 +0000

Playonlinux version 4.2.9 has been released. The news and changes so far:

4.2.9
* Fixed a bug in the user agent used in urllib that would make it look like an attack to paranoid eyes (and filters) (#5072) * Try to improve general installation instructions * Update About’s copyright years span (let’s make it look like we’re still working on the project ;) ) Many more could be updated though * POL_Download_Resource: don’t test hash of missing file (one less spurious warning message) * Adding some visual clue while virtual drives are being removed * Fix “debbuger” typo * POL_System_find_file: really pick the shallowest file * fix “debbuger” typo * POL_SetupWindow_VMS: mention that the expected answer units are megabytes * Try to make instructions to rerun a program in debug mode more obvious (#5104) * Some GetRegValue fixing/hardening * Remove spurious .lnk files from user desktop for all architectures during POL_Shortcut calls (#4200) * Add waiting messages to POL_System_unzip & friends * Deprecate Set_WineWindowTitle that no longer works with Wine 1.5.16+, and breaks Set_Desktop (#5118) * Fix playonlinux-pkg -b (broken since PlayOnLinux 4.0) * MacOS 10.11 support