The Wine development release 1.7.42 is now available.

What´s new in this release:

• Support for dynamic timezone information.
  
• Initial desktop shell window support.
  
• Some more Direct2D support.
  
• Various bug fixes.

1.7.41

• More Known Folders supported in the shell.
  
• Some more support for kernel job objects.
  
• More MSI patches improvements.
  
• Some theming fixes.
  
• Various bug fixes.

1.7.40

• Support for kernel job objects.
  
• Various fixes to the ListView control.
  
• Better support for OOB data in Windows Sockets.
  
• Support for DIB images in the OLE data cache.
  
• Improved support for MSI patches.
  
• Some fixes for ACL file permissions.
  
• Various bug fixes.

Bugs fixed in 1.7.42 (total 34):

22840 Screen resolution changes when it shouldn´t in Anarchy Online
23403 X11 mouse pointer sometimes hidden, sometimes visible in Anarchy Online
23503 AutoCAD 2008: Crash when reusing coordinates
28905 DeusEx: Invisible War npc voices not played
31628 Guild Wars 2 Low Performance/Not using all CPU cores
32153 Guild Wars 2: Input gets stuck
32308 Missing radio buttons in Evernote installer
32916 Brazilian timezones are not correctly detected
33997 win86emu needs Unimplemented function KERNEL32.dll.CreateSymbolicLinkA
34144 Guild Wars 2: Crash if minimized
36148 valgrind shows an unitialized variable in dlls/msi/tests/automation.c
36151 valgrind shows a couple warnings in dlls/msi/tests/package.c
36216 Hearthstone fails to start, says the game timed out
36374 Israel timezone handled incorrectly
36889 Guild Wars 2: After minimizing the game immediately recovers the window
37014 Evernote tray icon popup menu appears on random locations on screen
37500 Evernote 5.5.x, 5.6.x, 5.7.x fail to connect to evernote service
37914 XCOM: Enemy Within launcher fails to start with Wine Mono
38048 Unigine Heaven 4.0 Benchmark Basic renders lots of black textures
38049 NFS 11 crash
38160 Evernote 5.8.x - search and note title boxes have invisible text
38178 Crash with Heroes VI at very begin
38239 MATLAB R2014b/R2015a crashes on startup ("libut.dll" failed to initialize) (´_Getcvt´ must use caller allocated hidden parameter for returning ´_Cvtvec´ structure)
38264 Chessmaster 10 & 11 crash on startup
38367 Desura client 0.0.20.2 crashes on unimplemented function msvcr120.dll.strtoull
38388 Visual Studio Express 2013 (12.0) installer aborts with ´Runtime Error! R6016 - not enough space for thread data´ in Win 8.1 mode (needs ntdll.dll ´WinSqmIsOptedIn´)
38398 Multiple application installers requiring native mspatcha.dll abort on ´PatchFiles´ action (Adobe Reader 11)
38419 regression in mshtml with SolidWorks
38442 valgrind shows some uninitialized variables in d3d10core/tests/device.c test_scissor()
38446 valgrind shows an unitialized variable in dlls/msi/tests/msi.c
38455 valgrind shows an invalid read in dlls/wshom.ocx/tests/wshom.c
38458 valgrind shows an uninitialized variable in dlls/d3d9/tests/visual.c yuv_color_test()
38459 valgrind shows an uninitialized variable in dlls/d3d9/tests/visual.c test_fragment_coords()
38463 valgrind shows a possible leak in winhttp/tests/winhttp.c WinHttpSendRequest()

Bugs fixed in 1.7.41 (total 41):

11364 WinRar doesn´t fully utilize CPU cores in the multithreaded (SMP) mode
20041 DirectPlay8 requires some IP_ADAPTER_UNICAST_ADDRESS parameters to be correct in GetAdaptersAddresses (Rise of Nations, Two Worlds, Cultures Northland)
23481 Network game in Heroes 3 doesn´t work
26333 Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds: Clone Campaigns 1.0x crashes on pressing ´Multiplayer´ -> ´Show Games´
28754 valgrind shows an uninitialized value in comdlg32/tests/itemdlg.ok, update_layout()
28769 shell32/shellpath tests: test_knownFolders() triggers use-after-free and invalid free in foldermanager
31264 iTunes will not connect to the iTunes music store
32719 WinISIS 1.5.3 crashes when opening a database
33723 EA Origin needs job objects
33914 Pokemon uranium Crashes
34820 Path of Exile fails to start in windowed mode (crashes on resize)
35337 GOG.com installer--a small line appears on the progress bar after some time
36331 Rhapsody 2 installer renders app folder inaccessible (SetNamedSecurityInfo with ´everyone´ access)
36809 valgrind shows an unitialized variable in dlls/dmscript/tests/dmscript.c
36821 Multi Theft Auto: San Andreas 1.3.5 ´FairplayKD.sys´ driver continuously spams terminal due to ´PsLookupProcessByProcessId´ stub
36897 No sound recording
37103 Wine incorrectly handles UNIX group permissions
37150 python 3.1.1: test_math failed
37527 Multiple games and applications fail to connect/login via SSL, reporting ´schannel failed to setup sequence detection´ (Desura client, Darkfall, ARMA II multiplayer)
37689 Sumatra PDF 3.0 crashes when opening .epub and .mobi files
37750 Assassin´s Creed: graphical issues in the menus and in-game
37851 Call of Duty 4: colors and textures are not rendered correctly
37956 Photoshop (CS6/CC) 64bit crash when you press "cancel" button
38041 GTAVC abruptly switches sound from left speaker to right when steering a car
38058 Resident Evil Revelations missing scene objects
38132 Multiple .NET 4.x WPF applications need ´IDWriteTextAnalyzer::AnalyzeNumberSubstitution´ method implementation in Win7 mode (sb0t v.5, Samsung Smart View 2.0)
38134 Uplay v5.x: can´t log in (Uplay hangs with the login screen)
38206 Sound clicks in Blizzard´s "Heroes of the Storm" and "Diablo 3", and also some slightly annoying clicking in "World of Tanks".
38297 Prince of Persia: Warrior Within: rendering issues
38330 DraftSight registration submission causes page fault (fixme:wbemprox:client_security_SetBlanket)
38340 iexplore crashes after follow links.
38341 Photoshop CS6 crash at startup
38344 Invalid memory access in get_registry_locale_info()
38348 _wsopen_s does not respect the pmode parameter when O_CREAT is set
38351 Ninite downloader fails to install application
38353 DIRT3 crashes after showing racing results screen (ToUnicodeEx should accept NULL pointer as keystate)
38361 Dead Space 2 (Steam) crashes at the screen
38366 Outlast crashes with ARB shaders enabled
38372 Midnight Mysteries: The Salem Witch Trials crashes on start (SO_ERROR returns zero instead of ECONNREFUSED after connect attempt fails)
38387 Multiple .NET 4.x WPF applications abort with ´Unrecoverable system error´ in Win7 mode (dwrite font family resolution must be case-insentive)
38410 ws2_32 fails compile without IPX

Bugs fixed in 1.7.40 (total 29):

19231 Trine Demo fails to start without native d3dx9_36
21433 InqScribe: Installed fine, but no output or UI response when running installed app
22139 CDBurnerXP 3.0.x produces a "fail" message after choosing a mode
26223 Multiple apps and games need wmvcore.dll.WMCreateReader implementation (Nail´d demo)
26748 World Series of Poker crashes when starting up a game
30648 SEGA Genesis / Mega Drive Classic Collection (Steam) crashes on startup
30723 Playchess listview control is broken
31579 Microsoft Visio 2007-2010 crashes on exit (unload of msctf component with ThreadMgr/CBT hook still alive)
32361 epson stylus t13 installer problem: wine: Unimplemented function setupx.dll16.DiOpenClassRegKey
33164 row-resize / col-resize cursor is wrong (Listview)
34254 Wine64 seh:RtlUnwindEx error with c++ exception handling
35135 Air Video Server HD 1.x crashes on startup (NULL SERVER_INFO_101.sv101_comment returned from NetServerGetInfo)
36133 valgrind shows some leaks in gdiplus/tests/image.c
36190 comdlg32/itemdlg shows a ton of valgrind warnings
36305 valgrind shows a possible leak in netapi32/tests/access.c
36332 Total Commander 8.x: moving files between folders renders them inaccessible (SetNamedSecurityInfo)
36656 valgrind shows an unintialized write in comdlg32/tests/itemdlg.c
36709 Multiple applications/games from Windows 7 need slc.SLGetWindowsInformationDWORD semi-stub/implementation
36842 Can´t set a static crontrol´s text to empty by passing NULL pointer
37731 Montezuma´s Revenge Remake fails with fatal error when quitting the game
37960 Paint.NET 4.0.5 does not install: unimplemented function KERNEL32.dll.QueryThreadCycleTime
38205 Unreal Tournament 3 Black Edition installer fails after the language selection
38238 user32:input right-clicks outside its windows
38248 Worms World Party (w/SetCooperativeLevel workaround/hacks) and older versions of Worms Armageddon black screen on startup
38256 Myst Online Uru Live: too dark/missing textures
38261 Playchess doesn´t install anymore
38282 Header control fails to update/synchronize listview when columns order changes
38288 Wrong pointer in icnsformat.c IcnsFrameEncode_WriteSource
38317 winetricks xna31 fails