Wine Staging 9.11 has been released with a patch that includes a 17-year-old bug report

Building on Friday’s Wine 9.11 release as the latest bi-weekly development release, Wine Staging 9.11 has been released with approximately 428 fixes based on the latest, earlier Wine code.

Wine Staging still serves as an experimental/test version of Wine where tweaks are added more actively for evaluation before being submitted to Wine itself. Wine Staging has typically been available in the 400-500 patch range for some time, and with Saturday’s release of Wine Staging 9.11, the latest VKD3D Git code was downloaded, as well as other updates. Additionally, two new patches have appeared.

The patch for bug 7955 caught my attention. It immediately caught my attention because the latest bug reports in Wine show the number of bug reports exceeding 56,000… Yes, bug 7955 was created 14 years ago, in April 2007.

Bug Report #7955 concerns 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 construction engineers/contractors to manage cost estimates and invoicing in accordance with German law. This S-Hoai “Honorarordnung für Architekten und Ingenieure” software in at least older versions has been discontinued under Wine with little bug report activity over the years.

But now there is an OLEDB32 patch in Wine Staging 9.11 where a mode can have multiple values ​​as a string. Hopefully this will solve the problem for S-Hoai and any other similar Windows software.

Separately, Wine Staging 9.11 includes the ODBCCP32 patch to improve DSN lookups before writing to the registry.

Those who want to test the latest releases of Wine 9.11 or Wine Staging 9.11 can download the sources and binaries from WineHQ.org.