CrossOver Linux 14.1.10 - 2015/09/29
- Mac OS X:
- Fixed a problem which caused CrossOver to hang on startup
when running under El Capitan on certain hardware.
CrossOver Linux 14.1.8 - 2015/09/29
- Mac OS X:
- Fixed a problem which prevented the Legacy X Window System
from functioning on El Capitan.
CrossOver Linux 14.1.6 - 2015/08/31
- Linux:
- Fixed a problem which caused CrossOver to fail to load
libX11 on RHEL / CentOS 6.7.
- Fixed a problem in which CrossOver would complain about
unmet dependencies on libosmesa6 on Ubuntu 14.04.3.
- Mac OS X:
- Fixed a problem which caused CrossOver to crash on
El Capitan when selecting a bottle in the GUI.
- Application Support:
- Fixed a bug which caused Mamut Business Software to crash
during installation.
CrossOver Linux 14.1.4 - 2015/06/25
- Application Support:
- Fixed a Steam crash on launch for Win7 Bottles.
- Fixed problems browsing and searching in the Steam game store.
CrossOver Linux 14.1.3 - 2015/05/03
- Mac OS X:
- Fixed graphics problems with character models in the game
Banished on certain Mac hardware.
- Linux:
- Updated the version of the GnuTLS library we use for
compatibility with newer Debian and Ubuntu distributions. This
will fix connection issues in Diablo III as well as other
possible problems.
CrossOver Linux 14.1.1 - 2105/04/21
- Mac OS X:
- We have improved joystick support for several games,
including Final Fantasy VII and Vanguard Princess (winmm
support was improved, so any game which uses this should
benefit).
- Other changes:
- Allow a new behavior by setting an environment variable,
CX_DIRECT_DESKTOP. Bottles created when this environment variable
is set will use the native Desktop directly instead of putting a link to
it on the Windows Desktop.
CrossOver Linux 14.1.0 - 2015/03/16
- Application Support:
- It is again possible to install .Net 3.5.
- Fixed a hang when using ATOK, a third-party Japanese input
method.
- The Equation Editor menu bar in Word 2003 and Word 97 now
works.
- The Equation Editor in Word 2003 will no longer freeze after
multiple launches.
- Typing a URL into an outgoing email in Outlook 2003 now
automatically generates a clickable hyperlink.
- Changing fonts in Outlook 2003 is now possible.
- Improved behavior of CrossOver's built-in web browser in
certain web-sites.
- Fixed a crash when displaying certain characters with
Uniscribe in Outlook 2010.
- Mac OS X:
- Fixed a bug which caused application launchers to disappear
when a bottle was renamed.
- Fixed a problem which made it difficult to change the window
size for a maximized window (Quicken was among the
impacted applications).
- Linux:
- Updated package dependencies to allow installation on Ubuntu
14.0.4.2.
- Optimized the CrossOver Software Installer for faster
startup times in many cases.
- Fixed a bug which sometimes caused CrossOver to fail to open
links in native web browsers.
- Added a new option, --destdir, to various internal CrossOver
command line tools. This may make package generation for
Gentoo Linux easier.
CrossOver Linux 14.0.3 - 2014/11/12
- Application Support:
- A bug has been fixed which allows MetaTrader 4 to work with CrossOver.
- A bug has been fixed which allows Rift to work with CrossOver.
CrossOver Linux 14.0.1 - 2014/10/30
- Mac OS X:
- Fixed a bug which caused Steam to sometimes fail to launch
games after the 'Play' button was pressed.
- Application Support:
- Fixed installation for certain version of Quicken 2015.
- Mouse-look should now work in Guild Wars 2.
- Linux:
- We have fixed a bug which prevented CrossOver's software
installer from running on some Linux distributions with older
GTK libraries, including some versions of CentOS and Red Hat
Enterprise Linux.
CrossOver Linux 14.0.0 - 2014/10/16
- Mac OS X:
- CrossOver's Graphical User Interface has been entirely
redone. Windows applications can now be easily launched from
within CrossOver itself, and much of the rest of the user
interface has been simplified.
- The CrossOver Software Installer more prominently displays
all search results when a user searches for an application to
install, making it easier to find the desired application.
- Linux:
- CrossOver can now automatically detect and install missing
packages on many Linux distributions, making it easier to get
the packages you need. CrossOver will attempt to install a
minimal set of packages on first-run, and will also attempt to
install packages needed by specific Windows applications when
those Windows applications are installed.
- CrossOver has fixed a bug with the way it uses threads in GTK+
(this bug fix allows CrossOver to run on Ubuntu 14.10).
- CrossOver should now detect proxy settings on systems which
use GSettings.
- Fixed proxy detection for certain KDE configurations.
- Application Support:
- New Supported Applications:
- CrossOver now supports Quicken 2015 on both OS X and Linux.
- CrossOver now supports Hearthstone on Linux.
- CrossOver now supports Cube World on both OS X and
Linux.
- CrossOver now supports Path of Exile on both OS X and
Linux.
- CrossOver now supports Warcraft III on Linux.
- CrossOver now supports Euro Truck Simulator 2 on both OS X
and Linux.
- CrossOver now supports Terraria on both OS X and Linux.
- CrossOver now supports South Park: The Stick of Truth on
both OS X and Linux.
- CrossOver now supports Xenonauts both OS X and Linux.
- Bug fixes:
- The "Save a copy as" feature in Quicken 2014 is now
functional.
- Quicken 2014 is now able to validate data files.
- Quicken 2014 now displays its update notice
correctly.
- Quicken 2014 will now remember when its windows are
re-sized.
- Scrolling using a trackpad on an Apple laptop will now
work in Quicken 2014.
- Formatting of message timestamps in Outlook 2010 has
been improved.
- Many games - Deus Ex: Human Revolution - no longer
require the Legacy X Window System to run on OS X.
- CrossOver's built-in web browser has improved and now
loads more sites, including the U-Haul website and the
website for the United States Copyright Office.
- Steam can now be hidden reliably on OS X.
- Legacy Family Tree 7 will now run under CrossOver on OS X.
- Printing will now work when MathType is installed
alongside Word 2007.
- Other Improvements:
- CrossOver 14.0.0 is based on Wine 1.7.25 which includes over 5,000
patches that fix bugs and add greater Windows compatibility.
CrossOver Linux 13.2.0 - 2014/07/10
- General Bug Fixes:
- Fixes for stability of games running with Performance
Enhanced Graphics.
- Adobe Acrobat 10 and 11 will now install.
- Users with certain non-Latin characters in their
codeweavers.com usernames can now successfully register CrossOver.
- Linux:
- CrossOver now depends on several additional packages, which
in turn allows more Windows applications to run without
further user intervention.
- Certain Linux kernel versions (3.14 at least) broke support
for running 16-bit code. CrossOver cannot overcome this
limitation on its own. CrossOver now detects the situation
and informs the user about it, and will also succeed in
creating a win98 bottle on such a kernel.
CrossOver Linux 13.1.3 - 2014/04/28
- Application Support:
- Added support for Blizzard's Battle.net Desktop Application.
- Linux:
- Fixed an incompatibility between the version of libxcb
shipped with CrossOver and the Ubuntu 14.04 one.
- Language Support:
- Improvements to the Russian language translation.
- Improvements to the Romanian language translation.
CrossOver Linux 13.1.2 - 2014/03/19
- Application Support:
- Improvements to Quicken 2014
- Quicken 2014 functions better on dual-monitor setups. Quicken
can only display on the primary monitor, but should be more
usable.
- The tab key should now behave properly by switching focus
from one field to the next.
- Various other rendering bugs are fixed.
- Programs can now be installed directly from the Amazon
Downloader service (Quicken 2014 is one program which is often
purchased as an Amazon download).
- Adobe Reader XI now installs and runs.
CrossOver Linux 13.1.0 - 2014/02/06
- Application Support:
- CrossOver now supports Quicken 2014.
CrossOver Linux 13.0.1 - 2013/12/04
- Application Support:
- Fixed a problem which caused Steam to crash after login.
- Fixed a problem which caused Quicken 2013 to fail to connect
to certain on-line accounts.
- Fixed a bug in Tencent QQ, a popular Chinese
instant-messaging application.
- Linux:
- Fixed a problem which caused CrossOver's Bottle Manager to
fail on older Linux distributions, including RHEL 6 and
CentOS 6.
CrossOver Linux 13.0.0 - 2013/11/12
- Games Support:
- CrossOver 13 has our new Performance Enhanced Graphics.
Games will run faster, with higher frame rates! This is a
major overhaul of the 3D graphics processing in CrossOver, and
gives significant improvements in many, many popular
games.
- The launcher for Borderlands 2 is working.
- Both the Gem Store and mouse work with Guild Wars 2.
- The mouse pointer in Terraria is now accurate when the
window is resized or zoomed.
- A rendering bugs with RIFT on NVIDIA hardware is fixed.
- Multi-core rendering can now be enabled in Source games.
- Mirror's Edge now runs under CrossOver.
- Linux:
- Architecture specifications have been removed from our
package installer filenames. That is, our package installers
filenames no longer include the 'i386' specifier. This is
purely a cosmetic change in the filenames we ship - some
customers were confused, believing they needed a different
installer for 64-bit machines, which is not true after the
switch to multiarch.
-
Files saved with Microsoft Office are no longer marked as
'executable,' meaning they can be opened by clicking on them
in Nautilus or other file browsers.
- Application Support:
- Project 2010 will run faster.
- Macros function much better in Microsoft Excel.
- Access 2000 user interaction is smoother on OS X.
- The system tray for QQ is functional now on OS X.
- Kayak Foundry will load files again.
- Fixed a crash in the Chinese version of Microsoft Office Home and
Student Edition.
CrossOver Linux 12.5.1 - 2013/10/17
- Linux:
- CrossOver now ships multiarch packages for Debian-based
distributions. The non-multiarch Debian packages are legacy and no
longer shipped. CrossOver 12.5.0 is the last version of CrossOver
where non-multiarch Debian packages are available. Users of
non-multiarch aware Debian distributions can still use our MojoSetup
installer.
- Items in the main menu of the CrossOver GUI can now be specified
in a CrossTie file.
- A bug which caused the plugin editor to fail to launch has been fixed.
- Further work around a GNOME / Nautilus bug that prevented using desktop
shortcuts to open files.
- Other Improvements:
- Fixed a font problem with Office 2010 bullet points.
- Fixed a problem which caused CrossOver to fail to download
installers from certain URLs.
- Fixed a problem which caused bottles which were created prior
and used until the trial expired to fail to launch.
- Mac OS X:
- Improved the names of application installers as shown in
the Mac menu bar.
- Fixed a problem in which mouse activity would sometimes cause
unwanted diagonal movement of the mouse pointer.
- Fixed a problem minimizing Visio 2010.
- Fixed a problem which caused BibleWorks to fail to launch.
- Fixed a problem which caused Shin Megami Tensei: Imagine to fail to launch.
CrossOver Linux 12.5.0 - 2013/08/13
- Mac OS X:
- CrossOver's "Mac Driver" is now on by default. Because of this,
CrossOver now supports better desktop integration on OS X,
including:
- Drag and Drop.
- System Tray Icons in the Mac Menu Bar.
- Shaped windows and transparency.
- Better mouse handling for many games.
- Support for command-tab switching in full-screen mode.
- Better integration with the OS X Dock, and features such as
Expose and Spaces.
- Better international keyboard support.
- Improved clipboard (cut and paste) support.
- Support for mice with more than three buttons.
- Fixes for many window ordering problems.
- Force-feedback joysticks are supported.
- Improved input method support for non-Latin characters.
- Linux:
- The GUI on Linux has changed substantially. In particular, it
now includes a menu of launchers for all installed Windows
applications, which can be customized by the user.
- Application Support:
- Microsoft Outlook:
- Microsoft Outlook will now maintain its connection when the
computer sleeps or the network configuration changes.
- Improved auto-discovery for Exchange account setup.
- Outlook will no longer crash if the Exchange server is
unavailable.
- Fixed a crash when editing contacts.
- Right-click to format will now work.
- Improved NTLM authentication - you can now change your
password if you have 'smbpasswd' installed.
- Improved SharePoint list display in profile.
- Characters can now be inserted from the character
palette.
- Fixed printing of calendar items.
- Attachment preview will now work.
- Outlook Today can now be customized.
- Phone numbers now accept a '+' character for international
notation.
- Microsoft Excel:
- Fixed a crash when copying a worksheet.
- Improved macro support.
- Fixed a problem opening read-only files.
- Fixed garbage when opening xlsx documents.
- Quicken:
- Fixed display of help topics in Quicken 2012.
- Fixed a bug in the 'Change Assumptions' function of Quicken
2013.
- Internet Explorer 7:
- More websites will now work.
- Fixed a bug which sometimes caused failure during
installation.
- Fixed a crash in the print dialog.
- World of Tanks:
- Fixed a crash connecting to the server on certain Macs.
- Fixed a crash when zooming in on targets.
- Microsoft Office: Fixed problems in which drop-down menus could not be
dismissed.
- Microsoft Office 2010 Simplified Chinese Edition will now
install.
- Fixed a bug which caused Microsoft Office 2007 to fail to
install on some machines.
- Fixed an installation conflict between .Net 4.0 and DirectX 9.
- Fixed an installation problem with Microsoft Money 2001.
- Fixed an issue where Microsoft Visio 2010 would not open .vxd
files.
- Fixed installation problems with .Net 3.5.
- Fixed graphical glitches in Wizard101.
- Fixed problems with the patcher in Pirate101.
- Fixed a crash on login in StarCraft II.
- Fixed crashes on install of Rift's Storm Legion
expansion.
- Fixed Rift graphics bugs on NVIDIA hardware.
- Fixed various errors in ChemSketch 12.
- Fixed a crash in Baseball Mogul 2013 and 2014.
- Other Improvements:
- CrossOver 12.5.0 is based on the new stable Wine 1.6
release. This includes innumerable fixes for various Windows
applications.
- CrossOver can be configured for compatibility with Windows 7.
CrossOver Linux 12.2.2 - 2013/07/22
- New Application:
- CrossOver has been updated to allow Cube World, a popular indie
computer game, to run.
CrossOver Linux 12.2.1 - 2013/05/15
- CrossOver Linux:
- Fixed a bug which caused CrossOver to fail to register for
some users of Ubuntu 13.04.
- Fixed a bug which could cause CrossOver's installer to fail
to download certain files.
- Fixed a bug which prevented file associations from working in
Nautilus 3.6.
- Fixed a bug in CrossOver's uninstaller which caused a progress
bar to persist after the uninstall process was complete.
- Fixed a bug which caused CrossOver to fail to work on
openSUSE 11 and 12.
- Fixed a bug which caused CrossOver to create incorrect desktop
shortcuts when using Chinese or certain other locale settings.
- Language Support:
- Updated Chinese translations.
CrossOver Linux 12.2.0 - 2013/05/01
- Application Support:
- Quicken:
- Fixed a bug which caused Quicken to fail to register
on Mac OS X.
- Fixed graphics distortions in some Quicken windows.
- Fixed a bug which prevented a double-click on a .QFX file
in the Mac OS X Finder from importing the file into Quicken.
- Fixed a bug which caused Office 2007 applications to crash in
some circumstances.
- Fixed a bug which caused Wizard 101 to fail to recover after
being re-sized.
- Fixed a bug which caused mailto: links to be broken in
Outlook 2003.
- Fixed a bug which caused .Net 4.0 applications to fail to run.
- Mac OS X:
- Drag and drop support in the Mac Driver.
- Gamma support in the Mac Driver.
- Reduced window flicker when using the Mac Driver.
- Language Support:
- Fixed a bug which sometimes caused Traditional Chinese to be
used even when a user's preferences were set to Simplified Chinese.
- Linux:
- Fixed a bug which caused product registration to fail on
Ubuntu 13.04.
CrossOver Linux 12.1.2 - 2013/02/27
- Application Support:
- Fixed a bug which caused Steam to get stuck in a loop while
trying to update.
- Fixed a bug which caused performance to suffer badly in
Skyrim, and possibly some other games, on certain Linux systems.
- Fixed a bug which caused Outlook 2010 to fail to open .xlsx,
.pptx, and .docx attachments.
- Fixed a bug which caused Quicken to fail to connect to
Chase Bank online.
- Office 2007 and 2010 will now display help topics!
- Mac OS X:
- We have improvements to windowing in the Mac Driver.
- We are hopeful that changes in this version of CrossOver
will mean that gaming performance will improve when
Apple releases its upcoming OS X 10.8.3.
CrossOver Linux 12.1.1 - 2013/01/25
- Mac OS X:
- Resolved an issue where CrossOver would not register via
a serial code.
CrossOver Linux 12.1.0 - 2013/01/23
- CrossOver:
- CrossOver no longer ships Wine-Mono, an open-source replacement
for .Net, by default. We had started doing this for CrossOver 12
but the large increase in download size and disk space usage proved
too much. CrossOver can still download and install Wine-Mono on
an as-needed basis.
- We have fixed a bug which caused CrossOver to print unnecessary
error messages when launching Windows applications, complaining
that certain icon files could not be found.
- New translations for Polish, Chinese (China), and a partial
translation for Italian.
- Mac OS X:
- We have fixed a bug where certain users who chose
"Register for all users of this computer" during CrossOver's
registration would receive an error claiming their bottle had
"expired" and could not be used, despite the user having a valid
valid CrossOver license.
- We have added a preference setting allowing the user to control
what CrossOver does with an unknown Windows .exe file when it
is launched. Using this preference, the user can tell CrossOver
either to treat the unknown .exe file as an application installer,
or to simply run it.
- CrossOver will now auto-update CrossTie files if the user has
permitted auto-updates of CrossOver itself via Sparkle.
- Fixed a bug which caused several games to malfunction when run in
fullscreen mode.
- Fixed a bug where automatic updates via Sparkle would fail for
some users on OS X 10.6.8.
- Fixed a bug which caused several games to fail when running in
fullscreen mode. Games which should be improved include StarCraft,
Fallout, and, we hope, many others.
- Fixed a bug which prevented some users from logging into
World of Tanks servers.
- Linux:
- Running Guild Wars 2 on Ubuntu 12.04 with CrossOver 12 triggered a
bug in the Compiz window manager which caused a CPU spike. We have
added a registry key which can be used to disable the feature
which caused Guild Wars 2 to trigger this bug, thus making the
game playable with Compiz on Ubuntu.
- Fixed an issue where the screen would go blank during the
installation of some programs.
- Application Support:
- Fixed connection errors with Outlook 2007 and Outlook 2010 when
connecting to hosted Exchange servers.
- Fixed a bug which caused adding a table of contents to a
Microsoft Word document to fail.
- Fixed an issue where Quicken failed to download WebConnect
and QFX files.
- Fixed an issue where Quicken crashed viewing investment details.
- Fixed an issue where Quicken crashed when expanding columns
in reports.
- Fixed a bug which caused clicking on a promotional offer in Quicken
to crash.
- Fixed some connection failures with Quicken 2011.
- Fixed an issue where rotated text was garbled in PowerPoint 2010.
- Fixed a bug selecting shapes in Visio 2010.
- Fixed a crash on launch in HCFA-1500.
CrossOver Linux 12.0.0 - 2012/12/12
- Mac OS X:
- CrossOver now incorporates our experimental Mac Driver. With
the Mac Driver, Windows programs running under CrossOver no
longer have to use the X Window System to interact with the
screen and keyboard. This feature is currently experimental but
will become the way all CrossOver applications work on OS X in
the future.
- CrossOver has improved font handling for fonts used by certain
applications, such as National Mah Jongg League Online.
- Linux:
- CrossOver Linux now installs a single desktop menu item
rather than a multitude of desktop menus. This approach works
better with desktop systems such as GNOME 3 and Unity, which
usually don't have a hierarchical desktop menu structure.
- CrossOver now has much better support for window transparency
(layered windows) when a compositing window manager is
available. (When the Mac Driver is complete, this feature will
be available on OS X as well). Many transparent windows will
now work that did not before. Improvements in this area
include:
- Microsoft Office applications in the Office 2003 and Office 2007
suites will now behave properly when working with embedded
pictures or graphics. Previously, rotating or resizing embedded
graphics caused the screen to go temporarily black;
- Game launchers (such as that for Guild Wars 2, for example) which
use color-keying to create transparent window areas will display
properly rather than being drawn with black borders;
...and many more.
- We have resolved some issues which caused printers not to appear.
- Application Support:
- CrossOver now supports World of Tanks.
- CrossOver now supports Quicken 2013.
- CrossOver now supports installation of .Net 4.0.
- CrossOver Linux now supports Guild Wars 2. Guild Wars 2 will
run for many people on CrossOver Mac, but many users will
encounter persistent graphics problems. Previously, CodeWeavers
had released a specially-built version of CrossOver dedicated
to running Guild Wars 2. That is no longer necessary.
- Improvements to Microsoft Office:
- Fixed a crash displaying certain email messages in
Outlook 2010.
- Outlook 2010 will now save passwords.
- Improved Gmail and other IMAP connections with Outlook 2007.
- Fixed auto-discovery during account configuration for
Outlook 2007.
- PowerPoint 2010 now displays equations in slide shows.
- PowerPoint 2010 no longer displays blank slides.
- Fixed bugs in Word 2010 which caused the equation editor to
be missing structures and formulas.
- Fixed a bug in Word 2010 related to footnote style choices.
- Project 2007 and 2010 can now edit dates for recurring tasks.
- Fixed a crash in Project 2010 when filtering by resource
name.
- Visio 2002 can now search for new shapes.
- Visio 2010 now displays properly when multiple shapes are
open.
- Star Trek Online is now faster during game updates.
- Quicken 2009 no longer has garbled text on its buttons.
- An issue with installation of .Net 3.5 SP1 was resolved.
- World of Warcraft has had fixes related to patching and
installation.
- CrossOver and Wine:
- CrossOver is now based on Wine 1.5.15.
- CrossOver's built-in web browser will offer to download and
install ActiveX controls.
- CrossOver now comes bundled with the Wine-Mono package, an
alternative implementation of the .Net API.
- CrossOver now implements Raw Input, the set of APIs used for
mouse input by games like Guild Wars 2, World of Tanks, and others.
- Support for printing on a variety of paper sizes has been
improved.
- DirectSound has a new resampler, for higher quality audio.
- CrossOver now has sub-pixel font anti-aliasing.
CrossOver Linux 11.3.1 - 2012/11/05
- Mac OS X:
- Complete translations for:
- Czech,
- Spanish,
- Japanese,
- Polish,
- Portuguese (Brazil), and
- Chinese (China).
- Fix for font rendering in Civilization IV.
- Linux:
- Complete translations for:
- Czech,
- Spanish,
- Japanese,
- Lithuanian,
- Polish,
- Portuguese (Brazil),
- Swedish, and
- Chinese (China).
- Fix a bug on Ubuntu 12.04 where Excel files would fail to launch.
- Note:to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 users: CrossOver 11.3.0 is the
last version of CrossOver which will work with RHEL5. The X11
libraries in RHEL5 are sufficiently old that future versions of
CrossOver will not work in RHEL5. An upgrade to RHEL6 or newer will
be necessary to use future versions of CrossOver.
CrossOver Linux 11.2.2 - 2012/09/21
- Mac OS X bug fix (no Linux release):
- This release fixes a bug which caused applications doing 3D
drawing to fail to launch on Mac OS X 10.8.2 and 10.7.5. Because
of this failure, many games, and some other applications, would
not run using CrossOver on OS X 10.8.2 and 10.7.5.
CrossOver Linux 11.2.1 - 2012/08/27
- CrossTie Updates:
- This release updates several CrossTie installation recipes
to avoid errors with failed downloads.
CrossOver Linux 11.2.0 - 2012/06/19
- Mac OS X:
- Support for OS X 10.8, Mountain Lion.
- Signed code to work with Mountain Lion's 'Gatekeeper' feature.
- Bug fix for a crash when typing with Chinese Pinyin input
on Mac OS X 10.7.
- Fix for certain graphical glitches where small black
rectangles would appear in certain applications.
- Improve font discovery.
- Prevent an occasional hang while updating CrossTie profiles.
- Fix a crash in Civilization IV and V in windowed mode.
- Fix an issue where applications could appear frozen after being
minimized into the Dock, even though they were still running.
- Fix an error opening documents with parentheses '()' in their
filenames.
- Linux:
- Fedora 17 improvements, including:
- Support for UDisks 2; and
- The CrossOver installer will now detect whether perl is
present prior to install. (CrossOver requires perl,
and Fedora 17 does not include it by default).
- Better detection of correct libpng versions on some distributions,
including Arch Linux.
- Fixed an error uninstalling packages from the Ubuntu Software
Center, as well as custom packages built with cxrepackage.
- Suggest zypper package manager on SUSE Linux (instead of yast).
- Other Enhancements:
- Added support for Microsoft Visio 2010.
- Added support for Microsoft Project 2010.
- Integration of Wine 1.4.1, which includes many,
many bug fixes and improvements over Wine 1.4.0,
as well as improved translations for many languages.
- Bug fix for microphone detection for Rosetta Stone 3.
- Fix a crash for certain files PowerPoint 2010.
- Improvements to Japanese input when running Internet Explorer 7.
- Improvements to graphics card detection.
- Allow for graphics driver detection in CrossTie files.
- Better installation notes during CrossTie
installations.
CrossOver Linux 11.1.0 - 2012/05/18
- New Game Support:
- Application Enhancements:
- Smoother installation process for some versions of
Microsoft Office.
- Printing fix for Project 2007.
- Fixed an error saving certain documents in Excel 2010.
- CrossOver Enhancements:
- Printing now honors duplex settings.
- Printing fixes to non-letter sized paper.
- Improvements to Spanish-language translations.
- Fixed an error where Internet Explorer 6 in a Win98 bottle would
complain it was not registered.
- Fixed an error which would cause CrossOver's 'Welcome' screen
to not appear in some situations on Mac OS X Lion.
- Fixed a problem which caused Windows applications to have
slightly (four) fewer graphics shaders available than they
could have, which could produce graphics glitches in
games.
CrossOver Linux 11.0.3 - 2012/04/06
- Application Enhancements:
- Fixed a bug whereby Microsoft Office 2010, Service Pack 1
refused to install. It should now install cleanly (an update
of CrossTie files from the website may be necessary).
- Fixed a bug where Quicken 2012 would hang adding a new online
account or updating a bank account.
- Fixed a bug where PowerPoint 2010 would refuse to play
slideshows. Slideshows will now work in PowerPoint 2010.
- Fixed an error when restarting the graphics engine in
Diablo III.
- CrossOver Enhancements:
- Fixes for (we hope!) the last outstanding problems with
CrossOver registration / licensing.
- Improvements to Japanese and Russian translations.
CrossOver Linux 11.0.2 - 2012/03/20
- Bug-fix release only:
- 11.0.1 exhibited a bug whereby it would be in trial mode for
some users who were entitled to a licensed version. 11.0.2 was
a bug-fix release for that problem only.
CrossOver Linux 11.0.1 - 2012/03/20
- CrossOver Mac:
- Crucial fix to registration: it would fail for users who
selected 'Register for all users of this computer', causing
CrossOver to expire after the demo period. Note that
single-user registration was unaffected.
- CrossOver Linux:
- Fixes to registration from behind a proxy on systems using
GNOME/GConf (CrossOver would sometimes detect stale proxy
settings).
- Fixes to package upgrades for .rpm and .deb users.
- General CrossOver Fixes:
- Fix for Vocaloid 3.
- Fix for Perfect World Skills / Icons.
- Translation updates (including a Russian translation of
CrossOver).
- Improved CrossOver icons.
CrossOver Linux 11.0.0 - 2012/03/06
- CrossOver Application Changes:
- CrossOver is now a single product which includes the
functionality of both the CrossOver Games and CrossOver Pro
lines.
- CrossOver has an improved registration method which means
that, after CrossOver XI, you will no longer have to
re-register when you upgrade to a new "dot-release" version of
CrossOver.
- Improved naming conventions for bottles.
- Improved handling for published bottles.
- Translations updates.
- Improved file association handling.
- CrossOver's Linux MojoSetup installer now includes a silent
option (add --noprompt during installation).
- Missing packages on Linux installations give more
informative error messages.
- CrossOver gives an error message if it is unable to create a
package on Linux systems.
- The CrossOver functions of bottle creation, a simulated
reboot and bottle initialization now display progress bars.
- Added a close button to the installation window.
- Resolved a FreeBSD/CrossOver registration issue.
- Accents are now accepted in bottle names.
- Resolved an issue whereby html tags would sometimes appear
in inappropriate places in the CrossOver interface.
- CrossOver and Wine:
- CrossOver now includes Wine 1.4, the latest stable Wine
release. A few of the many benefits of Wine 1.4 are
detailed below.
- A new DIB (Device Independent Bitmap) engine, which
brings:
- better support for such things as themes on Firefox.
- faster drawing in certain situations.
- Improved mouse handling on Linux with XInput2, meaning
mouse-controlled games work considerably better.
- Improved C++ runtime.
- Audio support improvements.
- uDisk support.
- A wide variety of other improvements brought by the more
than 11,438 improvements to Wine with this release.
- Other CrossOver Changes:
- Improvements to the icon extraction for Windows applications,
meaning fewer apps get a default 'fallback' icon (like the Wine
bottle which used to appear for some things).
- Distribution on the Mac is now via a zip file rather than a dmg.
- CrossOver on the Mac will now offer to move itself
to the /Applications folder if it is not already there.
- CrossOver Mac now ships with quartz-wm, so users should not have
to install Apple's X11.app in most cases. (quartz-wm also fixes
some bugs on Lion with maximizing windows)
- CrossOver on Mac OS X now has user-controlled auto-updates.
- CrossOver on Linux has higher resolution icons for
some applications.
- Kioclient now used on KDE systems where applicable.
- The X11 logo no longer appears at the top of windowed
applications on the Mac.
- CrossOver will select Python 2.x on systems that have Python 3.x
and 2.x instead of crashing.
- Bidi (right to left text) support is greatly improved.
- Added support for RAR file handling.
- CrossOver is no longer confused by spaces in the name of an
installer.
- Improvements in the manner in which Steam games are installed.
- Improved disk detection when Japanese characters exist in the
name of the disk.
- Documented sound workarounds for older versions of PulseAudio.
- CrossOver's 'Install Software' list now displays the date on
which a particular application was last 'ranked' with a medal.
- Application Support:
- As part of our merge of CrossOver Games and CrossOver Pro,
CrossOver now supports both all the applications which
previously ran under CrossOver Pro and all the games which
previously ran under CrossOver Games.
- In addition, we now support the following new applications:
- Microsoft Office 2010
- Quicken 2012
- CrossOver also supports the following components:
- .Net 1.1 Service Pack 1
- .Net 2.0 Service Pack 1
- .Net 2.0 Service Pack 2
- .Net 3.0
- .Net 3.5
- .Net 3.5 Service Pack 1
- Internet Explorer 6 accepts the addition of trusted sites.
- In Internet Explorer 7 various sites show improvement in loading
and rendering.
- Improvements to Microsoft Office:
- Improvements to emf and meta file rendering (affects
inserted and embedded images).
- Visio 2000 improved installation.
- Word 2000 outline style text is now rendered properly.
- Word 2000 images in a document are now printed properly.
- Word 2000 clip art redraws properly when a document is scrolled.
- Office 2002 installation improved.
- Office 2002 registration no longer hangs.
- Visio 2002 installation improved.
- Word 2002 drawing objects no longer refresh 5 to 20
times when edited.
- Word 2002 no longer locks up when a large document is
printed to a file or printer.
- Word 2002 clip art redraws properly when a document is scrolled.
- Office 2007 Compatibility Pack for Office 2003 now
saves in Office 2007 formats.
- Office 2003 Service Pack 3 now installs reliably and
no longer needs the Office 2003 installation CD present.
- Excel 2003 macro improvements.
- Outlook 2003 email rendering improvements.
- Outlook 2003 signed messages are handled better.
- Project 2003 Service Pack 3 now installs reliably and
no longer needs the Project 2003 installation CD present.
- Project 2003 associations are fixed.
- PowerPoint 2003 slides draw in half the time.
- PowerPoint 2003 no longer displays a strange white
box over the "Open File" dialog box.
- Visio 2003 Service Pack 3 now installs reliably and
no longer needs the Visio 2003 installation CD present.
- Visio 2003 drawing speed has increased dramatically.
- Word 2003 now draws WordArt properly.
- Office 2007 no longer relies on msxml3 for installation.
- Office 2007 installations can now be altered after an
install to add or remove features.
- Office 2007 activation wizard now asks for registration
on each launch if it was not initially registered.
- Office 2007 no longer displays a delay during installation.
- Office 2007 Service Pack 2 now applies to more Office
2007 versions.
- Excel 2007 macro improvements.
- Outlook 2007 can now open long links.
- Outlook 2007 receives icons in Outlook Today.
- Outlook 2007 does not crash when a password is saved.
- Outlook 2007 now connects to Gmail and other IMAP
accounts on the Mac.
- Outlook 2007 maintains a more reliable connection
with Exchange Servers.
- Outlook 2007 no longer reports errors after a Service Pack
has been applied.
- Outlook 2007 signed messages are handled better.
- Outlook 2007 temporary Internet files no longer grow
endlessly.
- PowerPoint 2007 no longer displays an error when opening a
document with embedded fonts.
- Word 2007 the thesaurus now works.
- Word 2007 can now copy and paste an image and text at
the same time.
- Word 2007 tab stops appear reliably.
- Word 2007 can now create a chart from a table.
- Word 2007 can download and install templates after
Service Pack 2 is applied.
- Word 2007 no longer crashes when printing documents
with OpenType (.otf) fonts.
- PIA Pro now prints reliably.
- Quicken 2009 no longer crashes when 'Bank of' is selected.
- Quicken 2011 no longer crashes when checks are printed.
- DirectX 9 installation improved.
- Left 4 Dead and Left 4 Dead 2 now display the menu after
completing a campaign consistently.
- In Guild Wars, right clicking no longer takes focus away from
the game.
- Perfect World International interface problem resolved.
- The Shin Megami Tensei: Imagine installation process has
improved.
- Skyrim graphics fix for ATI cards.
- In StarCraft II the mouse remains within the boundaries of the
window.
- Star Trek Online no longer crashes in heavily populated areas.
- Steam GUI no longer gets 'stuck' to the mouse.
CrossOver Linux 10.3.0 - 2011/12/30
- Fixes for Skyrim on Linux.
- Startup / Play button fixes for World of Warcraft.
CrossOver Linux 10.2.1 - 2011/12/06
- Fixes for Team Fortress 2 (stop it from displaying in black and
white by default) and an update to the graphics card database
(we can recognize newer graphics cards).
CrossOver Linux 10.2.0 - 2011/11/03
- Worked around the 'backwards elbow' bug in Rift on Lion.
- Fixed behavior of Plants vs. Zombies in windowed mode.
- Improved loading and play of Portal 2.
- Fixed 'Add a Character Friend' behavior in StarCraft II.
- Fixed the Perfect World International launcher.
- Added a 'steamid' tag to the CrossTie format. This allows
a CrossTie to install and detect games via Steam.
CrossOver Linux 10.1.2 - 2011/07/21
- Added a workaround for a bug in OS X 10.7 Lion. Many games running
in a virtual desktop cause a crash. This can be resolved by setting
the CX_LEAK_XPLUGIN_SURFACES environment variable.
- Work around a bug in OS X 10.6.8 Snow Leopard. 10.6.8 generated
corrupt icon files which caused occasional Finder crashes. Now we
use a different API to generate icon files which bypasses the issue.
- Changed behavior of group permissions on certain files. Resolves
an issue with .docx files on certain file systems.
CrossOver Linux 10.1.1 - 2011/07/18
- Fixed several known issues with the upcoming Mac OS 10.7 Lion.
- Fixed the Guild Wars footstep bug.
- Updated several built-in CrossTies. (These upgrades have been
available online for a while.)
- Improved the MojoSetup (.bin installer) upgrade path.
- Added a progress dialog during initial open of a CrossTie on the Mac.
- Added support for the 'installer' keyword which supports CrossTies
for stand-alone executables.
- Added RAR support to CrossTie installation.
- Added a 'recreate' button to the menus control panel.
- Fixed some menu issues on the upgrade path from CrossOver 9.2.
- Added a means to turn off requesting a stable OpenGL back buffer.
Set CX_NO_GL_BACKING_STORE in the environment to enable.
CrossOver Linux 10.1.0 - 2011/03/14
- New games support:
- Rift now installs and runs.
- Other changes:
- Added the ability to install World of Warcraft via the download
client. There are some issues with the launcher, but the game
runs well when launched via WoW.exe.
- Some improvements have been made to the Star Trek Online
launcher. The game still suffers from performance problems.
- Added CrossTie support for RAR files.
- Made several improvements to menu and association
handling.
CrossOver Linux 10.0.1 - 2011/01/31
- Fix the Mac Programs menu for non-English locales.
CrossOver Linux 10.0.0 - 2011/01/24
- Platform support:
- CrossOver Mac and CrossOver Games Mac no longer run on OS X 10.4
Tiger.
- The Mac product now uses modern (Leopard-era) GUI tools, which
should improve the look and feel of quite a few things.
- The Linux shell installer now uses a more modern GTK-based
installation tool, MojoSetup. This should resolve many
installation issues present in the old installer, and also
changes the look and feel considerably.
- Added translations: German, Czech, Chinese (PRC), Brazilian
Portuguese.
- CrossTie integration:
- .c4p files are renamed to .tie files (aka 'CrossTies')
- The complete set of supported .tie profiles can now be
automatically refreshed in the product.
- A disambiguation tool (cxtie on Linux and the 'CrossOver
CrossTie Launcher' on the Mac) has been added to properly
direct .tie files to an appropriate product (CrossOver or
CrossOver Games).
- Secure signing of .tie files is now supported.
- Active rejection of malicious .tie files is now supported.
- Many differences between the web-based .tie files and the
.tie files that ship with CrossOver have been resolved.
- Installation profiles are now smarter about locating appropriate
install media.
- The behavior of the installer assistant should generally be
smoother, smarter, and more straightforward.
- CrossOver now supports 'required patches' which are applied to
an application automatically after installation.
- The mac product now responds to a custom URI that should greatly
improve autoplay of CrossTie files from the website.
- CrossTie profiles respect bottle groups.
- GUI and System integration:
- Linux system tray behavior is improved in several ways.
- The installer no longer accidentally grabs files from $HOME.
- Trace flags are functioning properly.
- Long CrossTie errors are cleaned up.
- Mac Menu Items are removed after uninstall of applications.
- Menu behavior has been improved on several Linux platforms.
- Restored the 'Use Native Browser' option that was present in
CrossOver 8.x.
- Made several changes to the layout and graphical design.
- The 'Force Quit' button in the bottle manager should work
better.
- Fixed quite a few minor behavioral bugs.
- Sound does not get out of sync on Linux systems.
- Games Support:
- Steam Store is working.
- Steam Community messages can be accessed.
- Fallout: New Vegas regression fixed.
- Tank Universal regression fixed.
- Star Trek: Bridge Commander regression fixed.
- World of Warcraft installs have been simplified.
- StarCraft II installs are improved.
- Wizard 101 now works on 1600 ATI Macs.
- Portals render properly in Portal on ATI Macs.
- Shin Megami Tensei: Imagine is now working.
- CrossOver is now merged with Wine 1.3.9. This includes
countless improvements.
CrossOver Linux 9.2.1 - 2010/11/24
- Add support for World of Warcraft: Cataclysm.
- Fixed a new issue with Steam Overlays that was causing many
Steam Games to fail.
CrossOver Linux 9.2.0 - 2010/10/13
- Merged with Wine release 1.2.1. This includes bug fixes for
several unsupported games, as well as fixing a crash in the
launcher for Street Fighter IV and a lag in Team Fortress 2.
- Fixed a bug that causes DRM problems on Ubuntu 10.10.
- Fixed patching of StarCraft II (via an updated Gecko engine).
- Fixed a problem that prevented StarCraft II from launching
properly during the first run.
- Fixed the sending of text in Worms Armageddon WormNET.
- Improved behavior with built-in msvcr71. Should simplify
the installation of several unsupported games, including Lord
of the Rings Online.
- Fixed a double mouse-pointer bug that appeared in Call of Duty:
Modern Warfare II on some Linux distributions.
- Improved font rendering for Trainz 2004 and others.
- Got Tomb Raider: Chronicles working again.
- Fixed a serious rendering problem for Civilization V.
CrossOver Linux 9.1.0 - 2010/07/27
- Games support changes:
- Fixed a crash in the Star Trek Online launcher.
- Fixed a 9.0.0 regression in FlatOut 2.
- Fixed a 9.0.0 regression in Stranded 2.
- Fixed a 9.0.0 regression in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
on Mac OS X.
- Fixed installation of Tales of Monkey Island.
- Fixed a focus-grabbing problem in Lord of the Rings Online and
Dungeons and Dragons Online.
- Fixed an installation issue with EVE Online (false report
of a DirectX failure).
- Made several application profile tune-ups.
- CrossOver changes:
- Fixed a crash in the winecfg audio tab.
- Fixed installation of the Microsoft Visual C++ runtime.
- Added support for the 'Microsoft HTML Rendering Engine 7'
package for use as a dependency in C4Ps that require it.
- Fixed full-screen mode for Macs with auto-switching GPUs.
- Merged with Wine version 1.2. Many improvements and bug
fixes.
CrossOver Linux 9.0.0 - 2010/05/06
- CrossOver changes:
- Bold new look!
- Entirely redesigned application install process.
- Much faster bottle creation and manipulation times.
- Our application installation process is now guided by
'C4 Profiles'; XML files that should allow the process
to be extended by anyone.
- Countless internal Wine changes.
- Games support:
- Added support for the new Steam GUI.
- Added community-support profiles for Star Trek Online,
Lord of the Rings Online and the StarCraft II Beta.
- Many more games now work, or work better.
CrossOver Linux 8.0.0 - 2009/06/16
- Improved behavior of the Steam game store.
- Fixed several problems with memory management -- this
should fix Team Fortress 2 crashes, among others.
- Enabled Shader Model 2.0 and 3.0 by default.
- New supported games:
- Dragon Sky
- Last Chaos
- Jade Empire
- Ether Saga
- Perfect World
- Left 4 Dead
- Tales of Monkey Island (maybe)
- Shaiya (Though only in non-English versions, for DRM reasons)
- Fixed various regressions in:
- Half-Life 2
- Team Fortress 2
- Spore
- Guild Wars
- Civilization IV
- Lord of the Rings Online (unsupported)
- EVE Online (unsupported)
- Pharaoh (unsupported)
- City of Heroes (unsupported)
- Lego Star Wars (unsupported)
- Bejeweled
CrossOver Linux 7.2.0 - 2009/02/26
- Fixed Guild Wars on ATI Macs with 10.5.5.
- Added steam:// link support for Mac OS X.
- Steam+Compiz fixed.
- Added support for Shin Megami Tensei: Imagine on the Mac.
- A few improvements for City of Heroes.
- Improved support for Spore.
- Improved support for World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King.
- Improved support for the latest Steam client.
- A range of general DirectX improvements which will improve many
games.
- Updated Wine version.
CrossOver Linux 7.1.1 - 2008/08/22
- Fixed a crash in Team Fortress 2 on OS X Tiger.
CrossOver Linux 7.1.0 - 2008/07/24
- The gamma control should behave better now. It doesn't change the
gamma on Macs to blue on application exit any longer.
- The death screen in Team Fortress 2 on Radeon cards should be
fixed now. Also the G-Man intro is fixed on those cards.
- Reflective (environment-mapped) surfaces in Portal now work on Macs
with GeForce 8 cards.
- The Final Fantasy XI benchmark should run again. This was broken
since CrossOver Games 7.0.
- Civilization IV leader faces should render now on Macs.
- Fixed a texturing bug on the earth on the Civilization IV main
screen.
- Half-Life 2 should run again.
- Flickering objects in Guild Wars should be fixed.
- Fixed a bug that was causing crashes on some Counter-Strike: Source
and Team Fortress 2 messages of the day (MOTD).
- A few regressions in unsupported applications are fixed.
- Many Wine updates, including a full merge from the Wine 1.0 release.
CrossOver Linux 10.0.1 - 2011/01/31
- Fix the Mac Programs menu for non-English locales.
CrossOver Linux 10.0.0 - 2011/01/24
- Platform support:
- CrossOver Mac and CrossOver Games Mac no longer run on OS X 10.4
Tiger.
- The Mac product now uses modern (Leopard-era) GUI tools, which
should improve the look and feel of quite a few things.
- The Linux shell installer now uses a more modern GTK-based
installation tool, MojoSetup. This should resolve many
installation issues present in the old installer, and also
changes the look and feel considerably.
- Added translations: German, Czech, Chinese (PRC), Brazilian
Portuguese.
- CrossTie integration:
- .c4p files are renamed to .tie files (aka 'CrossTies')
- The complete set of supported .tie profiles can now be
automatically refreshed in the product.
- A disambiguation tool (cxtie on Linux and the 'CrossOver
CrossTie Launcher' on the Mac) has been added to properly
direct .tie files to an appropriate product (CrossOver or
CrossOver Games).
- Secure signing of .tie files is now supported.
- Active rejection of malicious .tie files is now supported.
- Many differences between the web-based .tie files and the
.tie files that ship with CrossOver have been resolved.
- Installation profiles are now smarter about locating appropriate
install media.
- The behavior of the installer assistant should generally be
smoother, smarter, and more straightforward.
- CrossOver now supports 'required patches' which are applied to
an application automatically after installation.
- The mac product now responds to a custom URI that should greatly
improve autoplay of CrossTie files from the website.
- CrossTie profiles respect bottle groups.
- GUI and System integration:
- A bug with duplicate Mac menus has been resolved.
- Linux system tray behavior is improved in several ways.
- The installer no longer accidentally grabs files from $HOME.
- Trace flags are functioning properly.
- Long CrossTie errors are cleaned up.
- Mac Menu Items are removed after uninstall of applications.
- Menu behavior has been improved on several Linux platforms.
- Restored the 'Use Native Browser' option that was present in
CrossOver 8.x.
- Made several changes to the layout and graphical design.
- The 'Force Quit' button in the bottle manager should work better.
- Fixed quite a few minor behavioral bugs.
- Application Support (MS Office):
- Extensive changes to the installation process for Office 2003
and 2007. This should allow more editions to install properly.
- Office 2007 balloon tooltips now display on Linux.
- Office 2003 and 2007 Spanish Accents enter correctly.
- Office 2003 applications print images.
- Office 2007 Pressing Alt + F4 now closes applications.
- Enterprise Office 2007 additional versions install.
- PowerPoint 2003 does not take a long time to load large
documents.
- PowerPoint 2003 is better at rendering images and slides.
- PowerPoint 2003 redraws images faster.
- PowerPoint 2003 copy from a Linux native application to
a PowerPoint slide works.
- PowerPoint 2003 displays slide backgrounds.
- Excel 2007 Copy/Paste from one workbook to another now works.
- Large Excel 2007 and 2003 documents take less time to load.
- Excel 2007 document links work.
- Excel 2003 and 2007 macro improvements.
- Outlook 2007 does not become disconnected after several hours
of use.
- Outlook 2007 attachments to Calendar and Task items work.
- Outlook 2007 Additional Exchange mailboxes can be added to an
Exchange account.
- Outlook 2007 now connects with Gmail via IMAP.
- Outlook 2007 New Appointment, Scheduling tab no longer jumps.
- Outlook 2007 PDF documents now attach.
- Outlook 2007 accepts more add-ons like Proofing Tools.
- Outlook 2007 Web Toolbar now works.
- Outlook 2007 send/receive no longer moves windows.
- Outlook 2007 autocompletes the ‘to’ field.
- Outlook 2003 now updates the preview pane on Mac.
- Outlook 2003 ‘find’ works.
- Outlook 2003 welcome message generates properly.
- Outlook 2003 Items attached to Calendar Events can be opened.
- Outlook 2003 page setup works.
- Word 2007 (Enterprise versions) no longer flag an error on
launch.
- Word 2007 can now open documents with images pasted into them
on the Mac.
- Word 2007 no longer enters a loop when MathType 6.x is installed.
- Word 2003 no longer freezes on printing. (Mac only)
- Word 2003 handles embedded images better.
- On the Mac, PowerPoint or Excel 2003 double clicking to open a
document no longer causes a launch failure.
- Application Support (Others):
- Printing works in win98 bottles.
- Enterprise Architect 8 is installing again.
- FrameMaker 7.2 now respects specified locales.
- Internet Explorer 6 now defaults to a win2000 bottle. This should
resolve the long-standing printing bugs with Internet Explorer 6.
- Internet Explorer 6 can now access OWA (Outlook Web Access)
pages.
- Internet Explorer 6 and 7 follow DNS names provided by the
server.
- Internet Explorer 7 Paragon MLS site now logs in,
buttons and menu items render.
- Internet Explorer 6 security settings can be adjusted.
- Internet Explorer 7 Printing is improved.
- Quicken 2002 is now able to print checks and reports. (Mac only)
- Added support for Quicken 2011.
- Quicken 2009 now prints checks and reports.
- ChemSketch regressions fixed (versions 5.x and up),
ChemSketch can be launched more than once.
- Visio 2007 can now open files in the .svg format.
- CrossOver is now merged with Wine 1.3.9. This includes countless
improvements and will no doubt also produce countless regressions.
CrossOver Linux 9.2.0 - 2010/10/13
- Merged with Wine release 1.2.1 which includes bug fixes for
many applications. It also includes adjustments to cope
with a change of security policy on Ubuntu 10.10.
CrossOver Linux 9.1.0 - 2010/07/27
- Application Fixes:
- Improved installation of Office 2007 service packs.
- Fixed product registration of Office 2007 and Office 2003.
- Fixed some unimportant errors during installation of some
versions of Office 2003.
- Improved several connection and importation issues with
Quicken 2010.
- Fixed product registration of Project and Visio 2003.
- Fixed Excel 2007 hyperlinks.
- Fixed document saving in Publisher 2003.
- Fixed playing of MP3 files in Media Player 9.
- Fixed custom installs of Office 2007.
- Improved print to PDF in Office 2007.
- Some minor improvements to Internet Explorer 6 and 7.
- CrossOver Fixes:
- Improved proxy handling on the GNOME desktop.
- Fixed a Mac upgrade problem related to the CD-helper being in
use.
- Fixed full-screen mode for Macs with auto-switching GPUs.
- Fixed Menus and Associations for Pardus Linux.
- Updated the Dutch and French translations.
- Made several application profile tune-ups.
- Merged with Wine version 1.2. Many improvements and bug fixes.
CrossOver Linux 9.0.1 - 2010/04/22
- Application Fixes:
- Fixed file importation of .qif files into Quicken 2010.
- Fixed serious performance problems for certain large Quicken
data files.
- Fixed an Outlook during connection to an Exchange server.
- Fixed an Outlook 2003 printing crash.
- Fixed a variety of other Outlook freezes and crashes.
- Improved Office 2003 service pack installation.
- Fixed a crash in Access 2000; this application should be
usable again.
- Fixed HTML editing in Outlook 2003.
- Fixed a crash in Internet Explorer 7 when 'help' was selected.
- Fixed printing in Internet Explorer 7.
- Fixed a crash associated with the JVM in Internet Explorer 6.
- Fixed an Internet Explorer crash specific to Ubuntu 10.04.
- Fixed a crash in Visio 2003 and 2007.
- Fixed server connections in Architecture 7.5 (requires
reinstall).
- CrossOver Fixes:
- Certain bottles never stopped initializing; now they start
up properly.
- Renamed downloaded installer files so that you can tell what
they are.
- Fixed demo registration on Mandriva 2010.
- Fixed a bug with accessing very old CrossOver bottles.
- Fixed handling of custom c4p files on Mac OS X Tiger.
- Fixed auto-opening of c4p files (previously the file-type
association was broken).
- A few minor cosmetic and behavior changes in the CrossOver
Installer.
CrossOver Linux 9.0.0 - 2010/03/02
- CrossOver changes:
- Bold new look!
- Entirely redesigned application install process.
- Much faster bottle creation and manipulation times.
- Our application installation process is now guided by
'C4 Profiles'; XML files that should allow the process
to be extended by anyone.
- Application support improvements:
- Some improvements in Internet Explorer, particularly
Internet Explorer 7.
- Major improvements in Microsoft Office; notably Word clip art
and Excel Macros should now work. Outlook stability should
continue to improve.
- Limited support for Quicken 2010.
- Merged with Wine version 1.1.34.
This represents a year's work in Wine, 7578 patches in all,
far too many to describe.
CrossOver Linux 8.0.0 - 2009/06/16
- New application support:
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 now installs and runs, imperfectly.
- Quicken 2009 now installs, runs, and can communicate with
banks.
- Application fixes:
- Microsoft Office 2003:
- Non-English language service packs should now apply.
- Word 2003: 'Insert Field' should now work properly.
- Word 2003: Table calculations fixed.
- Word 2003: Insert... Picture... From File improved.
- Outlook 2003: NTLM proxy authentication fixed.
- Excel 2003: Insert Picture improved.
- Outlook 2003: Problem with dropping into 'disconnected' mode
is resolved.
- Microsoft Office 2007:
- Service Pack 1 now applies.
- Enterprise, Pro, and Corporate editions should now install.
- Word 2007: Fixed misbehavior when using the 'insert image'
function.
- Several other Office service packs and add-ons should work
better.
- QuickTime 7:
- Intermittent hanging bugs should be fixed.
- Several other general fixes.
- Outlook 2000 e-mail attachments should now work.
- Fixed regressions in the unsupported application 'CashFlow'.
- Acrobat 5 and 7: "Save As" dialog no longer causes crashes.
- FrameMaker: Handling of PPD files improved on systems without
CUPS.
- Word XP: "Combine Documents" fixed.
- Equation Editor should install and run.
- Other CrossOver improvements:
- A 'symbol' font as been added. This should improve Equation
Editor behavior.
- A couple of improvements were made to dual-monitor support on
the Mac.
- Fixed problem with resizing windows on dual-head Linux systems.
- KDE systray on SUSE 10.1 fixed.
- KDE Printer improved.
CrossOver Linux 7.1.0 - 2008/10/16
- Outlook fixes:
- Restored use of the Rules and Alerts dialog.
- Improved connectivity with Exchange servers.
- Fixed installation of several custom versions of Outlook.
- Improved copy and paste behavior.
- Fixed 'reply all' behavior.
- Improved printing.
- Partial support for signed emails.
- Fixed some address autocompletion in Outlook 2007.
- Application installation changes:
- Many more versions of Office 2007 (including Enterprise editions)
now install properly.
- Office 2003 Service Pack 3 now installs.
- Office one-shot updates now apply.
- Several more versions of Office 2003 now install.
- Microsoft Office language packs now install.
- Visio 2003 SP1 now installs.
- Other fixes:
- Office 97 now works better.
- PowerPoint 2003 slide preview improved.
- Bidirectional text behavior is improved.
- Access 2002 reporting is improved.
- Improved Java behavior.
- Several improvements to PulseAudio and other sound issues.
- Use the native FreeType library on Leopard systems.
- On Linux, add the ability to generate Debian bottle packages.
- Fixed a CrossOver installation error specific to Estonian
locales.
CrossOver Linux 7.0.2 - 2008/07/07
- Fixed a bug which prevented printing in upgraded installs on 7.0.
- Fixed running of Office 2000 and Office XP on some 64-bit machines.
- Fixed a saving failure in some Word 2003 and Excel 2003 documents.
- Re-enabled use of the 'default bottle' on the Mac .
CrossOver Linux 7.0.0 - 2008/06/17
- New application support:
- Office 2007 (Including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and limited
Outlook).
- Photoshop CS and CS2.
- Added support for the "Compatibility Pack for the 2007 Office
system" so that Office 2003 can open.
- Bug fixes:
- Greatly improved online banking integration in Quicken 2007 and
2008.
- Fixed service pack support for several versions of Office.
- Improved Internet Explorer support in win2000 and winxp bottles
(though win98 is still better).
- Improved support for modern Linux distributions (especially
Ubuntu).
- Fixed a seriously horrible interaction with the Logitech Control
Center documents from Office 2007.
- This version also includes countless Wine fixes. Many small bugs
should be fixed, and unsupported application behavior should be
greatly improved.
CrossOver Linux 6.3.0 - (internal release)
- This is a Mac OS X-only release.
CrossOver Linux 6.2.0 - 2007/09/27
- Linux specific changes:
- Updated the Japanese, Italian, German, Russian and French
translations.
- Fixed an EVE Online install bug that occurred on systems with
Arial installed as a system font.
- Improved QuickTime 7 support.
- Fixed a problem with cross-bottle file associations.
- Added support for Team Fortress II via Steam.
- Fixed Outlook encryption regressions.
- Fixed printing from Delphi applications.
- More time-zone fixes for Outlook.
- Fixed 'advanced edit' of Outlook signatures.
- Fixed font rendering in several applications, including Quicken 2007.
- Dramatic improvement in Outlook 2003, particularly when it is installed
without Internet Explorer. Many more features are now available.
- Fixed support for Flash Player 9.
- Many small bug fixes and improvements in stability.
- Fixes for printing to printers without default fonts.
- Fixes to structure storage files to correct corruptions.
- Ejection of DVDs now works.
- Improvement in TreeView control behavior.
- Improved Mac IME integration allowing for Korean, Atok and Ebridge
input.
- Comctl32.dll reports correct version.
- Many fixes to the behavior and location of the default IME input
window.
- Saving files with Internet Explorer now properly complete in multibyte locales.
CrossOver Linux 6.1.0 - 2007/04/27
- Linux specific changes:
- Some improvements to Windows Media Player support.
- Improved handling of SELinux.
- Improved QuickTime 7 support.
- New application support:
- EVE Online.
- QuickTime 7.
- Ichitaro 2006 and 2007 (Japanese locale only).
- Ichitaro Viewer (Japanese locale only).
- IBM HomePage Builder 10 and 11 (Japanese locale only).
- Application fixes:
- Fixed some font problems in FrameMaker 7.1.
- Added support for RPC over HTTP in Outlook 2003 when running in a
Windows XP bottle. This allows use of HTTP mail in Outlook.
- Improved authentication support in Outlook 2003.
- Lots of widespread graphics improvements. Game rendering
and performance should be much improved.
- Improved the Equation Editor installation process.
- The Half-Life 2 Intro now plays properly.
- Several Internet Explorer fixes: Wikipedia.org and Microsoft.com now load
properly. Improved Internet Explorer launch times.
- Improved Quicken window rendering.
- Lots of doc revisions.
- Fixed a problem with black icons in the Outlook shortcut bar.
- Fixed autocompletion in Outlook.
- General CrossOver fixes and improvements:
- Major update of DirectX support.
- Added the ability to automatically download and install
localized versions of some installers and service packs, including
Internet Explorer.
CrossOver Linux 6.0.1 - 2007/03/07
- Linux specific changes:
- Improved compatibility with Fedora Core 6's directory hashing.
- Improved compatibility with openSUSE 10.2.
- Application fixes:
- Fixed some Outlook 2003 crashes, in particular one related to
right-clicks and one occurring on startup on some systems.
- Fixed handling of emails containing quotes in Outlook 2003.
- Fixed some copy/paste issues in Office 2003.
- Fixed Lotus Notes hangs on certain emails.
- Now all Internet Explorer installs will include DCOM98. This
improves stability in many ways. In particular, it fixes a
crash during printing.
- Fixed an installation bug with Quicken 2006.
- General CrossOver fixes and improvements:
- Updated the timezone information to comply with the revised
2007 DST rules.
- Fixed a few bugs in the 5.0 to 6.0 upgrade path.
- Fixed an issue with running Office 2003, Photoshop and FrameMaker
in managed bottles.
- Updated the Portuguese translation (thanks go to José Melo).
- Updated the French translation.
CrossOver Linux 6.0.0 - 2007/01/08
- Linux specific changes:
- Improved compatibility with Fedora Core 6's directory hashing.
- Improved compatibility with openSUSE 10.2.
- Application fixes:
- Fixed some Outlook 2003 crashes, in particular one related to
right-clicks and one occurring on startup on some systems.
- Fixed handling of emails containing quotes in Outlook 2003.
- Fixed some copy/paste issues in Office 2003.
- Fixed Lotus Notes hangs on certain emails.
- Now all Internet Explorer installs will include DCOM98. This
improves stability in many ways. In particular, it fixes a
crash during printing.
- Fixed an installation bug with Quicken 2006.
- General CrossOver fixes and improvements:
- Updated the timezone information to comply with the revised
2007 DST rules.
- Fixed a few bugs in the 5.0 to 6.0 upgrade path.
- Fixed an issue with running Office 2003, Photoshop and
FrameMaker in managed bottles.
- Updated the Portuguese translation (thanks go to José Melo).
- Updated the French translation.
CrossOver Linux 6.0.0 - 2007/01/08
- Application fixes:
- Added support for Flash Player 9.
- Major improvements in Outlook behavior; except for composing
HTML mail, it seems to perform basic functions well
(and installing Word or Internet Explorer will make HTML composition
work).
- Improved the installation and operation of Internet Explorer.
If installed in a Windows 98 bottle, it should work much
better than it did before.
- Improved installation of Quicken. All versions but Quicken 2007
should be usable now. Quicken 2007 is partially usable
but has some issues with rendering and online integration.
- Fix a bug with Remedy.
- Extensive improvements in the handling of QuickTime 6.5 and 7.
- Many miscellaneous bug fixes.
- Major improvements for games:
- Support for Steam games (notably Half-Life 2), Prey, and
World of Warcraft.
- General CrossOver fixes and improvements:
- CrossOver is now much better at creating program icons that
work and have the correct icons.
- Added a Windows XP bottle template, which is useful for some
unsupported applications.
- Improved handling of CD detection and ejection. Installers that
require multiple CDs should now install more
graciously.
CrossOver Office 5.0.3 - 2006/06/22
- Major changes (since 5.0.1):
- Fix the 'no-execute' and SELinux compatibility issues that happen
on recent Fedora Core 4 and Fedora Core 5 distributions.
- If ClamAV is installed, then CrossOver's wine script will now
scan executables and attachments before running them. This
should not be seen as an ironclad antivirus shield but as one
more step to prevent accidental infection through CrossOver's
associations.
- Make it possible to upgrade bottle RPMs. Many other bottle RPM
fixes and improvements.
- Added support for repackaging an existing CrossOver installation
as an RPM for distributing site-specific customizations.
- Add support for side-by-side installation of multiple versions
of the Loki, RPM and Solaris packages.
- Added a Polish translation (thanks go to Mandriva Poland).
- Updated the Portuguese translation (thanks go to José Melo).
- Updated the Japanese translation (thanks go to Takeshi KOUNO).
- Application fixes:
- Fixed iPod support.
- Fixed an authentication issue which should let iTunes access
the Music Store again.
- Work around an Internet Explorer 6 installer bug which causes it
to complain about the 'download information' being 'damaged', including
on Windows. The workaround should make this condition less likely.
- Fix some copy and paste failures in Word 2003 and Excel 2003.
- Fixed a number of crashes in PowerPoint 2003.
- Fixed some scrolling issues in FrameMaker.
- Fixed regression when installing the Microsoft JVM.
- Fixed a crash which occurred when printing some large documents.
- Fixed most sticky Alt key issues.
- Server Edition changes:
- Added full bottle support.
- Each client can connect to multiple servers, one per bottle.
- Added Netscape plugin support (but only on the server, not on
the clients).
- Desktop menu fixes:
- Work around a KDE 3.5.1 bug so the 'Windows Applications' menu
is visible on SUSE 10.1.
- Work around a KDE 3.5.1 and 3.5.2 bug so the CrossOver
associations appear in the 'Open with...' list. This fixes
recent Fedora Core 5 versions, SUSE 10.1 and Ubuntu 6.06.
- Work around a Mandriva 2006.0 bug so '&' and ';' won't break all
the menus.
- Fix menu duplication issue for root installs on Mandriva 2006.0.
- Fix menu duplication issue on Debian 3.1, Mandrake 10.1 and
others.
- Fix menus on SUSE 9.0.
- Avoid creating icons on GNOME's legacy desktop. This means users
of modern GNOME should no longer get the annoying 'Link To
Old Desktop' icon.
- Fix handling of KDE's desktop icons for root installs.
- Improve handling of the Windows 2000 menus. Installing an
unsupported application in a Windows 2000 bottle should now
always result in the creation of the corresponding menus.
- Desktop association fixes:
- Make associations work with email tools that create temporary
files with no extension. Strictly check the extension against
the association's MIME type.
- Fixed XDG associations so that they now work with Evolution.
- Work around a Mozilla bug to make the associations work again
in that browser.
- More Excel association fixes.
- Add aliases for the PowerPoint MIME types. This should stop
PowerPoint associations from being ignored on some systems.
- Ignore bad MIME types used by some Windows applications so their
associations can be exported anyway.
- Fix a bug which caused garbage to be put in the description of
a couple of rarely used Internet Explorer MIME types.
- Rename 'alternate associations' to 'alternative associations'
for more clarity.
- General CrossOver fixes:
- The CrossOver RPM packages now minimize the 'rpm --verify'
output and correctly identify documentation files.
- Fixed some issues with spaces in the bottle names, especially
with managed bottles.
- Improved the default browser detection in GNOME and KDE.
- Improved the Windows Application CD detection.
- Improved cxreset so it catches all hung Wine processes.
- Improved support for CD-ROMs that are auto-mounted by means of
Supermount (Mandriva), Subfs (SUSE) or HAL (recent
distributions). In practice this means CrossOver Setup should
no longer get into a loop trying to fix your CD-ROM
configuration over and over again.
- Made it easier to install multi-CD applications on Supermount
systems.
- Improved CrossOver's cxsu tool which is used to run commands as
root so it automatically knows when to use sudo (e.g. on
Ubuntu) and when to use su.
- Fix the conversion of icons to PNG format. This should avoid
some xpmtoppm error messages.
CrossOver Office 5.0.1 - 2006/01/09
- Application fixes:
- Fixed a crash in Project that appeared when opening a
recently-saved document.
- Fixed EMF drawing in Word and PowerPoint XP.
- Fixed the launching of Lotus Notes via the application menu.
- Fixed the creation of Office 2000 shortcuts.
- Fixed occasional crashes in Outlook 2000 and XP.
- Improved EndNote's ability to connect to remote databases.
- Fixed a problem in Microsoft Office that produced files with
multiple extensions like foo.xls.xls.xls.
- Replaced the icons that indicate which components are being
included during custom installation of Microsoft Office 2000
and XP.
- Fixed installation of the Office 2003 spellchecker and equation
editor.
- Fixed the Lotus Notes minimization bug that cause Notes windows
to bounce back after being minimized.
- Fixed a problem that caused Internet Explorer to lose focus whenever
a tooltip was displayed.
- General CrossOver fixes:
- Patched the WMF security flaw.
- Added support for GNOME mime associations.
- Improved Debian package support.
- Improved general mime association behavior.
- Fixed menu support for Xandros and Linspire.
- Fixed menu support for Ubuntu 5.1.
- Fixed pasting of Cyrillic and German text.
- Updated Russian and German messages.
- Lots of changes to the Demo code.
- Improved time zone handling.
- Improved the upgrade process from previous versions.
- Fixed support for the KDE printing subsystem.
- Fixed the CrossOver setup tools so that they still work on
systems with SCIM enabled.
CrossOver Office 5.0.0 - 2005/10/25
- New Application support (since 4.2):
- Microsoft Office 2003 (excluding Outlook).
- New Features (since 4.2):
- Major improvements in installer technology so that most
applications should now install with CrossOver.
- Support for virtual Windows environments running
either in traditional Windows 98 compatibility
or for environments supporting Windows 2000/XP.
- 'Bottle Manager' - the ability to manage multiple
simultaneous virtual Windows environments
simply and easily. This allows you to segregate
applications into different environments (aka 'bottles')
to simplify testing and to improve stability.
Bottles can be backed up, archived, and restored,
and bottles can be deployed via RPM, making the
process of deploying a Windows application as simple
as pushing an RPM around.
- Plugin support for 64-bit browsers.
- New Technical Details (since 4.2):
- Major changes in the underlying Wine technology base
which should bring a wide range of improvements,
including:
- Window manager rewrite; windows should interoperate
properly with X window managers; odd flickers
and painting issues should be greatly reduced.
COM / MSI implementation, which now enables
CrossOver to install a far wider range of
applications.
- Better sound support.
- Improved game support.
- Many, many other improvements.
CrossOver Office 4.2.3 - 2005/07/21
- Application bug fixes:
- Fix the Notes drag and drop regression. This regression would cause
Notes to go into an infinite loop using all the CPU. However this
fix may be causing redraw issues in various other applications.
- Make it possible to save multiple attachments at once in Notes.
- Fixed the drawing of buttons embedded in Excel spreadsheets.
- Fix OpenGL drawing in child windows.
- Added support for the WEST timezone.
- Various other fixes.
- CrossOver improvements:
- Blacklist text/plain so it does not get associated with PowerPoint
due to the '.pot' extension.
- Fixed a bug which could cause CrossOver Setup to lose track of the
Windows menus.
- Update the Portuguese and French translations.
CrossOver Office 4.2 - 2005/03/29
- New Application support:
- EndNote 8
- Quicken 2005
- iTunes 4.7.1
- Application bug fixes:
- Fixed the importation of databases into Excel (via Data ->
Import External Data -> New Database Query).
- Fixed the viewing of 'shared desktops' in NetMeeting.
- Fixed broken URLs for Microsoft file viewers.
- Fixed an error (1321) that appeared when running Outlook 2000
in managed multi-user mode.
- Fixed a crash that happened when printing 16-bit dibs.
- Fixed the saving of attachments in Lotus Notes.
- Fixed a bug that caused QuickTime to freeze at startup on some
systems.
- Fixed the 'sideways text' bug in Outlook.
- CrossOver improvements:
- Added a Portuguese translation, thanks to the translation work
of José Melo.
- Fixed documentation-browser startup on Fedora Core 3.
- Fixed associations on systems that don't have KDE.
- Fixed some occasional VFolder errors when creating menus.
- Resolved some installation warning messages.
- Resolved issues with cross-product rpm upgrades.
- Fixed support for floppy drives.
- Fixed the upgrading of 3.1-style drives.
- Many other upgrade fixes.
- Fixed some association issues on Mandrake 10.1.
- Fixed menu translations for some locales.
- Fixed reading of PPD files in some locales.
- Improved menu support on some newer distributions.
CrossOver Office 4.1 - 2004/12/20
- iTunes:
- Drastically improved responsiveness on 2.6 kernels; eliminated
many skipping problems.
- Improved menu redrawing.
- Eliminated several potential crashes.
- Fixed drag and drop.
- Other applications:
- Improved font appearances in some Microsoft Office applications.
- Fixed a hang that happened after certain cuts and pastes in
Microsoft Office.
- Installation:
- Fixed the /etc/auto.master installation bug; now we are much
more tolerant of variations in that file.
- Disabled DGA, as that was causing the screen to go blank with some
video hardware.
- Improved error reporting for some menu problems.
- Fixed menu problems on several newer Linux distributions.
- Fixed shortcut corruption when installing iTunes with Office.
- Fixed menu creation of Fedora Core 3 and in some other settings.
- Other CrossOver changes:
- Improved --save-state and --restore-state behavior (important
for buildrpm users).
- Fixed a couple of minor Office Setup bugs.
- Fixed a bug with printing on SUSE in certain locales.
- Fixed a serious problem with Windows -> Unix associations.
CrossOver Office 4.0 - 2004/11/16
- New application support:
- Support for iTunes and iTMS. Limited iPod support; drivers for
ripping are not supported.
- Support for Adobe FrameMaker 7.1.
- Support for QuickTime 6.5.2.
- Reviewed plugin support: removed some, updated others.
- Application bug fixes:
- Office:
- Fixed a bug that was causing Internet Explorer to crash when a
'favorite' was added.
- Fixed a bug that prevented Office 2000 and Project from being
installed together.
- Some bug fixes for Outlook 2000.
- Fixed a bug that prevented Windows Media Player from playing local
media files.
- Quicken:
- Cleaned up Quicken installation process.
- Fixed several Quicken bugs.
- Reviewed and improved Quicken 2004 support.
- Others:
- Fixed Dreamweaver uninstallation.
- Fixed several Dreamweaver bugs.
- Fixed installation problems with Scientific Word.
- CrossOver changes and improvements:
- Installation:
- Fixed several CrossOver installation and uninstallation issues.
- Improved CrossOver upgrade support.
- Fixed a bug that caused the menu database to be erased when
additional office components (such as the Equation Editor)
were added.
- Improved menu support for (among others) SUSE 9.2 and
Fedora Core 3.
- OfficeSetup:
- Added the 'Control Panel' tab to OfficeSetup.
- Improved OfficeSetup startup time.
- Several improvements to OfficeSetup user interface; fixed keyboard
navigation.
- Fixed uninstallation of unsupported software.
- Solved a bug that sometimes corrupted downloadable installers.
- General:
- CrossOver now deals with prelinking and Exec Shield without the
need for disabling them.
- Fixed handling of SIGCHLD. This fixes several install failures
and should improve general stability quite a bit.
- Switched to a new, more modern build machine. This may
affect installation dependencies.
- Improved serial port support.
- Added volume labels for Windows drives.
- Improved font caching.
- Dramatic improvement in application speed.
- Adopted new, simpler system for drive-letter mapping.
- Fixed a crash when LANG=zh_TW.utf8.
CrossOver Office 3.0.1 - 2004/05/11
- Major Fedora Core 2 Bug fixes:
- Properly quote the PRELINK_OPTS in /etc/sysconfig/prelink
which should ensure that exec shield remains disabled.
- Set the personality to PER_LINUX32 to work around the 4G address
space.
- Fix cases where an upgrade on Fedora could result in duplicate
links.
- Fix the proxy password dialog, should allow proxy installations to
work.
- Fix for FrameMaker dialog crashing issues.
- Minor fixes to gradient printing.
- Bug fix where right clicking in the file dialog can cause crashes.
- Fix issues where deleted printers don't go away in managed multi-user
mode.
- Process TEMP and TMP a bit better when invoking Unix programs, should
make calling Unix programs from Windows ones work a bit better.
- Tweak to the system tray window so that it's resizable.
- Minor tweaks to sound support.
- Fix rare bug with strange names in installed plugins.
- Minor bug fixes for managed multi-user mode.
- Minor bug fixes for RPMs built with buildrpm.
- Enable Photoshop to work properly in managed multi-user mode.
- Support GNOME's change to '~/Desktop'.
- Minor tweaks to creating icons so things like Acrobat Reader
now makes desktop icons.
- Fix for Notes failing to open HTML attachments.
- Fix the problem with Internet Explorer crashing each time a bookmark was
added.
CrossOver Office 3.0.0 - 2004/05/11
- Support for Lotus Notes 6.5.1.
- Support for Microsoft Project 2000.
- Support for Microsoft Outlook XP.
- Made Remedy usable.
- CrossOver now detects Exec Shield and Prelink systems and offers to
disable Exec Shield since it interferes with Windows Applications.
This should be especially useful for Fedora and Red Hat
Enterprise Linux users.
- The Standard and Pro editions now include support for the Netscape
plugins which was previously only present in CrossOver
Plugin. Now a single CrossOver installation can handle
all your needs!
- Improved localization: now all of the application interface,
including the desktop menus and scripts can be localized.
- A complete translation to French is provided.
- Improved internationalization support: CrossOver Setup should
now correctly list applications that use non-ASCII characters.
The application menus should also be created with the right
character encoding.
- Made it possible to switch from the demo to the full version
without reinstalling.
- Added a tool to capture the system configuration. This should
help us better diagnose issues.
- Systematically log a trace of the Windows application
installations to help diagnosis in case of a problem. The size
of this log is capped so it cannot fill the disk.
- General bug fixes:
- Sound should now work on i810-based sound cards, provided that
you configure CrossOver to use the winealsa sound driver.
- The cxuninstall script now offers to clean up the CrossOver
environment when run by a non-root user in private or managed
multi-user mode. It will also remind you of all the steps to
take to fully uninstall CrossOver in these modes.
- The cxuninstall script now also works for RPM and Debian
installations.
- The old Loki uninstaller does not work on new Linux distributions.
We now upgrade it to make sure the uninstallation proceeds
smoothly.
- Fixed the Netscape plugin removal when uninstalling.
- Fixed many bugs in cxwinassoc. Associating file types with Unix
applications should now be more reliable.
- Fix the Windows drive setup when there are many floppy or
CD-ROM drives.
- CrossOver Setup:
- CrossOver Setup should start faster and be more responsive.
- Better detect whether an application installed successfully or
not.
- Made it possible to install all the fonts in one go.
- Fix the handling of bad paths in the 'My Documents' field.
- The menu tab has been improved and a new fonts tab added.
- Fixed an issue where a bad symbolic link to the CrossOver
configuration file would cause an infinite loop in CrossOver
Setup.
- Desktop integration:
- Added support for the Ximian Desktop 2 desktop menus. Fixed an
issue where uninstalling CrossOver would remove the 'Office'
Ximian menu.
- The desktop menus should no longer have a tendency to disappear
on SuSE 8.x systems configured to use the SuSE-specific menus.
- Uninstalling CrossOver Office should no longer delete the
CrossOver Plugin menus on VFolder systems.
- Many other menu issues have been fixed.
- Fixed the associations on Mandrake.
- Managed multi-user support (a Pro and Server Edition feature):
- In the Pro Edition, it is now possible to choose between the
private and managed multi-user modes at install time.
- Made it possible to make a copy the managed multi-user
environment in a non-root account.
- Made it possible to disable the 'running as root' warning.
- In the Server Edition a new users tab lets you manage the
CrossOver user accounts.
- Fixed many bugs in buildrpm. The RPMs it generates can now be
upgraded.
- Made it possible to use hard-links when creating the per-user
environment to limit the inode usage.
- Application-specific fixes:
- Fixed the toolbar flicker, occasional freezes when opening a
new window and many other issues in Internet Explorer.
- Associating a file type, like PDF files, with a Unix application,
like Acrobat Reader, now works in Internet Explorer too.
- In some cases installing Office XP would not create the desktop
menus. This should now be fixed.
- Word XP should no longer systematically prompt to save
'normal.dot' when exiting.
- Fixed the font list drop-down in Word.
- Most movies should now play correctly in PowerPoint.
- Fixed the entries in the 'Windows' menu in Visio.
- Fixed drawing issues in Visio.
- It is now possible to sort the files by date or other criteria
in Excel 97's open file dialog.
CrossOver Office 2.1.0 - 2003/10/21
- Support for all known versions of glibc, including the new
Native POSIX Thread Library (NPTL) interface. This represents
a major technical advance for Wine, as glibc instability has
been a problem throughout 2003.
- Support for the Dreamweaver MX Studio.
- Support for Minitab 13, Geometer Sketchpad, and Scientific Word.
- Beginning support for Remedy Help Desk.
- Provide dynamic loading of OpenGL; this allows a much greater range of
unsupported applications, especially games such as Half-Life, to run.
- Fixes for latest versions of GNOME and KDE; CrossOver should now
interact properly with all known versions of GNOME and KDE.
- Implement basic proxy support, allows Internet Explorer to function even
when an authenticating proxy is in use.
- Significant improvements in Internationalization.
- General bug fixes:
- Many printing fixes, including full and proper support
for the HP4000.
- Fix printing using gimp-print filters.
- Support for a kprinter entry in the printer list.
(thanks for the suggestion, Josh)
- Numerous other border condition fixes and improvements.
- Bug fix with interaction with various clipboards, including
Klipper.
- CrossOver Setup:
- A bug fix for uninstalling Windows applications; this should allow
many more Windows uninstallers to operate properly.
- Add an option to hide the system tray (for environments
where Wine system tray integration does not work).
- A modest boost in performance in creating menus.
- Many other subtle improvements.
- Bug fixes with Microsoft Office:
- Resolve a number of PowerPoint display problems.
- Fix a bug when cropping certain charts in Excel.
- Significant reduction in Office XP installation failures.
- Prevent several crashes in Word XP operation.
- Expand shared heap pool which prevents a resource
problem in Outlook.
- Many other miscellaneous bug fixes in both Office 2000
and Office XP.
- Miscellaneous bug fixes for Quicken, Visio, and Lotus Notes.
CrossOver Office 2.0.1 - 2003/05/08
- Added a Xandros edition.
- Added a SuSE edition.
- Add further internationalization, including German documentation.
- Fixed a critical bug with Quicken painting in certain areas.
- Fix a bug where Photoshop would hang at exit.
- Fixed the 'Updater' problem with root upgrades which was occurring
when CrossOver 1.x was installed in a non-default location.
- Improved the upgrade of some (of the less often used) 1.x
configuration settings.
- Fixed 'wait4' error with pre 2.2.19 kernels.
- Fixed 'Other .exe' display in cxsetup.
- Fixed issues occurring when fstab or mtab are not readable.
- Fixed a bug while printing with gimp-print.
- Fixed printing on the HP4000.
- Allow a CUPS port to be redirected.
- Added more known Unix TrueType font directories.
- Fixed a bug in running newer versions of DCOM95 that come with
updated versions of Microsoft Office 2000.
- Potentially fixed a bug in which searching for DCOM95 could
take a long time.
CrossOver Office 2.0.0 - 2003/04/21
- Support for Photoshop 7.
- Support for Access 2000.
- Support for Word, Excel and PowerPoint XP.
- Support for Internet Explorer 6.
- Support for glibc 2.3, including NPTL-based ones. This adds
support for Red Hat 9.0 and Mandrake 9.1.
- Microsoft Office:
- More work on getting service packs to install fully and
correctly.
- Fix hangs in the installation.
- Fix the Internet Explorer 'Favorites' menu.
- The Outlook folders no longer remain bold when they should not.
- Word should now be able to start Access for mail-merge
operations.
- Fix copy/paste issues between Word and X applications.
- Fix a display problem in Word Draw.
- Fixed an issue with the Office 97 splash window.
- Fix the chart display in Excel 2000 and XP.
- PowerPoint is no longer sent to the background when doing an
'Insert Slide' or clicking in the XP registration window.
- Fix printing to a second printer from PowerPoint.
- Fix display bugs in the Office 2000 help application.
- Visio:
- Fixed some installation issues.
- Fix the cursor position in text editing.
- Fixed drawing of the 'Target' logo (from the Marketing diagrams
stencil).
- Fix 'Save As JPEG': prevents Visio 2000 from running out of
memory when saving large diagrams as a JPEG.
- CrossOver Configuration:
- Major changes to the CrossOver configuration program to
hopefully clarify and simplify its usage.
- Auto-detect X directories containing TrueType fonts and register them
for use by CrossOver. Fixed compatibility issues with some fonts.
- Make it possible to delete or recreate individual menus.
- Added a button to make the preferred Unix browser the default
after Internet Explorer has set itself as the default.
- Major improvement to the way we handle CDs: we now truly
run the Autorun off the CD. This should improve behavior for
obscure versions of Microsoft Office and unsupported applications.
- Improved CD mounting. Detect CDs that are affected by the
unhide bug so we know when to fix fstab. Improved fstab handling.
- Correctly detect installed fonts.
- Improved the online help.
- General:
- Added file locking and file change notification support.
- Printing speed ups and improved printer compatibility.
- Make the PPD file handling more resilient. This should fix
issues with CUPS.
- Fix the CUPS default printer detection.
- Add support for tablets for Photoshop.
- Add scripts so the technically inclined can have Windows
applications open specific file types using Unix applications,
for instance opening PDF files with the Unix Acrobat Reader.
- Way too many other cleanups and bug fixes to list here.
CrossOver Office 1.3.1 - 2002/10/31
- Dramatic improvements in support for Visio 2000,
including bug fixes which caused random crashes,
bug fixes in a wide range of templates, and
many others. This also includes a fix to
permit the installation of Visio Enterprise edition.
- Critical installation bug fix: prevent older installers from
overwriting newer DLLs. This should avoid the situation where
installing a miscellaneous 'old' software product suddenly
breaks something that had been working.
- Quicken:
- Bug fixes in printing.
- Fix a bug that entering a memo would clear the category.
- Fix with short file names.
- Bug fixes in Internet Explorer that better enable Quicken to
perform web based transactions.
- Fix a bug with Quicken flickering too much.
- Better support for Quicken 2003 (but bugs do remain).
- Enable MathType to install (though we have not really tested its
behavior).
- Enable Remedy to install (though we have not really tested its
behavior).
- 'Anti-Klez' patch to prevent users from accidentally opening
Windows executable attachments.
- Support for Red Hat 8.0, Mandrake 9.0, and SuSE 8.1.
- Office Bug fixes:
- Print embedded eps files.
- Prevent crash in PowerPoint on 'Insert -> Movies'.
- Bug fix in a property sheet in Outlook.
- Enable HTML printing in Outlook.
- Bug fix for crashes in Outlook contact handling.
- Fix incorrect pie chart printing.
- Fix crashes in PowerPoint on certain presentations.
- Make the Internet Explorer toolbar customization work.
- Improve Internet Explorer content rating behavior.
- Enable Internet Explorer to save files (helps Quicken).
- Fix Office 97 saving problems.
- Fix for 'n-up' printing in Microsoft Word.
- Fix for printing bugs with WordArt and other misc Word documents.
- Auto-detect a more reasonable default for the
"My Documents" setting.
- Fix an incorrect date appearing in Outlooks calendar.
- Fix many bugs with the Save As/Open dialogs.
- Fix handling of attachments with unknown mime types.
- Don't create the Internet Explorer "Connect to the Internet"
icon.
- Notes
- Fix a bug with multiple file attachments.
- Implement a 'skeleton' based method for root installations
With this approach, we will be able to advocate root
installs, and the CrossOver executables are shared,
but each user has a private Windows environment.
- Minor graphical improvements in OfficeSetup.
- Improve the CrossOver Interaction with Linux clipboard,
notably for rtf files.
- Better support for Type 42 fonts and non RENDER enabled X servers.
- Fix a bug with installations in multibyte locales.
- Enable HTML help in certain applications.
- Make a change that will hopefully permit CrossOver to interoperate
with new versions of glibc 2.3.
- Many other minor bug fixes.
CrossOver Office 1.2.0 - 2002/08/07
- Support for Quicken.
- Support for Visio 2000.
- Support for QuickBooks 2000 and QuickBooks Pro 6.0.
- Improving support for international versions of Microsoft Office:
Includes specific fixes for Greek, Brazilian, Bulgarian, and several more.
Includes a fix to allow the use of Unicode file names.
- Enable the Office 2000 Service Pack, Release 1, to install smoothly.
- Allow the user to change the location of the "My Documents"
directory, set default to the home directory.
- Major bug fix that corrects occasional hangs during Office
installations.
- Started work on FreeBSD support (not there yet :-( ).
- Clipboard handling improvements (should fix some cut and paste
issues).
- More font handling improvements.
- Automate the version number used by buildrpm.sh.
- Better handle Mime types and descriptions.
- Improve upgrade handling (should make the 1.x -> 1.2 process a
bit smoother).
- Fix bugs involving paths with spaces.
- Fix menu and desktop handling, notably for Debian and KDE 3. This
includes adding the ability to recreate the menus and icons.
- Fix for Insert -> Picture -> Clip art.
- Fixed bugs related to installations needing the CD. For
example, you can now add the Analysis toolpack in Excel.
- Improve behavior of cxoffice_reset script and add a '-f' option
to eliminate the prompt.
- Fixed a bug in Excel handling certain files.
- Now compatible with FreeType 2.0.x and 2.1.x, which helps if not
using the internal FreeType library.
- Improved installation support for some non supported applications.
- Add A3 paper size.
- Get the initial paper size from the locale information.
- Major improvements in time zone handling which improves
Outlook calendaring.
- Fixed a bug with Internet Explorer displaying PNG images (requires an
Internet Explorer reinstallation, though)
- Fixed a bug with Internet Explorer crashing right away (but bug may
sometimes recur, added FAQ to tell user how to repair situation).
- Many other bug fixes.
CrossOver Office 1.1.0 - 2002/06/11
- Improved on-screen font rendering, especially in small types.
Our internal FreeType library now includes Apple's patented
hinting technology so that fonts will render as cleanly and
crisply as on Windows.
- Very much improved printing quality. Now the fonts used for
printing always match the fonts used for on-screen display.
Printed documents and should match Windows printouts.
- Improved support for non U.S. versions of Office:
- Added support for dead keys.
- Better detection/installation of non English 'SETUP.EXE' files.
- Fully support multi-user (i.e. root) installations, including in
NFS environments.
- Improved support for remote displays, in particular non Intel
(big-endian) X terminals.
- Added support for Internet Explorer 5.5 as well as 5.0 when
installed as part of Office 2000.
- Major bug fixes in Outlook and Internet Explorer.
- Added a new facility to secure Outlook by preventing it from
launching external applications.
- Improved the Wine socket handling. cxoffice_reset should not be
necessary anymore after a crash. The bugs which prevented
cxoffice_reset from working correctly in 1.0.0 have been fixed too.
- Detect and setup CD drives, including multi-CD configurations.
- Detect and optionally fix fstab CD drive entries that do not
include the 'unhide' and 'user' options. This solves an issue
with some Microsoft Office CDs that include 'hidden' files.
- Fix: Make Internet Explorer work in multi-user configurations.
- Fix: Make the Outlook account wizard work.
- Fix: Display of icons and images in Outlook.
- Fix: PowerPoint should not longer issue errors when saving files.
- Fix: Word 97 should no longer issue the 'unable to save' error.
- Fix: The equation editor should work in Word 97.
- Fix: Office 95 should now install. But note that its operation
has not been tested.
- Fix: Some movement keys (home, etc) would not work with Num lock set.
- Fix: Building RPMs on non i386 kernels.
- Improved Visual Basic script support in all Office applications.
- Improved the Office 97 installation process.
- Improved the KDE, GNOME and Mailcap associations handling. In
particular, associations should now work with Mozilla and Netscape 7.
- Improved drag and drop support.
- Improved handling of applications which require a 'reboot' during
their installation process.
- Improved the uninstaller. It should no longer leave any KDE, GNOME
or other setting behind.
- Added a menu entry to perform a simulated reboot.
- Added a script to manually create icons, if they have been lost.
- A minor fix that improves Spaceward Ho! behavior. (but doesn't fix it,
yet...)
- Many, many more fixes and improvements.
CrossOver Office 1.0.0 - 2002/03/27
- Fixed chart handling in Excel.
- Fixed ruler problem in Word.
- Fixed a bug preventing the use of the custom dictionary in Word.
- Fixed bug that was preventing CD ejection after installing
CrossOver Office from a CD.
- Changed default paper size to letter and fixed the margins.
- Remove all CrossOver Office menu entries when uninstalling.
- Added support for multi-user installs.
- Make it possible to build an RPM for site installations.
- X is no longer necessary for installing/removing such RPMs.
CrossOver Office 1.0.0 beta1 - 2002/03/19
- The documentation is now included.
- Included a known good version of FreeType with the
installation in order to overcome FreeType bugs.
- Support for root installs is better, but not yet perfect. This includes
the addition of the 'buildrpm.sh' tool.
- Fix many Office97 bugs.
- Understand the process for installing Office97,
upgrade edition (but it's not yet documented; it's tricky).
- Add command line links to make it easy to start winword, excel, etc.
- Fix resize logic (make it faster, reduce bugs).
- Fix bugs with '.xxx' directory names.
- Fix bugs in many dialogs where text was being truncated.
- Fix the $DISPLAY test in .mailcap files.
- Fix some installations where Wine wouldn't start.
- Fix some scrolling issues.
- Make all of the Office 2000 wizards work.
- Fix several 'gdb' style crashes during Office installation.
- Only unmaximize managed windows, since unmanaged windows have an
unmaximize button. Auto unmaximize in window managers that
don't support maximization.
- Make shortcuts KDE 1.x compatible.
- Many other bug fixes too numerous to mention.
CrossOver Office 0.9.0 beta1 - 2002/03/11
- Text changes suggested by Steve Fox.
- Other minor text/help changes.