14 DAY TRIAL // On October 21, the Wine-Staging team has had the great pleasure of announcing the immediate availability for download of the Wine-Staging 1.7.53 software, based on the recently released Wine 1.7.53.
According to the developers, Wine-Staging 1.7.53 brings much-needed fixes for Steam users, as it would appear that they received numerous complains about missing content in the application. After some deep investigation, they discovered that the issue was related to the embedded Chromium code used by the Steam app.
However, users are being informed that the Steam patch has been applied only for 32-bit Linux kernel-based operating systems. At the moment, the developers are working to make the patch compatible with the other platform supported by Wine-Staging, Mac OS X, which will be available very soon.
"Chromium contains a sandbox to increase the security, but unlike on Linux, the Windows sandbox does not rely on any kernel features but instead modifies functions in ntdll.dll. So far this didn't cause any problem as Steam didn't make use of this sandbox, which changed in a recent update," reads the announcement.
Wine-Staging 1.7.53 comes with many other fixes
Of course, the developers have fixed many other issues in Wine-Staging 1.7.53, such as the initialization of combined DACLs, checking of signaled objects, thread signaling, comctl32.PROPSHEET_InsertPage implementation, and kernel32.GetPhysicallyInstalledSystemMemory implementation.
Lastly, Wine-Staging 1.7.53 now always uses 64-bit registry view for WoW64 (Windows 32-bit on Windows 64-bit) setups, returns the WN_NOT_CONNECTED variable from the WNetGetUniversalName REMOTE_NAME_INFO_LEVEL stub, displays the version of the Windows OS during collection of system information in winedbg, and makes use of wrapper functions for syscalls to satisfy Chromium sandbox.
Download Wine-Staging 1.7.53 for GNU/Linux systems right now from Softpedia, where you will also find the Wine 1.7.53 software. Please note that both projects are currently under development, so we don't recommend using them on production machines where stability is of the essence.