Wine4Office 0.2.2-beta.2

Changes

• Fix Office 2019 volume installation failing while its licensing chain is installed.
• Ensure generated Office shortcuts launch with the configured Wine prefix.
• Prevent intermittent Word Welcome-screen stalls by keeping Click-to-Run preloaded.
• Prevent enterprise Microsoft 365 sign-in from getting stuck after entering credentials.

Full changes

Wine4Office 0.2.2-beta.1

• Fix standalone Manager startup with current OpenSSL 3 releases.
• Let Office install and report KMS client product keys through OSPP and WMI while retaining only derived licensing metadata.
• Update the Wine base to WineHQ 11.17 with improved interface languages and compatibility fixes.
• Prevent an OpenGL context-switch crash when display-mode emulation is enabled.
• Prevent hollow Direct2D paths from exhausting memory during geometry processing.
• Retry Office installer downloads once, then offer manual download and file selection.
• Bundle the certificate data needed to verify Office installers in standalone Manager builds.
• Add Quick and Online Office repairs to the Manager and require Online Repair after a runner upgrade when Office is already installed.
• Link to Microsoft's work/school and personal account pages for managing computers and downloading the online Office installer.
• Hide the Teams installer from the Manager while Teams support is unavailable.
• Prevent Office licensing repair from crashing while querying installed product keys.
• Add X11/Wayland and OpenGL/Vulkan controls to the Manager's environment page.
• Restore Outlook account setup after Office repairs its Click-to-Run registry data.
• Create Office grace product-key metadata dynamically for every installed retail SKU.
• Fix personal Microsoft account sign-in, Office entitlement retrieval, and Account page repair.
• Preserve requested decimal precision in Office web content.
• Restore Excel worksheets and formula bars when using Vulkan on Wayland.
• Prevent a Wayland window-restacking deadlock when resizing Excel.
• Fix distorted rounded selection borders around PowerPoint slide thumbnails.
• Report failed XML transformation checks without crashing the test suite.
• Handle empty XML downloads safely and report stalled transformation output as an error.
• Handle XML allocation failures safely and release shared XML memory reliably across threads.
• Speed up Office Click-to-Run manifest parsing and reduce MSXML heap churn.
• Reuse reconstructed PE images across Wine server restarts to reduce Office startup disk I/O.
• Fix Excel startup crashes caused by certificate-store registry handling.
• Prevent Office startup crashes when certificate chains are built concurrently.
• Speed up case-insensitive string comparisons in the default C locale.
• Reduce CPU work while building DirectWrite font collections.
• Reduce repeated directory scans during case-insensitive file lookup.
• Reduce Office startup file-system work by avoiding recursive App-V VFS lookups.
• Speed up small Office gallery images rendered through Direct2D.
• Speed up Direct2D bitmap-atlas rendering in Office galleries.
• Preserve graphics state when multiple Direct2D devices share a Direct3D device.
• Improve antialiasing quality and rendering performance while reducing GPU memory use for complex Direct2D geometry with analytic coverage rendering.
• Reduce Word CPU use by coalescing Office timers that allow delayed delivery.
• Speed up repeated XSLT and XPath evaluation during Office startup.
• Reduce message-loop server calls after retrieving queued messages.
• Respect Direct2D stroke join styles while keeping sharp WordArt corners bounded.
• Keep Word responsive while Microsoft 365 tokens are checked or refreshed in the background.
• Keep Microsoft 365 account and token data consistent when sign-in and background refresh overlap.
• Prevent Word from getting stuck on "Just a moment" after signing in to Microsoft 365.
• Build Wine4Office releases and agent runners from the same reproducible 18-job environment.
• Display background-service RAM without reclaimable inactive file cache and hide it when the service is stopped.
• Activate Microsoft 365 licenses after signing in to Office.
• Keep Wine environment recreation responsive and show live progress and logs in the Manager.
• Prevent Word from crashing when opening Microsoft 365 sign-in.
• Keep Word responsive and fully render its welcome screen after updating to WineHQ 11.16.
• Reduce Office redraw work for partial document and ribbon updates.
• Prevent Word from crashing when opening the References tab.
• Fix Microsoft 365 sign-in for Outlook.com accounts.
• Keep Office responsive while DirectX completion events are pending or OpenGL windows are covered on Wayland.
• Keep keyboard input synchronized with the active host layout when returning to Wine Wayland windows.

Full changes

Wine4Office 0.2.1-beta.1

• Update the Wine base to WineHQ 11.16.
• Enable VA-API hardware H.264 video decoding with Vulkan-shared surfaces.
• Update bundled Wine Mono to 11.3.0 and improve ARM64EC exception handling.
• Include WineHQ fixes for WebView2 input, Wine Wayland, WPF, TLS,
  certificates, and other application compatibility issues.
• Open Microsoft 365 sign-in pages correctly in Word.
• Allow 60 seconds for the Office installer to open and report startup timeouts clearly.
• Show localized graceful-close and forced-kill progress while stopping the selected Wine environment.
• Improve Wine runner and application-status translations.
• Keep Word responsive while loading Office Click-to-Run component manifests,
  presenting startup frames, and drawing antialiased content.
• Install exact tagged releases and safely close active Wine4Office sessions
  before updating.
• Let opted-in prerelease updates pass verification and installation.

Full changes

Wine4Office 0.2.0-beta.1

• Let Office finish proofing-language updates without crashing Click-to-Run.
• Let Office updates detect and request closing running Office apps.
• Keep Office color palettes visible while moving the pointer and reveal them
  after their XWayland transition completes.
• Prevent the first Word Design-tab load from stalling on queued Direct2D work.
• Respect application frame preferences and prevent Office window borders from blinking.
• Stop only the selected Wine environment, with a graceful ten-second deadline.
• Fully remove Manager files after installs and updates, with visible removal progress.

Full changes

Wine4Office 0.2.0-alpha.2

• Restore Office proofing and language-pack discovery.
• Make Office grace periods start, persist, count down, and expire like Windows.
• Restore App-V preload through Office's logical Click-to-Run package path.
• Fix Office color picker popups on Wayland.
• Fix resizing Office windows with DirectComposition content on Wayland.
• Keep Wine and background-service shutdowns bounded and environment-specific.
• Fix Office dialogs that stayed blank until pointer movement.

Full changes

Wine4Office 0.2.0-alpha

• Make release archives reproducible without breaking linked files.
• Make release packaging failures report the exact check that failed.
• Add a new Wine4Office website with installation guidance.
• Make updates, removal, background services, and recovery safer.
• Improve Office installation and Click-to-Run reliability.
• Improve Teams installation and keep progress visible.
• Install the components required by Teams automatically.
• Improve Microsoft 365 sign-in and account security.
• Improve Teams calls, notifications, and background activity.
• Improve modern Office and Teams application support.
• Prevent damaged or unsafe application packages from being installed.
• Improve downloads used by Office installation and updates.
• Improve Office graphics across OpenGL, Vulkan, and Direct3D.
• Improve Teams window rendering, resizing, ordering, and input.
• Improve screen sharing and capture across multiple displays.
• Fix more popup, notification-area, and window-management problems on Wayland.
• Prevent PowerPoint ribbon galleries and transition previews from freezing.
• Fix white Microsoft 365 sign-in windows in Word.
• Improve Hebrew fonts, application icons, and desktop shortcuts.
• Improve compatibility with Office documents, XML features, and rich text.
• Prevent Wine4Office from closing unrelated applications.
• Improve stability when Office processes stop, restart, or crash.

Full changes

Wine4Office 0.1.11-rc.2

• Add Teams shortcuts and show application compatibility in the Manager.
• Restart the Manager in place after installing an update.
• Do not treat an app display-mode change as a different background-service environment.
• Show persistent action status and an Office-installer startup popup in the Manager.
• Add Access, OneNote, Publisher, Visio, and Project shortcuts, plus Visio and Project install choices.
• Store every Manager translation in its own locale file and localize all application statuses.
• Prevent regular DXGI windows from being hidden while presenting without a
  DirectComposition target, fixing Office startup windows that stayed blank.
• Disable XVidMode by default for new and existing X11 Office environments to
  prevent XRDP gamma failures from crashing installers and Office apps.
• Fix Microsoft 365 sign-in and activation by returning WAM token expiration
  values in Windows epoch seconds and using Office's working network fallback.

Full changes

Wine4Office 0.1.11-rc.1

• Make the standalone Manager use KDE's native theme while preserving its
  standard Qt behavior on other desktops.
• Translate the Manager into 47 languages with correct right-to-left layouts.
• Install Office directly without asking users to save generated ODT XML.
• Install Teams separately with Microsoft's standalone bootstrapper.
• Add opt-in incident reports with bounded local traces, review, editing, and
  attachments.
• Add first-open reliability choices and optional daily update checks.
• Document initial Microsoft Teams support and currently working features.

Full changes

Wine4Office 0.1.10

• Bundle and install Wine Gecko for both 32-bit and 64-bit Office components
  when creating a Wine environment.
• Run background services through a dedicated lightweight preload helper,
  show accurate RAM usage, and keep their controls stable during refreshes.
• Fix the Enable & start and Stop & disable button labels.
• Make standalone removal safely clean up services and shortcuts, with options
  to preserve or remove the runner and Wine environment.
• Improve OpenGL and native Wayland window, popup, and embedded-surface
  stability for Office.
• Let Office installers and updaters replace signed files while Wine verifies
  them.
• Add the Windows AppCapability access operations used by modern Office
  components.
• Add Media Foundation sensor monitoring and Office network-manager detection.

Full changes

Wine4Office 0.1.9

Wine4Office 0.1.9 prerelease.

Changes

• Replace the background-service controls with Enable & start and Stop & disable, with silent status refresh.
• Make Stop Wine and runner updates pause and verify the background service before graceful, bounded Wine shutdown.
• Add an opt-in Maintenance option to include the newest GitHub prerelease in update checks.
• Show a live update-progress popup with download percentage, installation stage, details, and cancellation.
• Make Office save/discard exit dialogs respond immediately on native Wayland and avoid an unpainted first frame on XWayland.
• Let new Wine prefixes follow the host color scheme instead of forcing a light theme.

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