Announcing CrossOver Office, Version 2.1
Jeremy White
info@codeweavers.com
27 Oct 2003 08:45:15 -0600
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I am pleased to announce that we have released version 2.1
of CrossOver Office.
For the web designers out there, I am happy to report that
version 2.1 now supports the Macromedia Dreamweaver MX and Flash MX
web design tools.
The other major component of this release is a change that,
hopefully, none of you will ever notice. Specifically,
the glibc library, which is the core library used by Linux
applications, has undergone major changes over the past 12
months. These changes have broken the methods that Wine
needed in order to implement Windows threading. I can happily
report that it appears that Alexandre Julliard has successfully
coped with the wide array of extant glibc versions, and
that CrossOver appears to now run properly with them.
Further, once we shift to the 2.6 kernel, modern glibc versions
will directly support Wine's threading needs (via NPTL.
The key benefit for you is that problems on SMP systems and sporadic
crashes and hangs caused by glibc should disappear.
In addition to these changes, CrossOver now runs a broader range
of 'officially' unsupported applications, including applications
such as Minitab, Remedy Help Desk, Scientific Word, Geometers
Sketchpad, Half-Life, and many more.
Finally, there are a large number of bug fixes and improvements,
far too many to list here. A full changelog is attached for
your review. Further, I always strongly suggest that folks
read our 'Real Dirt' section; you can see it here:
http://www.codeweavers.com/site/products/cxoffice/truth_in_advertising/the_real_dirt/
If you are a customer currently under support with us, you can
simply download version 2.1 free of charge. To do so, visit
our newly redesigned web site at:
www.codeweavers.com
and look for the 'Login' button on the top right hand side of
the page. Once there, enter your email address, and once logged
in, look for the 'Downloads' tab on the left.
If you are not currently under support, you'll find that if you
log in as described above, you'll have a special deal on a support
renewal that will provide you with 12 months of support and
updates.
Once again, I want to thank all of you for helping to support
us as we work to improve Wine.
I also want to extend a special set of thanks to the wide range
of people outside CodeWeavers that have contributed to Wine, either
directly or indirectly. It is clear to me that we owe a great
deal of our success to the many people who donate their work to
help make Linux truly a Windows compatible environment. Anyone
that plays Half-Life with CrossOver has a non-CodeWeavers Wine hacker
to thank for it <grin>.
Finally, if you have any questions or concerns, please visit
our web site; it is our hope that our new web site will
make it more straightforward for you to resolve any problems
you are having and to contact us for assistance. You are
also always welcome to email me directly; I do my very best
to answer every email I am sent.
Cheers,
Jeremy White
CEO
CodeWeavers, Inc.
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* 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.
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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 IE 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 allo 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
Signficant 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 miscellaenous 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 redirectable.
Added more known Unix TrueType font directories.
Fixed a bug in running newer versions of DCOM95 that come with
updated versions of MS Office 2000
Potentially fixed a bug in which searching for DCOM95 could
take a long time
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* 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 RedHat 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.
* Autodetect 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 MS 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 fles 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 IE that better enable Quicken to
perform web based transactions
* Fix a bug with Quicken flickering too much.
* Better support for Quicken 2003=20
(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 attachements
Support for RedHat 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 IE toolbar customization work
* Improve IE content rating behavior
* Enable IE to save files (helps Quicken)
* Fix Office 97 saving problems
* Fix for 'n-up' printing in MS Word
* Fix for printing bugs with WordArt and other
misc Word documents
* Autodetect a more reasonable default for the=20
"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 IE "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 =20
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 MS Office:
Includes specific fixes for Greek, Brazillian, 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 & 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 KDE3. This
includes adding the ability to recreate the menus and icons.
Fix for Insert->Picture->Clipart.
Fixed bugs related to installations needing the CD. For
example, you can now add the Analysis toolpack in Excel.
Improve behaviour of cxoffice_reset script and add a '-f' option=20
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=20
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=20
Outlook calendaring
Fixed a bug with IE displaying PNG images (requires IE reinstall,
though)
Fixed a bug with IE crashing right away (but bug may sometimes=20
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=20
printing always match the fonts used for on-screen display.=20
Printed documents and should match Windows printouts.
Improved support for non U.S. versions of Office:
Added support for deadkeys.
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=20
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=20
with some MS 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=20
has not been tested.
Fix: Some movement keys (home, etc) would not work with=20
Numlock 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=20
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=20
unmaximize button. Auto un-maximize 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.
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