[CodeWeavers-Announce]Announcing CrossOver Office 4.1

[Jeremy White]

Hi Folks,

I'm happy to announce that we have shipped verison 4.1 of
CrossOver Office, which has some pretty dramatic fixes
for iTunes, particularly when run on a 2.6 kernel machine.

This is largely a bug fix release; I've put a full changelog
in line, below.

As always, we strongly recommend backing up before upgrading,
and don't feel any need to upgrade if you have a good,
working system.

But we feel pretty good about this release; we think we've
gotten a lot of little niggling bugs out, and our testing
has come up cleaner on this release than on any we've done
in recent memory.

I want to thank all of our beta testers and advocates that have
helped us to test this release - without their help, we couldn't
have the confidence we need to ship.

Again, to download a new version, simply go to our web site:
   www.codeweavers.com
and log in with your email and password, and the click on the
'My Account' button in the upper right hand corner, followed
by the 'My Downloads' link on the left hand side of the page.

You'll be happy to know that we're already hard at work on
5.0, with Office 2003 support.  We're also seeing that the
major Window management overhaul that Alexandre is in the middle
of is addressing a lot of the nasty painting issues we've had
through the years, so that will be exciting to bring you next year.

We're also ready to launch a whole new set of tools around
regression testing and broader Wine testing; I'm hopeful that
next year is the year that Wine really hits is 'tipping' point,
with most things starting to 'just work'.

At any rate, I wish you all the best; I thank all of our customers
for their support, and hope you all have a good new year.

Cheers,

Jeremy White
CEO
CodeWeavers

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  * CrossOver Office Professional 4.1 - 2004/12/22

    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 FC3 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