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The Wine development release 9.4 is now available.
What's new in this release:

Bundled vkd3d upgraded to version 1.11.
Initial OpenGL support in the Wayland driver.
Support for elevating process privileges.
More HID pointer improvements.
Various bug fixes.

The source is available at https://dl.winehq.org/wine/source/9.x/wine-9.4.tar.xz
Binary packages for various distributions will be available
from https://www.winehq.org/download
You will find documentation on https://www.winehq.org/documentation
Wine is available thanks to the work of many people.
See the file AUTHORS for the complete list.

Bugs fixed in 9.4 (total 25):

#11629 Add optional start menu and taskbar to explorer

#24812 Explorer++ 1.2: right-click menu (in the main listview) degrades to nothing when opened multiple times

#34319 Total Commander 8.x: Context menu does not contain 'paste' entry

#34321 Total Commander 8.x: cut/copy/paste keyboard shortcuts don't work

#34322 Total Commander 8.x: 'cut' works like 'copy'

#44797 Visio 2003 does not read the complete list of fonts present in the system.

#46773 Skype 4 MSI installer fails to create trigger for task using Task Scheduler (unimplemented type 7, TASK_TRIGGER_REGISTRATION)

#48110 Multiple .NET 4.x applications need TaskService::ConnectedUser property (Toad for MySQL Freeware 7.x, Microsoft Toolkit from MS Office 2013)

#48344 Luminance HDR / qtpfsgui 2.6.0: Empty file select dialog

#49877 Minecraft Education Edition shows error during install: Fails to create scheduled task

#52213 Thread crashes when pthread_exit is called in a SIGQUIT handler

#55487 winpcap: pcap_dispatch doesn't capture anything with count argument -1

#55619 VOCALOID AI Shared Editor v.6.1.0 crashes with System.Management.ManagementObject object construction

#55724 mfmediaengine:mfmediaengine sometimes gets a threadpool assertion in Wine

#55821 Desktop Window Manager crashes when launching a WPF app

#56147 Real time Receiving data freezes for 1-5 seconds

#56271 Free Download Manager no longer works after it updated (stuck at 100% CPU, no visible window)

#56299 imm32.dll: CtfImmIsGuidMapEnable could not be located in the dynamic link library

#56334 Page fault when querying dinput8_a_EnumDevices

#56337 battle.net: tray icon is not displayed with wine-9.2

#56345 EA app installer has no text

#56357 Zero sized writes using WriteProcessMemory succeed on Windows, but fail on Wine.

#56360 FoxVox window is rendered as a blank surface instead of expected user interface

#56388 Regression: Fullscreen apps show on wrong monitor and don't respond to mouse events properly

#56401 Some ARM unwinding testcases broken by "ntdll: Use the correct structure for non-volatile registers"

The vkd3d team is proud to announce that release 1.11 of vkd3d, the Direct3D to Vulkan translation library, is now available.

This release contains improvements that are listed in the release notes below.

The main highlights are:

* Initial support for compiling legacy Direct3D bytecode to SPIR-V.
* Initial HLSL compiler support for compiling effect profiles.
* Miscellaneous bug fixes and performance improvements.

The Wine development release 9.3 is now available.
What's new in this release:

Improvements to Internet Proxy support.
New HID pointer device driver.
Timezone database update.
More exception fixes on ARM platforms.
Various bug fixes.

The source is available at https://dl.winehq.org/wine/source/9.x/wine-9.3.tar.xz
Binary packages for various distributions will be available
from https://www.winehq.org/download
You will find documentation on https://www.winehq.org/documentation
Wine is available thanks to the work of many people.
See the file AUTHORS for the complete list.


Bugs fixed in 9.3 (total 23):


#33050  FDM (Free Download Manager) crashes with page fault when any remote FTP directory opened

#46070  Basemark Web 3.0 Desktop Launcher crashes

#46263  Final Fantasy XI crashes after accepting EULA when using Ashita; World of Warships hangs at login screen

#46839  Happy Foto Designer Font not found "Fehler (Code 1) [Font is not supported: Roboto]"

#50643  IK Product Manager: Unable to download plugins

#51458  Western Digital SSD Dashboard displays black screen

#51599  cmd.exe incorrectly parses an all-whitespace line followed by a closing parenthesis

#51813  python fatal error redirecting stdout to file

#52064  Solidworks 2008 crashes on startup

#52642  Virtual Life 2 freezes

#54794  Autodesk Fusion360: New SSO login will not open web browser

#55282  Flutter SDK can't find "aapt" program (where.exe is a stub)

#55584  Possibly incorrect handling of end_c in ARM64 process_unwind_codes

#55630  DPI_AWARENESS_CONTEXT_PER_MONITOR_AWARE_V2 is not handled in GetAwarenessFromDpiAwarenessContext

#55810  Finding Nemo (Steam): window borders gone missing (virtual desktop)

#55897  cpython 3.12.0 crashes due to unimplemented CopyFile2

#56065  Missing GetAnycastIpAddressTable() implementation

#56139  scrrun: Dictionary does not allow storing at key Undefined

#56222  Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 (steam) needs unimplemented function GDI32.dll.D3DKMTEnumAdapters2

#56244  SplashTop RMM client for Atera crashes on unimplemented function shcore.dll.RegisterScaleChangeNotifications

#56273  [Sway] winewayland.drv: cursor does not work in Dead Island 2

#56328  LMMS 1.2.2 SF2 soundfonts no longer work in Wine 9.1

#56343  Multiple applications fail to start after de492f9a

Just finished this process. The information online is scarce, so here ya go, interwebz!

Needed documentation

Includes everything I've heard of, and everything I submitted, but you may not need all of this. Take it all if you can.

• [Required] Passport (obviously)
• [Required] Info about the company you're going to work for
• [Required] Info about what work you will be doing (Note - They also make you write this by hand, so be sure to remember it. It has to be activities authorized for the TN)
• [Required] Diploma & Transcript photocopies
• Original version of diploma & transcript (YOW actually didn't want this, but Toronto Pearson airport apparently does!)
• [Required] TN visa letter from your employer with both the start and end date (I had 3 years, they were happy with that) (Remember, this is a temporary visa, if you suggest anything at all that you intend to go for a greencard/etc you will be denied) (Toronto apparently wants this signed in pen, from the employer)
• [Required] Something that supports you are qualified for the job (for me I had a resume, and changed all the work experience to say "Software Engineer", which was my TN application category)
• Address you're staying at
• G-28 form if an attorney helped you draft these documents
• A document that explains why your degree is relevant to the job if it doesn't immediately match the job title (i.e. I had a Computer Science degree, so my attorney prepared a document explaining this was good for Software Engineering)

TN info at YOW

At YOW (Ottawa International Airport, AKA Macdonald–Cartier International Airport), the TN visa processing happens after security, at the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) pre-clearance. However, US security only opens at 4:30 in the morning, so do NOT book your flight before 7-8am!

How it went for me

• Arrived at 3:00
• Finished checkin at 4:30
• Finished security at 5:30
• Got to customs at 5:40, told officer I needed TN, officer told me I would miss my flight and I should have come earlier. I told him I was here at 3:00am, and he's like "Oh." Anyways, he took me to the "interview" room (or whatever it's called)
• Missed my flight at 6:00
• Waited until 6:30 to do the TN interview
• Paid 50$ (no cash accepted) for the visa
• Finished at 7:00
• The officers helped me book a new flight, which was incredibly generous and not at all expected or required

How it went for the person before me

Not super related to TN, but good info. This person was only intending to go on vacation, but was still pulled aside for advanced screening.

• Arrived at 2:00
• Finished checking at 4:00
• US Security only opens at 4:30, he was first in line
• He got to Immigration at 4:45. Since he had previously been declined a TN visa, they redirected him to the interview room (or whatever it's called) at 4:45
• For 2 hours, they could not verify he wasn't intending to illegally work in the US, so he was denied boarding

I overheard much of their conversation; his story is basically like this:

• He came to the airport 4 days ago and applied for a TN, and was rejected because he doesn't have a degree (Degrees are BS, but we live in a society...)
• He then came back today for a vacation, the border guards said sus and interviewed him. They asked if he had any documentation to prove he was not intending to work in the US during his stay (examples of proof would be documents proving he was laid off from the company after failing to get the TN, or documents from his new employer that said they had no relationship with the company that he previously tried to work for)
• Tl;dr he had no concrete proof, but he tried for 2 hours. Good on him

Some interesting takeaways from his discussion with the border guards:

• Allegedly, more people work illegally in the US than have criminal records, so the US officers are very nervous if someone has any hint of working without a visa
• It is ultimately the officer's discrecion to let the person in, and he was quite agitated, which the officers clearly did not appreciate (he called them pigs, among other stuff)

At one point, the denied guy, in a burst of frustration, loudly said "I want to go on this trip! You can't kill my dream!" and the officer was like "Well actually, that's kinda what we're doing".

The officer and I both looked at one another with the expression of "I'm trying not to burst out laughing". I'm a dick for that, but it was comedic.

TL;DR

TN visa takes a lot of time. Book your flight later in the day so you have time to wait, then get there early.

Feel free to ask any immigration related questions, I'll do my best to answer. The goal is to share knowledge publicly, so I won't respond to DMs!