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Terrence and Lesley Bridges, from Braintree in Essex, have become the first people in the UK to trial a scheme which sees their gas boiler swapped for tiny computers.

A pilot's mysterious death has now become the first documented fatality of a rare syndrome that researchers warn may become more common.

A women's rights campaigner who was arrested at the Sarah Everard vigil in 2021 has called for male-only Tube carriages, saying 'the majority of men' are the issue.

It analysed revised immigration data published this week by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) and found that around 19.6 per cent of the UK's population was born abroad.

The government is facing a bitter backlash after unveiling a 'fairer' funding system targeting central resources on areas classified as suffering 'deprivation'.

The budding musician, 20, continued his bid for stardom by taking to the stage with his band The Breakers, to put on a show for his family and friends, with his parents reduced to 'tears of pride'.

Kent-based digital restorer Nick Harris spent weeks working on the battered 1880 tintype taken in Fort Sumner, the sole authenticated photograph of the legendary gunfighter.

Marion Marden told of Nazi bombs landing near her home, sleepless nights in air raid shelters and the struggle to put sufficient food on the table amid wartime rationing.

easyJet has announced a new route from London Stansted to Paris Charles de Gaulle, with seats starting from £35.99.

Affectionately known as the 'Grand Old Lady of the Seas', the MV Doulos Phos was headed for the scrapheap before it found major investment to fix its creaky joints.

The major road is partially blocked due to an accident.

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Barrie Holland, 82, left the party amid disillusionment at the job being done by disgraced former deputy leader Ms Rayner, whose constituency includes Droylsden.

The Vulcanair P68 went down at around 12.50pm on its approach to Waterford Airport in Killowen, south of the city.

There were 23,000 people killed by Covid who could have been saved if the lockdown had been imposed just one week earlier, the official inquiry concludes today.

by George Whittaker Introduction

If you use Linux and occasionally run Windows applications, whether via native Wine or through gaming layers like Proton, you’ll appreciate what just dropped in Wine 10.19. Released November 14 2025, this version brings a major enhancement: official support for Windows reparse points, a filesystem feature many Windows apps rely on, and a host of other compatibility upgrades.

In simpler terms: Wine now understands more of the Windows filesystem semantics, which means fewer workarounds, better application compatibility, and smoother experiences for many games and tools previously finicky under Linux.

What Are Reparse Points & Why They Matter Understanding Reparse Points

On Windows, a reparse point is a filesystem object (file or directory) that carries additional data, often used for symbolic links, junctions, mount points, or other redirection features. When an application opens or queries a file, the OS may check the reparse tag to determine special behavior (for example “redirect this file open to this other path”).

Because many Windows apps, installers, games, DRM systems, file-managers, use reparse points for features like directory redirection, path abstractions, or filesystem overlays, lacking full support for them in Wine means those apps often misbehave.

What Wine 10.19 Adds

With Wine 10.19, support for these reparse point mechanisms has been implemented in key filesystem APIs: for example NtQueryDirectoryFile, GetFileInfo, file attribute tags, and DeleteFile/RemoveDirectory for reparse objects.

This means that in Wine 10.19:

• Windows apps that create or manage symbolic links, directory junctions or mount-point style re-parsing will now function correctly in many more cases.

• Installers or frameworks that rely on “when opening path X, redirect to path Y” will work with less tinkering.

• Games or utilities that check for reparse tags or use directory redirections will have fewer “stuck” behaviors or missing files.

In effect, this is a step toward closer to native behavior for Windows file-system semantics under Linux.

Other Key Highlights in Wine 10.19

Beyond reparse points, the release brings several notable improvements:

• Expanded support for WinRT exceptions (Windows Runtime error handling) meaning better compatibility for Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps and newer Windows-based frameworks.

• Refactoring of “Common Controls” (COMCTL32) following the version 5 vs version 6 split, which helps GUI applications that rely on older controls or expect mixed versions.

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