Comment 8 for bug 606509

Wine developer here. FWIW, here's some of the big changes between 1.1.42 and 1.2:
more complete 64/32 bit wine sharing, better fonts on LCD's (fontconfig taken from user settings), better support for .Net apps, long standing opening urls in browser bug fixed, fixes for Microsoft Office 2007, uTorrent, AutoCAD, Fallout 3, Starcraft 2

also, full release notes:
http://www.winehq.org/announce/1.1.43
http://www.winehq.org/announce/1.1.44
http://www.winehq.org/announce/1.2-rc1
http://www.winehq.org/announce/1.2-rc2
http://www.winehq.org/announce/1.2-rc3
http://www.winehq.org/announce/1.2-rc4
http://www.winehq.org/announce/1.2-rc5
http://www.winehq.org/announce/1.2-rc6
http://www.winehq.org/announce/1.2-rc7