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What is Wine?

Wine (originally an acronym for "Wine Is Not an Emulator") is a compatibility layer capable of running Windows applications on several POSIX-compliant operating systems, such as Linux, macOS, & BSD. Instead of simulating internal Windows logic like a virtual machine or emulator, Wine translates Windows API calls into POSIX calls on-the-fly, eliminating the performance and memory penalties of other methods and allowing you to cleanly integrate Windows applications into your desktop.


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Wine 9.4 Released

March 8, 2024

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.

Vkd3d 1.11 Released

March 5, 2024

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.

Wine 9.3 Released

February 23, 2024

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.

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