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Wine 10.13 Released
August 15, 2025
The Wine development release 10.13 is now available.
What’s new in this release:
- Windows.Gaming.Input configuration tab in the Joystick Control
Panel.
- ECDSA_P521 and ECDH_P521 algorithms in BCrypt.
- OpenGL WoW64 thunks are all generated.
- Still more support for Windows Runtime metadata in WIDL.
- Various bug fixes.
Wine 10.12 Released
July 11, 2025
The Wine development release 10.12 is now available.
What’s new in this release:
- Optional EGL backend in the X11 driver.
- Support for Bluetooth Low Energy services.
- More support for generating Windows Runtime metadata in WIDL.
- ARM64 builds enabled in Gitlab CI.
- Various bug fixes.
Wine 10.11 Released
June 27, 2025
The Wine development release 10.11 is now available.
What’s new in this release:
- Preparation work for NTSync support.
- More support for generating Windows Runtime metadata in WIDL.
- Various bug fixes.
Wine 10.10 Released
June 13, 2025
The Wine development release 10.10 is now available.
What’s new in this release:
- Mono engine updated to version 10.1.0.
- OSMesa library no longer needed.
- More support for generating Windows Runtime metadata in WIDL.
- Locale data updated to Unicode CLDR 47.
- P010 format support in Media Foundation.
- Various bug fixes.
Wine 10.9 Released
June 1, 2025
The Wine development release 10.9 is now available.
What’s new in this release:
- Bundled vkd3d upgraded to version 1.16.
- Initial support for generating Windows Runtime metadata in
WIDL.
- Support for compiler-based exception handling with Clang.
- EGL library support available to all graphics drivers.
- Various bug fixes.
Vkd3d 1.16 Released
May 20, 2025
The vkd3d team is proud to announce that release 1.16 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:
- Support for DirectX Intermediate Language (DXIL) shaders.
- Initial support for geometry shaders in the HLSL compiler.
- Miscellaneous bug fixes.
Wine 10.8 Released
May 16, 2025
The Wine development release 10.8 is now available.
What’s new in this release:
- User handles in shared memory for better performance.
- Improvements to TIFF image support.
- More work on the new PDB backend.
- Various bug fixes.
Wine 10.7 Released
May 2, 2025
The Wine development release 10.7 is now available.
What’s new in this release:
- User fault fd support to improve write watches performance.
- Support for Float format conversions in WindowsCodecs.
- More work on the new PDB backend.
- Various bug fixes.
Wine 10.6 Released
April 20, 2025
The Wine development release 10.6 is now available.
What’s new in this release:
- New lexer in Command Processor.
- PBKDF2 algorithm in Bcrypt.
- More support for image metadata in WindowsCodecs.
- Various bug fixes.
Wine 9.0.1 Released
April 16, 2025
The Wine stable release 9.0.1 is now available.
What’s new in this release:
Wine 10.5 Released
April 4, 2025
The Wine development release 10.5 is now available.
What’s new in this release:
- Support for larger page sizes on ARM64.
- Mono engine updated to version 10.0.0.
- Pairing support in the Bluetooth driver.
- Vulkan H.264 decoding.
- %GS register swapping on macOS.
- Various bug fixes.
Wine 10.4 Released
March 21, 2025
The Wine development release 10.4 is now available.
What’s new in this release:
- Improvements to PDB support in DbgHelp.
- More Vulkan video decoder support in WineD3D.
- Accessibility support in the SysLink control.
- More progress on the Bluetooth driver.
- Various bug fixes.
Framework Mono 6.14.0 Released
March 8, 2025
The 6.14.0 release of Framework Mono is now available.
This is the first release of Framework Mono from its new home at
WineHQ. It includes work from the past 5 years that was never included
in a stable release because no stable branch had been created in that
time. Highlights are native support for ARM64 on macOS and many
improvements to windows forms for X11.
Wine 10.3 Released
March 7, 2025
The Wine development release 10.3 is now available.
What’s new in this release:
- Clipboard support in the Wayland driver.
- Initial Vulkan video decoder support in WineD3D.
- Bundled Compiler-RT library for ARM builds.
- Header fixes for Winelib C++ support.
- More progress on the Bluetooth driver.
- Various bug fixes.
Wine 10.2 Released
February 21, 2025
The Wine development release 10.2 is now available.
What’s new in this release:
- Bundled vkd3d upgraded to version 1.15.
- Support for setting thread priorities.
- New Wow64 mode can be enabled dynamically.
- More progress on the Bluetooth driver.
- Various bug fixes.
Vkd3d 1.15 Released
February 19, 2025
The vkd3d team is proud to announce that release 1.15 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:
- Much more complete support for tessellation shaders in the HLSL
compiler.
- Improved function overload resolution in the HLSL compiler.
- Miscellaneous bug fixes.
Wine 10.1 Released
February 7, 2025
The Wine development release 10.1 is now available.
What’s new in this release:
- A wide range of changes that were deferred during code freeze.
- Root certificates fixes for Battle.net.
- Print Provider improvements.
- More progress on the Bluetooth driver.
- Various bug fixes.
Wine 10.0 Released
January 21, 2025
The Wine team is proud to announce that the stable release Wine 10.0
is now available.
This release represents a year of development effort and over 6,000
individual changes. It contains a large number of improvements that are
listed below. The main highlights are the new ARM64EC architecture and
the high-DPI scaling support.
Wine 10.0-rc6 Released
January 17, 2025
The Wine development release 10.0-rc6 is now available. This is
expected to be the last release candidate before the final 10.0.
What’s new in this release:
- Bug fixes only, we are in code freeze.
Wine 10.0-rc5 Released
January 10, 2025
The Wine development release 10.0-rc5 is now available.
What’s new in this release:
- Bug fixes only, we are in code freeze.
Wine 10.0-rc4 Released
January 3, 2025
The Wine development release 10.0-rc4 is now available.
What’s new in this release:
- Bug fixes only, we are in code freeze.
Wine 10.0-rc3 Released
December 20, 2024
The Wine development release 10.0-rc3 is now available.
What’s new in this release:
- Bug fixes only, we are in code freeze.
Wine 10.0-rc2 Released
December 13, 2024
The Wine development release 10.0-rc2 is now available.
What’s new in this release:
- Bug fixes only, we are in code freeze.
Wine 10.0-rc1 Released
December 6, 2024
The Wine development release 10.0-rc1 is now available.
This is the first release candidate for the upcoming Wine 10.0. It
marks the beginning of the yearly code freeze period. Please give this
release a good testing and report any issue that you find, to help us
make the final 10.0 as good as possible.
What’s new in this release:
- Bundled vkd3d upgraded to version 1.14.
- Mono engine updated to version 9.4.0.
- Initial version of a Bluetooth driver.
- UTF-8 support in the C runtime functions.
- Support for split debug info using build ids.
- Various bug fixes.
Wine 9.22 Released
November 22, 2024
The Wine development release 9.22 is now available.
What’s new in this release:
- Support for display mode virtualization.
- Locale data updated to Unicode CLDR 46.
- More support for network sessions in DirectPlay.
- Wayland driver enabled in default configuration.
- Various bug fixes.