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.

Latest Releases

Stable:

Wine 3.0.2 (shortlog)

Development:

Wine 3.12 (shortlog)

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News and Updates

Wine 3.12 Released

July 9, 2018

The Wine development release 3.12 is now available.

What's new in this release:

Unicode data updated to Unicode 11.0.0.
Proxy configuration dialog in the Internet control panel.
Syntax fixes in the Cmd.exe command intepreter.
Some more glyphs in the Wingdings font.
Various bug fixes.

The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.

Wine 3.0.2 Released

June 26, 2018

The Wine maintenance release 3.0.2 is now available.

What's new in this release:

Various bug fixes

The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.

Wine 3.11 Released

June 23, 2018

The Wine development release 3.11 is now available.

What's new in this release:

More debugger support for Wow64 processes.
Support for sha256/sha384 hashes in ECDSA signatures.
Better reporting of hyper-threaded CPUs.
Improvements to the standard Task Dialog.
Various bug fixes.

The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.