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.
January 14, 2021
The Wine team is proud to announce that the stable release Wine 6.0 is now available.
This release represents a year of development effort and over 8,300 individual changes. It contains a large number of improvements that are listed in the release notes below. The areas of major changes are:
This release is dedicated to the memory of Ken Thomases, who passed away just before Christmas at the age of 51. Ken was an incredibly brilliant developer, and the mastermind behind the macOS support in Wine. We all miss his skills, his patience, and his dark sense of humor.
The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.
January 8, 2021
The Wine development release 6.0-rc6 is now available.
Barring any last minute issue, this is expected to be the last release candidate before the final 6.0.
What's new in this release:
The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.
January 2, 2021
The Wine development release 6.0-rc5 is now available.
What's new in this release:
The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.
