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 9.0 (shortlog)

Development:

Wine 9.2 (shortlog)

About Learn about the Wine project.

Download Install the latest Wine.

News What is going on lately?

Application Database Does your application work with Wine?

Support Get help using Wine.

Get Involved Improve and develop Wine.

Donate Donate to the Wine project.

News and Updates

February 9, 2024

The Wine development release 9.2 is now available.

What’s new in this release:

Mono engine updated to version 9.0.0.
A number of system tray fixes.
Exception handling improvements on ARM platforms.
Various bug fixes.

January 27, 2024

The Wine development release 9.1 is now available.

What’s new in this release:

A number of Input Method improvements.
Improved Diffie-Hellman key support.
Better Dvorak keyboard detection.
Various bug fixes.

January 16, 2024

The Wine team is proud to announce that the stable release Wine 9.0 is now available.

This release represents a year of development effort and over 7,000 individual changes. It contains a large number of improvements that are listed below. The main highlights are the new WoW64 architecture and the experimental Wayland driver.