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 21, 2020
The Wine team is proud to announce that the stable release Wine 5.0 is now available.
This release represents a year of development effort and over 7,400 individual changes. It contains a large number of improvements that are listed in the release notes below. The main highlights are:
This release is dedicated to the memory of Józef Kucia, who passed away in August 2019 at the young age of 30. Józef was a major contributor to Wine's Direct3D implementation, and the lead developer of the vkd3d project. His skills and his kindness are sorely missed by all of us.
The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.
January 17, 2020
The Wine development release 5.0-rc6 is now available.
Barring any last minute issue, this is expected to be the last release candidate before the final 5.0.
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 11, 2020
The Wine development release 5.0-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.
