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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 9.17 (shortlog)

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News and Updates

Wine 9.17 Released

September 6, 2024

The Wine development release 9.17 is now available.

What’s new in this release:

  • Window surface scaling on High DPI displays.
  • Bundled vkd3d upgraded to version 1.13.
  • Mono engine updated to version 9.3.0
  • Improved CPU detection on ARM64.
  • Various bug fixes.

Vkd3d 1.13 Released

August 29, 2024

The vkd3d team is proud to announce that release 1.13 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:

  • Basic loop unrolling support in the HLSL compiler.
  • Effects compiler support for several version 4.0+ state objects.
  • Miscellaneous bug fixes.

Wine 9.16 Released

August 23, 2024

The Wine development release 9.16 is now available.

What’s new in this release:

  • Initial Driver Store implementation.
  • Pbuffer support in the Wayland driver.
  • More prototype objects in MSHTML.
  • Various bug fixes.

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