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

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Wine 9.0 (shortlog)

Development:

Wine 9.13 (shortlog)

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News and Updates

Wine 9.13 Released

July 14, 2024

The Wine development release 9.13 is now available.

What’s new in this release:

Support for loading ODBC Windows drivers.
More user32 data structures in shared memory.
More rewriting of the CMD.EXE engine.
Various bug fixes.

Wine 9.12 Released

June 28, 2024

The Wine development release 9.12 is now available.

What’s new in this release:

Initial support for user32 data structures in shared memory.
Mono engine updated to version 9.2.0.
Rewrite of the CMD.EXE engine.
Fixed handling of async I/O status in new WoW64 mode.
Various bug fixes.

Wine 9.11 Released

June 14, 2024

The Wine development release 9.11 is now available.

What’s new in this release:

C++ exception handling on ARM platforms.
More DPI Awareness support improvements.
Various bug fixes.

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