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The Wine development release 6.1 is now available.

What's new in this release:

• Arabic text shaping.
• More WinRT support in WIDL.
• VKD3D version 1.2 is used for Direct3D 12.
• Support for Rosetta's memory layout on M1 Macs.
• Support for Thumb-2 mode on ARM.
• Various bug fixes.

The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.

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:

• Core modules in PE format.
• Vulkan backend for WineD3D.
• DirectShow and Media Foundation support.
• Text console redesign.

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.

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:

• Bug fixes only, we are in code freeze.

The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.

The Wine development release 6.0-rc5 is now available.

What's new in this release:

• Bug fixes only, we are in code freeze.

The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.

The Wine development release 6.0-rc4 is now available.

What's new in this release:

• Bug fixes only, we are in code freeze.

The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.

The Wine development release 6.0-rc3 is now available.

What's new in this release:

• Bug fixes only, we are in code freeze.

The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.

The Wine development release 6.0-rc2 is now available.

What's new in this release:

• Bug fixes only, we are in code freeze.

The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.

The Wine development release 6.0-rc1 is now available.

This is the first release candidate for the upcoming Wine 6.0. It marks the beginning of the yearly code freeze period. Please give this release a good testing to help us make 6.0 as good as possible.

What's new in this release:

• Gecko engine update.
• WindowsCodecs and QCap libraries converted to PE.
• Faster font initialization at process start.
• Support for named pipes with empty names.
• Various bug fixes.

The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.

The Wine development release 5.22 is now available.

What's new in this release:

• C runtime libraries converted to PE.
• Use fontconfig cache for faster startup.
• Video playback improvements.
• 3DES cipher support.
• Various bug fixes.

The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.

The Wine maintenance release 5.0.3 is now available.

What's new in this release:

• Various bug fixes

The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.

The Wine development release 5.21 is now available.

What's new in this release:

• GDI32 library converted to PE.
• More fixes for windowless RichEdit.
• A number of timezone updates.
• Various bug fixes.

The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.

The Wine development release 5.20 is now available.

What's new in this release:

• More work on the DSS cryptographic provider.
• A number of fixes for windowless RichEdit.
• Support for FLS callbacks.
• Window resizing in the new console host.
• Various bug fixes.

The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.

The Wine development release 5.19 is now available.

What's new in this release:

• Wine Mono engine updated to 5.1.1, with WPF text formatting support.
• KERNEL32 library converted to PE.
• DSS cryptographic provider.
• Windowing support in the new console host.
• A number of exception handling fixes.
• Various bug fixes.

The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.

The Wine development release 5.18 is now available.

What's new in this release:

• Vulkan shader compilation using the new vkd3d-shader library.
• USER32 library converted to PE.
• Console no longer requires the curses library.
• Support for display modes with various orientations.
• A number of syntax fixes in the WIDL compiler.
• Non-recursive makefiles.
• Various bug fixes.

The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.

The Wine team is proud to announce that release 1.2 of vkd3d, the Direct3D to Vulkan translation library, is now available.

This release contains improvements that are listed in the release notes. The main highlights are:

• Availability of libvkd3d-shader as a public library.
• Support for tessellation shaders.
• Version 1.1 root signatures.
• Stream output support.

The source is available here.

The Wine development release 5.17 is now available.

What's new in this release:

• ADVAPI32 library converted to PE.
• Beginnings of an NDIS network driver.
• Still more restructuration of the console support.
• Various bug fixes.

The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.

The Wine development release 5.16 is now available.

What's new in this release:

• Support for x86 AVX registers.
• Some ARM64 fixes for macOS.
• Still more restructuration of the console support.
• Various bug fixes.

The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.

The Wine development release 5.15 is now available.

What's new in this release:

• Initial implementation of the XACT Engine libraries.
• Beginnings of a math library in MSVCRT based on Musl.
• Still more restructuration of the console support.
• Direct Input performance improvements.
• Exception handling fixes on x86-64.
• Various bug fixes.

The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.

The Wine maintenance release 5.0.2 is now available.

What's new in this release:

• Various bug fixes

The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.

The Wine development release 5.14 is now available.

What's new in this release:

• More restructuration of the console support.
• Initial version of the Webdings font.
• Beginnings of PE conversion of the MSVCRT libraries.
• Various bug fixes.

The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.

The Wine development release 5.13 is now available.

What's new in this release:

• Re-mapping of INI files to the registry.
• System call thunks in NTDLL.
• Reimplementation of floating point numbers printing.
• Beginnings of a restructuration of the console support.
• Various bug fixes.

The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.

The Wine development release 5.12 is now available.

What's new in this release:

• NTDLL converted to PE format.
• Support for the WebSocket API.
• Improved RawInput support.
• Vulkan spec update.
• Various bug fixes.

The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.

The Wine development release 5.11 is now available.

What's new in this release:

• Wine Mono engine updated to 5.1.0, with WpfGfx library support.
• More work on the separate Unix library for NTDLL.
• Beginnings of a NetIO kernel driver implementation.
• Initial support for the Print Ticket API.
• Removal of the obsolete 32-bit PowerPC architecture.
• Various bug fixes.

The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.

The Wine development release 5.10 is now available.

What's new in this release:

• More progress on the WineD3D Vulkan backend.
• Beginnings of a separate Unix library for NTDLL.
• Better support for anti-cheat kernel drivers.
• More glyph substitutions in DirectWrite.
• Support for DSS private keys.
• ARM64 exception handling fixes.
• Various bug fixes.

The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.

The Wine maintenance release 5.0.1 is now available.

What's new in this release:

• Fix compilation with gcc 10
• Add some timezones
• Various bug fixes

The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.