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World Wine News Issue 414

March 18, 2022

WWN Issue 414 was released today.

Wine 7.4 Released

March 11, 2022

The Wine development release 7.4 is now available.

What's new in this release:

'Light' theme enabled by default.
Bundled vkd3d library.
WineD3D, D3D12 and DXGI modules converted to PE.
More large scale cleanups to support 'long' type.
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.

World Wine News Issue 413

March 4, 2022

WWN Issue 413 was released today.

Vkd3d 1.3 Released

March 2, 2022

The Wine team is proud to announce that release 1.3 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:

Initial HLSL compilation support.
Shader model 5.1 descriptor array support.
Support for disassembling Direct3D shaders.

The source is available here.

Wine 7.3 Released

February 25, 2022

The Wine development release 7.3 is now available.

What's new in this release:

More large scale cleanups to support 'long' type.
Proper support for API sets.
Progress on the PE conversion of USER32 and WineALSA.
A number of HID joystick 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.

Wine 6.0.3 Released

February 25, 2022

The Wine maintenance release 6.0.3 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.

World Wine News Issue 412

February 18, 2022

WWN Issue 412 was released today.

Wine 7.2 Released

February 11, 2022

The Wine development release 7.2 is now available.

What's new in this release:

Large scale cleanup to support 'long' type with MSVCRT.
Mono engine updated to version 7.1.1.
More theming fixes in common controls.
Beginnings of a WMA decoder.
Support for 64-bit time_t.
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.

World Wine News Issue 411

February 4, 2022

WWN Issue 411 was released today.

World Wine News Issue 410

January 28, 2021

WWN Issue 410 was released today.

Wine 7.1 Released

January 28, 2022

The Wine development release 7.1 is now available.

What's new in this release:

Vulkan 1.3 support.
A number of theming fixes.
WebSocket improvements.
Improved cursor clipping on macOS.
IDL compiler fixes for C++.
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.

Wine 7.0 Released

January 18, 2022

The Wine team is proud to announce that the stable release Wine 7.0 is now available.

This release represents a year of development effort and over 9,100 individual changes. It contains a large number of improvements that are listed in the release notes below. The areas of major changes are:

Most modules converted to PE format.
Better theming support, with a bundled theme for a more modern look.
Vastly improved HID stack and joystick support.
New WoW64 architecture.

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

Wine 7.0-rc6 Released

January 14, 2022

The Wine development release 7.0-rc6 is now available. This is expected to be the last release candidate before the final 7.0.

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.

Wine 7.0-rc5 Released

January 7, 2022

The Wine development release 7.0-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.

Wine 7.0-rc4 Released

January 2, 2022

The Wine development release 7.0-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.

Wine 7.0-rc3 Released

December 26, 2021

The Wine development release 7.0-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.

Wine 7.0-rc2 Released

December 17, 2021

The Wine development release 7.0-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.

Wine 7.0-rc1 Released

December 10, 2021

The Wine development release 7.0-rc1 is now available.

This is the first release candidate for the upcoming Wine 7.0. It marks the beginning of the yearly code freeze period. Please give this release a good testing and report any issue that you find, to help us make 7.0 as good as possible.

What's new in this release: