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.

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Wine 10.0 (shortlog)

Development:

Wine 10.1 (shortlog)

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News and Updates

February 19, 2025

The vkd3d team is proud to announce that release 1.15 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:

Much more complete support for tessellation shaders in the HLSL compiler.
Improved function overload resolution in the HLSL compiler.
Miscellaneous bug fixes.

February 7, 2025

The Wine development release 10.1 is now available.

What’s new in this release:

A wide range of changes that were deferred during code freeze.
Root certificates fixes for Battle.net.
Print Provider improvements.
More progress on the Bluetooth driver.
Various bug fixes.

January 21, 2025

The Wine team is proud to announce that the stable release Wine 10.0 is now available.

This release represents a year of development effort and over 6,000 individual changes. It contains a large number of improvements that are listed below. The main highlights are the new ARM64EC architecture and the high-DPI scaling support.