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 10.0 (shortlog)

Development:

Wine 10.6 (shortlog)

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News and Updates

Wine 10.6 Released

April 20, 2025

The Wine development release 10.6 is now available.

What’s new in this release:

New lexer in Command Processor.
PBKDF2 algorithm in Bcrypt.
More support for image metadata in WindowsCodecs.
Various bug fixes.

Wine 9.0.1 Released

April 16, 2025

The Wine stable release 9.0.1 is now available.

What’s new in this release:

Various bug fixes.

Wine 10.5 Released

April 4, 2025

The Wine development release 10.5 is now available.

What’s new in this release:

Support for larger page sizes on ARM64.
Mono engine updated to version 10.0.0.
Pairing support in the Bluetooth driver.
Vulkan H.264 decoding.
%GS register swapping on macOS.
Various bug fixes.

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