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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

Stable:
Wine 10.0 (shortlog)
Development:
Wine 10.9 (shortlog)

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News and Updates

Wine 10.9 Released

June 1, 2025

The Wine development release 10.9 is now available.

What’s new in this release:

  • Bundled vkd3d upgraded to version 1.16.
  • Initial support for generating Windows Runtime metadata in WIDL.
  • Support for compiler-based exception handling with Clang.
  • EGL library support available to all graphics drivers.
  • Various bug fixes.

Vkd3d 1.16 Released

May 20, 2025

The vkd3d team is proud to announce that release 1.16 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:

  • Support for DirectX Intermediate Language (DXIL) shaders.
  • Initial support for geometry shaders in the HLSL compiler.
  • Miscellaneous bug fixes.

Wine 10.8 Released

May 16, 2025

The Wine development release 10.8 is now available.

What’s new in this release:

  • User handles in shared memory for better performance.
  • Improvements to TIFF image support.
  • More work on the new PDB backend.
  • Various bug fixes.

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