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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.


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Vkd3d 1.14 Released

November 21, 2024

The vkd3d team is proud to announce that release 1.14 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:

  • Disassembler support for binary effects.
  • Initial support for Metal Shading Language output.
  • Miscellaneous bug fixes.

Wine 9.21 Released

November 8, 2024

The Wine development release 9.21 is now available.

What’s new in this release:

  • More support for network sessions in DirectPlay.
  • Header fixes for C++ compilation.
  • I/O completion fixes.
  • More formats supported in D3DX9.
  • Various bug fixes.

Wine 9.20 Released

October 18, 2024

The Wine development release 9.20 is now available.

What’s new in this release:

  • Bundled Capstone library for disassembly in WineDbg.
  • More formats supported in D3DX9.
  • Static analysis and JUnit test reports in Gitlab CI.
  • More support for network sessions in DirectPlay.
  • Various bug fixes.

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