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 10.5 (shortlog)

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News and Updates

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.

March 21, 2025

The Wine development release 10.4 is now available.

What’s new in this release:

Improvements to PDB support in DbgHelp.
More Vulkan video decoder support in WineD3D.
Accessibility support in the SysLink control.
More progress on the Bluetooth driver.
Various bug fixes.

March 8, 2025

The 6.14.0 release of Framework Mono is now available.

This is the first release of Framework Mono from its new home at WineHQ. It includes work from the past 5 years that was never included in a stable release because no stable branch had been created in that time. Highlights are native support for ARM64 on macOS and many improvements to windows forms for X11.