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 10.1 (shortlog)

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News and Updates

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.

January 17, 2025

The Wine development release 10.0-rc6 is now available. This is expected to be the last release candidate before the final 10.0.

What’s new in this release:

Bug fixes only, we are in code freeze.