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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.

Wine 9.19 Released

October 4, 2024

The Wine development release 9.19 is now available.

What’s new in this release:

  • Character tables updates to Unicode 16.0.0.
  • Better window positioning in the Wayland driver.
  • More support for network sessions in DirectPlay.
  • Support for plug&play device change notifications.
  • Various bug fixes.

Wine 9.18 Released

September 20, 2024

The Wine development release 9.18 is now available.

What’s new in this release:

  • New Media Foundation backend using FFMpeg.
  • Initial support for network sessions in DirectPlay.
  • New Desktop Control Panel applet.
  • Various bug fixes.

WineHQ now hosting Mono

September 17, 2024

The Wine team is proud to announce that WineHQ has officially taken over hosting and maintenance of the Mono Project, previously hosted at https://github.com/mono/mono/. Its new home is on the WineHQ Gitlab, at https://gitlab.winehq.org/mono/mono.

Esme Povirk, who has been maintaining the Wine version of Mono for the last 12 years, is now the primary maintainer for the entire Mono project. You will find more details on Esme's blog post.

Please join us in welcoming the Mono developers to our community!

Wine 9.17 Released

September 6, 2024

The Wine development release 9.17 is now available.

What’s new in this release:

  • Window surface scaling on High DPI displays.
  • Bundled vkd3d upgraded to version 1.13.
  • Mono engine updated to version 9.3.0
  • Improved CPU detection on ARM64.
  • Various bug fixes.

Vkd3d 1.13 Released

August 29, 2024

The vkd3d team is proud to announce that release 1.13 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:

  • Basic loop unrolling support in the HLSL compiler.
  • Effects compiler support for several version 4.0+ state objects.
  • Miscellaneous bug fixes.

Wine 9.16 Released

August 23, 2024

The Wine development release 9.16 is now available.

What’s new in this release:

  • Initial Driver Store implementation.
  • Pbuffer support in the Wayland driver.
  • More prototype objects in MSHTML.
  • Various bug fixes.

Wine 9.15 Released

August 10, 2024

The Wine development release 9.15 is now available.

What’s new in this release:

  • Prototype and constructor objects in MSHTML.
  • More support for ODBC Windows drivers.
  • Various bug fixes.

Wine 9.14 Released

July 28, 2024

The Wine development release 9.14 is now available.

What’s new in this release:

  • Mailslots reimplemented using server-side I/O.
  • More support for ODBC Windows drivers.
  • Still more user32 data structures in shared memory.
  • Various bug fixes.

Wine 9.13 Released

July 14, 2024

The Wine development release 9.13 is now available.

What’s new in this release:

  • Support for loading ODBC Windows drivers.
  • More user32 data structures in shared memory.
  • More rewriting of the CMD.EXE engine.
  • Various bug fixes.

Wine 9.12 Released

June 28, 2024

The Wine development release 9.12 is now available.

What’s new in this release:

  • Initial support for user32 data structures in shared memory.
  • Mono engine updated to version 9.2.0.
  • Rewrite of the CMD.EXE engine.
  • Fixed handling of async I/O status in new WoW64 mode.
  • Various bug fixes.

Wine 9.11 Released

June 14, 2024

The Wine development release 9.11 is now available.

What’s new in this release:

  • C++ exception handling on ARM platforms.
  • More DPI Awareness support improvements.
  • Various bug fixes.

Wine 9.10 Released

May 31, 2024

The Wine development release 9.10 is now available.

What’s new in this release:

  • Bundled vkd3d upgraded to version 1.12.
  • DPI Awareness support improvements.
  • C++ RTTI support on ARM platforms.
  • More obsolete features removed in WineD3D.
  • Various bug fixes.

Vkd3d 1.12 Released

May 29, 2024

The vkd3d team is proud to announce that release 1.12 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:

  • The HLSL compiler can directly output SPIR-V and Direct3D shader assembly.
  • Improved support for shader model 1-3 profiles in the HLSL compiler.
  • Miscellaneous bug fixes and performance improvements.

Wine 9.9 Released

May 17, 2024

The Wine development release 9.9 is now available.

What’s new in this release:

  • Support for new Wow64 mode in ODBC.
  • Improved CPU detection on ARM platforms.
  • Removal of a number of obsolete features in WineD3D.
  • Various bug fixes.

Wine 9.8 Released

May 3, 2024

The Wine development release 9.8 is now available.

What’s new in this release:

  • Mono engine updated to version 9.1.0.
  • IDL-generated files use fully interpreted stubs.
  • Improved RPC/COM support on ARM platforms.
  • Various bug fixes.

Wine 9.7 Released

April 19, 2024

The Wine development release 9.7 is now available.

What’s new in this release:

  • Build system support for ARM64X.
  • Some restructuration of the Vulkan driver interface.
  • WIDL improvements for ARM support as well as SLTG typelibs.
  • Various bug fixes.

Wine 9.6 Released

April 5, 2024

The Wine development release 9.6 is now available.

What’s new in this release:

  • Support for advanced AVX features in register contexts.
  • More Direct2D effects work.
  • Support for RSA OAEP padding in BCrypt.
  • Interpreted mode fixes in WIDL.
  • Various bug fixes.

Wine 9.5 Released

March 22, 2024

The Wine development release 9.5 is now available.

What’s new in this release:

  • Initial SLTG-format typelib support in widl.
  • Exception handling on ARM64EC.
  • Improvements to Minidump support.
  • Various bug fixes.

Wine 9.4 Released

March 8, 2024

The Wine development release 9.4 is now available.

What’s new in this release:

  • Bundled vkd3d upgraded to version 1.11.
  • Initial OpenGL support in the Wayland driver.
  • Support for elevating process privileges.
  • More HID pointer improvements.
  • Various bug fixes.

Vkd3d 1.11 Released

March 5, 2024

The vkd3d team is proud to announce that release 1.11 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:

  • Initial support for compiling legacy Direct3D bytecode to SPIR-V.
  • Initial HLSL compiler support for compiling effect profiles.
  • Miscellaneous bug fixes and performance improvements.

Wine 9.3 Released

February 23, 2024

The Wine development release 9.3 is now available.

What’s new in this release:

  • Improvements to Internet Proxy support.
  • New HID pointer device driver.
  • Timezone database update.
  • More exception fixes on ARM platforms.
  • Various bug fixes.

Wine 9.2 Released

February 9, 2024

The Wine development release 9.2 is now available.

What’s new in this release:

  • Mono engine updated to version 9.0.0.
  • A number of system tray fixes.
  • Exception handling improvements on ARM platforms.
  • Various bug fixes.

Wine 9.1 Released

January 27, 2024

The Wine development release 9.1 is now available.

What’s new in this release:

  • A number of Input Method improvements.
  • Improved Diffie-Hellman key support.
  • Better Dvorak keyboard detection.
  • Various bug fixes.

Wine 9.0 Released

January 16, 2024

The Wine team is proud to announce that the stable release Wine 9.0 is now available.

This release represents a year of development effort and over 7,000 individual changes. It contains a large number of improvements that are listed below. The main highlights are the new WoW64 architecture and the experimental Wayland driver.