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Wine 9.22 Released

November 22, 2024

The Wine development release 9.22 is now available.

What’s new in this release:

  • Support for display mode virtualization.
  • Locale data updated to Unicode CLDR 46.
  • More support for network sessions in DirectPlay.
  • Wayland driver enabled in default configuration.
  • Various bug fixes.

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.

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.