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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.

Wine 9.0-rc5 Released

January 12, 2024

The Wine development release 9.0-rc5 is now available. This is expected to be the last release candidate before the final 9.0.

What’s new in this release:

  • Bug fixes only, we are in code freeze.

Wine 9.0-rc4 Released

January 5, 2024

The Wine development release 9.0-rc4 is now available.

What’s new in this release:

  • Bug fixes only, we are in code freeze.

Wine 9.0-rc3 Released

December 22, 2023

The Wine development release 9.0-rc3 is now available.

What's new in this release:

  • Bug fixes only, we are in code freeze.

The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.

Wine 9.0-rc2 Released

December 15, 2023

The Wine development release 9.0-rc2 is now available.

What's new in this release:

  • Bug fixes only, we are in code freeze.

The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.

Wine 9.0-rc1 Released

December 8, 2023

The Wine development release 9.0-rc1 is now available.

This is the first release candidate for the upcoming Wine 9.0. It marks the beginning of the yearly code freeze period. Please give this release a good testing and report any issue that you find, to help us make the final 9.0 as good as possible.

What's new in this release:

  • Bundled vkd3d upgraded to version 1.10.
  • Support for DH encryption keys with a recent GnuTLS.
  • Keyboard layouts support in the Wayland driver.
  • Various bug fixes.

The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.

Wine 8.21 Released

November 24, 2023

The Wine development release 8.21 is now available.

What's new in this release:

  • High-DPI scaling and initial Vulkan support in the Wayland driver.
  • Beginnings of support for ARM64EC target.
  • Updates to the locale database.
  • Various bug fixes.

The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.

Wine 8.20 Released

November 10, 2023

The Wine development release 8.20 is now available.

What's new in this release:

  • More DirectMusic implementation.
  • Protocol associations exported to the Unix desktop.
  • Code cleanups in preparation for code freeze.
  • Various bug fixes.

The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.

Wine 8.19 Released

October 29, 2023

The Wine development release 8.19 is now available.

What's new in this release:

  • Mono engine updated to version 8.1.0.
  • More DirectMusic implementation.
  • Various bug fixes.

The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.

Wine 8.18 Released

October 13, 2023

The Wine development release 8.18 is now available.

What's new in this release:

  • Bundled FluidSynth library for DirectMusic.
  • More window management in the Wayland driver.
  • More effect support in Direct3D 10.
  • Various bug fixes.

The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.