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The Wine Project is selected as a community of OSPP Summer 2021. This is our first time participating in this event. All students who are interested in Wine are welcome! Please have a look for potential proposals you might be interested in: Ospp Summer Code. It's great if you have your own idea. Please don't hesitate to post it on the wine-devel mailing list.

The student proposal deadline is June 12th, UTC.

See the OSPP Summer FAQ for more details.

The Wine development release 6.8 is now available.

What's new in this release:

• Libraries installed into architecture-specific subdirectories.
• Secur32 library converted to PE.
• Support for Map object in JavaScript.
• 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.

The Wine development release 6.7 is now available.

What's new in this release:

• NetApi32, WLDAP32, and Kerberos libraries converted to PE.
• More Media Foundation work.
• ES6 JavaScript mode.
• Improved WOW64 file system redirection.
• More Plug & Play driver support.
• Keyboard raw input device.
• 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.

The Wine maintenance release 5.0.5 is now available.

What's new in this release:

• Fixes build failure when v4l is missing

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

The Wine development release 6.6 is now available.

What's new in this release:

• Mono engine updated to version 6.1.1, with upstream updates.
• DWrite and DnsApi libraries converted to PE.
• Plug & play driver support improvements.
• 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.

The Wine development release 6.5 is now available.

What's new in this release:

• OpenCL support updated to version 1.2.
• More support for IE compatibility modes in MSHTML.
• More windowless RichEdit work.
• A few more WinRT library stubs.
• 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.

The Wine maintenance release 5.0.4 is now available.

What's new in this release:

• 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.

The Wine development release 6.4 is now available.

What's new in this release:

• Support for the DTLS protocol.
• Fontset support in DirectWrite.
• Dialog for editing Access Control entries.
• Theming support for a few more common controls.
• Support for Korean Wansung encoding.
• 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.

The Wine development release 6.3 is now available.

What's new in this release:

• Better debugger support in the NT syscall interface.
• WineGStreamer library converted to PE.
• Still more WinRT support in WIDL.
• Optional support for build IDs.
• 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.

The Wine development release 6.2 is now available.

What's new in this release:

• Mono engine updated to version 6.0.0, with DirectX support.
• Support for NTDLL debugger APIs.
• More WinRT support in WIDL.
• Xbox One controller fixes on Mac.
• 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.

The Wine development release 6.1 is now available.

What's new in this release:

• Arabic text shaping.
• More WinRT support in WIDL.
• VKD3D version 1.2 is used for Direct3D 12.
• Support for Rosetta's memory layout on M1 Macs.
• Support for Thumb-2 mode on ARM.
• 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.

The Wine team is proud to announce that the stable release Wine 6.0 is now available.

This release represents a year of development effort and over 8,300 individual changes. It contains a large number of improvements that are listed in the release notes below. The areas of major changes are:

• Core modules in PE format.
• Vulkan backend for WineD3D.
• DirectShow and Media Foundation support.
• Text console redesign.

This release is dedicated to the memory of Ken Thomases, who passed away just before Christmas at the age of 51. Ken was an incredibly brilliant developer, and the mastermind behind the macOS support in Wine. We all miss his skills, his patience, and his dark sense of humor.

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

The Wine development release 6.0-rc6 is now available.

Barring any last minute issue, this is expected to be the last release candidate before the final 6.0.

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.

The Wine development release 6.0-rc5 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.

The Wine development release 6.0-rc4 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.

The Wine development release 6.0-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.

The Wine development release 6.0-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.

The Wine development release 6.0-rc1 is now available.

This is the first release candidate for the upcoming Wine 6.0. It marks the beginning of the yearly code freeze period. Please give this release a good testing to help us make 6.0 as good as possible.

What's new in this release:

• Gecko engine update.
• WindowsCodecs and QCap libraries converted to PE.
• Faster font initialization at process start.
• Support for named pipes with empty names.
• 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.

The Wine development release 5.22 is now available.

What's new in this release:

• C runtime libraries converted to PE.
• Use fontconfig cache for faster startup.
• Video playback improvements.
• 3DES cipher support.
• 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.

The Wine maintenance release 5.0.3 is now available.

What's new in this release:

• 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.

The Wine development release 5.21 is now available.

What's new in this release:

• GDI32 library converted to PE.
• More fixes for windowless RichEdit.
• A number of timezone updates.
• 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.

The Wine development release 5.20 is now available.

What's new in this release:

• More work on the DSS cryptographic provider.
• A number of fixes for windowless RichEdit.
• Support for FLS callbacks.
• Window resizing in the new console host.
• 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.

The Wine development release 5.19 is now available.

What's new in this release:

• Wine Mono engine updated to 5.1.1, with WPF text formatting support.
• KERNEL32 library converted to PE.
• DSS cryptographic provider.
• Windowing support in the new console host.
• A number of exception handling fixes.
• 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.

The Wine development release 5.18 is now available.

What's new in this release:

• Vulkan shader compilation using the new vkd3d-shader library.
• USER32 library converted to PE.
• Console no longer requires the curses library.
• Support for display modes with various orientations.
• A number of syntax fixes in the WIDL compiler.
• Non-recursive makefiles.
• 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.

The Wine team is proud to announce that release 1.2 of vkd3d, the Direct3D to Vulkan translation library, is now available.

This release contains improvements that are listed in the release notes. The main highlights are:

• Availability of libvkd3d-shader as a public library.
• Support for tessellation shaders.
• Version 1.1 root signatures.
• Stream output support.

The source is available here.