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Wine 4.21 Released

November 29, 2019

The Wine development release 4.21 is now available.

What's new in this release:

  • HTTP proxy configuration through DHCP.
  • Parameter block support in D3DX9.
  • A few more dlls converted to PE.
  • 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 4.0.3 Released

November 25, 2019

The Wine maintenance release 4.0.3 is now available.

What's new in this release:

  • Various bug fixes
  • Updates to the National Language Support files

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

Wine 4.20 Released

November 15, 2019

The Wine development release 4.20 is now available.

What's new in this release:

  • New version of the Mono engine with an FNA update.
  • Code persistence in VBScript and JScript.
  • Vulkan spec updates.
  • Improved support for LLVM MinGW.
  • 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 4.19 Released

November 1, 2019

The Wine development release 4.19 is now available.

What's new in this release:

  • A number of additional VBScript features.
  • More stateblock support in WineD3D.
  • Some fixes for ARM64 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.

Wine 4.18 Released

October 18, 2019

The Wine development release 4.18 is now available.

What's new in this release:

  • Many new VBScript functions.
  • A number of cleanups and improvements in Quartz.
  • Fixes for several test failures.
  • 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 4.17 Released

September 27, 2019

The Wine development release 4.17 is now available.

What's new in this release:

  • New version of the Mono engine with upstream fixes.
  • Support for DXTn compressed textures.
  • Initial version of the Windows Script runtime library.
  • Support for XRandR device change notifications.
  • Support for generating RSA keys.
  • Stubless proxies support on ARM64.
  • 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 4.16 Released

September 13, 2019

The Wine development release 4.16 is now available.

What's new in this release:

  • More reliable mouse grabbing in games.
  • Better cross-compilation support in WineGCC.
  • Improved compatibility with Windows debuggers.
  • 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.

Remembering Józef Kucia

September 11, 2019

With great sadness we are announcing the passing of our friend, Józef Kucia.

Józef was a major Wine contributor with over 2500 patches since his first contribution in 2012. He was a highly talented programmer with a focus on Wine's Direct3D subsystem. Józef founded and led the vkd3d project and provided insight and guidance to the Vulkan working group. He also contributed to other open source projects including Mesa and Debian.

Józef was a regular attendee at the yearly WineConf. A man of few words, he was helpful and displayed a quiet kindness.
His skills attracted the interest of CodeWeavers and Józef joined their team in 2015. That allowed him to dedicate more of his time to Wine.

Józef died last month at the young age of 30 in an accident in the Jaskinia Wielka Śnieżna ("great snowy cave") in the Tatra Mountains in Poland. Caving was his passion.

Józef will be remembered with warm memories by those who worked with him. Our thoughts and condolences go out to Józef's family, friends, loved ones, and everyone else who grieves his passing.

Wine 4.15 Released

August 30, 2019

The Wine development release 4.15 is now available.

What's new in this release:

  • Initial implementation of the HTTP service.
  • Stack unwinding support on ARM64.
  • Better multi-monitor support on macOS.
  • RichEdit control optimizations.
  • 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 4.0.2 Released

August 23, 2019

The Wine maintenance release 4.0.2 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.

Wine 4.14 Released

August 17, 2019

The Wine development release 4.14 is now available.

What's new in this release:

  • New version of the Mono engine with upstream updates.
  • PE dlls no longer rely on the MinGW runtime.
  • Exception handling fixes on ARM64.
  • 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.

WineConf 2019

August 9, 2019

The Wine Project is pleased to announce that WineConf 2019 will take place on October 12th - 13th 2019 in Toronto, Canada.

WineConf is the Wine Project's annual conference, where members of the Wine community, the broader Free Software community and interested users meet up over food and beverages. We traditionally also have a number of talks by attendees, as well as some formal and informal discussions about anything vaguely Wine related.

Please see the WineConf2019 page for further details.

Wine 4.13 Released

August 2, 2019

The Wine development release 4.13 is now available.

What's new in this release:

  • Support for Passport HTTP redirects.
  • A bunch of header 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.

Wine 4.12.1 Released

July 7, 2019

The Wine development release 4.12.1 is now available.

What's new in this release:

  • Fixes for broken 64-bit prefix initialization.

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

Wine 4.12 Released

July 5, 2019

The Wine development release 4.12 is now available.

What's new in this release:

  • Still more DLLs are built as PE files by default.
  • Support for Plug & Play device drivers.
  • Better support for the Visual Studio remote debugger.
  • More support for enumerating display devices.
  • 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 4.11 Released

June 21, 2019

The Wine development release 4.11 is now available.

What's new in this release:

  • Updated version of the Mono engine, including Windows.Forms.
  • More DLLs are built as PE files by default.
  • Faster implementation of Slim Reader/Writer locks on Linux.
  • Initial support for enumerating display devices.
  • 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 4.10 Released

June 10, 2019

The Wine development release 4.10 is now available.

What's new in this release:

  • Many DLLs are built as PE files by default.
  • More support for installing Plug and Play drivers.
  • Clock synchronization in Media Foundation.
  • Volume adjustment in audio drivers.
  • 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 4.9 Released

May 24, 2019

The Wine development release 4.9 is now available.

What's new in this release:

  • Initial support for installing Plug and Play drivers.
  • Support for building 16-bit modules in PE format.
  • A lot of code moved to the new KernelBase DLL.
  • Various game controller fixes.
  • Use higher performance system clocks if available.
  • 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 4.0.1 Released

May 15, 2019

The Wine maintenance release 4.0.1 is now available.

What's new in this release:

  • Various bug fixes
  • Sinhala and Tamil translation updates

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

Wine 4.8 Released

May 10, 2019

The Wine development release 4.8 is now available.

What's new in this release:

  • Support building most programs in PE format.
  • Unicode data updated to Unicode 12.0.
  • Support for MSI patch files.
  • Default to non-PIC builds on i386.
  • Joystick support improvements.
  • Asturian locale.
  • 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 4.7 Released

April 26, 2019

The Wine development release 4.7 is now available.

What's new in this release:

  • Support for builtin libraries in PE format even on Unix.
  • Updated version of the Mono engine.
  • More implementation of the Debug Engine DLL.
  • Support for the Command Link standard control.
  • Improved Edit control sizing in CJK locales.
  • 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 4.6 Released

April 12, 2019

The Wine development release 4.6 is now available.

What's new in this release:

  • Beginnings of a Vulkan backend for WineD3D.
  • Support for loading Mono libraries from a shared location.
  • Libwine.dll no longer needed when using Wine DLLs on Windows.
  • Regression tests compiled directly to PE format.
  • Support for the Split Button Common Control.
  • Complex structs support in the typelib marshaller.
  • Video capture ported to Video4Linux version 2.
  • Initial version of the Debug Engine DLL.
  • 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 4.5 Released

March 29, 2019

The Wine development release 4.5 is now available.

What's new in this release:

  • Support for Vulkan 1.1.
  • Better support for kernel objects in device drivers.
  • Still more Media Foundation APIs implemented.
  • Support for SVG elements in MSHTML.
  • Fixes for case conversion troubles in Turkish locale.
  • 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 4.4 Released

March 15, 2019

The Wine development release 4.4 is now available.

What's new in this release:

  • New MSIDB tool for manipulating MSI databases.
  • Support for custom draw buttons in common controls.
  • Many more Media Foundation APIs implemented.
  • 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 3.0.5 Released

March 3, 2019

The Wine maintenance release 3.0.5 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.