What is Wine?

Wine (originally an acronym for "Wine Is Not an Emulator") is a compatibility layer capable of running Windows applications on several POSIX-compliant operating systems, such as Linux, macOS, & BSD. Instead of simulating internal Windows logic like a virtual machine or emulator, Wine translates Windows API calls into POSIX calls on-the-fly, eliminating the performance and memory penalties of other methods and allowing you to cleanly integrate Windows applications into your desktop.

Latest Releases

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Wine 9.0 (shortlog)

Development:

Wine 9.6 (shortlog)

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News and Updates

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.

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