WINE News Archives

Wine 1.9.8 is now available as the latest development snapshot of this program for running Windows programs/games on Linux, OS X, and other operating systems.

For those sticking to Wine 1.8 stable releases rather than the bi-weekly Wine 1.9 development releases, Wine 1.8.2 was released this morning.

Building off Friday's release of Wine 1.9.7 is now a new release of Wine-Staging.

Wine 1.9.7 is now available as the latest bi-weekly development release of this program for running Windows programs on Linux and other operating systems.

CodeWeavers this morning announced the release of CrossOver 15.1 as the latest version of their software to allow Windows programs to run on Linux and OS X. CrossOver 15.1 is now powered by Wine 1.8.1.

CodeWeavers got their Wine-based CrossOver software running on Android, but before getting too excited, it's x86 Android.

The Wine-Staging 1.9.6 release adds an experimental Vulkan wrapper for running Vulkan Windows binaries on Linux.

Wine 1.9.6 was released this morning as the latest bi-weekly development release of Wine.

Support for running Vulkan Windows programs/games under Wine is currently being developed.

Building off last Friday's release of Wine 1.9.5 is now the Wine-Staging update that adds in extra patches.

Wine 1.9.5 was released today and it's a rather exciting bi-weekly update to the Wine stack.

The Wine crew has today released Wine-Staging 1.9.4 as the latest version of this experimental proving grounds for upstream Wine and based off last week's release of Wine 1.9.4.

Wine 1.9.4 was released today as the latest bi-weekly Wine development release.

It has been quite a while since last having any Wine-Staging release to talk about, but nothing has stopped and simply was due to the project not having the time for putting out release notes. Wine-Staging continues to ride off upstream Wine while adding in over one hundred experimental patches for testing.'

Wine 1.9.3 is out today as the newest bi-weekly Wine development release.

Wine 1.8.1 was released this morning as the first stable point release to Wine 1.8.

Wine 1.9.2 was released this morning as the newest bi-weekly Wine development release.

The Wine project's first development release of 2016 is now available.

With Wine 1.8 having been released last week, Wine 1.9.0 was released today as the first development snapshot leading to the Wine 1.10 release in 2016.

Just days after the release of Wine 1.8, the Wine-Staging 1.8 release is now available.

As a nice Christmas present for those dependent upon running Windows games/applications on Linux, Wine 1.8 was officially released just moments ago!

The fourth weekly release candidate to Wine 1.8 is now available.

With the Wine crew shipping new unstable releases every two weeks, the Wine packages that end up in Linux distributions tend to be out of date for fetching the bleeding edge support for running Windows programs on Linux. As a result, Wine developers are stepping up their game in providing packages for popular Linux distributions.

Back during E3 in June, CodeWeavers was talking about "support for DirectX 11 [in the coming months]." It's been nearly six months and it looks like we're still a ways out from seeing support in Wine.

With the open-source Wine 1.8 release just around the corner, CodeWeavers announced this morning the immediate release of CrossOver 15.0 for Linux and OS X systems for running the latest Windows applications.

The third release candidate is now available for Wine 1.8 as a weekly update to take care of more bugs.

The latest weekly release candidate to Wine 1.8 is now available.

Now with being under a code freeze for Wine 1.8, the first release candidate of this first major Wine update in two years is now available.

With Wine now under a code freeze for v1.8, here's a look at the new features coming to this next stable version of the Wine software.

It was announced today via WWN 402 that last week's Wine 1.7.55 is the last development freeze with now going into a code freeze for version 1.8.

Wine 1.7.55 was released this morning with some exciting changes.

Coming in just a few days after the Wine 1.7.54 release is the experimental Wine-Staging 1.7.54 release with a few extra features.

Wine 1.7.54 was released this morning as the latest bi-weekly Wine development release.

Following last week's release of Wine 1.7.53 as the newest bi-weekly development release, Wine-Staging 1.7.53 is available for the more ambitious users needing to run their Windows programs on Linux.

With Wine 1.8 working towards release in the near future, version 1.7.53 of Wine was released this morning.

Since early 2014 we've seen Wine running on Android and now it looks like before the end of the year CodeWeavers will release a version of CrossOver for Android along with publishing the associated Wine patches.

Building off Friday's release of Wine 1.7.52 is now Wine-Staging 1.7.52 with a few more updates added in.

It's been one month since the last Wine development release, but Wine 1.7.52 was just tagged and made available today.

Besides Wine switching to yearly releases and making Wine-Staging official, there were many other interesting sessions at this year's WineConf. One such session was discussing the state of Wine for alternative architectures.

Besides switching to yearly, time-based releases, the upstream Wine developers have decided to make Wine-Staging an official part of the project.

It was decided at WineConf 2015 last week in Vienna to shake-up how the stable Wine releases are handled.

With next week's bi-weekly Wine development update will see more Direct3D 11 functions implemented.

Building off last week's release of Wine 1.7.51 is the equivalent Wine-Staging update. Besides re-basing off this new Wine release that has XAudio2 support and other new functionality, the staging update has some new CSMT patches for boosting the Direct3D gaming performance.

The latest bi-weekly development release of Wine is now available.

Wine 1.7.50 was released this past Friday and it started adding Direct3D 11 support code. The equivalent Wine-Staging update is now available with a few extra features.

Wine 1.7.50 is a very exciting development update to this free software project for running Windows programs/games on Linux and other operating systems. Wine 1.7.50 starts its Direct3D 11 implementation!

Building off Friday's release of Wine 1.7.49 is a new Wine-Staging update and it comes with an interesting experimental program to better integrate Wine apps with the GTK3 Linux desktop.

The newest bi-weekly development release of Wine is now available.

Today marks two years since the start of the Wine 1.7 development series. While it's been two years of doing bi-weekly development releases, there's no sign of Wine 1.8.0 being ready for release in the near future.

With Wine 1.7.48 having been delayed compared to its normal release cycle, the adjoining Wine-Staging update was also delayed but made it out this week.