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The Wine development release 10.0-rc6 is now available. This is expected to be the last release candidate before the final 10.0.

What’s new in this release:

• Bug fixes only, we are in code freeze.

The Wine development release 10.0-rc5 is now available.

What’s new in this release:

• Bug fixes only, we are in code freeze.

The Wine development release 10.0-rc4 is now available.

What’s new in this release:

• Bug fixes only, we are in code freeze.

The Wine development release 10.0-rc3 is now available.

What’s new in this release:

• Bug fixes only, we are in code freeze.

The Wine development release 10.0-rc2 is now available.

What’s new in this release:

• Bug fixes only, we are in code freeze.

The Wine development release 10.0-rc1 is now available.

This is the first release candidate for the upcoming Wine 10.0. 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 10.0 as good as possible.

What’s new in this release:

• Bundled vkd3d upgraded to version 1.14.
• Mono engine updated to version 9.4.0.
• Initial version of a Bluetooth driver.
• UTF-8 support in the C runtime functions.
• Support for split debug info using build ids.
• Various bug fixes.

The Wine development release 9.22 is now available.

What’s new in this release:

• Support for display mode virtualization.
• Locale data updated to Unicode CLDR 46.
• More support for network sessions in DirectPlay.
• Wayland driver enabled in default configuration.
• Various bug fixes.

The vkd3d team is proud to announce that release 1.14 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:

• Disassembler support for binary effects.
• Initial support for Metal Shading Language output.
• Miscellaneous bug fixes.

The Wine development release 9.21 is now available.

What’s new in this release:

• More support for network sessions in DirectPlay.
• Header fixes for C++ compilation.
• I/O completion fixes.
• More formats supported in D3DX9.
• Various bug fixes.

The Wine development release 9.20 is now available.

What’s new in this release:

• Bundled Capstone library for disassembly in WineDbg.
• More formats supported in D3DX9.
• Static analysis and JUnit test reports in Gitlab CI.
• More support for network sessions in DirectPlay.
• Various bug fixes.

The Wine development release 9.19 is now available.

What’s new in this release:

• Character tables updates to Unicode 16.0.0.
• Better window positioning in the Wayland driver.
• More support for network sessions in DirectPlay.
• Support for plug&play device change notifications.
• Various bug fixes.

The Wine development release 9.18 is now available.

What’s new in this release:

• New Media Foundation backend using FFMpeg.
• Initial support for network sessions in DirectPlay.
• New Desktop Control Panel applet.
• Various bug fixes.

The Wine team is proud to announce that WineHQ has officially taken over hosting and maintenance of the Mono Project, previously hosted at https://github.com/mono/mono/. Its new home is on the WineHQ Gitlab, at https://gitlab.winehq.org/mono/mono.

Esme Povirk, who has been maintaining the Wine version of Mono for the last 12 years, is now the primary maintainer for the entire Mono project. You will find more details on Esme's blog post.

Please join us in welcoming the Mono developers to our community!

The Wine development release 9.17 is now available.

What’s new in this release:

• Window surface scaling on High DPI displays.
• Bundled vkd3d upgraded to version 1.13.
• Mono engine updated to version 9.3.0
• Improved CPU detection on ARM64.
• Various bug fixes.

The vkd3d team is proud to announce that release 1.13 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:

• Basic loop unrolling support in the HLSL compiler.
• Effects compiler support for several version 4.0+ state objects.
• Miscellaneous bug fixes.

The Wine development release 9.16 is now available.

What’s new in this release:

• Initial Driver Store implementation.
• Pbuffer support in the Wayland driver.
• More prototype objects in MSHTML.
• Various bug fixes.

The Wine development release 9.15 is now available.

What’s new in this release:

• Prototype and constructor objects in MSHTML.
• More support for ODBC Windows drivers.
• Various bug fixes.

The Wine development release 9.14 is now available.

What’s new in this release:

• Mailslots reimplemented using server-side I/O.
• More support for ODBC Windows drivers.
• Still more user32 data structures in shared memory.
• Various bug fixes.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.