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

Stable:

Wine 9.0 (shortlog)

Development:

Wine 10.0-rc2 (shortlog)

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News and Updates

December 13, 2024

The Wine development release 10.0-rc2 is now available.

What’s new in this release:

Bug fixes only, we are in code freeze.

December 6, 2024

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.

November 22, 2024

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.