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Wine 9.0 is now available
(gitlab.winehq.org)
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The Wine team is proud to announce that the stable release Wine 9.0 is now available.
This release represents a year of development effort and over 7,000 individual changes. It contains a large number of improvements that are listed below. The main highlights are the new WoW64 architecture and the experimental Wayland driver.
The source is available at
Binary packages for various distributions will be available from
You will find documentation on
Wine is available thanks to the work of many people. See the file AUTHORS for the complete list.
What's new in Wine 9.0
WoW64
--enable-archs=i386,x86_64
option to configure. This is expected to work for most applications, but there are still some limitations, in particular:ARB_buffer_storage
extension support.Wayland driver
There is an experimental Wayland graphics driver. It's still a work in progress, but already implements many features, such as basic window management, multiple monitors, high-DPI scaling, relative motion events, and Vulkan support.
The Wayland driver is not yet enabled by default. It can be enabled through the
HKCU\Software\Wine\Drivers
registry key by running:and then making sure that the
DISPLAY
environment variable is unset.ARM64
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Wow64\x86
registry key. The FEX emulator implements this interface when built as PE.Graphics
Direct3D
D3DXFillTextureTX
andD3DXFillCubeTextureTX
are implemented.ARB_fragment_program_shadow
.D3DXLoadMeshHierarchyFromX
and related functions support user data loading viaID3DXLoadUserData
.Audio / Video
DirectShow
Input devices
Desktop integration
Internationalization
bew-ID
,blo-BJ
,csw-CA
,ie-EE
,mic-CA
,prg-PL
,skr-PK
,tyv-RU
,vmw-MZ
,xnr-IN
, andza-CN
.zh-Hans
, are also supported on macOS.Kernel
Internet and networking
Cryptography and security
Mono / .NET
Builtin applications
systeminfo
application prints various data from the Windows Management Instrumentation database.klist
application lists Kerberos tickets.taskkill
application supports terminating child processes.start
application supports a/machine
option to select the architecture to use when running hybrid x86/ARM executables.tasklist
application is implemented.findstr
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Development tools
composable
,default_overload
,deprecated
, andprotected
attributes are supported in the IDL compiler.libwine.so
library is removed. It was no longer used, and deprecated since Wine 6.0. Winelib ELF applications that were built with Wine 5.0 or older will need a rebuild to run on Wine 9.0.Bundled libraries
External dependencies
.seh
directives for exception handling is required on all platforms except i386.