New Update Wine 9.0 released (2024)

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WineHQ - Run Windows applications on Linux, BSD, Solaris and macOS

Open Source Software for running Windows applications on other operating systems.

www.winehq.org

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.

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Changelog: The Wine development release 8.14 is now available.

What's new in this release:

• PCSC framework used on macOS for smart card support.
  Dumping of Windows registry files in WineDump.
• Fixes for Wow64 window messages.
• Various bug fixes.

 

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Changelog Update: Wine 9.0 · wine / wine · GitLab
Download: WineHQ - Run Windows applications on Linux, BSD, Solaris and macOS

This release has been a year in the making, with a new stable Wine release done once a year with many development releases in between bringing over 7,000 individual changes. There's some truly big stuff in this release too and some of the highlights include:

• An experimental Wayland graphics driver, not enabled by default yet.
• Lots of WoW64 work including the completion of converting modules to PE format to "introduce a proper boundary between the Windows and Unix worlds". They say it's now possible to run 32-bit Windows applications on a purely 64-bit Unix installation but this new WoW64 mode is not yet enabled by default.
• The completion of the PE/Unix separation means that it's possible to run existing Windows binaries on ARM64.
• The Vulkan driver supports up to version 1.3.272 of the Vulkan spec.
• Various optimizations have been made to core WineD3D and the Vulkan backend.
• A number of GdiPlus functions are optimized for better graphics performance.
• The Windows Media Video (WMV) decoder DirectX Media Object (DMO) is implemented.
• DirectInput action maps are implemented, improving compatibility with many old games that use this to map controller inputs to in-game actions.
• URL/URI protocol associations are exported as URL handlers to the Linux desktop.
• Lots of Internationalization improvements including updates for Unicode and better support for native Windows IME implementations.

The list goes on for a while, that's just some cherry-picked big additions.

Quote source: Wine 9.0 brings much improved Windows app and game compatibility to Linux