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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 10.0 (shortlog)
Development:
Wine 10.20 (shortlog)

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News and Updates

Wine 10.20 Released

November 28, 2025

The Wine development release 10.20 is now available.

What’s new in this release:

  • Bundled vkd3d upgraded to version 1.18.
  • More support for reparse points.
  • More refactoring of Common Controls after the v5/v6 split.
  • Progress dialog for document scanning.
  • Various bug fixes.

Vkd3d 1.18 Released

November 20, 2025

The vkd3d team is proud to announce that release 1.18 of vkd3d, the Direct3D to Vulkan translation library, is now available.

Wine 10.19 Released

November 14, 2025

The Wine development release 10.19 is now available.

What’s new in this release:

  • Support for reparse points.
  • More support for WinRT exceptions.
  • Refactoring of Common Controls after the v5/v6 split.
  • Typed Arrays support in JScript.
  • Various bug fixes.

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