The Wine development release 8.0-rc1 is now available. (UPDATED)
The Wine development release 8.0-rc1 is now available.
This is the first release candidate for the upcoming Wine 8.0. 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 8.0 as good as possible.
What's new in this release: - Bundled vkd3d upgraded to version 1.6. - Vulkan and OpenGL thunking optimizations. - More support for print processors. - Improved joystick control panel. - Long types printf format conversion finished. - Various bug fixes.
The source is available at:
https://dl.winehq.org/wine/source/8.0/wine-8.0-rc1.tar.xz
Binary packages for various distributions will be available from:
https://www.winehq.org/download
You will find documentation on https://www.winehq.org/documentation
You can also get the current source directly from the git repository. Check https://www.winehq.org/git for details.
Wine is available thanks to the work of many people. See the file AUTHORS in the distribution for the complete list.
UPDATE
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Windows compatibility layer Wine v8.0 has a first Release Candidate out
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The originals, sort of:
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Wine Reviews : Wine development release 8.0-rc1 is now available for Linux FreeBSD and macOS
This is the first release candidate for the upcoming Wine 8.0. 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 8.0 as good as possible.
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