Wine 9.0 brings much improved Windows app and game compatibility to Linux
It's here! The official release of Wine 9.0 has now been made available, bringing the next-generation of Windows compatibility to Linux for apps and games. This is the tech that forms a major part of Steam Play Proton.
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Wine 9.0
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 https://dl.winehq.org/wine/source/9.0/wine-9.0.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
Wine is available thanks to the work of many people. See the file AUTHORS for the complete list.
Linuxiac & BetaNews:
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Wine 9.0 Is Here after a Year of Development
The Wine development team has announced the much-anticipated release of Wine 9.0, marking a significant milestone in Windows compatibility layers for Linux and Unix-like systems.
This stable release encapsulates a year’s worth of development, featuring over 7,000 individual changes aimed at enhancing user experience and system performance.
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Wine 9.0 released with major enhancements -- a milestone release for running Windows software on Linux and macOS
The Wine team has announced a significant milestone with the release of Wine 9.0, a major update enriching the Linux experience. This latest version encapsulates a year of dedicated development, featuring over 7,000 changes. Wine 9.0 is distinguished by its introduction of the new WoW64 architecture and the experimental Wayland driver, making it a landmark release for users seeking to run Windows applications on Unix-based systems.
The new WoW64 (Windows 32-bit on Windows 64-bit) architecture in Wine 9.0 is a highlight of this release, marking the completion of a multi-year effort to convert modules to PE format. This significant development creates a clear boundary between Windows and Unix systems. In a notable shift from the older version, the new WoW64 mode enables the running of 32-bit Windows applications on purely 64-bit Unix installations. This is particularly beneficial for macOS users, where recent versions have dropped support for 32-bit processes.
Marius:
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Wine 9.0 Released with Experimental Wayland Graphics Driver
Wine 9.0 free and open-source compatibility layer for running backdoored Windows games and apps on Unix-like operating systems is now available. Here's what's new!
Also see this other page.
Joey:
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Wine 9.0 Released with Experimental Wayland Driver
Developers have popped the cork on a new stable release of Wine, the open-source compatibility layer that lets you run backdoored Windows apps and games on Linux. Wine 9.0 release’s cup runneth over with enhancements, refinements, and enablements touching on every part of the Wine experience, from app compatibility to performance through to user-interface polish. As you’d expect. During the past 12 months Wine developers have poured in considerable effort. Indeed, the Wine 9.0 released is made up more over 7,000 individual grapes changes.
The Register:
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WINE 9.0 improves ability to run 32-bit Windows apps on 64-bit-only xNix
WINE 9.0 brings the benefits of better WoW64 support to 64-bit x86 – and Arm – kit, plus native Wayland support on Linux.
WINE releases have become pleasantly regular in the last half-a-dozen years. WINE 9.0 was released on Tuesday, almost a year after we reported on WINE 8.0 and two years after we reported on WINE 7.0.
The latest version consolidates some of the changes that we wrote about in those previous installments. Internally, it "thunks" 32-bit Windows API calls to 64-bit ones before it translates them to Unix API calls, which the developers call WoW64 after the Windows feature of the same name. As the release announcement puts it...
Some late coverage:
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Wine 9.0 Significantly Improves Windows Apps and Games on Linux
Wine is the compatibility layer for running Windows applications and games on non-Windows platforms, including Linux, Mac, and Android. Wine 9.0 has now been released after a year of development, improving compatibility and adding some great new features.
The Wine project announced the update this week in a blog post, saying, "This release represents a year of development effort and over 7,000 individual changes." The most important new feature might be support for WoW64, which allows 32-bit Windows software to run on a purely 64-bit operating system—before now, 32-bit applications ran in a separate 32-bit Unix process, which wasn't always an option. For example, macOS has not supported 32-bit software, and the proprietary CrossOver compatibility layer (based on Wine) had its own custom solution for translation. It's not enabled by default, though, because it breaks compatibility with 16-bit code and reduces OpenGL performance.