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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 11.0 (shortlog)
Development:
Wine 11.16 (shortlog)

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News and Updates

Vkd3d 2.1 Released

August 24, 2026

The vkd3d team is proud to announce that release 2.1 of vkd3d, the 3D graphics porting library, is now available.

Wine 11.16 Released

August 21, 2026

The Wine development release 11.16 is now available.

What’s new in this release:

  • Mono engine updated to version 11.3.0, including ARM64 support.
  • Hardware video decoding using VA-API.
  • Improved exception handling on ARM64EC.
  • Various bug fixes.

Wine 11.15 Released

August 8, 2026

The Wine development release 11.15 is now available.

What’s new in this release:

  • More KDF algorithms in BCrypt.
  • Support for ARM64EC build in Mingw mode.
  • More format conversions in WindowsCodecs.
  • Support for local NTLM authentication.
  • Various bug fixes.

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