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

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Wine 11.0 (shortlog)

Development:

Wine 11.2 (shortlog)

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News and Updates

February 6, 2026

The Wine development release 11.2 is now available.

What’s new in this release:

More optimizations in PDB loading.
Support for MSVC constructors in C runtime.
Easier mechanism for creating version resources.
Various bug fixes.

January 23, 2026

The Wine development release 11.1 is now available.

What’s new in this release:

Various changes that were deferred during code freeze.
More pixel format conversions in WindowsCodecs.
More work on ActiveX Data Objects (MSADO).
Various bug fixes.

January 13, 2026

The Wine team is proud to announce that the stable release Wine 11.0 is now available.

This release represents a year of development effort, around 6,300 individual changes, and more than 600 bug fixes. It contains a large number of improvements that are listed below. The main highlights are the NTSYNC support and the completion of the new WoW64 architecture.