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.

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Wine 11.0 (shortlog)

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Wine 11.3 (shortlog)

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News and Updates

Wine 11.3 Released

February 20, 2026

The Wine development release 11.3 is now available.

What’s new in this release:

Mono engine updated to version 11.0.0
Bundled vkd3d upgraded to version 1.19.
Improved FIR filter in DirectSound.
More optimizations in PDB loading.
Light theme renamed to Aero for compatibility.
Various bug fixes.

Vkd3d 1.19 Released

February 19, 2026

The vkd3d team is proud to announce that release 1.19 of vkd3d, the 3D graphics porting library, is now available.

Wine 11.2 Released

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.

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