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)

Development:

Wine 11.19 (shortlog)

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News and Updates

Wine 11.19 Released

October 2, 2026

The Wine development release 11.19 is now available.

What’s new in this release:

Support for vertical text in GDIPlus.
Unicode character tables updated to Unicode 18.0.0.
Caching for DNS queries.
Improvements to the VBScript parser.
Various bug fixes.

Wine 11.18 Released

September 18, 2026

The Wine development release 11.18 is now available.

What’s new in this release:

More NTOSKRNL support for kernel drivers.
A wide range of fixes for various code correctness issues.
Some compatibility fixes in standard C headers.
Various bug fixes.

Wine 11.17 Released

September 4, 2026

The Wine development release 11.17 is now available.

What’s new in this release:

Bundled vkd3d upgraded to version 2.1.
Initial support for display mode emulation.
Better support for preferred UI languages.
Various bug fixes.

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