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About Wine
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Wine is an Open Source implementation of the Windows API on top of X, OpenGL, and Unix.

Think of Wine as a compatibility layer for running Windows programs. Wine does not require Microsoft Windows, as it is a completely free alternative implementation of the Windows API consisting of 100% non-Microsoft code, however Wine can optionally use native Windows DLLs if they are available. Wine provides both a development toolkit for porting Windows source code to Unix as well as a program loader, allowing many unmodified Windows programs to run on x86-based Unixes, including Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X, and Solaris.

More information can be read in the articles Why Wine is so important, and Debunking Wine Myths. If you are wondering how well a particular application works in Wine, please examine the Applications Database. For installation instructions and step-by-step help with running Wine, take a look at the User Guide.

Wine is free software. The licensing terms are the GNU Lesser General Public License version 2.1.

Latest News

July 13, 2008: Wine Weekly News Issue 349

WWN Issue 349 was released today.

July 11, 2008: Wine 1.1.1 Released

The Wine development release 1.1.1 is now available.

What's new in this release:

  • Fixes for Photoshop CS3 and Office 2007 installers.
  • More progress on gdiplus.
  • Support for Unicode files in regedit.
  • Improved video playback.
  • Many Richedit fixes and improvements.
  • Various bug fixes.

The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.

June 27, 2008: Wine 1.1.0 Released

The Wine development release 1.1.0 is now available.

What's new in this release:

  • Many more gdiplus functions implemented.
  • Improved graphics tablet support.
  • Many Richedit fixes and improvements.
  • Support for HWND_MESSAGE windows.
  • A lot of new MSHTML functions.
  • Many fixes in MSI registry handling.
  • Initial implementation of the inetmib1 DLL.
  • Improvements to the quartz renderers.
  • Various bug fixes.

The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.

June 18, 2008: Wine Weekly News Issue 348

WWN Issue 348 was released today.

June 17, 2008: Wine 1.0 Released

The Wine team is proud to announce that Wine 1.0 is now available. This is the first stable release of Wine after 15 years of development and beta testing. Many thanks to everybody who helped us along that long road!

While compatibility is not perfect yet, thousands of applications have been reported to work very well. Check http://appdb.winehq.org to see the details for your favorite applications.

The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.

June 13, 2008: Wine 1.0-rc5 Released

The Wine development release 1.0-rc5 is now available.

This should be the last release candidate for Wine 1.0, please give it a good testing.

What's new in this release:

  • Bug fixes only, we are in code freeze.

The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.

June 11, 2008: Wine 1.0 Status

Friends, vintners, penguins, lend me your ears:

We come not to praise Windows, but to celebrate our increasing independence from it.

The final release candidate for Wine 1.0 will appear this Friday, and barring catastrophe, Wine 1.0 itself will be released a few days later.

To those of you whose favorite bug was not fixed, we offer our apologies; time was limited.

We expect to do a 1.0.1 release at some point (1-2 months?) with a few important and conservative bugfixes.

Bug Status

There are no open 1.0 bugs.

1.0 bugs fixed since May 27th:

  • 11509 Wordviewer 2003 is unable to open documents encrypted with AES
  • 12097 Wine 1.0 should not ship out-of-sync resource translations
  • 12246 "make test" gives different results with and without warn+heap
  • 13139 Office 2003 install aborts in RC1
  • 13277 Return to Mysterious Island crashes

1.0 bugs deferred to 1.0.1 since May 27th:

  • 11584 Multiple games crash with stack overflow error
  • 12307 firefox 3 crash on some web pages [dogfood]
  • 13143 XIM patch prevents wine-0.9.60 and later to run
  • 13740 winebrowser gets wrong URL, problem with unicode
1.0 bugs deferred to 1.2.0 since May 27th:
  • 124 Review of Wine Server Protocol
  • 3023 Orcad - "Place Part" never tries to put down a part
  • 5163 Office XP 2002 crashes on installation
  • 5402 Trying to run PhotoStitch 3.1
  • 5535 Planescape:Torment doesn't work
  • 6095 MOTD in counter-strike 1.6 and counter-strike source does not render
  • 6519 Wine blacks out rotated font bitmap
  • 7404 ShowWindow(SW_MINIMIZE) should not generate a WM_PAINT message
  • 8439 Visual Studio .NET (7) install fails
  • 8783 USB serial ports do not work
  • 9771 Steam Friends doesn't work (fails to render correctly or refresh)
  • 9787 Warcraft3 Battle.net Doesn't work (Needs AcceptEx)
  • 9916 "make test" usually fails
  • 10147 Word Viewer 2003 - Tab behavior differs from Windows
  • 10288 wine_gecko download hangs sometimes
  • 11281 CJK input many issues
  • 12005 Regression in pressure sensitivity with wizardpen tablet driver and Photoshop 7
  • 12074 The conformance tests fail on Windows
  • 12730 gdi32: some tests fail when X is run in 16 bit mode, but not 32 bit
  • 13071 Flashplayer crashes in a quartz bug

June 6, 2008: Wine 1.0-rc4 Released

Wine 1.0-rc4 was released today, with the following main changes:

  • Bug fixes only, we are in code freeze.

Binary packages are in the process of being built and it may take a few days for them to appear, but the source is available now. You can find out more about this release in the announcement. Check out our download page for packages for your distribution.

May 30, 2008: Wine 1.0-rc3 Released

Wine 1.0-rc3 was released today, with the following main changes:

  • Bug fixes only, we are in code freeze.

Binary packages are in the process of being built and it may take a few days for them to appear, but the source is available now. You can find out more about this release in the announcement. Check out our download page for packages for your distribution.

May 28, 2008: Wine Weekly News Issue 347

WWN Issue 347 was released today.

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Latest Release
Stable: Wine 1.0 (shortlog)
Development: Wine 1.1.1 (shortlog)

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