Download Wine 1.9.12

A new development build of Wine has been released with version number 1.9.12. Wine is an open source implementation of the Windows API and allows you to run DOS and Windows programs on Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris. A large group of developers contribute to Wine and it has been decided to release a new so-called development version every two weeks instead of waiting for a number of new functions to be ready. A stable edition is published a few times a year. The database with applications that work under Wine, with or without the help of minor adjustments, contains 23,462 titles at the time of writing. Since version 1.9.10, the following changes and improvements have been made:

What’s new in Wine development release 1.9.12:

• Bug fix update of the Mono engine.
• Initial version of a taskbar in desktop mode.
• Fixes for right-to-left languages ​​in Uniscribe.
• More Shader Model 4 support in Direct3D.
• Better metafile support in RichEdit.
• Various bug fixes.

What’s new in Wine development release 1.9.11:

• Better support for long URLs in WinInet.
• Various Direct3D 11 improvements.
• Down mixing support in DirectSound.
• Some cosmetic improvements in desktop mode.
• Various bug fixes.