Download Wine 1.9.17

A new development build of Wine has been released with version number 1.9.17. 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 23,676 titles at the time of writing. Since version 1.9.14, the following changes and improvements have been made:

What’s new in release 1.9.17:

• Better exception handling on 64-bit.
• Various improvements in joystick support.
• Some more stream support in the C++ runtime.
• Font embedding improvements.
• More metafile support in GDI+.
• Various bug fixes.

What’s new in release 1.9.16:

• Better 64-bit binary compatibility on macOS.
• Performance improvements in JavaScript.
• More progress towards the Direct3D command stream.
• More shader instructions in Direct3D.
• Performance improvements in GDI.
• Various bug fixes.

What’s new in release 1.9.15:

• More shader instructions in Direct3D.
• Performance improvements in GDI.
• Better multi-joystick support on macOS.
• ActiveScripting improvements.
• Additional stream support in the C++ runtime.
• Various bug fixes.