Download Wine 6.0 RC 6

The sixth release candidate of Wine version 6.0 has been released. Wine is an open source implementation of the Windows API and allows you to run DOS and Windows programs on Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, and macOS. 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 27,671 titles at the time of writing. A final release seems imminent, because in RC6 only ten bug fixes have been made.

What’s new in this release:

• Bug fixes only, we are in code freeze.

Bugs fixed in 6.0-rc6 (total 10):

• 48860: RegiStax 6: mouse does not work in open file dialog
• 49500: Wine is not displaying any windows (on a headless system)
• 49511: Kontakt (Native Instruments) runtime is broken
• 49575: Delphi applications no longer show their main window in the WM’s taskbar
• 50151: World of Tanks fails to launch if LC_LANG/LC_ALL are set ja_JP
• 50153: HID doesn’t work on macOS Catalina and Big Sur unless “Input Monitoring” permission is granted
• 50355: Commandos 2: Men of Courage hangs after starting
• 50437: wineserver crashes when running SteelSeries Engine client
• 50453: CDB (Part of Debugging Tools for Windows) fails resume debugging after entry point break (continuous debug event: ‘DBG_EXCEPTION_HANDLED’ must be treated as an alias for ‘DBG_CONTINUE’)
• 50454: Icons have non-transparent background in HxD