Download Wine 9.7

A new development build of Wine has been released with version number 9.7. 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 until a number of new features are 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 29,386 titles at the time of writing, which is 63 more than two weeks ago. The following changes and improvements have been made in this release:

What's new in this release:

• Build system support for ARM64X.
• Some restructuring of the Vulkan driver interface.
• WIDL improvements for ARM support as well as SLTG typelibs.

Bugs fixed in 9.7 (total 18):

• #37246 Old C&C titles freeze after the map is loaded.
• #44699 Clang 6.0 fails to run under wine
• #44812 Multiple applications need NtQueryInformationProcess 'ProcessQuotaLimits' class support (MSYS2, ProcessHacker 2.x)
• #48080 Oregon Trail II will not start in 32-bit mode
• #50111 osu! crashes since 20201110 version with wine-mono (needs native -> managed byref array marshalling)
• #54759 Notepad++: slider or vertical scrollbar is too small for long files
• #54901 Medieval II Total War some units partly invisible with d3dx9_30 as builtin
• #55765 The 32-bit d2d1:d2d1 frequently crashes on the GitLab CI
• #56133 explorer.exe: Font leak when painting
• #56361 Geovision Parashara's Light (PL9.exe) still crashes in wine
• #56369 Advanced IP Scanner crashes on unimplemented function netapi32.dll.NetRemoteTOD
• #56442 Totem Arts Launcher.exe garbled text
• #56491 Videos in BURIKO visual novel engine
• #56493 PresentationFontCache.exe crashes during .Net 3.51 SP1 installation
• #56536 UI: Applications using ModernWPF crash, Windows.Ui.ViewManagment.InputPane.TryShow not implemented
• #56538 Mspaint from Windows XP needs imm32.CtfImmIsCiceroEnabled
• #56551 HP System Diagnostics crashes when clicking the Devices tab
• #56554 ON1 photo raw installs but wont run the application