Available Wine 1.9.23 with support for Myst V: End of Ages

Through the RSS of Wine we found out that the version is now available for download Wine 1.9.23 of this great application, which comes loaded with improvements in the support for many applications as well as corrections in some problems reported by the community.

This new maintenance version is the result of almost 2 weeks of development, in which the team focused its objectives on adding support for games such as Myst V: End of Ages, Startopia, World of Warcraft among others.

 Wine 1.9.23 Features

• Added HID bus support for Apple's new operating system macOS Sierra 10.12.
• Added support for color fonts in Direct2D.
• Additional color formats in Direct3D.
• Uninstall fixes in Windows MSI implementation.
• Improved the installer of www.cryptopro.ru.
• Improvements and fixes to various Windows applications and games.
• Added support for Myst V: End of Ages, Sonic Heroes 1.0, Startopia, World of Warcraft, Unturned, Colin McRae Rally 2005, Titan Souls Demo (Steam), Legend of Grimrock 2, Final Fantasy XI, Flame in the Flood, Into the Stars, The Vanishing of Ethan Carter Redux, StarCraft II 3.6.0, The Forest: Terminal, Codename Panzers: Phase Two, Insane 2 and Sonic Utopia game, among others.
• Improvements in Smart Cutter 1.9.4, MDDClone, Superbase, Temper, iMule, GPSTrack, Cisco IP Communicator 7.0.4.0, Microsoft Office 2007, Microsoft Office 2010, PCSX2 1.4.0, Wordpad, and S3CC921.

How to download Wine 1.9.23?

You can download Wine Sources 1.9.23 from here:

  http://dl.winehq.org/wine/source/1.9/wine-1.9.23.tar.bz2
  http://mirrors.ibiblio.org/wine/source/1.9/wine-1.9.23.tar.bz2

Binary packages for various distributions will be available at:

  http://www.winehq.org/download

To update or not to update to Wine 1.9.23?

It is best to update to version 1.9.23 especially for those who want to use the applications and games that we have mentioned above. It is important to note that wine packages are generally updated quickly in the repositories of most distros, so their update may be automatic shortly.