Wine 4.0 is here with support for Vulkan & Direct3D 12

Wine 4.0

The Wine project officially announced the immediate availability of Wine 4.0, a major update to this open source software that allows Linux and macOS users to install and use Windows applications on their computers.

Wine 4.0 comes a year after Wine 3.0, which was the first to introduce an Android driver that allows users to run Windows applications and games directly on their mobiles with Google's mobile system installed.

That same version also added support for Direct3D 11 by default for AMD Radeon and Intel graphics cards, a task scheduler, and support for AES encryption for macOS.

With Wine 4.0, the team continues to improve this free tool that allows running Windows programs, he adds new features for the next generation of Vulkan graphics, Direct3D 12 support, HiDPI support for Android and support for gaming controls.

"The Wine team is proud to announce that the stable release of Wine 4.0 is now available. This release represents one year of development and over 6000 individual changes. Contains a large number of improvements,”Mentioned the developers in the launch announcement.

What's new in Wine 4.0

Of course, support for Vulkan and Direct3D 12, as well as HiDPI support for Android are the biggest novelties of Wine 4.0, which is a massive update with many improvements, among which it is worth mentioning the MP3 decoder, various interface improvements, support for viewing detailed BIOS information in Linux, and support for images in PNG format.

Numerous areas of Wine received minor updates, including graphics, kernel, desktop integration, networking, input devices, cryptography, text and fonts, audio, internationalization, IDL compiler, and much more.

You can read the release notes and download Wine from this link, install or compile it on your system.


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