The Wine 6.13 development release is out now

By Liam Dawe - 21 July 2021 at 8:53 am UTC

The Wine hackers have released the latest development build with Wine 6.13 with plenty of new features and the usual assortment of bug fixes.

For newer readers and Linux users here's a refresher - Wine is a compatibility layer built for operating systems like Linux, macOS and BSD. The idea is to allow other platforms to run games and applications only built and supported for Windows. It's also part of what makes up Steam Play Proton. Once a year or so, a new stable release is made.

New features in Wine 6.13:

Proper scrollbar theming.
More work towards WinSock PE conversion.
Preparation work for the GDI syscall interface.
Some progress on the IPHLPAPI PE conversion.

For the bug fixes they noted 31 solved as of this release. Some newly solved, some getting fresh reports from older bugs. Improvements will be seen for the likes of: Academagia, Perfect World, Kodi, Doom 3, Far Cry 4, Project CARS 2, Sims 4, Dishonored 2, World of Warcraft, INSIDE, The Hong Kong Massacre, Sniper Elite 3, Battle.net client, Battlefield 4 and more.

Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.

Tags: Misc, Open Source, Wine

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About the author - Liam Dawe

I am the owner of GamingOnLinux. After discovering Linux back in the days of Mandrake in 2003, I constantly checked on the progress of Linux until Ubuntu appeared on the scene and it helped me to really love it. You can reach me easily by emailing GamingOnLinux directly. You can also follow my personal adventures on Bluesky.
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