Lead developer Alexandre Julliard announced that Wine 10.0 is going to be releasing in mid-January 2025.
There's been a delay to the latest development build though, due to low activity and Julliard is travelling. So Wine 9.21 is instead coming out November 8th (instead of yesterday).
Two weeks after that, Wine 9.22 will be out and then another two weeks later on December 6, the first Release Candidate for Wine 10.0 will be available and mark the annual code freeze where the focus is purely on bugs and not new features.
That freeze will last until the final 10.0 release due "sometime around mid-January".
Wine 10.0 will have a lot of additions compared to Wine 9.0 like:
- Improved Unicode.
- Improved Wayland support.
- Lots of DirectPlay support upgrades.
- A new Media Foundation backend using FFMpeg.
- ARM64 support upgrades.
- An initial Driver Store implementation.
- Expanded support for ODBC Windows drivers.
- Support for elevating process privileges.
- Better Dvorak keyboard detection.
- And much, much more.
Eventually then we will see a new Proton version too based on Wine 10 to continue improving Windows gaming on Steam Deck / Linux from Steam.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
ShadowXeldron about 8 hours ago
Quoting: PyrateHow long does it usually take for Proton to upgrade major versions of Wine?About 3.5 months between Wine 9.0 and Proton 9.0 unless I'm mistaken.
Or around 1.5 months for the first beta of Proton 9.0.
Linux_Rocks about 4 hours ago
QuoteBetter Dvorak keyboard detection.The Dvorak keyboard users right now:
But here's a wine GIF still:
Quoting: Linux_RocksI have come to the conclusion that there used to be a point to the Dvorak keyboard, but there mostly isn't any more. The thing is, the Dvorak keyboard lets you type faster because the layout is more efficient given the frequency with which letters are used and stuff. But nobody needs to type fast any more. Keyboards are ubiquitous, but nobody is using typing to copy text or take dictation. Instead of high speed data entry there's barcodes, QR codes, and copy/paste because the information was on computer already in the first place.QuoteBetter Dvorak keyboard detection.The Dvorak keyboard users right now:
So people are only typing stuff as they think it up, and most people can type on a QWERTY keyboard as fast as they can compose. Far as I can tell, people mostly don't even bother learning to touch type any more. So Dvorak becomes a case of "solving a problem people don't have".
Last edited by Purple Library Guy on 2 November 2024 at 5:25 pm UTC
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