Windows compatibility layer Wine 10.0 second Release Candidate out now

With the Windows compatibility layer Wine now in a code freeze, they're focusing purely on bug fixes and not new features ready for the Wine 10.0 release early next year. As their team previously announced Wine 10.0 should be sometime in mid-January 2025.

Keeping that in mind there's 21 bugs noted as fixed for this release:

• #28861 Final Fantasy XI hangs after character selection.
• #47640 No Man's Sky (Beyond) does not start anymore: Unable to initialize Vulkan (vkEnumerateInstanceExtensionProperties failed).
• #51998 Unable to start CloneCD.
• #53453 Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars - fails to start (splash screen not even shown).
• #54437 ntoskrnl.exe:ntoskrnl breaks test_rawinput() [(RIM|WM)_INPUT] in user32:input for non-English locales on Windows 7.
• #55583 d3d8:device - test_wndproc() often is missing a WM_WINDOWPOSCHANGING in Wine.
• #56056 Exiting IrfanView full screen mode creates a redundant task bar "Untitled window" item which is not clickable.
• #56325 Prefix path string in wineboot dialog is cut off.
• #56940 vs_community.exe halts:"The application cannot find one of its required files, possibly because it was unable to create it in the folder.".
• #57216 Mouse wheel input in IL-2 1946 is not applied consistently to UI elements and throttle.
• #57285 Foxit Reader - maximized view don't work properly.
• #57384 The shareware installer for Daytona (16-bit) hangs at the end of installing.
• #57418 PlayOnline Viewer throws an application error at launch.
• #57442 Several applications: abnormal input delay with Wine.
• #57481 Prey (2016) X11 fullscreen fails in 9.22.
• #57503 World in conflict has a frozen screen - updating only when alt-tabbing out and in.
• #57504 Possible regression with Unity3D games: Framedrops when moving cursor.
• #57506 Wine doesn't show any window.
• #57524 Commit c9592bae breaks VKB Gladiator HIDRAW support.
• #57527 Drop-down list appears behind the main window.
• #57530 Regression: Tiny extra form displays in Delphi programs.

Taken from the release announcement.

Once it's out we'll eventually see Valve and their partners at Codeweavers update Proton and we'll then see a Proton 10.0 release as well. We don't know when that will happen though, for the Wine 9 to Proton 9 release, it took about a month and a half to arrive.