WINE 8.0 released

[Posted January 24, 2023 by corbet]

Version 8.0 of the WINE Windows compatibility layer has been released. The headline feature appears to be the conversion to PE ("portable executable") modules:

After 4 years of work, the PE conversion is finally complete: all modules can be built in PE format. This is an important milestone on the road to supporting various features such as copy protection, 32-bit applications on 64-bit hosts, Windows debuggers, x86 applications on ARM, etc.

Other changes include WoW64 support (allowing 32-bit modules to call into 64-bit libraries), Print Processor support, improved Direct3D support, and more.

WINE 8.0 released

Posted Jan 25, 2023 11:54 UTC (Wed) by ballombe (subscriber, #9523) [Link] (1 responses)

Version 8, already ? I thought I would die before 1.0 was released.

WINE 8.0 released

Posted Jan 25, 2023 18:51 UTC (Wed) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link]

That apparently happened back in 2008. So…congrats on the extra 15 years of life so far!