Continuing with its development and three weeks after the previous version, WineHQ launched WINE 10.16The number of changes introduced is somewhat surprising. While it's true that in the past there were nearly 600 changes, it's also true that this number has dropped significantly in WINE 10.x. This is supposedly because the software is more mature, but the 374 changes in this development version seem to be a thing of the past. As we've already started with the numbers, the list of fixed bugs has dropped to 34.
As for the most notable new features, support for fast synchronization using NTSync has been introduced, 16-bit apps are supported in the new WoW64 mode, initial support for D3DKMT objects and WinMD (Windows Metadata) files are generated and installed, plus the usual list of various bug fixes. Following is the list with those bugs fixed.
Bugs fixed in WINE 10.16
- Need for Speed III installer crashes in Win9X mode, displaying "Failed to get 'HardWareKey' value" (missing active PnP device keys in 'HKEY_DYN_DATA\Config Manager\Enum').
- Lotus Word Pro 9.8: Windows drop-down menu does not display file names.
- Shadow Company: Left for Dead crashes with “No usable 3D devices installed.”
- Several games do not have character animation (Alpha Polaris, Face Noir, A Stroke of Fate series).
- The Approach fields box only shows 3/4 of a line.
- Overwatch loses focus upon respawning.
- Some software protection systems require ntdll.NtSetLdtEntries to modify reserved LDT entries.
- Several 4k OpenGL demos in the demoscene fail to launch (failed to look up atom 0xC019 'static' in global atom tables).
- VbsEdit runs wscript.exe with unsupported switches /d and /u.
- Several games require the implementation of D3DX11GetImageInfoFromMemory (STALKER: Call of Pripyat, Metro 2033, Project CARS).
- vbscript fails to handle ReDim when the variable has not been created yet.
- 16-bit applications crash in wow64 mode.
- The PC crashes after consuming unlimited memory.
- CMD: Parsing issue: parentheses mismatch caused by trailing tab.
- Star Wars: Jedi Knight – Dark Forces II Demo and other games: won’t launch, “smackw32.DLL” failed to initialize (macOS).
- WINEcfg Audio tab does not list drivers or show output devices, but the test button works.
- Wolfenstein: The Old Blood (Wolfenstein: The New Order) does not start with the EGL opengl backend.
- WINEbuild ASLR breaks old DLLs.
- The flickering in the video surveillance app has returned.
- Street Chaves just shows a black screen.
- Grand Theft Auto: Vice City shows intros with a black screen.
- Screen issue in Colin McRae Rally 2.
- SimCity 2000 Windows 95 edition does not start in WoW64 mode.
- Legacy of Kain: Blood Omen black screen at startup but with sound using Verok patch.
- WINE 10.14 fails to compile on Alpine Linux x86.
- Regression: Xenia Canary crashes with STATUS_CONFLICTING_ADDRESSES when starting a game in WINE 10.13+ (works in 10.12).
- The Profi cash 12 user interface is mostly displayed in black.
- Regression: Direct3D applications display a blank screen under wined3d on 10.15.
- Wolfenstein: The New Order (Wolfenstein: Old Blood) – the screen is black.
- wmic now also prints system properties since 3c8a072b.
- Camerabag Pro 2025.2 crashes with unhandled exception (unimplemented function propsys.dll.PropVariantToFileTime) when uploading a JPEG.
- Images in iTunes have a white background.
- winedbg: internal failure at 00006FFFFF8CB5E5 (pe_load_msc_debug_info).
- Missing type in get_type inside dlls/msi/suminfo.c.
Now available
WINE 10.16 ya it can be downloaded from the button below these lines. In your download page There is also information on how to install this and other versions on Linux and other operating systems such as macOS and even Android.
In two weeks, if the usual schedule continues and there is nothing to suggest otherwise, WINE 10.17 will be released, also with dozens of changes to prepare for WINE 11.0, which will arrive, all according to past releases, in early 2026.