We now have a new development version available, which should not be confused with the stable onesTwo weeks later former, we already have here WINE 11.3, one of those launches These updates arrive approximately every two weeks and are in preparation for next year's release. Among the highlights, the Mono engine has been updated to version 11.0.0, and it's a crucial component because it's essential for .NET-based programs to function on non-Windows systems.
Other highlights include an update to version 1.19 of the included VKD3D, improvements to the FIR filter in DirectSound, further optimizations to PDB loading, and the renaming of the light theme to Aero for compatibility, in addition to the usual numerous bug fixes. Specifically, 30 bugs have been corrected (listed below), and a total of [missing information - likely a number of bug fixes or improvements] have been implemented. 233 changes.
Bugs fixed in WINE 11.3
- 42Tags (.NET app) does not start (System.Globalization.CultureNotFoundException: Culture ID 0 (0x0000) is not a supported culture.).
- Processes may terminate with an incorrect exit code due to a race condition when threads are terminated during shutdown.
- Several applications (Vavoo Webinstaller, Kodi) fail with the Windows version set to Win7: wmic.exe needs support for the "/?" switch.
- The zools backup tool cannot be run in Wine.
- ExtractNow: the buttons do nothing / do not work (requires comctl32 version 6).
- The War Thunder launcher doesn't render anything, it just repeats stub messages from d2d_geometry_sink_AddArc.
- zdaemon: the program freezes if the keyboard and mouse are used at the same time.
- Adobe Audition 2020 crashes on startup, displaying 'Direct2D Drawbot error' (d2d_device_context_Flush is a stub).
- fusion:asmcache – 32-bit calls to InstallAssembly(…, NULL) are blocked in Windows 11.
- fusion:asmenum – test_enumerate() fails on Windows 11.
- Winscard tests do not run in the GitLab CI.
- msys2-64/cygwin64: rsync fails with 'Socket operation on non-socket'.
- D2D1GeometrySink::AddArc() does not correctly mark the end of the figure segment.
- Many games handle focus poorly when returning with Alt+Tab, without UseTakeFocus=N.
- Rainmeter 4.5.23 crashes on X11 after updating the default Clock.ini skin.
- doaxvv (DMM) occasionally crashes (WMV playback error).
- QuarkXPress 2024 crashes on startup with "System.InvalidOperationException: The calling thread must be STA".
- winhlp / winhelp32: Selecting "Edit > Copy" in the Westwood Monopoly (1995) help file results in a crash.
- Flight Simulator 2000 exhibits flickering and performance issues when rendering the 3D world with a 2D instrument panel in windowed mode.
- The RTF clipboard reads a randomly chosen string (regression from Wine 10).
- Sysinternals TCPView is blocked by the unimplemented function IPHLPAPI.DLL.GetOwnerModuleFromTcpEntry.
- Guild Wars 2 crashes with Wine 11.1 and Winewayland enabled along with DXVK development builds (after January 23).
- Gdiplus LockBits() with flags=0 has a different behavior than the Microsoft implementation.
- Regression: Wine becomes completely unusable in the presence of non-graphical GL devices from version 11.1 onwards.
- Parameter validation is missing in the printf() function family.
- Framemaker 8 is crashing due to a patch in sysparams.c.
- Unable to open a certain PNG image, 'copypixels_to_24bppBGR conversion path not implemented'.
- Possible off-by-one bug in swapchain.c.
- The iWin Games Manager V4 installer fails to create services.
- The Amazon Chime 5.23 installer fails.
Now available
WINE 11.3 can now be downloaded From the button below these lines. Their download page also has information on how to install this and other versions on Linux operating systems and others like macOS and even Android.
In two weeks, if the usual schedule holds and nothing suggests otherwise, WINE 11.4 will arrive, also with dozens of changes to prepare for WINE 12.0, which, based on past releases, will arrive in early 2027. This pace will continue until the end of the year, when the release frequency will increase to weekly Release Candidates, then stable (WINE 12), and then development of WINE 13.0 will begin.