WINE 11.8 arrives with the Mono 11.1.0 engine and introduces more than 200 changes.

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WINE 11.8

Wine Is Not an Emulator is a program that allows you to run Windows applications on other operating systems. A Windows program likely uses the .NET Framework, which is why the Mono engine is so important. A few hours ago, WineHQ posted WINE 11.8And its most notable new feature is that they have updated the Mono engine to version 11.1.0. We also remind you that this version arrived two weeks after the previous 11.7.

Other notable updates include further work on the MSXML reimplementation without libxms2, improved support for the keyboard layer using XKBRegistry, and additional compatibility improvements for VBScript, along with the usual miscellaneous bug fixes. In numerical terms, the following improvements have been made: 239 changes and corrected 22 bugs, those in the following list.

Bugs fixed in WINE 11.9

  • Microsoft Golf 99 (Direct3D game) crashes on startup (IDirect3D::EnumDevices() should return the RGB device second).
  • Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Lockdown cannot save games (the directory is not created).
  • Hoot Sound Hardware Emulator crashes on startup.
  • cscript.exe shows no errors.
  • Altium Designer 18.x – 20.x crashes on startup.
  • MSXML loses the #10 character in multiline attribute values.
  • vbscript: ExecuteGlobal is not implemented.
  • Visio 2013 does not install with integrated msxml6.
  • vbscript: invoke_vbdisp does not properly handle let properties for VT_DISPATCH arguments.
  • VBScript does not support the Get_Item call on IDispatch objects.
  • VBScript does not have Eval implemented.
  • vbscript: GetRef support missing.
  • VBScript: A single-line if statement without an else body fails to compile.
  • vbscript: a For loop where the variable is not defined throws an error without context.
  • vbscript: Me(Idx) fails to compile.
  • Petka freezes when starting a new game.
  • Applications packaged with Enigma Virtual Box fail with file access errors since a recent change.
  • FormatMessageW does not format ERROR_NOT_A_REPARSE_POINT (4390) and returns error 317.
  • PL/SQL Developer does not start in Wine 11.7.
  • ExamDiffPro now crashes on Wine 11.7.
  • Support for SEC_WINNT_AUTH_IDENTITY_EX has been added to AcquireCredentialsHandle.
  • Assassin's Creed Shadows does not start from Wine 11.4 after changes to windows.media.speech.

Now available

Wine 11.8 is now available for download from the button below. Its download page also contains information on how to install this and other versions on Linux operating systems, as well as others like macOS and even Android.

In two weeks, if the usual schedule holds and nothing suggests otherwise, WINE 11.9 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.