An experimental release of the open source WinAPI implementation has taken place – Wine 6.2 . Since the release of version 6.1, 51 bug reports have been closed and 329 changes have been made.
Most important changes:
- Updated Mono engine to 6.0 with DirectX support.
- Added support for NTDLL debugger API.
- The WIDL (Wine Interface Definition Language) compiler has extended support for WinRT IDL (Interface Definition Language).
- Fixed issues with Xbox One controllers on macOS.
- Closed bug reports related to the work of games and applications: World of Tanks, Directory Opus 9 with the Amiga Explorer Shell add-on, Total Commander 7.x, Foxit Reader, Paint.NET, Earth 2160, AVATAR Demo, iNodeSetup 3.60, QQPlayer 3.1, Crossfire HGWC, EMS SQL Manager 2010 Lite for PostgreSQL v.4.7.08, Cygwin / MSYS2, Knight Online, Valorant, Chrome, Yumina the Ethereal, Wabbitcode 0.5.x, Atomic Mail Sender 4.25, RSSeditor 0.9.54, High Impact eMail 5, WiX Toolset v3.9, PTC Mathcad Prime 3.0, PaintRibbon 1.x, Jeskola Buzz, OllyDbg 2.x, Google SketchUp, Kingsoft PC Doctor, WRC 5, Shadow Warrior 2, MS Word 2013/2016, Runaway, Adobe Audition, Steel Series Engine 3, Ryse: Son of Rome, Hitman: Absolution, iTunes 12.11.0.26, Game Protect Kit (GPK), Far Manager.
Optional completed project release Wine Staging 6.2 , which builds advanced Wine builds that include incomplete or risky patches that are not yet suitable for acceptance into the main Wine branch. There are 669 additional patches available in Wine Staging compared to Wine.
The new release provides synchronization with the Wine 6.2 codebase. 38 patches were transferred to the main Wine composition, mainly related to WIDL support and enhancements
ntdll. Updated patches xactengine3_7-Notification, ntdll-Junction_Points and widl-winrt-support.
Additionally, Valve has published a project release Proton 5.13-6 , which is based on the Wine project and aims to ensure that gaming applications created for Windows and presented in the Steam catalog run on Linux. The developments of the project are distributed