Wine 4.15: the development version is ready to test

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Wine continues in its evolutionary process and with each release the support for videogames is considerably improved, something that gamers greatly appreciate. Now it is available Wine version 4.15 in development, a release so that you can test the news that it brings before being classified as stable. But for those who want a stable version, you can download from the official project website Wine 4.0.2. This release begins to draw what will be the immediate future of this emulator to install native software of the Microsoft Windows platform on * nix systems.

Among the changes included in Wine 4.15 you have a series of bugs that have been fixed. Also an initial implementation of the HTTP service, unraveling the stack for ARM64 binaries support, better support for multiple monitors on macOS, control optimizations in RichEdit, and those issues I mentioned fixed. Specifically, they marked 28 reported errors that have been fixed.

Some errors are older, others are more recent. For example, the problems with the video games Dragon Age: Origins, Titanfall 2, Guild Wars, World of Warcraft, and a big upgrade for BattlEye, etc. In this aspect, it will benefit other projects indirectly, since as you know, Valve uses Wine as the basis for its Proton project, which is nothing more than an implementation of Wine with some modifications.

Thanks to Proton, as you will already know if you read LxA, the Steam Play client allows thousands of titles available only for Microsoft Windows to be accessed from your GNU / Linux distro. So you don't have to wait for ports to be released for the title you want to play, etc. It will also be noticed in those who pay for the CodeWeavers CrossOver license, "the paid Wine" that has some compatibility improvements compared to the free version in exchange for paying.


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