Two weeks after the release of one development version of WINE, the next one arrives, and it does so with Swiss precision. Thus, after the v5.16 has arrived WINE 5.17, another version in development in which, as always, few important new features stand out. As a fortnight ago, WineHQ has mentioned only three outstanding novelties, to which must be added the fourth of various corrections in which most of the work would be.
If we look further down the release note from WINE 5.17, we can see that they have corrected 17 bugs and introduced 268 changes. Again, they have been much less than in previous development versions, where more than 400 have been introduced. Here are the news that WineHQ has considered important enough to mention as outstanding, as well as links to download WINE 5.17 .
WINE 5.17 highlights
- The ADVAPI32 library has been converted to PE.
- Development of an NDIS network driver has started.
- Console support continues to be restructured.
- Various fixes.
Interested users can now install WINE 5.17 from its source code, available in this y this other link, or from binaries that can be downloaded from here. In the link from where we can download the binaries there is also information to add the official project repository to receive this and other future updates as soon as they are ready for systems like Ubuntu / Debian or Fedora, but there are also versions for Android and macOS .
The next development version will be WINE 5.18 and, if there are no surprises, something that seems impossible to happen on the WineHQ agenda, the next September 25. Among the improvements that it will introduce, it is expected that they will continue with the development of the NDIS network driver, in addition to that they will introduce hundreds of small improvements and corrections as usual
In the last paragraph you put 5.17 instead of 5.18