WINE 6.3 arrives without great news, but many low-level patches

WINE 6.3

True to their biweekly appointment, as long as they are not close to the release of the stable version, and fifteen days after the previous version development, WineHQ launched WINE 6.3. Although these versions usually introduce hundreds of changes, most of them are unremarkable, and that is something that has happened especially this week, with a release in which most are low-level patches.

In the list of news we usually mention bug fixes and changes made, but this time we can only see the seconds. WINE 6.3 will not be the most important release in history, at least if we look for outstanding features, but things change in the work they have done in the guts, with 455 changes total. On other occasions we can count 200 or less, so this time, at least in terms of what is seen less, the work has doubled that of other launches.

WINE 6.3 highlights

As usual, WineHQ only mentions a few changes, but I would like to highlight the work done by Alexandre Julliard, who alone has been responsible for 183 of all the patches introduced in this development version. The featured changes this week they are:

  • Better debugger support in the NT syscall interface.
  • WineGStreamer library converted to PE.
  • Even more WinRT support on WIDL.
  • Optional support for build IDs.
  • Various bug fixes.

Interested users can now install WINE 6.3 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 6.4 and, if there are no surprises, which I dare to advance that will not happen seeing how punctual they are in WineHQ, it will arrive on March 12. Among what you will introduce, the only thing we can assure you is that will come with hundreds of small improvements and corrections as usual.


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