On April 23, WineHQ He launched v6.7 of its software to run Windows applications on other operating systems such as Linux. Being how punctual they are, that meant that today May 7 had to arrive WINE 6.8, and that's what has passed moments ago, a little later than usual. After stable version released At the beginning of the year, the project will release about 20 development versions like this before starting with Release Candidates and, at the end, stable WINE 7.0.
This time, WineHQ has fixed 35 bugs, but has made a total of 359 changes. As for the list of most notable novelties, the developer team has only mentioned three, so it is not one of the most striking launches of recent times, as long as the hundreds of small changes that have been done. Although it is true that it is to be expected in this phase of development.
WINE 6.8 highlights
- Libraries installed in architecture-specific subdirectories.
- Secur32 library converted to PE.
- Support for Map object in JavaScript.
- Various bug fixes.
Interested users can now install WINE 6.8 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 6.9, and will almost certainly arrive next Friday, May 21. Among what you will introduce, taking into account that we are still in the first development versions, the only thing we can assure you is that will come with hundreds of small improvements and corrections as usual.