As expected, although a couple of days later than usual, WineHQ has released a new development version of its software to run Windows applications on other operating systems that have nothing to do with Microsoft. On this occasion, and after the two weeks ago versionWhich they have given us has been WINE 7.16, another summer update with which no record has been broken.
WineHQ says that they have fixed 20 bugs, but they have made a total of 225 changes. They are not many, but that it falls within the medium-low is more than enough when it is clear that many developers are now resting. In all likelihood, the pace will start to pick up to coincide with the release of the next development version.
WINE 7.16 highlights
Of all the changes introduced, WineHQ has highlighted this week the WoW64 support in the X11 driver, session storage in MSHTML, Unicode regexp fixes in MSXML, and IME improvements in the edit control. To these three improvements is added a fourth point, the usual several bug fixes. It is in this fourth point where the more than 200 changes introduced in this version of WINE are counted.
WINE 7.16 available from this link. In the download page there is information on how to install this and other versions on operating systems such as Debian and Ubuntu, but it can also be installed on Android and macOS.
The next version will be a WINE 7.17 coming on September 9, as long as there are no delays as in the last two occasions. We don't know how high the changelog will go, but it shouldn't fall too far short of what was introduced in this latest development build. Already in September, those who are now in low hours will start working at a faster rate, and we could once again see a list with more than 300 improvements.