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Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 10, 2022,
updated Dec 19, 2022
The Wine development release 8.0-rc1 is now available.
This is the first release candidate for the upcoming Wine 8.0. It marks the beginning of the yearly code freeze period. Please give this release a good testing and report any issue that you find, to help us make the final 8.0 as good as possible.
What's new in this release: - Bundled vkd3d upgraded to version 1.6. - Vulkan and OpenGL thunking optimizations. - More support for print processors. - Improved joystick control panel. - Long types printf format conversion finished. - Various bug fixes.
The source is available at:
https://dl.winehq.org/wine/source/8.0/wine-8.0-rc1.tar.xz
Binary packages for various distributions will be available from:
https://www.winehq.org/download
You will find documentation on https://www.winehq.org/documentation
You can also get the current source directly from the git repository. Check https://www.winehq.org/git for details.
Wine is available thanks to the work of many people. See the file AUTHORS in the distribution for the complete list.
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UPDATE
> Another year is coming to a close and so the team behind Wine, the Windows compatibility layer, are readying up for another major stable release with version 8.0. For those just joining us: Wine is one of the big parts of Steam Play Proton to run Windows games on Linux desktop and Steam Deck.
The originals, sort of:
> This is the first release candidate for the upcoming Wine 8.0. It marks the beginning of the yearly code freeze period. Please give this release a good testing and report any issue that you find, to help us make the final 8.0 as good as possible.
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