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Wine 8.4 (UPDATED)

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Mar 19, 2023,

updated Mar 20, 2023

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WineHQ - Wine Announcement - The Wine development release 8.4 is now available.

↺ WineHQ - Wine Announcement - The Wine development release 8.4 is now available.

> The Wine development release 8.4 is now available.

> What's new in this release: - Initial step of the Wayland graphics driver. - Cleanups in IME support. - A number of test fixes. - Various bug fixes.

> The source is available at:

> https://dl.winehq.org/wine/source/8.x/wine-8.4.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.

Wine 8.4 released with initial native support for Wayland

↺ Wine 8.4 released with initial native support for Wayland

UPDATE

One more:

Wine development release 8.4 is now available for Linux FreeBSD and macOS

↺ Wine development release 8.4 is now available for Linux FreeBSD and macOS

> The Wine development release 8.4 is now available.

> What's new in this release:

> The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.

↺ available now

↺ available now

And Liam Dawe:

Wine 8.4 rolls out with initial Wayland graphics driver work

↺ Wine 8.4 rolls out with initial Wayland graphics driver work

> The Wine 8.4 development release is out now for this Windows translation layer, part of what makes Steam Play Proton tick. Every two weeks (ish), they put out a new release with the latest code like this. Once a year they then produce a stable version. We're currently waiting to see when Valve upgrade Proton to the 8 series, no word on it yet.

Slackware installation:

Wine 8.4 packages for Slackware

↺ Wine 8.4 packages for Slackware

> The Wine developers released version 8.4 last week. There's lots of bugfixes of course, but the announcement also mentions that the work has started on a Wayland graphics driver.

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