Wine (originally an acronym for "Wine Is Not an Emulator") is a compatibility layer capable of running Windows applications on several POSIX-compliant operating systems, such as Linux, macOS, & BSD. Instead of simulating internal Windows logic like a virtual machine or emulator, Wine translates Windows API calls into POSIX calls on-the-fly, eliminating the performance and memory penalties of other methods and allowing you to cleanly integrate Windows applications into your desktop.
January 13, 2026
The Wine team is proud to announce that the stable release Wine 11.0 is now available.
This release represents a year of development effort, around 6,300 individual changes, and more than 600 bug fixes. It contains a large number of improvements that are listed below. The main highlights are the NTSYNC support and the completion of the new WoW64 architecture.
January 9, 2026
The Wine development release 11.0-rc5 is now available. This is expected to be the last release candidate before the final 11.0.
What’s new in this release:
December 26, 2025
The Wine development release 11.0-rc4 is now available.
What’s new in this release:
