WineConf as the annual Wine developer conference, for this open-source software allowing Windows games and applications to run on Linux, took place this weekend in The Hague. Several interesting talks took place including the usual keynote by Wine project leader Alexandre Julliard.
Alexandre Julliard’s keynote at WineConf 2025 featured the recent highlights on the Wayland and Bluetooth drivers for Wine, WinRT support, the new PDB back-end, and other enhancements. Plus Wine’s growing codebase at large and other development trends for this prominent open-source project that is all the more notable these days for powering Valve’s Steam Play (Proton).
On the infrastructure side, plans were laid out for moving to GitLab for Wine bug tracking, adding more continuous integration (CI) test runners, and other features.
Julliard also reaffirmed plans for releasing Wine 11.0 in early 2026 as the annual major stable release of Wine. Wine 11.0 will begin its code freeze on 5 December and hoped to release as stable in January.
The big features to look forward to with Wine 11.0 is the NTSYNC support by Wine and a new WoW64 mode with OpenGL memory mappings, 16-bit support, and 32-bit prefixes.
More details on all of the presentations — including slides and videos — from WineConf 2025 in Amsterdam can be found via this WineHQ.org GitLab page.
