The first release candidate of Wine 10.0 is out today that also now marks the feature freeze ahead of this stable release expected to be out around mid-January.
Per the previously covered Wine 10.0 release plans, Wine 10.0-rc1 is out today to kick off the release dance leading up to Wine 10.0 stable coming within a few weeks into the new year. After today no new features will be accepted into Wine 10.0 but focusing just on bug/regression fixes.
Prior to the feature freeze today, some last minute features making it into Wine 10.0-rc1 include pulling in VKD3D 1.14 for the latest Direct3D 12 on Vulkan support. Mono 9.4 is also bundled into Wine 10.0-rc1.
There is also “winebth.sys” introduced in Wine 10.0-rc1 as an initial Bluetooth driver implementation for Windows software running on Wine. UTF-8 support has also been added to the C runtime functions.
There are 17 known bug fixes in Wine 10.0-rc1 helping out software like Mathcad 15, Links 2003, FL Studio 21, and other software.
Wine 10.0-rc1 downloads and more details at WineHQ.org.
