Wine 10.11 is out for testing today as the newest bi-weekly development release of this software for running Microsoft Windows games and applications on Linux and other platforms.
Most notable with Wine 10.11 is making more preparations around NTSYNC support for that upstream Linux kernel driver for better matching the Windows NT synchronization primitives. Leveraging NTSYNC can help with Windows gaming performance and other scenarios. NTSYNC is in good shape with Linux 6.14 and newer while the Wine support is still pending.
There has been this work-in-progress Wine merge request. Wine 10.11 doesn’t take it over the finish line but there are some prep patches merged while the main code remains under review.
Wine 10.11 also lands more support for generating Windows Runtime metadata in WIDL. There are 25 known bug fixes in Wine 10.11 for helping games like C&C Generals Zero Hour and Fallout 3 to Thief II and Civilization III.
More details and downloads on the Wine 10.11 release via WineHQ.org.
