Wine 5.0 Is Now Available With New Features

Insight: Wine 5.0 Is Now Available With New Features

The latest version of Wine is now available for download. Wine 5.0 is now available with new features. If you don’t know what actually wine is then Wine (originally an acronym for “Wine Is Not an Emulator”) is a compatibility layer capable of running Windows applications on operating systems, such as Linux, macOS, & BSD.

Wine 5.0 Is Now Available With New Features

Some of the notable new features are:

• Builtin modules in PE format.
• Multi-monitor support.
• XAudio2 reimplementation.
• Vulkan 1.1 support.

This release of Wine is dedicated to the memory of Józef Kucia, who passed away in August 2019 at the young age of 30, He was a major contributor to Wine’s Direct3D implementation, and the lead developer of the vkd3d project.