Wine 5.5 Released, with enhanced support for UCRT libraries
“Wine” is a compatibility layer that runs Windows applications on Linux. The “Wine” development team released the latest “Wine 5.5” on March 27.
Wine (Wine Is Not an Emulator) is a software that provides an API compatible with Windows API for POSIX OSs like Linux, macOS, and BSD. Unlike virtual machine and emulator, it does not emulate hardware. It introduces the approach to convert Windows API into POSIX call before execution, which can minimize the effects on performance and memory usage.
Wine 5.5 is the latest point release of the Wine 5th series released in January. As it progressed its transition to UCRT (Universal CRT) libraries , the Wine 5.5 built-in libraries now use the new UCRTBase C run-time. Also, when reporting the Windows version, it now uses the compatibility mode.
It has better support for debug information in PE files, and there are more attributes supported in WebServices. It also includes various bug fixes.
Wine 5.5 is available on the project website.