“Wine 5.12” Released
July 3, the development team of Wine, software to run Windows applications on Linux and other operating systems, announced the latest development release “5.12”.
Wine, an acronym for Wine Is Not an Emulator, is a collection of APIs to run Windows applications on POSIX compliant operating systems such as Linux, macOS, and BSD. Instead of simulating application logic like a virtual machine or emulator, it transfers Windows API calls into POSIX calls.
Wine 5.12 is the latest development release of version 5 series, which came out in January. Wine offers stable release and development release. The latest stable release 5.0.1 was released in June.
Wine 5.12 includes support for WebSocket API. NTDLL is converted to PE (Portable Executable), a format for Windows binaries.
This release improved the support for RawInput, which takes the input directly from a device like a mouse or keyboard. Also, Vulkan is updated to version 1.2.145.
There are around 48 bug fixes included in this release.