Bottles 51.25 released
Bottles 51.25 is now available, offering a powerful tool for running Windows software on Linux using separate environments. Leveraging Flatpak to utilize the latest components and versions of the Mesa graphics library, Bottles has become an ideal platform for Linux LTS distributions like Debian GNU/Linux or Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
The application boasts impressive gaming capabilities with its preconfigured gaming environment supporting numerous Windows video games on Linux. Users can instantly access popular game stores such as the Epic Games Store, EA Launcher, and Battle.net, allowing them to enjoy their favorite games just like on Windows.
Bottles introduces a novel approach to handling Windows prefixes in environments – a combination of settings, libraries, and dependencies that are ready to use right out of the box. Users can choose between the Gaming and Software environments based on the type of software they want to run or opt for the Custom environment for more advanced users who prefer to configure their own settings.
One of the key features of Bottles is its high level of customization. Users can tweak their Windows environment with ease by selecting from a range of options, including dxvk, vkd3d, gamemode, esync, fsync, and others. Additionally, Bottles allows users to change runners on the fly or install new ones for testing purposes.
To simplify dependency management, Bottles includes an integrated and user-friendly dependency manager that automates this process. Users can effortlessly search for and install packages, confident in Bottles' handling of everything.
Bottles also features Installers – instruction sets written by its community members that automate the entire dependency setup and installation process. This means that users do not have to worry about anything when installing games or applications into their bottles. Furthermore, the Snapshots manager enables users to easily restore previous states of their bottles if something goes wrong.
The software is designed with safety in mind, creating a fully sandboxed environment that isolates bottles from the system and personal files unless the user explicitly accesses them. Bottles recommends using the Flatpak package for its preconfigured, highly secure sandboxing capabilities.
Bottles 51.25 has addressed several bugs and added new features, including:
- A fix for an invalid method call when changing the "update-date" preference
- Prevention of exceptions when updating a bottle's dependency list view
- Support for the st terminal
- Ensuring that the whole placeholder folder is removed on bottle deletion
- Fixing the broken CMD action with xfce4-terminal
- Loading BottleConfig from bottle.yml if it exists (for Steam)
- Resolving an issue related to updating dependencies
For download links, visit the official Get Bottles Download page. The source code is available from the GitHub page below:
bottlesdevs/Bottles Release 51.25
What's Changed fix: invalid method call when changing the "update-date" preference by @ju1ius in #4046 fix: prevent exception when updating a bottle's dependecy list view by @ju1ius
