The latest release of Wine development, 10.19, brings about twenty new changes that focus on practical upgrades and fixes to core areas like file systems, WinRT support, and windowing systems. This version specifically handles reparse points more efficiently and improves exception handling in WinRT, making it less likely for issues to arise. Additionally, the team has made efforts to refactor Common Controls and add support for Typed Arrays in JScript, enhancing functionality and flexibility for users. The release also includes 34 bug fixes across the codebase, further improving reliability and system internals.

Wine 10.19 released

The Wine development release 10.19 is now out there for everyone to check out.

This latest build brings about twenty new changes overall, focusing on practical upgrades and fixes. We're seeing good progress in core areas like integrating the Windows file system, WinRT support, and the underpinnings of our windowing system, plus a few tweaks to keep things running smoothly inside your browser via JScript.

One concrete thing this version handles better is reparse points, those handy little features for managing files on systems that mirror parts of Windows. There's also focused work improving WinRT exception handling, making it less likely you'll run into issues and potentially smoother across the board.

And speaking of getting smoother, the team put effort into refactoring Common Controls following a v5/v6 split decision; this update makes working with those controls within applications feel more natural now. On another front, support for Typed Arrays in JScript opens up more flexibility for web developers using it directly.

For users and maintainers alike, there's plenty happening underneath the surface too. The developers are tracking down bugs across the codebase; hitting 34 fixes this release cycle is a solid contribution to reliability. It feels like the system internals are getting cleaned up, especially concerning graphics rendering and old compatibility flags.

Various hands have been involved in testing new features, refining existing ones (such as checking AVI videos), translating resources, and adding guardrails against tricky situations, such as potential integer overflow or legacy FreeType issues. Others focused on areas like DirectSound setup, Vulkan integration with a specific card modelled, ensuring things like holographic space interop work right, or even getting the compiler to be quieter about its business.

So, head over to the download sites listed on the Wine wiki page for your preferred build (development source code is also available directly).