The first release candidate of [1]Wine 10.0 is out today that also now marks the feature freeze ahead of this stable release expected to be out around mid-January.

Per the previously covered [2]Wine 10.0 release plans , Wine 10.0-rc1 is out today to kick off the release dance leading up to Wine 10.0 stable coming within a few weeks into the new year. After today no new features will be accepted into Wine 10.0 but focusing just on bug/regression fixes.

Prior to the feature freeze today, some last minute features making it into Wine 10.0-rc1 include pulling in [3]VKD3D 1.14 for the latest Direct3D 12 on Vulkan support. Mono 9.4 is also bundled into Wine 10.0-rc1.

There is also "winebth.sys" introduced in Wine 10.0-rc1 as an initial Bluetooth driver implementation for Windows software running on Wine. UTF-8 support has also been added to the C runtime functions.

There are 17 known bug fixes in Wine 10.0-rc1 helping out software like Mathcad 15, Links 2003, FL Studio 21, and other software.

Wine 10.0-rc1 downloads and more details at [4]WineHQ.org .



[1] https://www.phoronix.com/search/Wine+10.0

[2] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-10.0-Release-Plans

[3] https://www.phoronix.com/news/VKD3D-1.14-Released

[4] https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/releases/wine-10.0-rc1