As expected, [1]Wine 11.0 stable was officially released today. This is a big step forward for this open-source software to run Windows games and applications on Linux and other platforms. Wine also serves as the basis for Valve's Steam Play (Proton) that has been critical to the recent successes of Linux gaming.

Wine 11.0 brings NTSYNC support when running on recent versions of the Linux kernel, the new WoW64 mode is stable, exclusive full-screen mode support, better Wine Wayland driver support, Vulkan improvements, and various other gaming enhancements like better joystick and gamepad support.

Wine 11.0 is a big step forward for running more modern Windows software on Linux. More details on the Wine 11.0 feature highlights can be found in [2]yesterday's article . Wine 11.0 serves as the annual timed stable release in building off the Wine 10.xx bi-weekly development releases of the past year.

Wine 11.0 can be downloaded from [3]WineHQ.org .



[1] https://www.phoronix.com/search/Wine+11.0

[2] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-11.0-Tomorrow

[3] https://www.winehq.org/news/2026011301