Wine 11.20 is out today as the newest bi-weekly development release of this software for enjoying Windows games and apps on Linux. We are quickly approaching the point where this development work will culminate into the Wine 12.0 stable release in early 2027.

  • Zachariah
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    8 days ago

    Another notable change is Wine moving its CD-ROM support code over to its Mount Manager. The CD-ROM change was made as part of an NTDLL code rework for no longer opening Unix devices directly and instead relying on the Mount Manager “mountmgr” code.

    • auzy1OPM
      1·
      8 days ago

      For me, not too fussed about that (haven’t used that code I think). In my case, there is some encryption stuff missing which needs fixing (and, no real solution around it). And I wish it was fixed :(

      I have a wine patch developed using an LLM that adds the missing stubs, but, I can’t submit that to wine (and whilst the code works for me, it might not work for other people anyway). So, I’m really stuck with virt-manager for now unfortunately.