A few moments ago, the Wine development team was proud to announce the general availability of the first Release Candidate of the upcoming Wine 2.0 open-source software for running Windows apps on Linux and UNIX-like operating systems.
According to the release notes, Wine 2.0 RC1 (Release Candidate 1) prepares the software for its major Wine 2.0 launch, and it also marks the beginning of the code freeze period. As for the new features, you can notice great improvements to the Mono engine implementation, support for IDN name resolution, lots of Shader Model 5 operations, and a bunch of fixes in the regression tests.
“This is the first release candidate for the upcoming Wine 2.0. It marks the beginning of the code freeze period. Please give this release a good testing to help us make 2.0 as good as possible,” reads today’s announcement, where we can also access the … (read more)
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