The Wine Is Not an Emulator project is getting closer to a final release

Mar 5, 2012 14:21 GMT  ·  By

Wine 1.4 RC6, a new development version of the famous framework used to run Windows applications on Linux, has been announced by Alexandre Julliard, the leader of the Wine project.

This version is the sixth release candidate for the Wine 1.4 branch and represents an important milestone in the development of Wine (Wine Is Not an Emulator). The complete changelog can be found here.

Highlights of Wine 1.4 RC6:

• Translation updates; • Use proper CPU speed detection on FreeBSD; • Implement resetting the device window in wined3d_device_reset(); • Fix some render test failures; • Add tests for color keyed texturing with an alpha channel;

Download Wine 1.4 RC6 right now from Softpedia. Remember that this is a development release and it should NOT be installed on production machines. It is intended to be used for testing purposes only.