14 DAY TRIAL // The Wine (Wine Is Not an Emulator) compatibility layer for running Windows apps and games on GNU/Linux and UNIX-like operating system received a new stability update for the latest Wine 2.0 branch.
Wine 2.0.3 comes three months after the previous maintenance release and includes compatibility fixes for the FreeType 2.8.1 open-source font engine and some bug fixes to improve support for various Windows applications and games. According to the changelog, a total of 37 bugs were squashed for this update.
Among the Windows apps that received improvements in Wine 2.0.3, we can mention Adobe Premiere, Kingsoft WPS Office 2013, Notepad++, PureBasic, AcdSee Pro 10, Guitar Pro 7, Bitlord, and Sound Recorder. A make error was also patched for Debian GNU/Linux x86_64 systems running Linux 4.9.30-2kali1 kernel.
Rise of the Tomb Raider and Lost Horizon get improved
Wine 2.0.3 also adds improvements to several Windows games, including Rise of the Tomb Raider, Lost Horizon, World of Warships, World of Planes, World Of Tanks, Worms Armageddon, Söldner Secret Wars, Soul Reaver (GOG), Seed of Andromeda Pre-Alpha 0.2, Infogrames' Scrabble, WAtomic, and Crazyracing Kartrider.
We've attached the full changelog below if you're curious to know what exactly was changed in this new stability update of Wine 2.0, whose source tarball you can download right now from our website if you fancy compiling Wine from sources. Otherwise, you should be able to install Wine 2.0.3 from your distro's repositories.
But if you want to use a more recent version of Wine, you should know that the Wine 2.19 development release arrived last week with support for 32-bit float audio on Android, better support for Apple's iTunes 11.1.x music player, and improvements for the Microsoft DirectX 9.0c Redistributable installer.