14 DAY TRIAL // A brand-new Wine development release is now available for download, versioned 2.20, bringing better support for several Windows games, as well as some noteworthy improvements.
First of all, Wine 2.20 is here to improve event support in the MSHTML proprietary layout engine for the Internet Explorer web browser, add preloader support on the AArch64 (ARM64) architecture, improve metafile support in GdiPlus, as well as to implement interpolation modes in Direct3D.
On top of that, it introduces the initial version of the Kerberos5 authentication package and improves the performance of the OLE clipboard cache. As usual, various bug fixes are included with each new Wine release to offer better support for your favorite Windows games and applications.
And Wine 2.20 does not disappoint, as it improves support for some of the most popular titles, including The Witcher 3, Firewatch, The Solus Project, and Banished, all of which required dcl_input_ps support. In addition, it fixes a crash with the alpha version of the Totally Accurate Battle Simulator game.
The First Templar - Steam Special Edition now better supported
Support for The First Templar - Steam Special Edition, F.E.A.R, Endless Legend, Condemned: Criminal Origins, and Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice games has been improved as well in the Wine 2.20 development release, which fixes crashes for the Fidibo installer and Ham Radio Deluxe 6.4 software.
Other than that, Wine 2.20 contains some minor improvements for the Process Hacker 3.x, Tina 11.0, and Circuit Maker 2000 applications, as well as both Xenia and RPCS3 emulators, so we recommend updating from Wine 2.19 to Wine 2.20 as soon as possible if you're using any of these Windows games or apps on your GNU/Linux distribution of your choice.
Meawhile, work on the massive Wine 3.0 update continues in the background with features like Direct3D 11 support, Android driver, Windows 7 as default Windows version for new Wine installations, as well as Direct3D command stream and message-mode pipes. Wine 3.0 is expected to arrive by the end of the year as an upgrade to Wine 2.0 installations.