14 DAY TRIAL // Today, December 21, 2016, the development team behind the Wine fork Wine-Stating project announced the availability of the first and second Release Candidate versions of the upcoming Wine-Stating 2.0 major stable series.
Based on the latest RC builds of Wine 2.0, today's Wine-Staging 2.0 development releases ship with a basic implementation of Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) in the bcrypt password hashing function, better TIFF support in windowscodecs, as well as a handful of enhancements to user32, winhttp, and other Windows DLLs.
While the first Release Candidate of Wine-Stating 2.0 only ships with various bug fixes, mostly the same that were implemented in the Wine 2.0 RC1 build, the second RC version removes GnuTLS/CommonCrypto dependency for hash calculations in bcrypt and implements everything needed for allowing users to play the new DOOM game.
"Wine Staging 2.0-rc2 implements everything necessary to get DOOM (2016) running. Feel free to play around with the different features like Vulkan support and report remaining issues in the bug tracker," reads today's announcement. From there you'll be able to download the Wine-Staging 2.0 RC2 binaries and source archive.
All the goodies from Wine 2.0 have landed
Apart from shipping with support for DOOM 2016 with Vulkan and the new bcrypt and windowscodecs goodies, the latest Release Candidate versions of Wine-Staging 2.0 include all the improvements implemented in the current development branch of Wine 2.0, such as more Shader Model 5 operations and IDN name resolution support.
Other than that, there's a major bugfix update for the Mono engine and the addition of extra patches in the regression tests. You are invited to download Wine-Staging 2.0 RC2 right now from our website and take it for a test drive, especially if you've ever dreamed of playing DOOM 2016 on your GNU/Linux distribution.