The development release Wine 10.19 is out now for the compatibility layer that powers Valve's Proton, here's all that's new and improved.

The development release Wine 10.19 is out now for the compatibility layer that powers Valve’s Proton, here’s all that’s new and improved. Early next year we should see Wine 11, and then at some point Proton 11 too!

From the highlights:

Support for reparse points.

  • More support for WinRT exceptions.
  • Refactoring of Common Controls after the v5/v6 split.
  • Typed Arrays support in JScript.
  • Various bug fixes.
  • palordrolap@fedia.io
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    10 hours ago

    Odd question: What would be the fallout from changing the version numbering to be more like the change recently made by LibreOffice? That is, making it be related to the year number rather than the current system.

    The reason I ask is that Linux has been and will be getting refugees from Windows 10 and 11, and the timing of the current version numbers is somewhat unfortunate and potentially confusing in that regard.

    I’m aware I may be imagining a problem that won’t actually exist in any meaningful amount.

    There’s also the potential problem of Microsoft following suit with whatever follows Windows 11 being “Windows 2029” or something, but it wouldn’t be too hard to deliberately throw in another jump if that were to happen at the loss of some synchronicity.

    Wine 49 certainly has a ring to it!