An experimental release of the open implementation of the Win32 API — Wine 10.16 has been published. Since the release of 10.15, 34 bug reports have been closed and 364 changes have been made.
The most significant changes:
- Full support for the ntsync driver has been added, which significantly improves the performance of Windows games running through Wine. The driver is part of the Linux kernel starting with release 6.14 and implements the symbolic device /dev/ntsync and a set of synchronization primitives used in the Windows NT kernel. A significant performance boost is achieved by eliminating the overhead associated with using RPC in user space.
- Support for running 16-bit applications in WoW64 (64-bit Windows-on-Windows) mode has been implemented, allowing 16/32-bit Windows applications to run on 64-bit Unix systems.
- Initial support for D3DKMT objects has been added, providing low-level access to graphics devices from user space.
- Generation and installation of WinMD (Windows Metadata) files for the WinRT (Windows Runtime) API has been ensured.
- Bug reports related to the operation of applications have been closed: Lotus Word Pro 9.8, Profi cash 12, Camerabag Pro 2025.2, iTunes.
- Bug reports related to the operation of games have been closed: Need for Speed III, Shadow Company: Left for Dead, Alpha Polaris, Face Noir, A Stroke of Fate, S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat, Metro 2033, Project CARS, Star Wars: Jedi Knight — Dark Forces II, Wolfenstein: The Old Blood, Wolfenstein: The New Order, Street Chaves, GTA: Vice City, Colin McRae Rally 2, SimCity 2000, Legacy of Kain: Blood Omen, Xenia Canary.
Source: opennet.ru
