The release of the Hangover 11.0 toolkit has been published, allowing the execution of 64-bit and 32-bit Windows applications built for x86 (i386), x86_64, and ARM32 architectures in ARM64 (Aarch64) environments. A version of Hangover for the RISC-V architecture is in development. The project's artifacts are distributed under the LGPL 2.1 license.
Hangover significantly outperforms configurations where Wine runs entirely in emulation mode, as Hangover only uses the emulator for executing the application code, while all system calls, libraries, and Wine components run natively on the current platform (Hangover breaks the emulation chain at the level of win32 and wine calls). FEX and Box64 can be used in the emulation layer, depending on the user's preferences. Support for the Blink emulator has been initiated but is not yet completed.
Among the changes in the new version:
- The synchronization with the Wine 11 codebase has been completed. The number of patches applied on top of Wine has been reduced to 10.
- The FEX 2601 and Box64 0.4 emulators have been updated.
- The box64cpu.dll library has been moved to the Box64 project under the name WowBox64.dll.
- Support for QEMU has been discontinued. Only support for FEX and Box64 emulators remains.
- Packages for Ubuntu 25.10 have been added.
Source: opennet.ru
