🥇Wine 9.3 Release and Proton 9.0 Beta

An experimental release of an open implementation of the Win32 API - Wine 9.3 - took place. Since the release of 9.2, 23 bug reports have been closed and 295 changes have been made.

The most important changes:

In the API Windows Internet (WinINet) support for working through a proxy has been added.
Added a new mouhid.sys driver for pointer control devices (touchpads, mice) using the HID (Human Interface Device) protocol.
Updated time zone information.
Work continues to improve exception handling on ARM platforms.
Error reports related to the operation of the games are closed: Final Fantasy XI, Virtual Life 2, Finding Nemo, Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020, Baldur's Gate 3, Mass Effect Legendary Edition.
Closed error reports related to the operation of applications: FDM (Free Download Manager), Basemark Web 3.0, Happy Foto Designer, IK Product Manager, Western Digital SSD Dashboard, cmd.exe, Solidworks 2008, Autodesk Fusion360, LMMS 1.2.2.

Additionally, Valve has released a beta release of Proton 9.0, a package based on the Wine project codebase that aims to enable the launch of Linux gaming applications created for Windows and presented in the Steam catalog. Proton allows you to directly launch in Linux-Steam client game applications supplied only for WindowsThe package includes an implementation of DirectX 9/10/11 (based on the DXVK package) and DirectX 12 (based on vkd3d-proton), working through the translation of DirectX calls to the Vulkan API. It provides improved support for game controllers and the ability to use full-screen mode regardless of the screen resolutions supported in games. To improve the performance of multi-threaded games, the "esync" (Eventfd Synchronization) and "futex/fsync" mechanisms are supported.

The new Proton branch is in sync with the Wine 9.0 release. The accumulated specific patches have been transferred from Proton to upstream, which are now included in the main part of Wine. The DXVK layer, which translates calls to the Vulkan API, has been updated to version 2.3. VKD3D-Proton, a fork of vkd3d created by Valve to improve Direct3D 12 support in Proton, has been updated to version 2.11.1. The Dxvk-nvapi package with the implementation of the NVAPI library on top of DXVK has been updated to version 0.6.4. 0.6.2.

Added support for games: