🥇 Release of Wine 9.3 and beta version of Proton 9.0

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

The most significant changes:

Support for proxy operation has been added to the Windows Internet API (WinINet).
A new driver mouhid.sys has been added for pointer control devices (touchpads, mice) using the HID (Human Interface Device) protocol.
Time zone data has been updated.
Continued work on improving exception handling on ARM platforms.
Bug reports related to the operation of the following games have been closed: Final Fantasy XI, Virtual Life 2, Finding Nemo, Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020, Baldur’s Gate 3, Mass Effect Legendary Edition.
Bug reports related to the operation of the following applications have been closed: 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, it is worth noting the publication by Valve of the beta release of Proton 9.0, based on the codebase of the Wine project and aimed at enabling the launch of gaming applications created for Windows and available in the Steam catalog on Linux. Proton allows direct launching of Windows-only game applications within the Steam client on Linux. The package includes implementations of DirectX 9/10/11 (based on the DXVK package) and DirectX 12 (based on vkd3d-proton), working through the translation of DirectX calls into the Vulkan API, provides improved support for gaming controllers, and the ability to use fullscreen mode regardless of the supported screen resolutions in games. To enhance the performance of multithreaded games, it supports mechanisms like 'esync' (Eventfd Synchronization) and 'futex/fsync'.

In the new Proton branch, synchronization with the release of Wine 9.0 has been performed. Specific patches that had accumulated in Proton have been transferred to upstream and are now part of the main Wine distribution. The DXVK layer, which translates calls into the Vulkan API, has been updated to version 2.3. VKD3D-Proton, a fork of vkd3d created by Valve to improve support for Direct3D 12 in Proton, has been updated to version 2.11.1. The Dxvk-nvapi package implementing the NVAPI library over DXVK has been updated to version 0.6.4.

Support for the following games has been added: