Hangover 11.0, a toolkit for running 64- and 32-bit Windows applications built for x86 (i386), x86_64, and ARM32 architectures, has been released in ARM64 (Aarch64) environments. A Hangover implementation for the RISC-V architecture is currently under development. The project's work is licensed under the LGPL 2.1 license.
Hangover noticeably outperforms configurations in which Wine is launched entirely in emulation mode, since when using Hangover, the emulator is used only to execute the application code itself, and all system calls, libraries, and Wine components are executed outside the emulator in the native execution for the current platform (Hangover breaks the emulation chain at the level of calls to win32 and wine). The emulation layer can use FEX and Box64, depending on user preferences. Work has begun, but is not yet completed, on supporting the Blink emulator.
Among the changes in the new version:
- Synchronization with the Wine 11 codebase has been completed. The number of patches with fixes applied on top of Wine has been reduced to 10.
- 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.
- QEMU support has been discontinued. Only FEX and Box64 emulators are supported.
- Added packages for Ubuntu 25.10.
Source: opennet.ru
