Wine is een opensource implementatie van de Windows-api. Dit maakt het mogelijk om DOS- en Windows-programma's op onder andere Linux en macOS te draaien. Van Wine is ook een commerciële versie met ondersteuning beschikbaar, met de naam CrossOver. CodeWeavers brengt CrossOver uit voor Linux, macOS en ChromeOS en zegt ook veel bij te dragen aan de ontwikkeling van Wine zelf. Versie 26.0.0 van CrossOver is uitgebracht en hierin de onderdelen wine, D3DMetal, DXMT, Wine Mono en vkd3d bijgewerkt naar de laatste versies en zullen 32bit-bottles in een volgende versie worden verwijderd en staan deze nu standaard uit, ten gunste van 64bit-versies. De complete releasenotes kunnen hieronder worden gevonden.
Announcing CrossOver 26.0.0
CrossOver 26 includes an update to Wine 11.0, bringing with it over 6,000 changes that offer improvements to a variety of applications on Mac and Linux. This release also includes an update to D3DMetal 3.0, DXMT v0.72, Wine Mono 10.4.1 and vkd3d 1.18.
The net result of all of the updates listed above is that more games and applications work, and with even better performance than before. Games newly working out of the box on Mac include Helldivers 2, Kingdom Come: Deliverance II, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition, Borderlands 4, Warhammer 40,000: Darktide, God of War Ragnarök, Starfield, Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, Company of Heroes 3, Planet Coaster 2, CloverPit, PowerWash Simulator 2, Silent Hill f, Jurassic World Evolution 2, Assetto Corsa EVO, The Outer Worlds 2, Final Fantasy Tactics - The Ivalice Chronicles, Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter, Mafia: The Old Country, Hell is Us and Cronos: The New Dawn.
For our Mac users, we also made some UI updates for macOS Tahoe and fixed an issue with Steam reopening after being shut down.
For our Linux users, we are happy to report that CrossOver 26 includes NTsync for kernels that support it. Since CrossOver now includes NTSync support for Linux and MSync support for Mac, we no longer include ESync.
Lastly, we are planning to remove 32-bit bottles from CrossOver 27. In anticipation of this change, 32-bit bottle creation is now disabled by default. If you have a favorite application that does not install into or run in a 64-bit bottle, please let us know. You can go into the Settings menu to reenable 32-bit bottles if needed in CrossOver 26, but this option will be removed in 27.
