Wine 8.1 Released - Now Exposed As "Windows 10" For New Prefixes

[trek]

Is it possible to select Windows 11 as an option for how Wine to present itself?

What motivated the change for changing Wine from presenting itself as Windows 8.1 to Windows 10? Is there any criteria?
Why doesn't it present itself as Windows 11 yet and what would be needed for it to do so?

may be the support to the newly introduced APIs of windows 10 is almost complete or at least it is working with the most used applications

[dragon321]

I wonder how that wine-like project for running macos stuff on linux is going actually?

It's called Darling. Quite recently they made interesting change. They switched from kernel module approach to pure user space like Wine does. While kernel module can do much more things because it's not limited by Linux user space, it's not very convenient for user and in case of stability issue it can take down entire OS.

[Tuxie]

Or Cognac

Then they can use VS, VSOP, XO and Réserve de Famille as version numbers.

[edwaleni]

Wine 8 has about the same value to me as Wine 3.2. Which today is very little. Every app I think is a worthy candidate to run there, can't.

[Weasel]

Is it possible to select Windows 11 as an option for how Wine to present itself?

What motivated the change for changing Wine from presenting itself as Windows 8.1 to Windows 10? Is there any criteria?
Why doesn't it present itself as Windows 11 yet and what would be needed for it to do so?

I like how Michael hyped up the literally least important change. How about just change it yourself? Just launch winecfg and there you go.

There's nothing special about this change other than it being the freaking default. Saves you 5 seconds of launching winecfg. Oh no.

Anyway it doesn't default to Win11 because many Win11 APIs are not implemented yet so they didn't want to risk breaking apps that check for it and try to use them.

[Old Grouch]

Or Cognac

Or Wine Marc 10.

[IanW]

Is it possible to select Windows 11 as an option for how Wine to present itself?

What motivated the change for changing Wine from presenting itself as Windows 8.1 to Windows 10? Is there any criteria?
Why doesn't it present itself as Windows 11 yet and what would be needed for it to do so?

It might be related to MS recently ending all support for Windows versions before 10.

[uid313]

Is it possible to select Windows 11 as an option for how Wine to present itself?

What motivated the change for changing Wine from presenting itself as Windows 8.1 to Windows 10? Is there any criteria?
Why doesn't it present itself as Windows 11 yet and what would be needed for it to do so?

[Berniyh]

That would make one crazy binary name.

[CochainComplex]

Same thing, but more specific. Right now they call it wine, not Châteauneuf-Du Pape.

Clos de l'Oratoire des Papes!!