Hangover 9.17 Ships With Wine Wayland Support, Ubuntu 24.10 Packages

Building off yesterday's release of Wine 9.17 with its latest improvements for enjoying Windows games/apps on Linux, Hangover 9.17 is now out. Hangover as a reminder is the Wine-based effort for running Windows x86 applications under ARM64 Linux by leveraging Wine with emulators like QEMU, FEX, and Box64 for the cross CPU architecture handling.

Wine 9.17 brings some great improvements like HiDPI window surface scaling, VKD3D 1.13, improved AArch64 CPU detection, and other improvements. On top of re-basing to incorporate those upstream changes, Hangover 9.17 brings Wayland support along with initial Ubuntu 24.10 packages.

The Wayland support in Hangover 9.17 is that Wine is now built with its Wine Wayland (winewayland.drv) driver included. Plus the necessary dependency changes to Hangover's Docker-based build handling for producing the pre-built binaries with this Wayland support enabled.

The Ubuntu 24.10 packages with Hangover 9.17 complement existing targets of Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, Debian 11, and Debian 12 packages.

Hangover 9.17 in source form or the pre-built binaries can be obtained from GitHub.