Wine 9.0-rc3 Released With 35 Fixes In Total, Some Wayland Driver Fixes

The third weekly release candidate of Wine 9.0 is now available for this open-source software that allows running Windows games and applications on Linux and other platforms.

Wine 9.0 is the next annual stable release of Wine that is due out in the early weeks of 2024. Wine 9.0-rc3 is the latest of the weekly release candidates that will continue until the Wine developers are comfortable in declaring it stable.

Being weeks into the code freeze, it's just about bug fixing and this week brought 35 bug fixes. Wine 9.0-rc3 fixes include a few Wayland driver fixes, a Vulkan crash issue with recent Radeon drivers, RPG Maker crashing, and various game fixes from Star Wars and Starcraft Remastered to apps like Pegasus Mail.

Downloads and the full list of fixes for Wine 9.0-rc3 can be found via this evening's release announcement.