"The latest version of the Wine Windows app runner arrives a year after version 10. Given its annual release cycle, its magic is starting to seem almost boring and routine, but it's far from it. The Wine project delivered Wine 11.0 Tuesday, very slightly less than one year after we covered the release of Wine 10. Wine lets you run 16-bit, 32-bit, and 64-bit Windows x86 binaries on modern Unix and Unix-like OSes. This release eliminates the separation between 32-bit and 64-bit commands: it handles running 32-bit Windows binaries on 64-bit OSes internally."
"NTSync represents a fairly unusual sort of addition to the Linux kernel, as it brings no benefit to native Linux programs - it just improves the performance of Windows binaries running via Wine. As we described back in 2023, Valve's SteamOS is noticeably driving both the performance and compatibility of Windows programs on Linux in recent years. (Valve released SteamOS 3.7.19 last week, and new SteamOS hardware is coming "in early 2026".)"
Wine 11.0 was released slightly less than a year after Wine 10 and continues to enable running 16-bit, 32-bit, and 64-bit Windows x86 binaries on Unix-like systems. The release removes the external separation between 32-bit and 64-bit commands by handling 32-bit Windows binaries on 64-bit hosts internally. On Linux, Wine 11.0 supports the kernel's NT synchronization primitive (ntsync), introduced in kernel 6.14, exposing /dev/ntsync for faster in-kernel NT-compatible sync calls while still running on older kernels more slowly. Wine on Arm64 can use FEX-Emu and the Hangover project to run x86 Windows programs.
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