Wine 7.18 rolls out with Unicode 15 support

By Liam Dawe - 26 September 2022 at 8:21 am UTC | Views: 14,667

Wine, the translation layer that allows you to run applications and games designed for Windows on Linux has a new development release up with Wine 7.18. This is the tech that forms part of Steam Play Proton! Once a year or so, a new stable release is made but the development versions are usually fine to use.

Here's what's new in Wine 7.18:

Character tables updated to Unicode 15.0.0.
Wow64 support in the macOS driver.
Async reader fixes in GStreamer support.
Various bug fixes.

20 bugs were marked as solved as of this release announcement including issues fixed for: KeePassXC, Resident Evil 7, Bloomberg Terminal, Hotel Giant 2, Gas Guzzlers Combat Carnage, Clip Studio Paint, Cube World, Intel ACAT and more.

Be sure to try out Bottles, a great app for managing various apps / games installed via Wine.

Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.

Tags: Misc, Open Source, Wine

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beko Sep 26, 2022

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I really wondered why someone would run KeePassXC via Wine when there is a native version but I guess it makes sense if it's used in combination with a Windows program in the same environment|bottle 🤔

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mrdeathjr Sep 26, 2022

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This wine version solve problem with recursive directory navigation on 7-zip in my case

in before versions crash in some deeply directories

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