Wine 10.17 brings a Mono upgrade, better ANSI ODBC driver support, OpenGL changes and more

By Liam Dawe - 20 Oct 2025 at 9:34 am UTC

Last updated: 20 Oct 2025 at 11:45 am UTC

Another development release of the Windows compatibility layer Wine is out, with Wine 10.17 bringing lots of changes. We should see the stable release of Wine 11 in January 2026, which should be a great release.

Here's all that's changed with Wine 10.17:

Mono engine updated to version 10.3.0.

EGL renderer used by default for OpenGL.

COMCTL32 split into separate v5 and v6 modules.

Better support for ANSI ODBC drivers.

Improved CPU info on FreeBSD.

Various bug fixes.

Some of the bug fixes noted improvements for Metro 2033, INSIDE, Throne and Liberty, a 16-bit app fix for wow64, a fix for some apps with multi-monitor configurations and more.

And for the Wine Mono 10.3.0 release that's included these are the changes:

Fixed a potential crash when MONO_XDEBUG is used with assemblies loaded by data or reflection only.

README was ported to markdown. (Elliot Vadi-Ozolins)

Added Line Services and Page Services implementations to WPF, which should make some System.Windows.Documents APIs work. (Brendan McGrath)

Replicated a .NET Framework bug where List.ForEach(Action) does not check for modifications to the list during iteration. (fixes crashes in Sword of the Stars: The Pit, and Marvin's Mittens)

Fixed System.Windows.Forms.Application.EnableVisualStyles() not having any effect. (fixes WineHQ#57259)

Fixed exception when calling SoundPlayer.Stop() without calling SoundPlayer.Play() first. (fixes WineHQ#58752)

Technical:

The build environment has been updated to Debian Trixie.

Fixed a Mono-internal string hash function not using the first character in its calculation.

WPF assemblies now have PDB files. (Brendan McGrath)

Upstream updates:

llvm-mingw to 20251007

SDL3 to 3.2.24

FNA to 25.10

We're also getting really close to Proton 10 finally being a stable release, with a release candidate out for testing.

Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.

Tags: Misc, New Release, Open Source, Wine

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mrdeathjr 4 hours ago

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this wine version work ok in my case with mesa 26.0-dev (compiled myself, for now dont stay on ernst ppa)

https://i.postimg.cc/256xsmDM/wn1017a.png [External Link]

and come with EGL Renderer For OpenGL On X11 as article said but in practice using resident evil 3 classic still run at around 5fps

https://i.postimg.cc/sgTh1BKd/wn1017b.png [External Link]

curiously show a interesting error: libEGL warning: FIXME: egl/x11 doesn't support front buffer rendering.

Resuming huge part of this weekend try install resolute racoon cinnamon flavor*:

after testing lastest ubuntu kylin resolute of today, login error still remain

and test using ubuntu cinnamon 25.10 and installation work ok and login work without issues

curiously comparing login screen between 25.10 and 26.04 on cinnamon flavor: user stay selected on 25.10 only need write password for entry (work ok)

but on 26.04 on cinnamon, user dont appear selected and password box work but password appear as incorrect

also without gui tty console show same error, can write user and password ok but password still remain as incorrect

Hi after more testing i found a way to testing resolute

With actual isos resolute dont work because before cited login problem in my case

However if install for example ubuntu cinnamon 25.10 and after this use:

sudo update-manager -d

In my case stay work ok for now

*very impressed with performance, various tools of cinnamon like disable any effect on screen in my case and dont use wayland (in my case needed until wayland becomes more mature, actually have a better form but i give more time for polish various pending issues

however as commented in before this possible a last time use x as display server for 28.04 jump to wayland)

But now lastest mesa git compile without issues and same situation occur with wine 10.17 (new wow64) compilation

https://i.postimg.cc/hPQBDWfp/wn1017d.png [External Link]

at least more interesting thing related ntsync, in 24.04 still using shmrel commands** dont appear ntsync status in mango hud but now

https://i.postimg.cc/ydsxM6jS/wn1017c.png [External Link]

**[QUOTE]shmrel commands for use ntsync in my case:

lsmod

this allow know if ntsync stay avalaible and active, as interesting date on xubuntu 24.04 appear in usedby o but now stay activated always appear different number than 0

if dont appear in lsmod need put this command:

sudo modprobe ntsync

after this in my case use this:

cat /proc/modules | grep -c ntsync

before commnd is for verify ntsync status if appear 1 is stay avalaible

after this use again:

lsmod

and this time must be appear in module as name followed by size and used by

https://i.postimg.cc/k4ZDpx2C/wn1017f.png [External Link]

I finish dirt 3 benchmark and.................................. emoji

With wine 10.16 with xubuntu 24.04 give this results:

https://i.postimg.cc/wxCWN7qM/wn1016wnts.png [External Link]

around 145fps in average and around 118fps in min fps

but now

https://i.postimg.cc/4xLVzS67/wn1017e.png [External Link]

around 197fps in average and around 158fps in min fps emoji

Last edited by mrdeathjr on 20 Oct 2025 at 11:54 am UTC

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Avehicle7887 3 hours ago

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@mrdeathjr - any luck with getting the videos of Elderborn to work? Been a while since I tested it.

Also - how did you get NTsync to show up in Mangohud? I can't find the right switch.

Last edited by Avehicle7887 on 20 Oct 2025 at 12:21 pm UTC

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