Article 6856J WINE 8.0 released

WINE 8.0 released

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Version 8.0 of the WINEWindows compatibility layer has been released. The headline featureappears to be the conversion to PE ("portable executable") modules:

After 4 years of work, the PE conversion is finally complete: all modules can be built in PE format. This is an important milestone on the road to supporting various features such as copy protection, 32-bit applications on 64-bit hosts, Windows debuggers, x86 applications on ARM, etc.

Other changes include WoW64 support (allowing 32-bit modules to call into64-bit libraries), Print Processor support, improved Direct3D support, andmore.

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