Wine 9.0 official version released: ushering in the first Wayland driver, supporting 64-bit systems running 32-bit applications

According to news on January 17, the Wine team announced the launch of the official version of Wine 9.0 on the 16th. This release represents a year of development efforts and more than 7,000 changes by the team.

The main highlights of the official version of Wine 9.0 are the new WoW64 architecture and experimental Wayland driver support.

Wine 9.0 introduces a new WoW64 mode, making it possible to install and run 32-bit Windows applications on pure 64-bit Unix systems. However, this feature is not enabled by default and needs to be enabled by setting "--enable-archs=i386,x86_64".

Wayland is a new generation windowing system for Linux distributions that is gradually replacing the aging X11 standard. Wine 9.0 now features the experimental Wayland graphics driver, which although not yet fully developed, has implemented many features, including basic window management, multi-monitor support, high DPI scaling, relative motion events, and Vulkan support.

Wine 9.0 will not enable the Wayland driver by default. IT Home friends can enable it in the HKCUSoftwareWineDrivers registry key through the following command:

wine reg.exe add HKCU\Software\Wine\Drivers /v Graphics /d x11,wayland

This release also features enhanced ARM64 platform support and numerous Direct3D improvements on top of OpenGL or Vulkan (using VKD3D).

IT Home Note: Wine is a free and open source compatibility layer that makes it possible to run some Windows applications on computers running
Linux, FreeBSD or some other operating systems. It's also the basis for the Proton software that Valve uses to let Steam
Deck users play Windows games on Linux-powered handheld devices.

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