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Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Mar 19, 2023,
updated Mar 20, 2023
=> https://www.winehq.org//announce/8.4 ↺ WineHQ - Wine Announcement - The Wine development release 8.4 is now available.
The Wine development release 8.4 is now available.
What's new in this release: - Initial step of the Wayland graphics driver. - Cleanups in IME support. - A number of test fixes. - Various bug fixes.
The source is available at:
https://dl.winehq.org/wine/source/8.x/wine-8.4.tar.xz
Binary packages for various distributions will be available from:
https://www.winehq.org/download
You will find documentation on https://www.winehq.org/documentation
You can also get the current source directly from the git repository. Check https://www.winehq.org/git for details.
Wine is available thanks to the work of many people. See the file AUTHORS in the distribution for the complete list.
=> https://www.neowin.net/news/wine-84-released-with-initial-native-support-for-wayland/ ↺ Wine 8.4 released with initial native support for Wayland
UPDATE
One more:
=> https://www.wine-reviews.net/2023/03/wine-development-release-84-is-now.html ↺ Wine development release 8.4 is now available for Linux FreeBSD and macOS
The Wine development release 8.4 is now available.
What's new in this release:
The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.
=> https://dl.winehq.org/wine/source/8.x/wine-8.4.tar.xz ↺ available now
=> https://dl.winehq.org/wine/source/8.x/wine-8.4.tar.xz ↺ available now
And Liam Dawe:
=> https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/03/wine-84-rolls-out-with-initial-wayland-graphics-driver-work/ ↺ Wine 8.4 rolls out with initial Wayland graphics driver work
The Wine 8.4 development release is out now for this Windows translation layer, part of what makes Steam Play Proton tick. Every two weeks (ish), they put out a new release with the latest code like this. Once a year they then produce a stable version. We're currently waiting to see when Valve upgrade Proton to the 8 series, no word on it yet.
Slackware installation:
=> https://alien.slackbook.org/blog/wine-8-4-packages-for-slackware/ ↺ Wine 8.4 packages for Slackware
The Wine developers released version 8.4 last week. There's lots of bugfixes of course, but the announcement also mentions that the work has started on a Wayland graphics driver.