Wine 11 runs Windows apps in Linux and macOS better than ever

The latest version of the Wine Windows app runner arrives a year after version 10. Given its annual release cycle, its magic is starting to seem almost boring and routine, but it's far from it.

The Wine project delivered Wine 11.0 Tuesday, very slightly less than one year after we covered the release of Wine 10.

Wine lets you run 16-bit, 32-bit, and 64-bit Windows x86 binaries on modern Unix and Unix-like OSes. This release eliminates the separation between 32-bit and 64-bit commands: it handles running 32-bit Windows binaries on 64-bit OSes internally.

On Linux, this version supports the kernel's NT synchronization primitive, or ntsync for short. This was introduced in kernel 6.14 in March 2025, and it adds Windows-NT-compatible synchronization primitives to the Linux kernel, in addition ...