Ahead of the Wine 11.0 code freeze beginning in early December, Wine 10.19 is out today as the newest bi-weekly development release for running Windows games and applications on Linux.
Wine 10.19 brings more feature work and other refinements in advance of next month's code freeze. Wine 10.19 highlights include:
Support for reparse points.
More support for WinRT exceptions.
Refactoring of Common Controls after the v5/v6 split.
Typed Arrays support in JScript.
Various bug fixes.
Wine 10.19 brings 34 known bug fixes helping out games like Baldur's Gate 3, Horizon Zero Dawn, and Airline Tycoon. Plus fixes for .NET, Managed COM components, Pegasus Mail, and other apps.
Wine 10.19 downloads and more details on this bi-weekly development release via WineHQ.org.
The development release Wine 10.19 is out now for the compatibility layer that powers Valve's Proton, here's all that's new and improved. Early next year we should see Wine 11, and then at some point Proton 11 too!
From the highlights:
Support for reparse points.
More support for WinRT exceptions.
Refactoring of Common Controls after the v5/v6 split.
A month after the previous 6.19 release, KDE announced the launch of Frameworks 6.20, expanding its collection of add-on libraries to Qt and enhancing functionality available to developers across various platforms.
Several foundational components receive significant updates in this release. Baloo, KDE’s file indexing subsystem, improves reliability during session management, updates its test infrastructure, and now avoids indexing excessively large mbox files. It also ensures configuration changes in balooctl are written before indexing is toggled, addressing long-standing user-reported issues.
TL;DR: Valve launched the Steam Frame VR headset with an Arm-based Snapdragon chip, aiming to run Half-Life: Alyx natively and streamed from PC. The new hardware features a "Frame Verified" status for optimized games, while rumors suggest two upcoming Half-Life titles supporting PC and VR cooperative play.
For those unfamiliar with it, Mission Center makes it easy to check your CPU, Memory, Disk, Network and GPU usage, get an overview of running processes and track their resource usage, and manage system services – all from the one app.
In Mission Center 1.1, the Services page has been overhauled. It now lets you see child processes and user services, and filter services based on status (e.g., stopped, failed, running, etc) with the main column view updating quickly.
Steam Machine’s upcoming release means more people will be playing games on Linux, specifically SteamOS. The idea of ditching Windows for gaming is becoming more attractive, as the Steam Machine is first-party desktop-level hardware that’s optimized for Linux-based SteamOS. The biggest hurdle for Linux gamers right now is a lack of support for many anti-cheats – particular those that require kernel-level access. But with the release of the Machine, Valve hopes game devs take notice.
Steam Machine seems to getting the most attention out of Valve’s latest hardware launches. The Steam creators announced the new console-like mini PC alongside the Steam Frame VR headset and new Steam Controller. Even the Frame runs on SteamOS, which means Valve now has a trio of first-party hardware on Linux (including the Steam Deck handheld).
