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Wine 10.15 Released With Initial NTSYNC Bits, Unicode 17.0 Support

Written by Michael Larabel in WINE on 12 September 2025 at 04:06 PM EDT. 14 Comments
Wine 10.15 is out today as the newest bi-weekly development release of this open-source software for running Windows games and applications on Linux as well as powering Valve's Proton for Steam Play.

Most exciting with Wine 10.15 is delivering the initial integration around the NTSYNC Linux kernel driver for better emulating the Windows NT synchronization primitives. With Linux 6.14+ the NTSYNC kernel driver is in good shape and following recent Wine activity the initial usage of the NTSYNC kernel driver is upstream in Wine 10.15.

👁 Wine 10.15 NTSYNC


Wine 10.15 also brings Unicode tables updated against Unicode 17.0 upstream, Zip64 support in the packaging services, and various bug fixes.

There are 16 known bug fixes in Wine 10.15 for helping out Visual Studio, Wayland rendering fixes,various game crashes with WOW64, Steam failing to launch, and various other fixes.

Downloads and more details on the Wine 10.15 development release via WineHQ.org.

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