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Wine 10.20 Released With VKD3D 1.18 Upgrade For Direct3D 12

Written by Michael Larabel in WINE on 28 November 2025 at 04:22 PM EST. 8 Comments
Wine 10.20 is out as the newest bi-weekly development release of this open-source software enabling Windows applications and games to run on Linux. This is also with Wine 11.0 stable quickly approaching.

Wine 10.20 was released a few minutes ago while coming next Friday on 5 December will be Wine 11.0-rc1 to mark the beginning of the code freeze for the annual Wine stable release. Wine 11.0 is planning for a January debut and for that to happen the plan is to start the code freeze on 5 December, as previously communicated. Wine 11.0 is a big one with upstream NTSYNC support in the Linux kernel, continued WoW64 support, and many other features having landed over the past year.

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As for today's Wine 10.20 release, it pulls in the recently released VKD3D 1.18 for Direct3D 12 on Vulkan. VKD3D 1.18 ships a variety of improvements compared to the prior release.
- Bundled vkd3d upgraded to version 1.18.
- More support for reparse points.
- More refactoring of Common Controls after the v5/v6 split.
- Progress dialog for document scanning.
- Various bug fixes.

Wine 10.20 has 31 known bug fixes ranging from fixing StarCraft assertions to Civilization and other games to a number of app fixes.

Downloads and more details on the Wine 10.20 release via WineHQ.org.

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