Wine 1.9.13 Introduces New Gecko Engine Based on Firefox 47, Unicode 9.0 Support

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  • Post Updated: April 3, 2024

Today, June 24, 2016, the Wine development team has announced the release and immediate availability for download of the Wine 1.9.13 snapshot towards Wine 2.0.

Wine 1.9.13 arrives today, two weeks after the debut of the Wine 1.9.12 development version to bring a new version of the Gecko engine based on the Mozilla Firefox 47.0 web browser, more Shader Model 5 support in Direct3D, brand new Unicode 9.0.0 support, as well as more improvements to the Joystick support for Mac OS X systems.

Additionally, Wine 1.9.13 ships with several enhancements to GDI metafiles and paths. It also looks like the Wine developers have managed to add more features to the Direct3D command stream. Of course, most of the bugs reported by users since the Wine 1.9.12 release have been addres… (read more)

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