Wine Staging 2.0 RC5 Improves Support for Apps That Require Windows 7 or Vista

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  • Post Updated: April 3, 2024

The road to Wine 2.0 and Wine Staging 2.0 continues, and while the former already got its fifth Release Candidate (RC) development release at the end of last week, the latter yesterday received a new unstable build.

That’s right, we are talking here about Wine Staging 2.0 RC5, which comes hot on the heels of Wine 2.0 RC5 to add numerous goodies for those who want to run Windows apps and games on their Linux computers.

Among these, we can mention initial support for Mandatory Integrity Control and a bunch of extra PE loader improvements to allow it to support loading of packed executables with truncated headers, as well as on-the-fly section decompression.

It also looks like the 32GB memory limit was finally removed for 64-bit systems, and there’s now initial support for Trust Info inside manifest files. But Wine Stag… (read more)

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