Wine 1.8 Officially Released for Linux After One and a Half Years in the Making

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Today, December 19, 2015, the team of developers behind the Wine project, an open source software that lets Linux users run games and apps built for the Microsoft Windows operating system, were extremely proud to announce the final and stable release, as well as the immediate availability for download of Wine 1.8.

Wine 1.8 comes after one and a half years in the making, during which the Wine team released over 50 milestones under the 1.7 development branch, as well as four RC (Release Candidate) builds. It was one of the greatest efforts in the history of open source software and includes over 13,000 changes.