Wine 1.3.16 Is Released

The Wine development release 1.3.16 is now available. Wine lets you run Windows software on other operating systems (Linux, Mac, FreeBSD, and Solaris). With Wine, you can install and run these applications just like you would in Windows.



To install Wine open a Terminal window (Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal) and copy+paste the following lines:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install wine1.3

When installed you can find Wine under Applications -> Wine.

Wine Homepage: WineHQ

What’s new in this release (see below for details):
New version of the Gecko engine, based on Firefox 4.
Better support for Dwarf debugging information.
Improved handling of animated cursors.
GnuTLS no longer required on Mac OS X.
Improvements to the GDI driver infrastructure.
A number of MSI fixes for the .NET installers.
Several GdiPlus improvements.
Various bug fixes.

If you already have Wine installed using the ubuntu-wine ppa Wine will be updated to the latest version when running an system update.