Wine 11.0 debuts full WoW64 support, NTSync for Linux, and graphics updates

Wine 11.0 is now available as a stable release, completing the move to a fully supported, feature complete WoW64 mode. It can run 16 bit Windows apps on 64 bit systems, replaces the old wine64 loader with a unified loader, and deprecates pure 32 bit prefixes, with existing installs able to switch by setting WINEARCH=wow64

On Linux, Wine 11.0 adds NTSync support to use the kernel NTSync module, improving synchronization performance on Linux 6.14 and newer. It also adds thread priority handling on Linux and macOS, introduces new synchronization barriers in NTDLL, and expands kernel interface support with NT reparse points for Windows style symbolic links and mount points, plus improved write watch handling via userfaultfd when available.

Graphics updates include hardware accelerated OpenGL bitmap rendering that drops the OSMesa dependency, and EGL becoming the default OpenGL backend on X11. Vulkan moves to API 1.4.335 with new Windows specific extensions and better buffer handling in WoW64 mode, while Direct3D gains hardware accelerated H.264 decoding via Vulkan Video and broader legacy feature coverage, alongside assorted improvements across desktop integration, the experimental Wayland driver, device and multimedia support, tooling, and ARM64.