What is the current version of Wine?
A new version of Wine is distributed about every month. You will be able to keep up on all the latest releases by reading the newsgroup comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine, or by visiting the Wine HQ homepage. When downloading Wine from your FTP site of choice (see the Download page for some of these choices), you can make sure that you are getting the latest version by watching the version numbers in the distribution file name. For instance, the distribution released on August 30, 2005 was called Wine-20050830.tar.gz. Patch files are also available. If you are current to the previous version, you can download and apply just the current patch file rather than the entire new distribution. The patch file names follow the same conventions as the monthly distribution. Read-only GIT access is also available.
A new version of Wine is distributed about twice a month. You will be able to keep up on all the latest releases by reading the newsgroup: comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine where new release announcements are made. When downloading Wine from your ftp site of choice (see question 4.1 for some of these choices), you can make sure that you are getting the latest version by watching the version numbers in the distribution filename. For instance, the distribution released on June 20, 1994 was called Wine-940620.tar.gz. Patch files are also available. If you are current to the previous version, you can download and apply just the current patch file rather than the entire new distribution. The patch filenames follow the same conventions as the monthly distribution.
Please see the notation at the beginning of this article for the current version at the time of the writing of this version of the FAQ. A new version of Wine is distributed about twice a month. You will be able to keep up on all the latest releases by reading the newsgroup comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine, where new release announcements are made. When downloading Wine from your ftp site of choice (see question 4.1 for some of these choices), you can make sure you are getting the latest version by watching the version numbers in the distribution filename. For instance, the distribution released on June 20, 1994 was called Wine-940620.tar.gz. Patch files are also available. If you are current to the previous version, you can download and apply just the current patch file rather than the entire new distribution. The patch filenames follow the same conventions as the monthly distribution.
A new version of Wine is distributed about every month. You will be able to keep up on all the latest releases by reading the newsgroup comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine, or by visiting the Wine HQ homepage. When downloading Wine from your FTP site of choice (see the Download page for some of these choices), you can make sure that you are getting the latest version by watching the version numbers in the distribution file name. For instance, the distribution released on August 30, 2005 was called Wine-20050830.tar.gz. Patch files are also available. If you are current to the previous version, you can download and apply just the current patch file rather than the entire new distribution. The patch file names follow the same conventions as the monthly distribution. Read-only CVS access is also available.
