14 DAY TRIAL // The Wine Staging development team announced today the release and immediate availability for download of the Wine Staging 2.7 open-source implementation of Wine on GNU/Linux operating systems.
As expected, Wine Staging 2.7 comes hot on the heels of the Wine 2.7 development release, shipping with all of its goodies, such as support for UDP and TCP connections in WebServices, better support for HiDPI settings, window management improvements on macOS, partial reimplementation of the GLU library, and new improvements to Direct3D 11 shaders.
But Wine Staging 2.7 also brings some improvements of its own, such as better support for handling cabinet files in the Setup API, cleanup of existing patches, and various other fixes for some of the most annoying issues reported by users since the Wine Staging 2.6 release. Talking about bug fixes, Wine Staging 2.7 incorporates all 31 fixes merged in the development branch of Wine.
The source and binary packages of Wine Staging 2.7 are available for download right now on our website, along with the Wine 2.7 sources, if you want to run Windows apps and games on your GNU/Linux operating system. While Wine 2.7 is considered a development release, you can safely install and use Wine Staging 2.7 on your operating system, and enjoy its extra set of functionality over Wine.