A new version of Wine (Wine is not an emulator), 1.7.32, has been released and is now available for download. The devs have made a number of very important improvements, including to the Mono engine, which has been updated.

Wine is an application that is used by Linux users to run games and apps that are usually designed for the Windows platform. This is done in perfect legality and the users don't need to have a Windows copy.

Even if more and more devs are now porting their titles to Linux, there are still numerous applications that still don't have a counterpart for the open source platform. There is no guarantee that everything will run on Linux with the help of Wine, but the success rate is pretty high.

In fact, the number of supported Windows applications is increasing with the new release of Wine. The dev versions, like the current one, are the ones that gather all the cool stuff and there is no sign that a new stable iteration will be made available any time soon.

Latest Wine has some interesting changes

If you are already running apps using the stable branch of Wine, there is no reason to upgrade to the new one, but if you have an application that won't start, then getting the latest Wine version, the dev one, is the only hope. One of the most important improvements is a new version of Mono.

"Wine (originally an acronym for 'Wine Is Not an Emulator') is a compatibility layer capable of running Windows applications on several POSIX-compliant operating systems, such as Linux, Mac OSX, & BSD. Instead of simulating internal Windows logic like a virtual machine or emulator, Wine translates Windows API calls into POSIX calls on-the-fly, eliminating the performance and memory penalties of other methods and allowing you to cleanly integrate Windows applications into your desktop," reads the official website.

The list of supported games and apps for this version includes: Adobe InDesign CS, City of Heroes, Chessmaster 11, Blizzard Updater, Dungeon Keeper 2, Mall Tycoon 2 Deluxe, NFS Porsche, Directory Opus 10, Adobe Photoshop CC, Mass Effect 3, Unreal Engine 4 Elemental benchmark demo, Skype 6.x, and Visual Studio 2010. These are just a few of them, so make sure you check the changelog for more details.

How to install the latest version of Wine in Ubuntu

Users can get Wine 1.7.32 from the source code, but Ubuntu users can install it from a PPA. Just enter these commands in a terminal (with root access):

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

Enjoy!