Wine 8.5 release: integrate VKD3D 1.7, fix 21 BUG

CTOnews.com April 1, Wine 8.5 was officially released today, the fifth update since the beginning of the biweekly update cycle. The biggest highlight of this update is the integration of VKD3D 1.7 released last week and the deployment of Direct3D 12 based on the industry standard Vulkan API.

VKD3D 1.7 adds additional HLSL functions, integrates a large number of internal functions, calls to user-defined functions, and so on.

Wine 8.5 also added a new option to Winecfg to set dark mode for WinRT applications. In addition, the new version optimizes error reporting in the IDL compiler, adds registry entries for shared WoW64 classes, supports IME cleanup, and fixes various errors.

CTOnews.com learned from the report that there are 21 known bug fixes in Wine 8.5, affecting software such as Notepad++, reg.exe, Chocolatey OpenSSH and Chromium, as well as Deus Ex: Invisible War, Fair Strike and other games.