A couple of weeks ago Wine version 2.0.5 was released. [1] I thought Wine was a "rolling release". In other words the latest version (3.5) is the "best" version. In the forums the first reply to a question is to update to Wine 3.x. Why is there a 2.0 update?
[1]
https://www.winehq.org/news/
https://www.winehq.org/announce/2.0.5
Wine 2.0.5
- DarkShadow44
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Re: Wine 2.0.5
There's two versions of wine that are updated, the stable branch (2.0.5) and the development branch (3.5).
If you want newest features/bugfixes use the development version, if stability is more important, use the stable version.
When wine 4.0 is released, 3.0.0 will become the new stable, AFAIK.
If you want newest features/bugfixes use the development version, if stability is more important, use the stable version.
When wine 4.0 is released, 3.0.0 will become the new stable, AFAIK.
Re: Wine 2.0.5
@jkfloris
To quote Michael Stefaniuc (Wine Stable maintainer) - email re: 2.0.5-rc1:
The current Wine Stable tree will then move from 3.0 to point releases: 3.0.1 , 3.0.2, ...
As far as I'm concerned Wine Stable is just to keep Debian Stable users happy...
Bob
NB There is no Wine release version 3.0.0 and never will be! (@DarkShadow44)...
To quote Michael Stefaniuc (Wine Stable maintainer) - email re: 2.0.5-rc1:
So Michael Stefaniuc is simply wrapping up the delayed Wine Stable releases based off the old Wine 2.x tree....
This should be the last release for 2.0.x. Thus nothing fancy in it even
though I could have cherry picked more stuff. Please let me know if I
missed anything obvious.
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The current Wine Stable tree will then move from 3.0 to point releases: 3.0.1 , 3.0.2, ...
As far as I'm concerned Wine Stable is just to keep Debian Stable users happy...
Bob
NB There is no Wine release version 3.0.0 and never will be! (@DarkShadow44)...