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jkfloris
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Wine 2.0.5

Post by jkfloris »

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?

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https://www.winehq.org/news/
https://www.winehq.org/announce/2.0.5
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DarkShadow44
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Re: Wine 2.0.5

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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.
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Bob Wya
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Re: Wine 2.0.5

Post by Bob Wya »

@jkfloris

To quote Michael Stefaniuc (Wine Stable maintainer) - email re: 2.0.5-rc1:
...
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.
...
So Michael Stefaniuc is simply wrapping up the delayed Wine Stable releases based off the old Wine 2.x tree.

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... :lol:

Bob

NB There is no Wine release version 3.0.0 and never will be! (@DarkShadow44)...
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