The Wine developers met this weekend in Poland for the WineConf2017 annual Wine Conference to talk about the next major release of the open-source compatibility layer for running Windows apps and games on UNIX-like systems.Developer Marcus Meissner attended the even and recorded Wine leader Alexandre Julliard's keynote at WineConf2017, talking about Wine 3.0, the next major release of the application, and its new features, which include Direct3D 11 support and an Android driver to allow users to use Wine on Google's Android mobile OS too.
According to Alexandre Julliard, Wine 3.0 is also switching to Windows 7 as default Windows version for new Wine installations after more than eight years, and will implement Direct3D command stream and message-mode pipes. However, it looks like about 160 reported regressions need to be fixed before the launch of Wine 3.0.
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