Wine 10.9 brings EGL support for all graphics drivers and updated vkd3d

The Wine 10.9 development release is out now for the Windows compatibility layer, bringing new features and bug fixes.

From the highlights:

• Bundled vkd3d upgraded to version 1.16.
• Initial support for generating Windows Runtime metadata in WIDL.
• Support for compiler-based exception handling with Clang.
• EGL library support available to all graphics drivers.
• Various bug fixes.

Some of the bug fixes solve issues for EA app launcher, Empire Earth, MS Office 2010, Dyson Sphere Program and more.

As for vkd3d, the Wine teams own Direct3D to Vulkan translation library the main changes are:

• Support for DirectX Intermediate Language (DXIL) shaders.
• Initial support for geometry shaders in the HLSL compiler.

Source: WineHQ

Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.