The Wine Team finally announced the new stable Wine 1.8 release. The new Wine PPA maintained by WinHQ.org has built the packages for Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 15.10, Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 12.04, and their derivatives.

This release represents 17 months of development effort and around 13,000 individual changes. The main highlights are the implementation of DirectWrite and Direct2D, and the new Pulse Audio driver.

It also contains a lot of improvements across the board, as well as support for many new applications and games. See the release notes for a summary of the major changes.

sudo add-apt-repository --remove ppa:name/name

Install Wine 1.8 Stable from Ubuntu Wine Team PPA:

Open terminal from Unity Dash, App Launcher, or via Ctrl+Alt+T shortcut key. When it opens, paste below commands and run one by one.

1. Add the PPA via command:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa

Type in your password when it asks, no visual feedback so type in mind and hit Enter to continue.

2. Update package cache and install wine1.8:

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install wine1.8 winetricks

Install latest Wine Dev release from the Official WineHQ PPA:

Open terminal from Unity Dash, App Launcher, or via Ctrl+Alt+T shortcut key. When it opens, paste below commands and run one by one.

1. For 64-bit system, rum command to enable 32 bit architecture:

sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386

Type in your password when it asks, no visual feedback so type in mind and hit Enter to continue.

2. Add the wine PPA:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:wine/wine-builds

3. Once you have the PPA added in your system, run below commands one by one to refresh package caches and install Wine 1.8:

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install --install-recommends winehq-devel

The installation automatically replaces old wine releases installed on your system.

4. Finally you may run below command to initialize your wine configuration.

winecfg

For more, read the wiki page.