{"id":50399,"date":"2026-01-14T11:42:37","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T11:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=50399"},"modified":"2026-01-14T11:42:37","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T11:42:37","slug":"wine-11-0-released-how-to-install","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2026\/01\/wine-11-0-released-how-to-install\/","title":{"rendered":"Wine 11.0 Released! How to Install in Ubuntu 22.04, 24.04 & Higher"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Wine, the compatibility layer for running Windows apps and games in Linux, macOS, and BSD, released new stable 11.0 version yesterday!<\/p>\n

The new version finally fully supports the new WoW64 mode<\/b> for running 32-bit Windows applications with 64-bit libraries on the host.<\/p>\n

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The new WoW64 mode was initially introduced as experimental feature in Wine 9.0. But, the official wine packages for Ubuntu until 25.10 were still built with old WoW64 that need installing 32-bit libraries.<\/p>\n

With Wine 11.0, the new WoW64 mode is considered fully supported, and essentially has feature parity with the old WoW64 mode. And, for the old WOW64 installation, it’s possible to force to run in the new mode by setting WINEARCH=wow64<\/code> variable.<\/p>\n

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the 24.04 package still depends on lots of 32-bit libraries<\/p><\/div>\n

For Linux Kernel with the NTSync module<\/strong> loaded, it will be used by default in this Wine release for significantly boosting performance for Windows applications, especially games.<\/p>\n

NTSync<\/a> is a Linux kernel driver to accurately and efficiently emulate Windows NT synchronization by user-space.<\/p>\n

The module is available in Linux Kernel 6.14 and later, though not loaded by default. To load it in Ubuntu, either run sudo modprobe ntsync<\/code> that works until reboot, or write to config file to load automatically on system start.<\/p>\n

echo ntsync | sudo tee \/etc\/modules-load.d\/ntsync.conf<\/pre>\n
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load NTSync kernel module<\/p><\/div>\n
Besides that, it implemented NTDLL synchronization barriers, which are useful for phased computations or parallel tasks that need to complete one step before starting the next.<\/p>\n
And, it added the ability to change thread priority on Linux and macOS. Though, for Linux this feature is restricted by the system nice limit, and, it recommends to change the nice hard limit to a negative value (e.g., -5).<\/p>\n
For Ubuntu, you may try doing this by adding line below in \/etc\/security\/limits.conf<\/code> file (replace ji<\/b> with your user\/group name who runs the process):<\/p>\n
ji  hard  nice  -5<\/pre>\n
Wine 11.0 also improved graphics support by using hardware accelerated runtime for OpenGL bitmap rendering, and using EGL as OpenGL backend by default on X11\/Xorg, for better performance, while GLX is deprecated but remains available and used as fallback.<\/p>\n
And, it implemented VK_KHR_external_memory_win32<\/code>, VK_KHR_external_semaphore_win32<\/code>, VK_KHR_external_fence_win32<\/code>, VK_KHR_win32_keyed_mutex<\/code> Vulkan extensions for sharing GPU memory, synchronize access to semaphores and shared memory objects.<\/p>\n
It as well improved X11 window manager integration, added exclusive fullscreen mode support, and improved Wayland compatibility with input methods and clipboard support.<\/p>\n
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Other changes include:<\/p>\n