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Wine Staging is the testing area of winehq.org. It contains bug fixes and features, which have not been integrated into the development branch yet. The idea of Wine Staging is to provide experimental features faster to end users and to give developers the possibility to discuss and improve their patches before they are integrated into the main branch.
Wine Staging is the testing area of winehq.org. It contains bug fixes and features, which have not been integrated into the development branch yet. The idea of Wine Staging is to provide experimental features faster to end users and to give developers the possibility to discuss and improve their patches before they are integrated into the main branch.


Wine Staging is maintained as [https://github.com/wine-staging/wine-staging a set of patches] which has to be applied on top of the corresponding Wine development version. Package maintainers can decide if they want to include our full patchset, or only want to cherry-pick patches for specific bugs. Our current version includes fixes for about 450 bugs and over 900 patches total, and new patches are added frequently. Features and bugfixes available in Wine-Staging 3.8 are for example:
Wine Staging is maintained as [https://github.com/wine-staging/wine-staging a set of patches] which has to be applied on top of the corresponding Wine development version. Package maintainers can decide if they want to include our full patchset, or only want to cherry-pick patches for specific bugs.
 
    CSMT (Commandstream multithreading) for better graphic performance
    CUDA / PhysX / NVENC Support for NVIDIA graphic cards
    DXVA2 GPU video decoding (experimental)
    Direct3D 10/11 enhancements
    EAX 1 support
    Fixes for various upstream regressions
    GTK 3 theming support
    macOS preloader
    Performance improvements for IO-heavy programs and memory allocation functions
    S3 texture compression (DXTn) support
    Support for allocating more than 32 GB of memory
    Support for installing MSU files
    Various improvements to d3dx9
    Various speed improvements (shared memory, RT priority)
    Windows ACL support


== Quick Links ==
== Quick Links ==

Revision as of 15:23, 2 November 2018

What is Wine Staging?

Wine Staging is the testing area of winehq.org. It contains bug fixes and features, which have not been integrated into the development branch yet. The idea of Wine Staging is to provide experimental features faster to end users and to give developers the possibility to discuss and improve their patches before they are integrated into the main branch.

Wine Staging is maintained as a set of patches which has to be applied on top of the corresponding Wine development version. Package maintainers can decide if they want to include our full patchset, or only want to cherry-pick patches for specific bugs.

Quick Links

Here are some links to the most important topics.

Usage
Configuration
Contributing
Bugs

See Also

Wine-staging GitHub repository

This page was last edited on 2 November 2018, at 15:23.