Wine has released a new build 0.9.53 today.

Some changes on this build:

• RunOnce and Run entries now executed on startup.
• Beginnings of support for emulated disk devices.
• Many Richedit improvements.
• Nicer looking color dialog.
• Lots of bug fixes.

But just in case you don’t know what Wine is. Wine is a translation layer software that let you run MS Windows software on your Unix\Linux. This software has started since 1993. Just after 12 years, in 2005, it then released their first beta 0.9 version. Hope this has answer your curiosity of why haven’t this software gone into version 1.0.

According to their development roadmap, they still have approximately 80 bugs to be fixed before a really 1.0 version will be announced. The main reason of the slow development speed is because MS Windows is a closed system.

Download: WINE 0.9.53