Wine 1.8.6 Stable Release Supports Nvidia GeForce GTX 690 & AMD Radeon HD 6480G

Today, December 19, 2016, a new stable release of the Wine 1.8 free, open-source and cross-platform implementation of Windows on Unix arrived for GNU/Linux and macOS platforms, versioned 1.8.6.

Wine 1.8.6 is here more than two months after the previous maintenance update, namely Wine 1.8.5, and only three days after the second Release Candidate (RC) build of the upcoming Wine 2.0 major stable series. As expected, Wine 1.8.6 is a bugfix release that addresses a regression introduced in Wine 1.8.5 and fixes 35 recorded bugs.

It also adds a few more graphics cards to the GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) description table, among which we can mention Nvidia GeForce GTX 690, AMD Radeon RX 480, and AMD Radeon HD 6480G, which was previously detected as ATI Radeon 3200.