Wine-Staging 2.0 Promises to Let Linux Users Play DOOM 2016 with Vulkan Support

Today, December 21, 2016, the development team behind the Wine fork Wine-Stating project announced the availability of the first and second Release Candidate versions of the upcoming Wine-Stating 2.0 major stable series.

Based on the latest RC builds of Wine 2.0, today's Wine-Staging 2.0 development releases ship with a basic implementation of Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) in the bcrypt password hashing function, better TIFF support in windowscodecs, as well as a handful of enhancements to user32, winhttp, and other Windows DLLs.

While the first Release Candidate of Wine-Stating 2.0 only ships with various bug fixes, mostly the same that where implemented in the Wine 2.0 RC1 build, the second RC version removes GnuTLS/CommonCrypto dependency for hash calculations in bcrypt and implements everything needed for all...