Wine 8.20 update released: 13-year-old request implemented, support for registering URLs to open applications

According to news on November 11, the WineHQ team is actively promoting the update of Wine 8.x version in a two-week cycle, and the 8.20 update was officially released today.

The new version of Wine 8.20 is mainly dedicated to solving some long-standing bug reports, one of which even dates back to 2010.

According to the editor’s understanding, Wine can always automatically register file type associations and create menus under Linux. In 2010, a BUG report put forward a requirement, which is to be able to register the URL/URI protocol to open the application. Taking the Spotify URL as an example, it is hoped that the Linux desktop can automatically launch the corresponding Wine application

It is important to note that the Linux platform has been unable to advance methods for handling URL protocol opening applications due to the lack of a cross-desktop method for registering protocol handlers.

Earlier this year, Wine-Staging released a patch for creating .desktop files for programs that open URIs. Finally in this week’s Wine Corresponding changes were made in Git, closing bug reports from 13 years ago.

Wine 8.20 not only exports protocol associations to the Linux desktop, but also continues its efforts to implement the DirectMusic API. This shows that the Wine team is constantly improving and improving the software

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