Wine 10.19 Released: Game Changing Support for Windows Reparse Points on Linux

Linux Journal
2 weeks 3 days ago
by George Whittaker Introduction

If you use Linux and occasionally run Windows applications, whether via native Wine or through gaming layers like Proton, you’ll appreciate what just dropped in Wine 10.19. Released November 14 2025, this version brings a major enhancement: official support for Windows reparse points, a filesystem feature many Windows apps rely on, and a host of other compatibility upgrades.

In simpler terms: Wine now understands more of the Windows filesystem semantics, which means fewer workarounds, better application compatibility, and smoother experiences for many games and tools previously finicky under Linux.

What Are Reparse Points & Why They Matter Understanding Reparse Points

On Windows, a reparse point is a filesystem object (file or directory) that carries additional data, often used for symbolic links, junctions, mount points, or other redirection features. When an application opens or queries a file, the OS may check the reparse tag to determine special behavior (for example “redirect this file open to this other path”).

Because many Windows apps, installers, games, DRM systems, file-managers, use reparse points for features like directory redirection, path abstractions, or filesystem overlays, lacking full support for them in Wine means those apps often misbehave.

What Wine 10.19 Adds

With Wine 10.19, support for these reparse point mechanisms has been implemented in key filesystem APIs: for example NtQueryDirectoryFile, GetFileInfo, file attribute tags, and DeleteFile/RemoveDirectory for reparse objects.

This means that in Wine 10.19:

  • Windows apps that create or manage symbolic links, directory junctions or mount-point style re-parsing will now function correctly in many more cases.

  • Installers or frameworks that rely on “when opening path X, redirect to path Y” will work with less tinkering.

  • Games or utilities that check for reparse tags or use directory redirections will have fewer “stuck” behaviors or missing files.

In effect, this is a step toward closer to native behavior for Windows file-system semantics under Linux.

Other Key Highlights in Wine 10.19

Beyond reparse points, the release brings several notable improvements:

  • Expanded support for WinRT exceptions (Windows Runtime error handling) meaning better compatibility for Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps and newer Windows-based frameworks.

  • Refactoring of “Common Controls” (COMCTL32) following the version 5 vs version 6 split, which helps GUI applications that rely on older controls or expect mixed versions.

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Revealing the Hidden Economics of Open Models in the AI Era

Linux Foundation
2 weeks 4 days ago

Artificial intelligence is reshaping economic systems at a pace we have rarely seen in modern technological history. Every sector—from finance to healthcare to manufacturing—is scrambling to understand how to harness AI safely, efficiently, and competitively. Yet amid the excitement, a crucial part of the story has been missing. Specifically, understanding the role that open models play in the AI economy, and how much value is being left on the table when organizations overlook open alternatives, are two topics requiring a closer look.

Frank Nagle

Linux Foundation Newsletter: November 2025

Linux Foundation
2 weeks 4 days ago

Welcome to the November 2025 edition of the Linux Foundation Newsletter.

As we move toward year‑end, open source activity at the Linux Foundation (LF) remains at full throttle. In the past month, we welcomed major new projects, strengthened our AI‑and‑infrastructure portfolio, and reinforced our global collaboration model across security, research, and innovation. A huge thank you to all contributors, maintainers, members and staff who keep this momentum going!

Here are more of this month’s highlights:

  • Valkey 9.0 Delivers Next‑Gen Performance at Scale
    The open‑source key‑value database project announced version 9.0 this month. This release introduces atomic slot migration, multiple databases in cluster mode, hash‑field expiration, and benchmarks showing support for over 1 billion requests per second across 2,000 nodes. 
    • Read more about the latest version of Valkey in Diginomica
  • Fluxnova Launches Under FINOS to Orchestrate Financial Workflows
    The Fintech Open Source Foundation (FINOS) announced Fluxnova in partnership with Fidelity Investments, NatWest Group, Bank of Montreal, Deutsche Bank and Capital One. Fluxnova, a fork of Camunda 7, is an open orchestration platform enabling audit‑ready workflows, visual process models and process traceability in heavily regulated financial services environments.
    • Read more about what makes this platform so critical to the ecosystem in the SD Times
  • Overture Maps Foundation Names New Executive Director and Lands on Fast Company’s 2025 Next Big Things in Tech List
    William Mortenson has joined the Overture Maps Foundation as its new Executive Director. Mortenson brings more than 25 years of geospatial leadership and begins guiding Overture’s next phase of open map‑data growth, interoperability and adoption. The project also saw major industry recognition this month, landing a spot on the coveted ‘2025 Next Big Things in Tech’ list by Fast Company.
  • PyTorch Foundation Welcomes “Ray” to Deliver a Unified Open Source AI Compute Stack
    The PyTorch Foundation announced its latest hosted project: Ray, a widely adopted distributed computing framework that enables scaling AI workloads from a single machine to thousands of nodes. Ray now joins PyTorch and vLLM under the PyTorch Foundation umbrella, reinforcing the open‑source AI stack.
  • Major Infrastructure & Edge Release: StarlingX 11.0
    The open‑source cloud infrastructure project hosted by the Open Infrastructure Foundation released version 11.0, bringing enhanced edge‑security, IPv4‑exhaustion mitigation, IPsec pod‑to‑pod encryption and stronger rollback support for complex multi‑cluster deployments.
    • Read more about the new feature and optimization updates in Network World

What’s Next?

>> Read on for more news, research, and opportunities from across the Linux Foundation.

The Linux Foundation

[Testing Update] 2025-11-19 - Plasma 6.5.3, KDE Frameworks 6.20.0, Firefox 145.0.1

Manjaro Linux
2 weeks 4 days ago

Hello community, here we have another set of package updates. Welcome to our new development cycle of Manjaro 25.1.0, code-named ‘Anh-Linh’.We will focus on Plasma 6.5 series and will introduce GNOME 49, maybe Cosmic 1.0 (Beta).

Current Promotions Recent News Valkey to replace Redis in the [extra] Repository (click for more details) Previous News Finding information easier about Manjaro (click for more details) Notable Package Updates Additional Info Python 3.13 info (click for more details) Info about AUR packages (click for more details)

Get our latest daily developer images now from Github: Plasma, GNOME, XFCE. You can get the latest stable releases of Manjaro from CDN77.

Our current supported kernels

  • linux54 5.4.301
  • linux510 5.10.246
  • linux515 5.15.196
  • linux61 6.1.158
  • linux66 6.6.116
  • linux612 6.12.58
  • linux617 6.17.8
  • linux618 6.18.0-rc6
  • linux61-rt 6.1.158_rt58
  • linux66-rt 6.6.116_rt66
  • linux612-rt 6.12.57_rt14
  • linux616-rt 6.16.0_rt3
  • linux617-rt 6.17.5_rt7

Package Changes (11/19/25 08:30 CET)

  • testing core x86_64: 6 new and 6 removed package(s)
  • testing extra x86_64: 702 new and 703 removed package(s)
  • testing multilib x86_64: 2 new and 2 removed package(s)

A list of all changes can be found here.

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Stop Using Only cd: Learn pushd, popd, and zoxide in Linux

Techmint
2 weeks 4 days ago
The post Stop Using Only cd: Learn pushd, popd, and zoxide in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

In Linux, the ‘cd‘ (Change Directory) command serves as a fundamental navigation tool for both newcomers and experienced system administrators.

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