{"id":6780,"date":"2026-04-07T20:31:37","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T18:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yoota.it\/en\/wine-11-6-revives-android-driver-development\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T20:31:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T18:31:39","slug":"wine-11-6-revives-android-driver-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yoota.it\/en\/wine-11-6-revives-android-driver-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Wine 11.6 Revives Android Driver Development"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Wine 11.6 landed on April 3rd as the sixth development update in the 11.x series. No major upheaval, but a couple of interesting developments worth tracking if you follow the project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The most curious involves Android: the team has resumed work on the Android driver, dormant for quite some time. We&#8217;re talking about build system changes to support modern Gradle versions and adjustments for recent Android APIs, so this is still early stages, but it signals someone&#8217;s decided to pick that thread back up. Back in 2024 there was chatter about running Windows games on Android via Wine with DXVK, VKD3D-Proton and FEX under the codename &#8220;Cassia&#8221;, but little movement had followed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the gaming side, Wine 11.6 improves DLL load-order handling to better support mods, fixes a regression from 11.5 that broke Diablo IV&#8217;s in-game shop, and patches crashes tied to ICU DLLs in Cyberpunk 2077.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Among 28 bugs squashed are fixes for Minecraft Windows 10 Edition, Google Earth, HWiNFO 8.24 and Mount &amp; Blade: Warband, plus corrections for StarOffice 5.1, PDFSam and other applications. VBScript compatibility also got some updates, useful for enterprise environments running applications that depend on embedded scripting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n    \n    <div class=\"yoota-fonte\">\n        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.winehq.org\/news\/2026040301\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"yoota-fonte-hit\">\n            \n            <span class=\"yoota-fonte-icon\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n                <i class=\"ri-external-link-line\"><\/i>\n            <\/span>\n\n            <span class=\"yoota-fonte-content\">\n                <span class=\"yoota-fonte-label\">SOURCE:\/\/<\/span>\n\n                                    <span class=\"yoota-fonte-link\">\n                        winehq.org                    <\/span>\n                            <\/span>\n\n        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    \n\n\n\n    \n    <div class=\"yoota-fonte\">\n        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/Wine-11.6-Released\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"yoota-fonte-hit\">\n            \n            <span class=\"yoota-fonte-icon\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n                <i class=\"ri-external-link-line\"><\/i>\n            <\/span>\n\n            <span class=\"yoota-fonte-content\">\n                <span class=\"yoota-fonte-label\">SOURCE:\/\/<\/span>\n\n                                    <span class=\"yoota-fonte-link\">\n                        phoronix.com                    <\/span>\n                            <\/span>\n\n        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    \n\n\n\n    \n    <div class=\"yoota-fonte\">\n        <a href=\"https:\/\/linuxiac.com\/wine-11-6-brings-android-driver-work-game-mod-fixes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"yoota-fonte-hit\">\n            \n            <span class=\"yoota-fonte-icon\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n                <i class=\"ri-external-link-line\"><\/i>\n            <\/span>\n\n            <span class=\"yoota-fonte-content\">\n                <span class=\"yoota-fonte-label\">SOURCE:\/\/<\/span>\n\n                                    <span class=\"yoota-fonte-link\">\n                        linuxiac.com                    <\/span>\n                            <\/span>\n\n        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n    \n    \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wine 11.6 is out with Android driver development back on the table after years of silence. Game mod improvements and 28 bug fixes round out the update.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6779,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"italian_url":"https:\/\/yoota.it\/wine-11-6-rimette-mano-al-driver-android\/","yoota_meta_description":"","activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[329,107,105],"class_list":["post-6780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-linux","tag-open-source","tag-wine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yoota.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yoota.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yoota.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yoota.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yoota.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6780"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yoota.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6782,"href":"https:\/\/yoota.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6780\/revisions\/6782"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yoota.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yoota.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yoota.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yoota.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}