The WineDump tool supports printing the contents of Windows registry files (REGF format), as well as printing data for both architectures in hybrid x86/ARM64 PE files.
The composable, default_overload, deprecated, and protected attributes are supported in the IDL compiler.
The libwine.so library is removed. It was no longer used, and deprecated since Wine 6.0. Winelib ELF applications that were built with Wine 5.0 or older will need a rebuild to run on Wine 9.0.
Bundled libraries
The FluidSynth library version 2.3.3 is bundled and used for DirectMusic.
The math library of Musl version 1.2.3 is bundled and used for the math functions of the C runtime.
The Zydis library version is 4.0.0 is bundled and used for x86 disassembly support.
Vkd3d is updated to the upstream release 1.10.
Faudio is updated to the upstream release 23.12.
LDAP is updated to the upstream release 2.5.16.
LCMS2 is updated to the upstream release 2.15.
LibMPG123 is updated to the upstream release 1.32.2.
LibPng is updated to the upstream release 1.6.40.
LibTiff is updated to the upstream release 4.6.0.
LibXml2 is updated to the upstream release 2.11.5.
LibXslt is updated to the upstream release 1.1.38.
Zlib is updated to the upstream release 1.3.
External dependencies
The Wayland client library, as well as the xkbcommon and xkbregistry libraries, are used when building the Wayland driver.
The PCSClite library is used for smart card support. On macOS, the PCSC framework can be used as an alternative to PCSClite.
For PE builds, a cross-compiler that supports .seh directives for exception handling is required on all platforms except i386.