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Over the years, Bottles has grown into a tool that helps thousands of users running Windows applications on Linux with ease and flexibility. This journey has been possible thanks to the dedication of the team and the support of our amazing community....

December 2, 2024

Update on UMU and Bottles Next

We’ve received many questions about UMU in Bottles and the current development of Bottles Next. In this brief article, we’ll try to answer these questions. UMU in Bottles OWC (Open Wine Components) is a relatively young organization, bringing togethe...

September 24, 2024

Bottles Next: A New Chapter

If you’ve been a long-time Bottles user, you’ve gotten used to frequent releases that brought lots of new features and bug fixes. However, over the past year, this has become less frequent. This is because Bottles, like many other projects before it,...

October 5, 2023

Release Day for Bottles 51.0: Continued bug hunting, and new "New Bottle" interface!

We love release days over here, and this one is not the exception! We have some pretty exciting new stuff, and we continue our polishing that we promised to do last month. Let’s dive right into it! New “New Bottle” interface The old “New Bottle” inte...

February 20, 2023

Release Day for Bottles 50: Bug hunting and new version name

Happy new Year! Let’s hope for the best for everyone! And it’s release day again! Last month, there wasn’t a blog post for the 2022.12.14 release, so everything will be here. It will be a long one! Lots of stuff to talk about, so let’s start with… Re...

January 14, 2023

Release Day 2022.11.14: Interface Overhaul

It’s Release Day again! A lot of work has been done this time around and it’s time to celebrate another release day! This release comes with a major redesign of bottle details and a reorganization of settings UI. News Alright, let’s get to the point....

November 14, 2022

Release Day 2022.10.14

It’s Release Day again! Two more weeks of work have been done and it’s time to celebrate another release day! This release brings performance/UI improvements and bug fixes. News Ok now let’s get to the point. What’s new in this version? Common Names ...

October 14, 2022

Release Day 2022.9.28

It’s Release Day again! This time we decided to take a little more time, both to take a break and to complete some long-tasks that would not have allowed us to meet the release date. This release brings many new features and improvements. News Ok now...

September 28, 2022

Release Day 2022.8.28

It’s Release Day again! Two more weeks of work have been done and it’s time to celebrate another release day! This release brings two major additions, some performance improvements and bug fixes. News Ok now let’s get to the point. What’s new in this...

August 28, 2022

Release Day 2022.8.14

It’s Release Day again! Two more weeks of work have been done and it’s time to celebrate another release day! This release brings two major additions, some performance improvements and bug fixes. News Ok now let’s get to the point. What’s new in this...

August 14, 2022

Release Day 2022.7.28

It’s Release Day again! Two more weeks of work have been done and it’s time to celebrate another release day! This release brings many new features, performance improvements and bug fixes. News Ok now let’s get to the point. What’s new in this versio...

July 28, 2022

Release Day 2022.7.14

It’s Release Day again! Two more weeks of work have been done and it’s time to celebrate another release day! This release brings many new features, performance improvements and bug fixes. News Ok now let’s get to the point. What’s new in this versio...

July 14, 2022

Release Day 2022.6.28

It’s Release Day again! Two more weeks of work have been done and it’s time to celebrate another release day! This release brings many new features, performance improvements and bug fixes. News Ok now let’s get to the point. What’s new in this versio...

June 28, 2022

Release Day 2022.6.14

It’s Release Day again! These have been a very intense two weeks and we did not believe we would be able to finish it all, luckily we did and we have to thank all the contributors who made it possible. This release has seen contributions from many pe...

June 14, 2022

Please don't unofficially ship Bottles in distribution repositories

We are developers and contributors of Bottles who want to provide the best support to our users. As of now, we officially support Bottles from the AUR and Flathub. Many distributions unofficially ship Bottles in their respective distribution reposito...

June 7, 2022

Bottles @ LAS 2022

On April 30th we conducted our talk at the Linux App Summit 2022, an event that brings together developers, users and enthusiasts of the Linux world, to learn, collaborate and grow all together. Among all the magnificent and interesting talks that we...

May 29, 2022

Release Day 2022.5.28

It’s Release Day again! Two more weeks of work have been done and it’s time to celebrate another release day! This release brings many new features, some proton specifications, performance improvements and bug fixes. News Ok now let’s get to the poin...

May 28, 2022

Release Day 2022.5.14

It’s Release Day again! Two more weeks of work have been done and it’s time to celebrate another release day! This release introduces some new and interesting features but also greatly performance, responsiveness and usability improvements. News Ok n...

May 14, 2022

Release Day 2022.5.2

Yep, sounds strange but: it’s release day! Following our intervention at the Linux App Summit 2022, we tried to get things moving in the GNOME Circle and we received a lot of great feedbacks on our application issue we wanted to focus immediately on ...

May 2, 2022

Release Day 2022.4.28

It’s Release Day again! Two more weeks of work have been done and it’s time to celebrate another release day! This update greatly improves performance and user experience. We have worked to improve the texture and we hope it will be appreciated. Befo...

April 28, 2022

Release Day 2022.4.14

It’s Release Day again! Two more weeks of work have been done and it’s time to celebrate another release day! Despite the short changelog (caused by the preparations for the Linux App Summit 2022 in which we will participate with a talk dedicated to ...

April 14, 2022

Release Day 2022.3.28

It’s Release Day again! Two more weeks of work have been done and it’s time to celebrate another release day! This release brings several improvements, work is progressing fast to support Steam Proton prefixes and some nice new features! News Ok now ...

March 28, 2022

Release Day 2022.2.28

It’s Release Day again! Two more weeks of work have been done and it’s time to celebrate another release day! The keys to this release are optimisation and functionality. We have worked hard to optimise the user experience and we are sure you will en...

February 28, 2022

Release Day 2022.3.14

It’s Release Day again! Two more weeks of work have been done and it’s time to celebrate another release day! This release brings interesting new features and many bugfixes that improve Bottles stability and performance, some problems reported on Ste...

February 28, 2022

Release day 2022.2.14

It’s Release Day again! Another two weeks of work has been done and it’s time to celebrate another release day! This release brings with it many new features, some in great demand and others that you are sure you will like. Even if the project grows ...

February 14, 2022

Release day 2022.1.28

It’s Release Day again! Another two weeks of work has been done and it’s time to celebrate another release day! This release came with a lot of new features and improvements and focus on compatibility and stability. News Ok now let’s get to the point...

January 28, 2022

Release day 2022.1.14

It’s Release Day again! Another two weeks of work has been done and it’s time to celebrate another release day! This release came with a lot of new features and improvements and focus on compatibility and stability. Welcome in Trento Today, we want t...

January 14, 2022

Release day 2021.12.28

It’s Release Day again! Another two weeks of work has been done and it’s time to celebrate another release day! This release came with a lot of new features and improvements and focus on compatibility and stability. News Ok now let’s get to the point...

December 28, 2021

Release day 2021.12.14

It’s Release Day again! This release came with a lot of new features and improvements that we hope you’ll enjoy. The update is focused on performances, compatibility and introduces some most-requested features. News Ok now let’s get to the point. Wha...

December 14, 2021

Release day 2021.11.28

It’s Release Day again! Another two weeks have passed and we are here with a new release, full of new features, improvements and bugfixes. News Ok now let’s get to the point. What’s new in this version? New Task Manager Like an operating system, a bo...

November 28, 2021

Release day 2021.11.14

It’s Release Day again! This release brings with it many new features, not only in Bottles itself but to the entire environment. We have worked hard to get even closer to the community and offer an even better user experience. News Ok now let’s get t...

November 14, 2021

Release day 2021.10.28

Another great day, when come release day! In the past few weeks we have worked hard, focusing on three main objectives: stability, compatibility and community! This is one of the most important release of… ok I often say this but I am always excited ...

October 28, 2021

Release day 2021.10.14

It’s Release Day again! This release is one of the biggest updates ever, it brings with it the inevitable bugfixes but also many aesthetic improvements with UX care, new juicy implementations and many, very many, performance improvements. We are alwa...

October 14, 2021

Release day 2021.9.28

It’s Release Day again! This release comes with a bunch of bug fixes, improvements and new translations. This is a small update that improves Bottles stability but does not implement any new features. News Ok now let’s get to the point. What’s new in...

September 28, 2021

Release day 2021.9.14

It’s Release Day again! In this release we worked on the second part of the Bottles code remake, improving performance and fixing a number of bugs, making Bottles even more stable. Under the hood most of the code has been rewritten and / or improved ...

September 14, 2021

Release day 2021.8.28

It’s Release Day again! Over the past few weeks we’ve been working on a number of bugfixes and improvements as well as new features. This is an update that sees a large part of the Bottles code rewritten and prepares the basis for Bottles Trento (v4)...

August 28, 2021

Release day 2021.8.14

It’s Release Day again! Over the past few weeks we’ve been working hard on bug fixes, improvements, and new features. This is a substantial update that aims to improve stability and performance in Bottles, as well as extend its support with new depen...

August 14, 2021

Release day 2021.7.28

I am very proud to be here today to announce the second (and final) release of July 2021. One of the most important releases for the project, introducing a series of updates that not only improve the usability and stability of Bottles itself but also...

July 28, 2021

Release day 2021.7.14

Today, I am excited to share the results of the past weeks’ hard work. This is a very important version, and it is the first of the new scheduling release planned for the future of Bottles. If you are not up to date, Bottles has changed its release c...

July 14, 2021

Bottles v3 is here!

Bottles v3 has been available for a few days in the stable distribution branch. News This update mainly introduces two big news: the new beautiful and intuitive UI the new component manager as well as many (really many) bugfixes and translations. U...

March 1, 2020

Bottles 3, codename Refresh

It’s been a while since Bottles v1 was released, but not too much since Bottles v2 came out. However, now we want to reveal something new: Bottles v3. Project Refresh 👗 2021 began with a special project called Refresh, created with the purpose of re...

January 24, 2020

Bottles 2 stable release is now available

Bottles is a project born in 2017 as a personal need and experiment. I needed to manage multiple Wine prefixes quickly and easily. At the time there were already many Wine prefix managers out in the wild, but I wasn’t comfortable with any of them. In...

January 2, 2020

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