--- title: Wine on Wayland: A year in review (and a look ahead) description: The Wayland driver for Wine made significant progress in 2023, graduating from experimental status to a proper upstream component in Wine 9.0. Users can now... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/wine-on-wayland-a-year-in-review-and-a-look-ahead--bbtnhbcgn twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Wine on Wayland: A year in review (and a look ahead) | daily.dev og:description: The Wayland driver for Wine made significant progress in 2023, graduating from experimental status to a proper upstream component in Wine 9.0. Users can now... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/wine-on-wayland-a-year-in-review-and-a-look-ahead--bbtnhbcgn og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/bbTnHBcgn.png og:image:alt: Wine on Wayland: A year in review (and a look ahead) og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Wine on Wayland: A year in review (and a look ahead) **[Collabora Blog](https://daily.dev/sources/collabora)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary The Wayland driver for Wine made significant progress in 2023, graduating from experimental status to a proper upstream component in Wine 9.0. Users can now run Windows applications in a fully X11-free environment on Linux. Collabora outlines completed upstream work and plans for continued upstreaming in 2024, including additional features on the roadmap. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### Does Wine 9.0 support Wayland without X11? Yes, Wine 9.0 includes an upstream Wayland driver that allows running Windows applications in a completely X11-free environment on Linux. The driver was developed by Collabora and moved from experimental status to a proper upstream component through several merge requests merged into the Wine repository. _Developers running Linux desktops without X11 can track Wine Wayland driver updates on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Wine 11.19 Released With Wayland Color Management For Vulkan, DNS Query Caching](https://daily.dev/posts/wine-11-19-released-with-wayland-color-management-for-vulkan-dns-query-caching-1jhfdz19e) · Phoronix · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Can I finally start using Wayland in 2026?](https://daily.dev/posts/can-i-finally-start-using-wayland-in-2026--i3zcmnhze) · Lobsters · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Wine 11.9 Released With Wayland Pointer Warp, Initial Support For System Threads](https://daily.dev/posts/wine-11-9-released-with-wayland-pointer-warp-initial-support-for-system-threads-unzri33fg) · Phoronix · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Wayland set the Linux Desktop back by 10 years](https://daily.dev/posts/wayland-set-the-linux-desktop-back-by-10-years-bp6wqwoqi) · Hacker News · 57 upvotes · 39 comments --- Tags: [#linux](https://daily.dev/tags/linux), [#opengl](https://daily.dev/tags/opengl), [#vulkan](https://daily.dev/tags/vulkan) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/wine-on-wayland-a-year-in-review-and-a-look-ahead--bbtnhbcgn) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Wine on Wayland: A year in review (and a look ahead)","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/wine-on-wayland-a-year-in-review-and-a-look-ahead--bbtnhbcgn","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/wine-on-wayland-a-year-in-review-and-a-look-ahead--bbtnhbcgn"},"datePublished":"2026-08-11T08:54:36.183Z","dateModified":"2026-08-11T09:16:56.533Z","description":"The Wayland driver for Wine made significant progress in 2023, graduating from experimental status to a proper upstream component in Wine 9.0. 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