NewsForge: Wine May Go Beta Next Week

"After roughly 12 years of work, the Wine Project is about to take its widely used Windows translation layer to a place it has not been in all that time: beta.

"Wine Project leader Alexandre Julliard, who has worked on the software nearly since its beginning in 1993 and maintained it since 1994, said interview yesterday that the beta release is 'a matter of days away.'

"'We are currently in code freeze for the release,' Julliard said. 'It should happen sometime next week...'"

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