Bottles, a graphical manager for Wine environments, has been released in version 65.0 - shortly after, version 65.1 followed, and now version 65.2.
The update adds a per-bottle frame rate limiter, D7VK support and lsfg-vk frame generation. It also brings selective program data backups, USB device sharing in dedicated sandboxes, Steam library integration and over 100 bug fixes.
Changes in version 65.0:
New Features
- Per-bottle frame rate limiter
- D7VK support
- lsfg-vk frame generation
- Back up selected program data
- Share USB devices with dedicated sandboxes
- Expose selected HOTAS devices through HIDRAW
- Add Steam games to the library and discover Steam Proton runners
- Add file associations
- Launch programs at login
- Add application language selection and text scaling
- Support custom library covers
- Detect Unreal Engine bootstrapper in Eagle and suggest the shipping binary
- Add community compatibility intelligence to Eagle
Bugfixes
- Suppress Wine Mono during wineboot
- Repair drive mappings
- Preserve hidden files in bottle duplicates
- Clean up desktop entries when removing programs
- Fix crash adding a program to the library when the thumbnail cannot be fetched
- Fix crash launching a program with a malformed environment variable
- Fix bottle.yml unexpectedly becoming empty (0kb)
- Handle missing versioning and bottle paths without crashing
Six new contributors made their first contribution with this release.
Changes in version 65.1:
- Fixed initialization of preferences without GameMode (#4629)
Changes in version 65.2:
- Stop advertising programs as Steam apps (#4632)
- Enable steamrt4 for Proton 11+
@alairon made their first contribution with this release.
Bottles is available as a Flatpak on Flathub.
