Wine 1.8 was released but Xenial is still using wine 1.6

I suggest you report a bug. If the bug and security fixes are significant then the package will be updated sooner.

WINE is a strange creature. A later version may not be beneficial and more applications may in fact run better on 1.6. With WINE, a later version doesn't mean the applications you want to run will have more chance of success and you should check the WINE AppDb for compatibility.

Just as an additional information:
There is a wine-development package with version 1.7 available in the standard repositories for vivid, wily and xenial
There are PPAs with different versions up to 1.9.2 (e.g. ppa:wine/wine-builds )

At least 4 games that I played only work in wine 1.7 or higher in addition many programs work better in wine 1.8 common 2 years of development between 1.6 and 1.8this is undeniable

Report a bug

The package wine-development for xenial currently offers version 1.9.0

When I run it said that "carolina@carlos-carolina:~$ winecfg-development
wine: '/home/carolina/.wine' is a 64-bit installation, it cannot be used with a 32-bit wineserver.
"

If I can make it working how I can set it as default to open exe files?

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