# Wine 11.19 development release adds GDIPlus vertical text support

> **Key takeaway:** Wine 11.19 introduces vertical text support in GDIPlus and updates Unicode to version 18.0.0.

**Published:** 2026-10-02T00:00:00+00:00 
**Source:** WineHQ Official Releases & Announcements 
**Category:** open-gaming 
**Canonical URL:** https://fosswire.org/news/winehq-wine-1119-released.html 

## Summary
The Wine 11.19 development release is now available, bringing several updates to the compatibility layer. Key changes include support for vertical text within GDIPlus, an update to the Unicode 18.0.0 character tables, and DNS query caching. The release also features improvements to the VBScript parser and various bug fixes.

## Technical updates in Wine 11.19
- Added support for **vertical text** in **GDIPlus**.
- Updated **Unicode character tables** to **Unicode 18.0.0**.
- Implemented **caching for DNS queries**.
- Improved the **VBScript parser**.