Wine 1.8 has been out for a while now, and has many fixes and improvements, e.g. the Lego Mindstorms EV3 Home Edition software does not work on wine 1.6, but does on wine 1.8. I am running (X)ubuntu 16.04 and there is no wine1.8 package.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: wine (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-11.26-generic 4.4.4
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-11-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
ApportVersion: 2.20-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: XFCE
Date: Fri Mar 11 17:58:27 2016
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-12-13 (90 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu Core 15.10 - amd64 - 20151022
SourcePackage: wine1.6
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to xenial on 2016-03-09 (3 days ago)
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.