docs/publicity/announce.txt

   1 July 9, 2012 -- The wxWidgets team is pleased to announce the
   2 latest 2.9.4 release of wxWidgets library.
   3
   4 wxWidgets 2.9.4 is available at
   5
   6         https://sourceforge.net/downloads/wxwindows/2.9.4/
   7
   8 and soon will also appear at our FTP mirror at
   9
  10         ftp://ftp.wxwidgets.org/pub/2.9.4/
  11
  12 Please choose the archive format suitable for your platform, i.e. 7z
  13 or ZIP for Windows platforms and tar.bz2 for the Unix systems
  14 including OS X (all archives contain sources for all wxWidgets ports
  15 but they use different line endings) and follow the instructions in
  16 readme.txt file for installing it. Notice that if you decide to use
  17 the Windows installer (.exe file) you still need to build wxWidgets
  18 as only sources, not binaries, are installed.
  19
  20 However, for the first time ever, we also experimentally provide the
  21 pre-built versions of wxMSW libraries built with several version of
  22 Microsoft Visual C++ compiler. You can download them from
  23
  24         https://sourceforge.net/downloads/wxwindows/2.9.4/binaries/
  25
  26 Please see the README file there for the descriptions of the
  27 individual files.
  28
  29
  30 This release mostly focuses on bug fixes in preparation for 3.0
  31 release, in particular there are a lot of improvements in wxOSX/Cocoa
  32 port. The most important new feature in this release is experimental
  33 support for building wxGTK with GTK+ 3 version of the toolkit. Other
  34 noteworthy additions are:
  35
  36 - Transparent background is now support for wxGTK windows.
  37 - New style directory selection dialog is now used in wxMSW.
  38 - Native wxDatePickerCtrl and wxTimePickerCtrl for wxOSX.
  39 - wxFSInputStream stream class for reading data from wxFileSystem.
  40 - wxGrid::Render() method allows to print or save wxGrid contents.
  41 - Strike-through fonts are now supported.
  42 - Horizontal mouse wheel events are now generated.
  43
  44
  45 The list of of changes since the 2.8 series is much too long to be
  46 listed here but the most important ones are:
  47
  48 - Completely overhauled Unicode support which is much easier to use.
  49 - New Cocoa-based wxOSX port for Mac OS X for both 32 and 64 bits.
  50 - New property grid and ribbon libraries are now included in wxWidgets.
  51 - Better interoperability with standard library classes.
  52 - Totally revised and more readable manual.
  53 - Improved debugging support.
  54
  55 Please see the changes.txt file in the "docs" subdirectory of
  56 wxWidgets distribution or also available online at
  57 https://sourceforge.net/projects/wxwindows/files/2.9.4/changes.txt/docs/changes.txt
  58 for more details and http://docs.wxwidgets.org/2.9.4/overview_changes_since28.html
  59 if you are upgrading from wxWidgets 2.8.
  60
  61
  62 Note about naming: while 2.9.4 is called a "development" release,
  63 this only means that API is not guaranteed to remain unchanged in
  64 the subsequent 2.9.x releases (although it is very unlikely to change
  65 in incompatible ways at this stage), unlike in the stable 2.8.x branch
  66 where source and binary compatibility is always preserved between the
  67 different micro releases. We believe the current version is stable and
  68 suitable for use in production environment and recommend using it for
  69 any new projects using wxWidgets.
  70
  71 We are especially looking forward to your feedback about the changes
  72 in this release compared to 2.8 version if you're upgrading. Please
  73 let us know about any regressions (http://trac.wxwidgets.org/newticket)
  74 so that we could fix them in the upcoming 3.0. Thanks in advance!
  75
  76  Enjoy!
  77
  78 Vadim Zeitlin, on behalf of wxWidgets development team.