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@@ -37,15 +37,26 @@ changes:
   to work with "wxChar *" before use "void *" now (some int parameters were
   also changed to size_t). While wxIPC_TEXT can still be used to transfer 7
   bit text, the new wxIPC_UTF8TEXT format is used for transferring wxStrings.
   to work with "wxChar *" before use "void *" now (some int parameters were
   also changed to size_t). While wxIPC_TEXT can still be used to transfer 7
   bit text, the new wxIPC_UTF8TEXT format is used for transferring wxStrings.

+  Also notice that connection classes should change the parameter types of
+  their overridden OnExecute() or override a more convenient OnExec() instead.

 
 
 
 

-wxODBC library removal
-----------------------
+wxODBC and contrib libraries removal
+------------------------------------

 
 wxODBC library was unmaintained since several years and we couldn't continue
 supporting it any longer so it was removed. Please use any of the other open
 source ODBC libraries in the future projects.
 
 
 wxODBC library was unmaintained since several years and we couldn't continue
 supporting it any longer so it was removed. Please use any of the other open
 source ODBC libraries in the future projects.
 

+Also the "applet", "deprecated", "fl", "mmedia" and "plot" contrib libraries
+were removed as they were unmaintained and broken since several years.
+The "gizmos", "ogl", "net" and "foldbar" contribs have been moved to
+wxCode (see http://wxcode.sourceforge.net/complist.php); they are now
+open for futher development by volunteers.
+
+The "stc" and "svg" contribs instead have been moved respectively into a new
+"official" library stc and in the core lib.
+

 
 Changes in behaviour not resulting in compilation errors, please read this!
 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 Changes in behaviour not resulting in compilation errors, please read this!
 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------


@@ -68,12 +79,25 @@ Changes in behaviour not resulting in compilation errors, please read this!
   sizes of the sizer items to be in the same proportion as the items
   proportions to return to the old behaviour.
 
   sizes of the sizer items to be in the same proportion as the items
   proportions to return to the old behaviour.
 

+- wxWindow::Freeze/Thaw() are not virtual any more, if you overrode them in
+  your code you need to override DoFreeze/Thaw() instead now.
+
+- wxCalendarCtrl has native implementation in wxGTK, but it has less features
+  than the generic one. The native implementation is used by default, but you
+  can still use wxGenericCalendarCtrl instead of wxCalendarCtrl in your code if
+  you need the extra features.
+
+

 Changes in behaviour which may result in compilation errors
 -----------------------------------------------------------
 
 - WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_4 doesn't exist any more, please update your code if
   you still relied on features deprecated since version 2.4
 
 Changes in behaviour which may result in compilation errors
 -----------------------------------------------------------
 
 - WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_4 doesn't exist any more, please update your code if
   you still relied on features deprecated since version 2.4
 

+- wxDC classes hierarchy has changed, if you derived any classes from wxDC you
+  need to review them as wxDC doesn't have any virtual methods any longer and
+  uses delegation instead of inheritance to present different behaviours.
+

 - Return type of wxString::operator[] and wxString::iterator::operator* is no
   longer wxChar (i.e. char or wchar_t), but wxUniChar. This is not a problem
   in vast majority of cases because of conversion operators, but it can break
 - Return type of wxString::operator[] and wxString::iterator::operator* is no
   longer wxChar (i.e. char or wchar_t), but wxUniChar. This is not a problem
   in vast majority of cases because of conversion operators, but it can break


@@ -124,11 +148,16 @@ Changes in behaviour which may result in compilation errors
 
 - Removed global GetLine() function from wx/protocol/protocol.h, use
   wxProtocol::ReadLine() instead.
 
 - Removed global GetLine() function from wx/protocol/protocol.h, use
   wxProtocol::ReadLine() instead.

-  
+

 - wxVariant no longer derives from wxObject. wxVariantData also no longer
   derives from wxObject; instead of using wxDynamicCast with wxVariantData you
   can use the macro wxDynamicCastVariantData with the same arguments.
 
 - wxVariant no longer derives from wxObject. wxVariantData also no longer
   derives from wxObject; instead of using wxDynamicCast with wxVariantData you
   can use the macro wxDynamicCastVariantData with the same arguments.
 

+- wxWindow::Next/PrevControlId() don't exist any more as they can't be
+  implemented correctly any longer because automatically generated ids are not
+  necessarily allocated consecutively any more. Use GetChildren() to find the
+  next/previous control sibling instead.
+

 
 Deprecated methods and their replacements
 -----------------------------------------
 
 Deprecated methods and their replacements
 -----------------------------------------


@@ -144,22 +173,51 @@ Deprecated methods and their replacements
 - wxXmlProperty class was renamed to wxXmlAttribute in order to use standard
   terminology. Corresponding wxXmlNode methods were renamed to use
   "Attribute" instead of "Property" or "Prop" in their names.
 - wxXmlProperty class was renamed to wxXmlAttribute in order to use standard
   terminology. Corresponding wxXmlNode methods were renamed to use
   "Attribute" instead of "Property" or "Prop" in their names.

+- wxConnection::OnExecute() is not formally deprecated yet but new code should
+  use simpler OnExec() version which is called with wxString argument
+- wxMenuItem::GetLabel has been deprecated in favour of wxMenuItem::GetItemLabelText
+- wxMenuItem::GetText has been deprecated in favour of wxMenuItem::GetItemLabel
+- wxMenuItem::GetLabelFromText has been deprecated in favour of wxMenuItem::GetLabelText 
+- wxMenuItem::SetText has been deprecated in favour of wxMenuItem::SetItemLabel
+- wxBrush's, wxPen's SetStyle() and GetStyle() as well as the wxBrush/wxPen ctor now take
+  respectively a wxBrushStyle and a wxPenStyle value instead of a plain "int style";
+  use the new wxBrush/wxPen style names (wxBRUSHSTYLE_XXX and wxPENSTYLE_XXX) instead
+  of the old deprecated wxXXX styles (which however are still available).
+- EVT_CALENDAR_DAY event has been deprecated, use EVT_CALENDAR_SEL_CHANGED.
+- EVT_CALENDAR_MONTH and EVT_CALENDAR_YEAR events are deprecated,
+  use EVT_CALENDAR_PAGE_CHANGED which replaces both of them.
+- wxCalendarCtrl::EnableYearChange() and wxCAL_NO_YEAR_CHANGE are deprecated.
+

 
 
 Major new features in this release
 ----------------------------------
 
 
 
 Major new features in this release
 ----------------------------------
 

+- wxWidgets is now always built with Unicode support but provides the same
+  simple (i.e. "char *"-tolerant) API as was available in ANSI build in the
+  past.
+
+- wxWidgets may now use either wchar_t (UTF-16/32) or UTF-8 internally,
+  depending on what is optimal for the target platform.
+
+- Events loops, timers and sockets can now be used in wxBase, without GUI.
+

 
 2.9.0
 -----
 
 All:
 
 
 2.9.0
 -----
 
 All:
 

+- Added (experimental) IPv6 support to wxSocket (Arcen)
+- Add support for wxExecute(wxEXEC_ASYNC) in wxBase (Lukasz Michalski)
+- Added wxXLocale class and xlocale-like functions using it

 - Allow loading message catalogs from wxFileSystem (Axel Gembe)
 - Added wxMessageQueue class for inter-thread communications
 - Use UTF-8 for Unicode data in wxIPC classes (Anders Larsen)
 - Added support for user-defined types to wxConfig (Marcin Wojdyr).
 - Allow loading message catalogs from wxFileSystem (Axel Gembe)
 - Added wxMessageQueue class for inter-thread communications
 - Use UTF-8 for Unicode data in wxIPC classes (Anders Larsen)
 - Added support for user-defined types to wxConfig (Marcin Wojdyr).

+- Added numeric options support to wxCmdLineParser (crjjrc)

 - Added wxJoin() and wxSplit() functions (Francesco Montorsi).
 - Added wxJoin() and wxSplit() functions (Francesco Montorsi).

+- Added wxDateTime::FormatISOCombined() and ParseISODate/Time/Combined()

 - Added wxMutex::LockTimeout() (Aleksandr Napylov).
 - Added wxMemoryInputStream(wxInputStream&) ctor (Stas Sergeev).
 - Implemented wxMemoryInputStream::CanRead().
 - Added wxMutex::LockTimeout() (Aleksandr Napylov).
 - Added wxMemoryInputStream(wxInputStream&) ctor (Stas Sergeev).
 - Implemented wxMemoryInputStream::CanRead().


@@ -178,6 +236,13 @@ All:
   Linnakangas).
 - wxVariant::Unshare allows exclusive allocation of data that must be shared,
   if the wxVariantData::Clone function is implemented.
   Linnakangas).
 - wxVariant::Unshare allows exclusive allocation of data that must be shared,
   if the wxVariantData::Clone function is implemented.

+- Added wxWeakRef<T>, wxScopedPtr<T>, wxSharedPtr<T> class templates
+- Added wxVector<T> class templates
+- Added wxON_BLOCK_EXIT_SET() and wxON_BLOCK_EXIT_NULL() to wx/scopeguard.h.
+- Added wxEvtHandler::QueueEvent() replacing AddPendingEvent() and
+  wxQueueEvent() replacing wxPostEvent().
+- wxString now uses std::[w]string internally by default, meaning that it is
+  now thread-safe if the standard library provided with your compiler is.

 
 All (Unix):
 
 
 All (Unix):
 


@@ -185,18 +250,26 @@ All (Unix):
 
 All (GUI):
 
 
 All (GUI):
 

+- Added wxDataViewCtrl class and helper classes
+- Provide native implementation of wxCalendarCtrl under wxMSW and wxGTK

 - Added {wxTextCtrl,wxComboBox}::AutoComplete() and AutoCompleteFileNames()
 - Added wxH[V]ScrolledWindow (Brad Anderson, Bryan Petty).
 - Added {wxTextCtrl,wxComboBox}::AutoComplete() and AutoCompleteFileNames()
 - Added wxH[V]ScrolledWindow (Brad Anderson, Bryan Petty).

+- Added wxNotificationMessage class for non-intrusive notifications
+- Added wxWindow::Show/HideWithEffect()
+- Added wxWrapSizer (Arne Steinarson)
+- Added wxSpinCtrlDouble (John Labenski)
+- Added wxNativeContainerWindow to allow embedding wx into native windows
+- Added custom controls support to wxFileDialog (Diaa Sami and Marcin Wojdyr)

 - Added wxDC::StretchBlit() for wxMac and wxMSW (Vince Harron).
 - Added support for drop down toolbar buttons (Tim Kosse).
 - Added support for labels for toolbar controls (Vince Harron).
 - Added wxMessageDialog::SetMessage() and SetExtendedMessage().
 - Added wxDC::StretchBlit() for wxMac and wxMSW (Vince Harron).
 - Added support for drop down toolbar buttons (Tim Kosse).
 - Added support for labels for toolbar controls (Vince Harron).
 - Added wxMessageDialog::SetMessage() and SetExtendedMessage().

+- Added wxListCtrl::Set/GetColumnsOrder() (Yury Voronov)

 - Added wxWindow::AlwaysShowScrollbars() (Julian Scheid)
 - Added wxMouseEvent::GetClickCount() (Julian Scheid)
 - Added wxBG_STYLE_TRANSPARENT background style (Julian Scheid)
 - Added XRCSIZERITEM() macro for obtaining sizers from XRC (Brian Vanderburg II)
 - New and improved wxFileCtrl (Diaa Sami and Marcin Wojdyr)
 - Added wxWindow::AlwaysShowScrollbars() (Julian Scheid)
 - Added wxMouseEvent::GetClickCount() (Julian Scheid)
 - Added wxBG_STYLE_TRANSPARENT background style (Julian Scheid)
 - Added XRCSIZERITEM() macro for obtaining sizers from XRC (Brian Vanderburg II)
 - New and improved wxFileCtrl (Diaa Sami and Marcin Wojdyr)

-- Implemented wxGetClientDisplayRect() correctly for X11-based ports

 - Added wxEventBlocker class (Francesco Montorsi).
 - Added wxFile/DirPickerCtrl::Get/SetFile/DirName() (Francesco Montorsi).
 - Added wxSizerFlags::Top() and Bottom().
 - Added wxEventBlocker class (Francesco Montorsi).
 - Added wxFile/DirPickerCtrl::Get/SetFile/DirName() (Francesco Montorsi).
 - Added wxSizerFlags::Top() and Bottom().


@@ -226,7 +299,25 @@ All (GUI):
   behaviour of GetNextSibling() consistent between wxMSW and generic versions.
 - Merged wxRichTextAttr and wxTextAttrEx into wxTextAttr, and added a font table
   to wxRichTextBuffer to reduce wxFont consumption and increase performance.
   behaviour of GetNextSibling() consistent between wxMSW and generic versions.
 - Merged wxRichTextAttr and wxTextAttrEx into wxTextAttr, and added a font table
   to wxRichTextBuffer to reduce wxFont consumption and increase performance.

-- Optimize wxGenericTreeCtrl::Collapse/ExpandAllChildren() (Szczepan Holyszewski)
+- Optimize wxGenericTreeCtrl::Collapse/ExpandAllChildren()
+  (Szczepan Holyszewski).
+- Added <scrollrate> parameter to wxScrolledWindow XRC handler.
+- Added support for automatic dialog scrolling, via the new
+  wxDialogLayoutAdapter class and various new wxDialog functions. See the
+  topic "Automatic Scrolling Dialogs" in the manual for further details.
+- Added support for resizing wxWizard bitmaps to the current page height,
+  via SetBitmapPlacement, SetBitmapBackgroundColour and SetMinimumBitmapWidth.
+  Also made it easier to derive from wxWizard and override behaviour.
+- Made wxSizer::Fit() set the client size of the target window
+- Add support for wxDatePickerCtrl in wxGenericValidator (Herry Ayen Yang)
+- Added wxWindow::HasFocus().
+- Added wxGLCanvas::IsDisplaySupported().
+- Added wxApp::SetNativeTheme() (Stefan H.).
+- Made wxSpinCtrl::Reparent() in MSW and generic versions (Angelo Mottola).
+- Freeze() and Thaw() now recursively freeze/thaw the children too.
+- Generalized wxScrolledWindow into wxScrolled<T> template that can derive
+  from any window class, not just wxPanel.
+- Allow having menu separators with ids != wxID_SEPARATOR (Jeff Tupper)

 
 wxGTK:
 
 
 wxGTK:
 


@@ -242,6 +333,7 @@ wxGTK:
 - Added support for colour cursors (Pascal Monasse).
 - Pass current control text to EVT_TEXT handler for wxSpinCtrl (John Ratliff).
 - Added gtk.tlw.can-set-transparency system option.
 - Added support for colour cursors (Pascal Monasse).
 - Pass current control text to EVT_TEXT handler for wxSpinCtrl (John Ratliff).
 - Added gtk.tlw.can-set-transparency system option.

+- Added support for GTK+ print backend

 
 wxMac:
 
 
 wxMac:
 


@@ -251,6 +343,7 @@ wxMac:
 - Allow accelerators to be used with buttons too (Ryan Wilcox).
 - Support resource forks in wxCopyFile() (Hank Schultz).
 - Implement wxLocale::GetInfo() using CFLocale
 - Allow accelerators to be used with buttons too (Ryan Wilcox).
 - Support resource forks in wxCopyFile() (Hank Schultz).
 - Implement wxLocale::GetInfo() using CFLocale

+- Added native wxCollapsiblePane

 
 wxMSW:
 
 
 wxMSW:
 


@@ -258,7 +351,9 @@ wxMSW:
 - Return the restored window size from GetSize() when window is minimized.
 - wxCheckListBox now looks more native, especially under XP (Marcin Malich).
 - Allow tooltips longer than 64 (up to 128) characters in wxTaskBarIcon
 - Return the restored window size from GetSize() when window is minimized.
 - wxCheckListBox now looks more native, especially under XP (Marcin Malich).
 - Allow tooltips longer than 64 (up to 128) characters in wxTaskBarIcon

-- Fix centering wxFileDialog
+- Fix centering wxFileDialog and allow positioning it
+- Allow centering wxMessageDialog on its parent window (troelsk)
+- Implement support for display enumeration under WinCE (Vince Harron)

 
 wxX11:
 
 
 wxX11:
 


@@ -266,6 +361,55 @@ wxX11:
 - Make Enter key activate the default button (David Hart).
 
 
 - Make Enter key activate the default button (David Hart).
 
 

+2.8.8
+-----
+
+All:
+
+- Fixed bug with parsing some dates in wxDateTime (Bob Pesner)
+- Fixed bug with parsing negative time zones in wxDateTime::ParseRfc822Date()
+
+All (GUI):
+
+- Added wxWindow::GetNextSibling() and GetPrevSibling()
+- Improve wximage::ResampleBox() (Mihai Ciocarlie)
+- Implemented ScrollList() in generic wxListCtrl (Tim Kosse)
+- Fixed wxXmlResource::GetText() to convert data to current locale's
+  charset in ANSI build.
+
+wxMSW:
+
+- Fix rare bug with messages delivered to wrong wxSocket (Tim Kosse)
+- Fix setting icons when they have non-default (16*16 and 32*32) sizes
+- Fixed wxLocale::GetInfo to use the C locale.
+- Don't enable disabled windows when showing them (Harry McKame).
+- Fix assert when using owner-drawn menu items with the newest (Vista) SDK
+
+wxGTK:
+
+- Return false from wxEventLoop::Dispatch() if gtk_main_quit() was called and
+  so the loop should exit (Rodolfo Schulz de Lima)
+
+
+2.8.7
+-----
+
+All:
+
+- Fixed bug with default proxy destruction in wxURL (Axel Gembe).
+
+wxMSW:
+
+- Correct (harmless) warnings given for forward-declared DLL-exported classes
+  by mingw32 4.2 (Tim Stahlhut).
+
+wxGTK:
+
+- Added gtk.window.force-background-colour wxSystemOptions option to work around
+  a background colour bug in the gtk-qt theme under KDE.
+- Implemented wxGetClientDisplayRect() correctly for wxGTK and X11-based ports.
+
+

 2.8.6
 -----
 
 2.8.6
 -----