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 Recent Changes for wxPython
 =====================================================================
 
-2.7.0.1
+2.7.1.1
 -------
-*
+* 18-Oct-2006
 
 The following deprecated items have been removed:
 
@@ -263,6 +263,69 @@ Andrea Gavana's FancyButtonPanel module.
 
 Added the wx.lib.flatnotebook module, from Andrea Gavana.
 
+Renamed wx.FutureCall to wx.CallLater so it is named more like
+wx.CallAfter.  wx.FutureCall is now an empty subclass of wx.CallLater
+for compatibility of older code.
+
+Added the wx.lib.customtreectrl the from Andrea Gavana.
+
+Added ChangeSelection to wx.BookCtrl (the base class for wx.Notebook
+and other book controls) that is the same as SetSelection but doesn't
+send the change events.
+
+Added wx.TextCtrl.ChangeValue() which is the same as SetValue() but
+doesn't send the text changed event.
+
+For consistency, all classes having an Ok() method now also have
+IsOk(), use of the latter form is preferred although the former hasn't
+been deprecated yet
+
+Added the wx.AboutBox() function and wx.AboutDialogInfo class.  They
+provide a way to show a standard About box for the application, which
+will either be a native dialog or a generic one depending on what info
+is provided and if it can all be shown with the native dialog.
+
+The code in the animate contrib has been moved into the code wxWidgets
+library, and refactored a bit along the way.  For wxPython it still
+exists in the wx.animate module, but has basically been reduced to two
+classes, wx.animate.Animation, and wx.animate.AnimationCtrl.  You load
+the animated GIF (and hopefully there will be other supported formats
+in the near future) in the Animation object, and then give that to the
+AnimatedCtrl for display.  See the demo for an example.  There is also
+still a GIFAnimationCtrl class that provides some level of backwards
+compatibility with the old implementation.
+
+wxMac: The compile option that turns on the use of CoreGraphics (a.k.a
+Quartz) for wxDC is now turned on by default.  This means that all
+drawing via wxDC is done using the new APIs from apple, instead of the
+old Quick Draw API.  There are, however, a few places where Quartz and
+wxDC don't fit together very well, mainly the lack of support for
+logical drawing operations such as XOR, but there is work in progress
+to provide other ways to do the same sort of thing that will work with
+Quartz and also on the other platforms.
+
+The first parts of a new 2D drawing API has been added with the
+wx.GraphicsPath and wx.GraphicsContext classes.  They wrap GDI+ on
+Windows, Cairo on wxGTK and CoreGraphics on OS X.  They allow path-based
+drawing with alpha-blending and anti-aliasing, and use a floating
+point cooridnate system.  Currently they can only target drawing to
+windows, but other wx.DC backends are forthcoming.  The APIs may
+evolve a bit more before they are finalaized with the 2.8 release, but
+there is enough there now to get a good feel for how things will work.
+There is also a transitional wx.GCDC class that provides the wx.DC API
+on top of wx.GraphicsContext.  Docs and a demo are still MIA.
+
+Added a wx.AutoBufferedPaintDC that is a subclass of wx.PaintDC on
+platforms that do double buffering by default, and a subclass of
+wx.BufferedPaintDC on the platforms that don't.  You can use this
+class to help avoid the overhead of buffering when it is not
+needed. There is also a wx.AutoBufferedPaintDCFactory function that
+does a little more and actually tests if the window has
+double-buffering enabled and then decides whether to return a
+wx.PaintDC or wx.BufferedPaintDC.  This uses the new
+wx.Window.IsDoubleBuffered method.
+
+