medium and long-term. It also serves as a schedule for new releases so
that both developers and users can know what to expect when, at least approximately.<P>
-Note (1): as the wxWindows effort is voluntary, these are not hard-and-fast deadlines:
+We are adopting the Linux kernel style of numbering system where odd minor version numbers are development
+versions, and even numbers are stable versions. For example, 2.1.x are development releases,
+and the next 'stable' or final release of it would be 2.2.<P>
+
+Bug-fix patches to the stable release (if made) then become point
+releases of 2.2 (2.2.x) while development continues with wild abandon
+on 2.3.x until the end of the next development cycle when it is
+released as 2.4.<P>
+
+Development versions that end up on the FTP site or CD-ROM, as opposed to remaining
+in the CVS archive, are semi-stable -- i.e. they are checked for compilation and
+run-time problems, but not as thoroughly as the stable versions.<P>
+
+Note that since the wxWindows effort is voluntary, these are not hard-and-fast deadlines:
but we will endeavour to follow them as closely as possible.<P>
-Note (2): the releases described are for wxGTK, wxMSW and wxMotif ports. wxMac currently follows
+Note also that the releases described are for wxGTK, wxMSW and wxMotif ports. wxMac currently follows
its own development path but is due to merge with the main code base in November/December.
Also, minor snapshot releases for specific platforms may be
available at dates convenient to the developers.<P>
</CENTER>
<P>
-<H4>Release 2.0.?</H4>
+<H4>Release 2.1.14</H4>
-<ul>
-<li>Release date: October 3rd, 1999
-<li>This beta is intended to be the last stable snapshot before wxWindows
-is split into base and GUI libraries.
-<li>New wxGrid in beta.
-<li>wxWizard (beta)
-<li>wxDialUpManager and wxPhoneDialer (beta)
-<li>wxFontEnumerator (beta)
-<li>Preliminary support for different encodings
-<li>wxPostEvent function
-</ul>
+Release date: March 12, 2000<P>
-<P>
+This will be the final beta release before the final 2.2 release. It will be
+synchronized for as many platforms as possible (at least Windows and GTK,
+probably Motif and hopefully Mac).
-<H2>Release 2.1</H2>
+Changes since the last synchronized release (2.1.11):
<ul>
-<li>Release date: November 7th, 1999
-<li>Splits wxWindows into base and GUI libraries. Most, but not all makefiles
-are expected to support this: for the rest, the makefiles will build a valid
-combined base/GUI library for GUI applications only.
-<li>New wxGrid.
-<li>wxSocket working.
-<li>Full support for fonts in different encodings
-<li>Tested multithreading support (wxThread)
-<li>wxHTML printing (possibly).
-<li>Better i18n support (i.e. more translations)
-<li>Animation classes (possibly, low priority).
-<li>PCX writing capability (possibly, low priority).
-<li>wxImage handlers in separate .h and .cpp files.
-<li>Rewritten timer.cpp, possible wxChrono class.
-<li>Bug tracking system in place.
+<li>First beta release of wxBase
+<li>New or significantly improved base classes: wxDateTime, wxLongLong,
+wxCmdLineParser, wxDir, wxStopWatch
+<li>Much better i18n support, encoding conversion on the fly, wxFontMapper
+<li>New wxGrid class
+<li>New wxCalendarCtrl class
+<li>Dynamic toolbar/menubar management
+<li>Better image formats support: TIFF (new), PCX (8 and 24 bit saving added)
+<li>Attributes (custom colours/font) support in wxTreeCtrl, wxListCtrl
+<li>Impressive number of fixed bugs in wxMSW and wxGTK including various
+incompatibilities between the two
+<li>wxIPCxxx classes reworked.
+<li>Several new samples and demos.
</ul>
<P>
-<H4>Release 2.1.1</H4>
-
-<ul>
-<li>Release date: January 9th, 2000
-<li>Miscellaneous fixes and small enhancements.
-</ul>
+<H4>Release 2.2 (stable)</H4>
-<P>
+
Release date: mid. April, 2000.<P>
-<H4>Release 2.1.2</H4>
+This is the next stable version of wxWindows. No new features since
+2.1.14 beta.
<ul>
-<li>Release date: March 5th, 2000
-<li>Miscellaneous fixes and small enhancements.
-<li>wxDateTime class in beta.
-<li>Context sensitive help
-<li>More i18n issues: dates, times, ...
+<li>bugs found during 2.1.14 will be fixed.
+<li>translations of text strings used in wxWindows
+<li>documentation updated to include all new classes
</ul>
<P>
-<H4>Release 2.1.3</H4>
+<H4>Release 2.3</H4>
+
+Release date: ?
<ul>
-<li>Release date: May 7th, 2000
-<li>Unicode compilation starting to work in wxGTK and wxMSW.
+<li>Context sensitive help.
+<li>More i18n issues: dates, times, ...
+<li>POSIX-like regular expressions support for all platforms.
+<li>Encryption support (interface to OpenSSL).
+<li>Full UDP support in wxSocket
+<li>wxPlot
+<li>XML for resource files.
+<li>Built-in support for configuring key bindings
</ul>
<P>
-<H2>Release 2.2</H2>
-
-<ul>
-<li>Release date: c. July 2nd, 2000
-<li>Unicode compilation working in wxGTK and wxMSW.
-<li>wxDateTime class.
-<li>Regular expressions support.
-</ul>
+<H4>Release 2.4 (stable)</H4>
-<P>
+Release date: ?
-<H2>Release 2.3</H2>
+Stable version of 2.3.
<ul>
-<li>Release date: unknown
-<li>WinCE port available.
+<li>wxMac release.
+<li>wxBeOS port.
</ul>
<P>
<P>
-<B><I>General</I></B><P>
+<B><I>Already done</I></B><P>
+
+<P>
<ul>
<li>wxHTML printing. When finished, this will allow an application to generate
printed reports with very little effort.
-<li>wxSocket.
<li>Split library into several, for base (classes and functions usable by console and GUI
applications), console (classes and functions usable by console application only)
and GUI (classes and functions usable by GUI application only).
+<li>wxSocket.
+<li>wxImage handlers in separate .h and .cpp files.
+<li>PCX writing code.
+<li>Tidying of timer code, addition of wxStopWatch class.
+<li>wxDateTime class.
+<li>Rotated text support (might still be improved)
+<li>Bug tracking system.
+</ul>
+
+<B><I>General</I></B><P>
+
+<ul>
<li>Extend and unify drag and drop handling (e.g. we need to specify multiple drop targets
that can handle multiple formats).
<li>Expand the number of controls that can be specified in a WXR file;
determining if there is a connection to Internet on the machine and
wxPhoneDialer for dialing arbitrary phone numbers and otherwise communicating
with the modem.
-<li>PCX writing code.
-<li>GIF animation code.
-<li>Tidying of timer code, addition of wxChrono class.
+<li>GIF animation code (support is already there, but wxAnimation is not yet complete)
<li>Debug wxPostScriptDC further.
-<li>wxDateTime class.
+<li>Regular expressions support.
<li>Expansion of wxHTML to support further tags, and frames.
<li>MGL port (see Backroom/Future Ports page).
-<li>Rotated text support.
<li>FreeType support.
<li>Support for 'skins', perhaps using a set of alternative control and window classes
written generically in wxWindows.
<ul>
<li>Windows CE port.
-<li>Cure bug whereby in a panel within another panel, all buttons become
-default buttons (heavy black border).
-<li>Write a RC->WXR converter.
+<li>Write a RC to WXR converter.
</ul>
<P>
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