+Unix:
+
+- Fixed build on Linux/AMD64
+
+wxMSW:
+
+- Added "orient" parameter to wxMDIParentFrame::Tile()
+- wxTextCtrl with wxTE_RICH2 style now uses RichEdit 4.1 if available
+- fix handling Alt-key events in wxComboBox (reported by Joakim Roubert)
+- wxWindow::Refresh() refreshes the window children as well
+
+wxGTK:
+
+- Improved wxSystemSettings::GetMetric() to work better with X11. (Mart Raudsepp)
+- Corrected wxListBox selection handling.
+- Corrected default button size handling for different themes.
+- Corrected splitter sash size and look for different themes.
+- Fixed keyboard input for dead-keys.
+- Added support for wxTE_LINEWRAP (Mart Raudsepp)
+
+wxMac:
+
+- Added wxFRAME_EX_METAL, wxDIALOG_EX_METAL for metallic-look windows.
+
+wxPalmOS:
+
+- Native wxRadioBox implementation.
+
+wxWinCE:
+
+- Added wxNB_FLAT for flat-look notebooks on Windows CE.
+- Titlebar OK button on PocketPC now sends command set by SetAffirmativeId.
+ You can also override wxDialog::DoOK if you need more flexibility.
+- Dialog size now takes into account SIP or menubar.
+- Panels more naturally white on PocketPC.
+- wxDIALOG_EX_CONTEXTHELP ignored on WinCE since it interferes
+ with correct titlebar style.
+- Frames have Ctrl+Q accelerator set automatically, as per the
+ PocketPC guidelines
+- Documented issues in manual under wxWinCE topic.
+- Made (Un)RegisterHotKey WinCE-aware.
+- Sends wxEVT_HIBERNATE event.
+- Now fakes wxEVT_ACTIVATE_APP to be symmetrical with wxEVT_HIBERNATE.
+- Added wxTE_CAPITALIZE for CAPEDIT controls.
+- wxDialog::GetToolBar can be used if you need to add buttons
+ to the dialog's toolbar.
+
+2.5.4
+-----
+
+All:
+
+- wxEvent and derived classes don't have public members any more, you must
+ use accessors methods now (Mart Raudsepp)
+- new classes for reading and writing ZIP files (M.J.Wetherell)
+- large files support for wxFFile (M.J.Wetherell)
+- classes in the manual are now cross-referenced (Zbigniew Zagórski)
+- Norwegian (Bokmål) translation added (Hans F. Nordhaug)
+- wxDynamicLibrary::HasSymbol() added
+- added wxEXEC_NODISABLE flag to be used with wxExecute(wxEXEC_SYNC)
+- added wxTextInputStream::operator>>(wchar_t) for compilers which support this
+- added wxURI, a class for dealing with Uniform Resource Identifiers
+- changed wxURL to inherit from wxURI and provide assignment and comparison
+- implemented wxConvUTF7 (modified patch from Fredrik Roubert)
+- added versions of MB2WC and WC2MB for wxMBConv that works for embedded null chars
+- Unicode support in wxODBC is now fully implemented
+- A new data type specific to wxWidgets called SQL_C_WXCHAR has been introduced.
+ SQL_C_WXCHAR should be used rather than SQL_C_CHAR to ensure transparent
+ behavior between Unicode and non-unicode builds
+- BLOB example added to samples/db (thanks to Casey O'Donnell)
+- use wxStream::GetLength() instead of deprecated GetSize()
+- wxGetOsDescription() is now more precise (Olly Betts)
+- XRC supports system fonts and colours (Ray Gilbert)
+- Added flags argument to wxKill/wxProcess::Kill to kill child processes.
+- Added wxPrintFactory classes so that it is possible to add a new
+ print system backend at run-time. This was required by the new GNOME
+ printing stuff in the GTK port.
+- Deprecated print setup dialog.
+- Added support to the wxODBC classes for Firebird 1.5 database
+- The samples/db sample program now includes an optional example of using a BLOB
+ datatype (if BLOB support is enabled and supported by the database)
+- added wxDynamicLibrary::ListLoaded()
+- wxGetPowerType() and wxGetBatteryState() addition
+- wxSystemSettings::GetSystem*() members deprecated and replaced with
+ wxSystemSettings::Get*()
+- wxWindowBase::DoGetBestSize now includes the difference (if any) between
+ the client size and total size of the window. Code that sets the
+ client size using the best size, or that added extra space to sizers
+ to compensate for this bug may need to be changed.
+- Changed calculation of scrolling area to not clip away some bits
+ due to a rounding error.
+- Changed GetVirtualSize() to return client size by default until
+ SetVirtualSize() gets called. From then on it will only return that.
+- Various changes to how wxListCtrl and wxTreeCtrl react to right
+ mouse clicks and left mouse click for starting a drag operation.
+- "Alt" key (VK_MENU) now results in WXK_ALT keyboard event, not WXK_MENU
+- wxFFile::ReadAll() now takes an optional wxMBConv parameter
+- wxCommandProcessor::MarkAsSaved() and IsDirty() added (Angela Wrobel)
+- added wxStackWalker and related classes (Win32 and some Unix versions only)
+
+
+All (GUI):
+
+- added wxMediaCtrl
+- added wxDatePickerCtrl
+- wxHtmlWindow now supports background images given in <body> tag
+- wxSplitterWindow now supports gravity parameter (Zbigniew Zagórski)
+- recursive wxSizer::GetItem returns item of given window, sizer or nth index
+- wxLayoutConstraints now use best size, not current size, for AsIs() condition
+- wxSizer::Add/Insert etc. now returns pointer to wxSizerItem just added and this
+ item remembers its wxRect area (Brian A. Vanderburg II)
+- wxBookCtrl renamed to wxBookCtrlBase, wxBookCtrl is reserved for most native
+ book control (for now wxChoicebook for MSSmartphone, wxNotebook for others).
+ Necessary event macros, types and styles mapped accordingly.
+- new wxBrush::IsHatch() checking for brush type replaces IS_HATCH macro
+- wxProgressDialog accepts smooth gauge again (wxPD_SMOOTH style)
+- wxProgressDialog new style: wxPD_CAN_SKIP which provides skipping some parts
+ of the progress (with new "Skip" button in dialog)
+- wxGenericListCtrl::SetItemState(-1) now changes the state of all items as
+ in wxMSW version (Gunnar Roth)
+- added wxImage::InitAlpha()
+
+Unix:
+
+- wxPuts() now correctly outputs trailing new line in Unicode build
+
+wxGTK:
+
+- Added printing support by way of using libgnomeprint. The library
+ now checks at runtime, if the library is installed and will use it
+ if it is. Otherwise, it will fall back to the old PostScript printing
+ code, from which the Pango drawing code was removed.
+- Implemented/improved wxDC::DrawRotatedText()
+- fixed wxFileDialog::SetWildcard()
+- native file dialog is now used if available (Zbigniew Zagorski)
+- implemented wxTextCtrl::Freeze() and Thaw(). The GtkTextBuffer
+ is not a valid one during frozen state. Get a pointer to it right
+ after wxTextCtrl creation if you really need to. (Mart Raudsepp)
+- Changed calls to GTK+ 2.4.x functions so that the code checks at
+ runtime, which library version is installed so that these functions
+ are only called with GTK+ 2.4.x installed and should yield linker
+ errors otherwise.
+- wxTextCtrl text insertion efficiency fixed. (Mart Raudsepp)
+- Added wxRawBitmap support
+- Corrected Input method handler code (for Chinese etc.) and its
+ interaction with wxWidgets' events.
+- wxTE_AUTO_URL implemention for wxGTK2 multiline wxTextCtrls (Mart Raudsepp)
+
+wxMac:
+
+- Vertical sliders oriented consistent with MSW/GTK (0 at top) (Kevin Hock)
+- wxDynamicLibrary::GetDllExt() now returns ".bundle", not ".dylib"
+- wxDynamicLibrary::GetSymbol() now prepends underscore to the symbol name
+- wxJoystick now works on OSX
+
+wxMSW:
+
+- fixed enhanced metafiles loading from files (Andreas Goebel)
+- wxRadioButtons no longer have to be consecutive in a group
+- fixed spurious selection of combobox text during resize
+- pass correct tool id (and not always -1) to EVT_TOOL_RCLICKED() handler
+- added wxRegKey::Export(file)
+
+wxWinCE:
+- Added support for MS Handheld PC 2000. This was done before 2.5.4,
+ but not mentioned anywhere.
+- Added (preliminary) support for sockets
+
+wxUniv:
+
+- wxBU_... button align flags support
+- vertical notebook orientation support
+- 3rd state support for checkboxes
+- wxLB_SORT and wxCB_SORT now cause case-insensitive sorting
+
+wxPalmOS:
+
+- William Osborne has won and new port was born
+ (see: "wxPalmOS porting challenge")
+- polishing of the port (unnecessary 2.4 API compatibility, removed
+ all wxMSW specific code which was base for the new port)
+- enumeration of available volumes
+- native wxPrefConfig around Preferences database
+- native wxProgressDialog implementation
+- native wxColourDialog implementation
+- native wxSystemSettings colours
+- native wxButton implementation
+- native wxCheckBox implementation
+- native wxSlider implementation
+- native wxToggleButton implementation
+- native wxRadioButton implementation
+- native wxStaticText implementation
+- native wxDatePickerCtrl implementation
+
+
+2.5.3
+-----
+
+All:
+
+- support for large (>2 Gb) files in wxFile (Tim Kosse)
+- number of fixes to wxPluginManager (Rick Brice, Hans Van Leemputten)
+- fixed memory leak in wxURL when using a proxy (Steven Van Ingelgem)
+- fixed bug in wxDateTime::Set(jdn) when DST was in effect
+- fixed fatal bug in wxString when wxUSE_STL==1 (Kurt Granroth)
+- support msgids in charsets other than C and languages other than English
+ (based on patch by Stefan Kowski)
+- added wxMicroSleep() and wxMilliSleep() replacing deprecated wxUsleep()
+- basic UDP sockets support (Lenny Maiorani)
+- fixed wxDateTime::GetWeekDayName() for some dates (Daniel Kaps)
+- deprecated wxDateTime::SetToTheWeek() in favour of SetToWeekOfYear()
+- active mode support in wxFTP (Randall Fox)
+- sped up wxHTTP and wxFTP
+- added wxStringInput/OutputStreams
+- added wxFileConfig::Save(wxOutputStream)
+- fixed wxString's behavior with inserted null characters
+
+All (GUI):
+
+- added wxWindow::MoveBefore/AfterInTabOrder() to change tab navigation order
+- added wxTaskBarIcon::CreatePopupMenu which is now the recommended way
+ of showing a popup menu; calling wxTaskBarIcon::PopupMenu directly
+ is discouraged
+- added ..._CMD_...(id) variants for wxGrid event table entry macros
+- added wxWindow::Navigate for programmatic navigation to the next control
+- wxTextCtrl::OnChar now inserts a tab character if wxTE_PROCESS_TAB is set
+- added wxKeyEvent::GetUnicodeKey()
+- added wxKeyEvent::CmdDown() and wxMouseEvent::CmdDown()
+- implemented wxListCtrl::FindItem() for non-MSW (Robin Stoll)
+- added status bar fields styles support (Tim Kosse)
+- added convenience functions wxSizer::AddSpacer() and
+ wxSizer::AddStretchSpacer() (as well as Prepend and Insert variants)
+- added samples/splash
+- added support for stock buttons
+- added wxTopLevelWindow::RequestUserAttention()
+- support for comma in contrib gizmo wxLEDNumberCtrl (Grant Likely)
+- recursive wxSizer::Show for subsizer and return value if element was found
+- added wxChoicebook control
+- smoother time estimation updates in wxProgressDialog (Christian Sturmlechner)
+- the XRC contrib library was moved to the core
+- wx(Choice/List/Note)book controls send CHANG(ED/ING) events in SetSelection
+- it is now possible to create a wxFont with given size in pixels (d2walter)
+- added wxTopLevelWindow::IsActive()
+- wxSystemSettings::GetMetric now returns -1 for metrics that are not
+ supported, instead of zero.
+- IMPLEMENT_DYNAMIC_CLASS2 macro compilation fixed (Serge Bakkal)
+
+Unix:
+
+- wxTaskBarIcon now supports freedesktop.org System Tray protocol
+- security fixes to wxSingleInstanceChecker
+- wx-config script was modified to allow choosing from multiple installed
+ builds of wxWidgets and to return flags/libs for selected libraries only
+- wx-config has new --version-full option
+
+wxCocoa:
+
+- added Unicode compatibility layer for OSX 10.2
+- fixed so that wxCocoa runs in OSX 10.2
+- Tooltips now supported
+- wxSound now supported
+- wxDisplay now supported
+- Some stock cursors now supported
+
+wxMac:
+
+- fixed MLTE text control GetLineText and GetLineLength on OSX
+- added OSX wxTaskBarIcon implementation for the OSX Dock
+- added Unicode compatibility layer for OSX 10.2
+- wxGetKeyState now works with nearly all wx key codes
+
+wxGTK:
+
+- wxGTK uses GTK+ 2.x by default now, you have to pass --disable-gtk2 to
+ configure if you want to use GTK+ 1.2
+- fixed many rendering artifacts and wrong colours with lots of GTK+ themes
+- implemented wxColourDialog as native dialog
+- implemented wxTextCtrl::HitTest() (GTK+ >= 2)
+- implemented wxTextCtrl::ScrollLines() and ScrollPages for GTK+ 2.x
+- wxTreeCtrl::GetCount() counts root as well now (compatible with MSW)
+- added support for wxCHK_3STATE style (GTK2 only)
+- implemented text underlining under GTK2
+- implemented wxFRAME_NO_TASKBAR style (GTK >= 2.2)
+- implemented support for wxSYS_DCLICK_?, wxSYS_DRAG_? and wxSYS_CURSOR_?
+ in wxSystemSettings::GetMetric (Mart Raudsepp)
+- implemented wxTopLevel::IsMaximized() for GTK+2 and WMs that implement
+ freedesktop.org's wm-spec (Mart Raudsepp)
+- wxEVT_CONTEXT_MENU is now generated for right mouse press, not release
+- implemented alpha channel support in wxBitmap
+- added native GTK+2 wxArtProvider implementation with ability to load
+ icons from icon theme in addition to recognized stock art
+- fixed crash on 64 bit platforms (Paul Cornett)
+
+wxMotif:
+
+- added support for wxCHK_3STATE style (3 state checkbox)
+
+wxMSW:
+
+- fixed UNC paths handling in wxFileSystem (Daniel Nash)
+- set wxKeyEvent::m_uniChar in Unicode build
+- support for alpha channel in toolbar bitmaps (Jurgen Doornik)
+- wxFileDialog can now be moved and centered (Randall Fox)
+- restored (and improved) possibility to use wx with MFC broken in 2.5.2
+- fixed wxTextCtrl::SetMaxLength for rich edit controls
+- fixed flat style for toolbars under XP, Windows Classic style
+- fixed truncation of transferred data in wxConnection under unicode build
+- wxChoice and wxComboBox dropdown background can be set now too (Adrian Lupei)
+- fixed wxMaximizeEvent generation in wxFrame
+- don't send duplicate EVT_COMBOBOX events whenever selection changes any more
+- implemented support for selecting printer bin (Steven Van Ingelgem)
+- fixed wxListCtrl::SetSingleStyle() which was broken since a few releases
+- fixed print setup problem (always uses default printer) in Unicode build
+
+wxUniv/X11:
+
+- fixed fatal crash when opening a menu
+
+wxWinCE:
+
+- added native WinCE driven smartphone wxTextCtrl implementation using spinners
+- added native WinCE driven smartphone wxChoice implementation using spinners
+- added automated but customizable handling of native WinCE driven smartphone menus
+- fixed wxRadioBox and wxStaticBox
+
+wxHTML:
+
+- added support for nested index entries and index entries pointing to more
+ than one page to wxHtmlHelpController
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