+- Added (experimental) IPv6 support to wxSocket (Arcen)
+- 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).
+- 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 wxEXEC_BLOCK flag (Hank Schultz).
+- Add support for wxStream-derived classes to wxRTTI (Stas Sergeev).
+- Added wxStreamBuffer::Truncate() (Stas Sergeev).
+- Allow using wxEventLoop in console applications (Lukasz Michalski).
+- Added functions for Base64 en/decoding (Charles Reimers).
+- Added support for binary data to wxConfig (Charles Reimers).
+- Added functions for atomically inc/decrementing integers (Armel Asselin).
+- wxLogInterposer has been added to replace wxLogPassThrough and new
+ wxLogInterposerTemp was added.
+- Added support for broadcasting to UDP sockets (Andrew Vincent).
+- Documentation now includes the wx library in which each class is defined.
+- wxrc --gettext now generates references to source .xrc files (Heikki
+ 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
+
+All (Unix):
+
+- Added wx-config --optional-libs command line option (John Labenski).
+
+All (GUI):
+
+- Added wxDataViewCtrl class and helper classes
+- 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
+- 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 wxEventBlocker class (Francesco Montorsi).
+- Added wxFile/DirPickerCtrl::Get/SetFile/DirName() (Francesco Montorsi).
+- Added wxSizerFlags::Top() and Bottom().
+- Slovak translation added.
+- Fixed tab-related drawing and hit-testing bugs in wxRichTextCtrl.
+- Implemented background colour in wxRichTextCtrl.
+- Fixed crashes in helpview when opening a file.
+- Set locale to the default in all ports, not just wxGTK.
+- Added wxJoystick::GetButtonState/Position() (Frank C Szczerba).
+- Added wxGridUpdateLocker helper class (Evgeniy Tarassov).
+- Support wxGRID_AUTOSIZE in wxGrid::SetRow/ColLabelSize() (Evgeniy Tarassov).
+- Added wxWindow::NavigateIn() in addition to existing Navigate().
+- Add support for <data> tags to wxrc.
+- Support wxAPPLY and wxCLOSE in CreateStdDialogButtonSizer() (Marcin Wojdyr).
+- Show standard options in wxCmdLineParser usage message (Francesco Montorsi).
+- Added wxRect::operator+ (union) and * (intersection) (bdonner).
+- Added support for two auxiliary mouse buttons to wxMouseEvent (Chris Weiland).
+- Added wxToolTip::SetAutoPop() and SetReshow() (Jan Knepper).
+- Added wxTaskBarIcon::Destroy().
+- Added XRC handler for wxSearchCtrl (Sander Berents).
+- Read image resolution from TIFF, JPEG and BMP images (Maycon Aparecido Gasoto).
+- Add support for reading alpha data from TIFF images.
+- Added wxSYS_DCLICK_TIME system metric constant (Arne Steinarson).
+- Added wxApp::Get/SetAppDisplayName() (Brian A. Vanderburg II).
+- Added wxWindow::GetPopupMenuSelectionFromUser() (Arne Steinarson).
+- Implemented wxTreeCtrl::GetPrevVisible() in the generic version and made the
+ 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)
+- 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.).
+
+wxGTK:
+
+- Support for markup and ellipsization in wxStaticText (Francesco Montorsi).
+- Native implementation for wxHyperlinkCtrl (Francesco Montorsi).
+- Native keyboard navigation implementation.
+- Added wxCB_SORT support to wxComboBox (Evgeniy Tarassov).
+- Don't overwrite primary selection with clipboard and vice versa.
+- Implemented support for underlined fonts in wxStaticText.
+- wxTopLevelWindow::SetSizeHints size increments now work.
+- wxTopLevelWindow::GetSize() returns the size including the WM decorations.
+- wxTopLevelWindow::GetClientSize() returns 0x0 when the window is minimized.
+- 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:
+
+- Better IconRef support (Alan Shouls).
+- Added support for changing button labels in wxMessageDialog (Gareth Simpson).
+- Fix duplicate (empty) help menu in non-English programs (Andreas Jacobs).
+- 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:
+
+- Fixed infinite loop in wxThread::Wait() in console applications.
+- 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 and allow positioning it
+- Allow centering wxMessageDialog on its parent window (troelsk)
+- Implement support for display enumeration under WinCE (Vince Harron)
+
+wxX11:
+
+- Added mouse wheel support (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
+-----
+
+All:
+
+- Fixed another bug in wxFileConfig when deleting entries (Axel Gembe)
+- Added Portuguese translation (Antonio Cardoso Martins)
+
+
+2.8.5
+-----
+
+All (GUI):
+
+- Added colour normalization to PNM image handler (Ray Johnston)
+- Fixed selecting part of word from right to left in wxHTML (Michael Hieke)
+- Selecting text in wxHTML with character precision was made easier, it's
+ enough to select half of a character (Michael Hieke)
+- Significantly improved startup times of XRC-based applications using
+ embedded resources on Unix (requires resources recompilation)
+- Fixed freeing of "static" alpha data in wxImage (Axel Gembe)
+- Don't invalidate the font in SetNativeFontInfo[Desc]() if the string is
+ invalid, to conform to the documented behaviour (Langhammer)
+- Fixed wxXPMHandler::SaveFile for images with more than 92 colors.
+
+wxMSW:
+
+- Correct problem with page setup dialog when using landscape mode
+- Added msw.font.no-proof-quality system option, see manual for description
+- Fix appearance of notebook with non-top tabs under Windows Vista
+- Fixed bug with symbol resolving in wxStackWalker (Axel Gembe)
+- Fixed showing busy cursor for disabled windows and during wxExecute()
+- Set the string of wxEVT_COMMAND_CHECKLISTBOX_TOGGLED events (Luca Cappa)
+- Fix problems with timers on SMP machines in wxAnimationCtrl (Gennady)
+
+wxGTK:
+
+- Setting foreground colour of single line wxTextCtrl now works
+- More work on setting defaults in GNOME print dialogs.
+- Also made landscape printing work as per wxMSW.
+- Add support for clipping in GNOME print backend.
+- Speed up wxBitmap::Rescale()
+- Add right button event for wxToolbar's tools (Tim Kosse)
+- Don't unconditionally add wxCAPTION style to wxMiniFrame
+- Generate wxEVT_COMMAND_LIST_END_LABEL_EDIT event even if label didn't change
+- Fix WX_GL_STEREO attribute handling (Tristan Mehamli)
+- Fix wxThread::SetPriority() when the thread is running (Christos Gourdoupis)
+- Fixed off by 1 bug in wxDC::GradientFillLinear() (Tim Kosse)
+
+
+2.8.4
+-----
+
+All:
+
+- Fix bug in wxFileConfig when recreating a group (Steven Van Ingelgem)
+- Fix wxStringOutputStream::Write() in Unicode build when the argument
+ overlaps UTF-8 characters boundary
+- Account for lines without newline at the end in wxExecute()
+
+All (Unix):
+
+- Handle socket shutdown by the peer correctly in wxSocket (Tim Kosse)
+
+All (GUI):
+
+- Allow status bar children in XRC (Edmunt Pienkowski)
+- Fix memory leak in wxWizard when not using sizers for the page layout
+- Added wxListCtrl::SetItemPtrData()
+- wxHTML: Apply table background colour between the cells too (Michael Hieke)
+
+wxMSW:
+
+- Corrected wxStaticBox label appearance when its foreground colour was set:
+ it didn't respect font size nor background colour then (Juan Antonio Ortega)
+- Don't lose combobox text when it's opened and closed (Kolya Kosenko)
+- Corrected GetChecked() for events from checkable menu items (smanders)
+- Fixed popup menus under Windows NT 4
+- Fixed bug in wxThread::Wait() in console applications introduced in 2.8.3
+- Support right-aligned/centered owner drawn items in wxListCtrl (troelsk)
+- Compilation fixed with WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_6==0
+- Fix wxComboCtrl colours under Windows Vista (Kolya Kosenko)