- wxWidgets 2.9.4 Release Notes
+ wxWidgets 3.0.0 Release Notes
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Welcome to the latest release of wxWidgets, a free cross-platform C++
wxWidgets sources are available for download from
- https://sourceforge.net/projects/wxwindows/files/2.9.4/
+ https://sourceforge.net/projects/wxwindows/files/3.0.0/
or
- ftp://ftp.wxwidgets.org/pub/2.9.4/
+ ftp://ftp.wxwidgets.org/pub/3.0.0/
Please see the "Files" section below for the description of various
files available at these locations.
A detailed reference manual including in-depth overviews for various
topics is supplied in various formats and can be accessed online at
- http://docs.wxwidgets.org/2.9.4/
-
-
-Note about naming: while 2.9.4 is called a "development" release,
-this only means that API is not guaranteed to remain unchanged in the
-subsequent 2.9.x releases (although it is still likely that it will),
-unlike in the stable 2.8.x branch. We believe the current version is
-stable and suitable for use in production environment.
+ http://docs.wxwidgets.org/3.0.0/
to 2.8 version. Notably, Unicode support has been completely
overhauled and made much easier to use. Debugging support, including
when using a release build of the library, was much improved making
-it less likely that you use the library incorrectly. Many new GUI
-and base classes have been added or improved.
+it less likely that you use the library incorrectly. Dynamic event
+handling was made much more comfortable. Many new GUI and base classes
+have been added or improved and all ports, and especially wxOSX/Cocoa
+and wxGTK3, were enhanced.
+
+Compared to the previous 2.9 development releases the most important
+change is that this release is part of the new 3.0 stable series,
+guarantying backwards API and ABI compatibility with the next 3.0.x
+releases.
Please see the file docs/changes.txt for more details and make sure
to read the section "Incompatible changes since 2.8" if you upgrade
from a previous wxWidgets release.
This release introduces many important changes and we are looking
-forward to your feedback about them. In particular please let us
-know about any regressions compared to the previous versions (see
-the section "Bug reporting" below) so that we could fix them before
-3.0 release.
+forward to your feedback about them!
Platforms supported
wxWidgets currently supports the following primary platforms:
- Windows 95/98/ME, NT, 2000, XP, Vista, 7
-- Most Unix variants using the GTK+ toolkit (version 2.4 or newer)
-- Mac OS X (10.4 or newer) using either Carbon or Cocoa
+- Most Unix variants using the GTK+ toolkit (version 2.6 or newer)
+- Mac OS X (10.5 or newer) using either Carbon or Cocoa
There is some support for the following platforms:
for Microsoft Windows. Notice that you will still need to compile
wxWidgets even when using the installer.
+Experimentally, we also supply binaries of wxMSW libraries built
+with several versions of Microsoft Visual C++ compiler for this
+release. They are available in the "binaries" subdirectory, see
+the description of the files in the README file there.
+
Installation
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docs/licendoc.txt
docs/gpl.txt
docs/lgpl.txt
+ docs/xserver.txt
Although this may seem complex, it is there to allow authors of
proprietary/commercial applications to use wxWidgets in addition
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wxWidgets documentation is available online at
-http://docs.wxwidgets.org/2.9.4/ and can also be downloaded in HTML
+http://docs.wxwidgets.org/3.0.0/ and can also be downloaded in HTML
format. To generate documentation in other formats (PDF, CHM, ...)
please use the scripts in docs/doxygen directory.
Have fun!
-The wxWidgets Team, July 2012
+The wxWidgets Team, July 2013
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