For wxGTK2, link with X11 explicitly, since we use many X11 functions directly.

[wxWidgets.git] / docs / publicity / announce.txt

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@@ -1,40 +1,50 @@
-Announcing wxWidgets 2.5.5: a cross-platform GUI toolkit
+Announcing wxWidgets 2.7.0: a cross-platform GUI toolkit
 ----------------------------------------------------------------
 
-October 11th, 2004 -- the wxWidgets team is pleased to announce
-a development snapshot release of the mature cross-platform C++
-application framework.
+August 5th, 2006 -- the wxWidgets team is pleased to announce
+a new release of the mature cross-platform C++ application framework.
 
 The following platforms are supported:
 
 - Windows 95/98/ME, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP
-- Windows CE
-- Linux/Unix/VMS with GTK+ 1.x and 2.0
-- Linux/Unix with X11 (beta)
-- Linux/Unix with Motif/Lesstif
-- Mac OS 9.x and 10.x using Carbon
-- Mac OS 10.x using Cocoa (beta)
+- Windows 64 on Itanium and x86-64 architectures
+- Windows CE, including Pocket PC 2003 and Smartphone 2003
+- Unix (Linux, *BSD, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, IRIX, Tru64) and VMS with GTK+
+- Unix with X11 (beta)
+- Unix with Motif/Lesstif
+- Mac OS X using Carbon
+- Mac OS X using Cocoa (beta)
 - OS/2 (beta)
-- MGL (Linux and DOS)
+- MGL for Linux and DOS
+- Palm OS (alpha)
 
-A non-GUI subset of wxWidgets called wxBase is also supported
-on most of these platforms.
+To get wxWidgets, please go to the Download page at:
 
-To get wxWidgets, go to the Download page at:
+  http://www.wxwidgets.org/
 
-  http://www.wxwidgets.org
+This is the first version in the new 2.7 development series. Please
+notice that this series is called "development" and not "stable"
+solely because ABI or API compatibility is not assured between
+different 2.7.x series versions.  Rest assured however that these
+potentially incompatible changes are made in order to evolve the
+toolkit to the next ABI stable release series (2.8.x) and that
+normally efforts are made to preserve compilation compatibility, so
+often moving to a new development release just requires a full
+recompile of the application using wxWidgets.  There are currently no
+known issues with the stability of the programs using this version.
+
+There have been many changes since the 2.6 series, please see the
+change log file included in the distribution for more details. The
+most significant additions to the GUI part of the libraries were:
+
+    - AUI (advanced user interface) library providing dockable
+      windows and much more
+    - richtext library implementing wxRichTextCtrl
+    - New wxComboCtrl and wxOwnerDrawnComboBox controls
+    - New wxTreebook book-like control
+    - New wxColour/Dir/File/Font/PickerCtrls
+    - wxHyperlinkCtrl control
 
-This is a development snapshot, sometimes known as
-an 'unstable' release. Improvements over 2.4.x include:
-numerous bug fixes, STL-like container classes,
-improved GTK+ 2 compatibility, new build system,
-improved Unicode compatibility, wxRenderer class,
-shaped frame and dialog windows on Windows and GTK+,
-more efficient UI update processing, print preview
-improvements, wxCrashReport class, OpenWatcom and
-Digital Mars compiler support, and more. Improvements
-over 2.5.2 include much improved Mac OS X and Windows CE
-support, as well as the usual bug fixes and minor enhancements.
 
 *** About wxWidgets
 
@@ -62,7 +72,7 @@ handlers for reading and writing many image types, resizeable panels
 and dialogs on all platforms, document/view, OpenGL support,
 HTML-based and context-sensitive help, wizards, drag and drop,
 a grid class, ODBC support, threads, sockets, container classes,
-a styled text control, and much more. A 2,000 page reference manual
+a styled text control, and much more. A 2,000-page reference manual
 is provided in HTML, MS HTML Help, WinHelp, wxWidgets Help and PDF
 formats, and there are over eighty samples and demos.
 
@@ -70,15 +80,14 @@ If you're an MFC user, you'll find many wxWidgets concepts
 reassuringly familiar, while often clearer and more consistent.
 If you're not, you should still find it intuitive from the start.
 
-wxWidgets bindings for several other languages are available,
+wxWidgets bindings for many other languages are available,
 including Python, Perl, Basic, Lua, JavaScript and Eiffel.
 
 If you're considering wxWidgets, do check out some of these links:
 
-    http://www.wxwidgets.org/feedback.htm ; Comments from users
-    http://www.wxwidgets.org/screensh.htm ; Screenshots
-    http://www.wxwidgets.org/users.htm    ; A list of some of our
-                                          ; users
+    http://www.wxwidgets.org/about/feedback.htm ; Comments from users
+    http://www.wxwidgets.org/about/screensh.htm ; Screenshots
+    http://www.wxwidgets.org/about/users.htm    ; Some of our users
 
 Have fun!