- wxWidgets 2.9.2 Release Notes
+ wxWidgets 3.0.0 Release Notes
=============================
-Welcome to the latest release of wxWidgets, a cross-platform C++
-framework for writing advanced GUI applications using native
-controls where possible.
+Welcome to the latest release of wxWidgets, a free cross-platform C++
+framework for writing advanced GUI applications using native controls.
+
In addition to common and advanced GUI facilities such as frames,
scrolling windows, toolbars, tree controls, icons, device contexts,
printing, splitter windows and so on, there are wrappers for common
-file operations, and facilities for writing TCP/IP applications,
-thread handling, and more.
+file operations, facilities for writing network applications,
+thread handling, and so on. You can learn more about wxWidgets at
+
+ http://www.wxwidgets.org/
+
+
+wxWidgets sources are available for download from
+
+ https://sourceforge.net/projects/wxwindows/files/3.0.0/
+
+or
+
+ 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/2.9.2/
-
-Note about naming: while 2.9.2 is called a "development" release,
-this only means that API is not guaranteed to remain unchanged in
-the subsequent 2.9.x releases, 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:
- Most Unix variants with X11
- Most Unix variants with Motif/Lesstif
- Most Unix variants with GTK+ 1.2
+- Most Unix variants with GTK+ 3 (still in development)
- OS/2
- Windows CE (Pocket PC)
Files
-----
-The distribution is available in archive formats appropriate to the
-target system, i.e. ZIP or 7z for Microsoft Windows and compressed tar
-archives for Unix systems. Please notice that some Windows tools still
-don't accept files with Unix line endings and that compiling sources
-with DOS line endings under Unix will fail, so please choosw the
-correct file for your system.
+wxWidgets is distributed in source form in several archive formats.
+ZIP and 7z archives are for Microsoft Windows users and contain the
+files with DOS/Windows line endings while the compressed tar archives
+for Unix systems users (including OS X) and contain the files with
+Unix line endings. Please notice that some Windows tools still don't
+accept files with Unix line endings and that compiling sources with
+DOS line endings under Unix will fail, so please choose the correct
+file for your system.
+
+In addition to the sources, documentation in HTML, CHM and HTB
+(wxWidgets help viewer) formats is provided as well as an installer
+for Microsoft Windows. Notice that you will still need to compile
+wxWidgets even when using the installer.
-See the download pages for the details of the files available for this
-release.
+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
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/2.9.2/ 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 2011
+The wxWidgets Team, July 2013
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