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@@ -57,60 +57,75 @@ available at dates convenient to the developers.<P>
 </CENTER>
 <P>
 
 </CENTER>
 <P>
 

-<H4>Release 2.1.11</H4>
+<H4>Release 2.1.14</H4>

 
 

-Release date: November 7th, 1999<P>
+Release date: March 21st, 2000<P>
+
+This will be the final beta release before the final 2.2 release. It will be
+synchronized for as many platforms as possible (at least Windows and GTK,
+probably Motif and hopefully Mac).
+
+Changes since the last synchronized release (2.1.11):

 
 <ul>
 
 <ul>

-<li>Split wxWindows into base and GUI libraries. Most, but not all makefiles
-are expected to support this: for the rest, the makefiles will build a valid
-combined base/GUI library for GUI applications only.
-<li>wxWizard (beta).
-<li>wxDialUpManager and wxPhoneDialer.
-<li>wxFontEnumerator.
-<li>Preliminary support for different font encodings
-<li>wxPostEvent function
-<li>New wxGrid.
-<li>wxSocket working.
-<li>Full support for fonts in different encodings.
-<li>Tested multithreading support (wxThread).
-<li>wxHTML printing.
-<li>Better i18n support (i.e. more translations).
+<li>First beta release of wxBase
+<li>New or significantly improved base classes: wxDateTime, wxLongLong,
+wxCmdLineParser, wxDir, wxStopWatch
+<li>Much better i18n support, encoding conversion on the fly, wxFontMapper
+<li>New wxGrid class
+<li>New wxCalendarCtrl class
+<li>Dynamic toolbar/menubar management
+<li>Better image formats support: TIFF (new), PCX (8 and 24 bit saving added)
+<li>Attributes (custom colours/font) support in wxTreeCtrl, wxListCtrl
+<li>Impressive number of fixed bugs in wxMSW and wxGTK including various
+incompatibilities between the two
+<li>wxIPCxxx classes reworked.
+<li>Several new samples and demos.

 </ul>
 
 <P>
 
 <H4>Release 2.2 (stable)</H4>
 
 </ul>
 
 <P>
 
 <H4>Release 2.2 (stable)</H4>
 

-Release date: December 19th, 1999.<P>
+Release date: mid. April, 2000.<P>
+
+This is the next stable version of wxWindows. No new features since
+2.1.14 beta.

 
 <ul>
 
 <ul>

-<li>Miscellaneous fixes and small enhancements.
+<li>bugs found during 2.1.14 will be fixed.
+<li>translations of text strings used in wxWindows.
+<li>documentation updated to include all new classes.

 </ul>
 
 <P>
 
 <H4>Release 2.3</H4>
 
 </ul>
 
 <P>
 
 <H4>Release 2.3</H4>
 

-Release date: March 5th, 2000
+Release date: ?

 
 <ul>
 
 <ul>

-<li>Miscellaneous fixes and small enhancements.
-<li>wxDateTime class in beta.

 <li>Context sensitive help.
 <li>More i18n issues: dates, times, ...
 <li>Context sensitive help.
 <li>More i18n issues: dates, times, ...

-<li>Regular expressions support.
+<li>POSIX-like regular expressions support for all platforms.
+<li>Encryption support (interface to OpenSSL).
+<li>Full UDP support in wxSocket
+<li>wxPlot
+<li>XML for resource files.
+<li>Built-in support for configuring key bindings

 </ul>
 
 <P>
 
 <H4>Release 2.4 (stable)</H4>
 
 </ul>
 
 <P>
 
 <H4>Release 2.4 (stable)</H4>
 

-Release date: May 7th, 2000.
+Release date: ?
+
+Stable version of 2.3.

 
 <ul>
 
 <ul>

-<li>Unicode compilation starting to work in wxGTK and wxMSW.
-<li>wxDateTime class.
+<li>wxMac release.
+<li>wxBeOS port.

 </ul>
 
 <P>
 </ul>
 
 <P>


@@ -125,15 +140,28 @@ Developers: please feel free to add to these, and delete them when they are done
 
 <P>
 
 
 <P>
 

-<B><I>General</I></B><P>
+<B><I>Already done</I></B><P>
+
+<P>

 
 <ul>
 <li>wxHTML printing. When finished, this will allow an application to generate
 printed reports with very little effort.
 
 <ul>
 <li>wxHTML printing. When finished, this will allow an application to generate
 printed reports with very little effort.

-<li>wxSocket.

 <li>Split library into several, for base (classes and functions usable by console and GUI
 applications), console (classes and functions usable by console application only)
 and GUI (classes and functions usable by GUI application only).
 <li>Split library into several, for base (classes and functions usable by console and GUI
 applications), console (classes and functions usable by console application only)
 and GUI (classes and functions usable by GUI application only).

+<li>wxSocket.
+<li>wxImage handlers in separate .h and .cpp files.
+<li>PCX writing code.
+<li>Tidying of timer code, addition of wxStopWatch class.
+<li>wxDateTime class.
+<li>Rotated text support (might still be improved)
+<li>Bug tracking system.
+</ul>
+
+<B><I>General</I></B><P>
+
+<ul>

 <li>Extend and unify drag and drop handling (e.g. we need to specify multiple drop targets
 that can handle multiple formats).
 <li>Expand the number of controls that can be specified in a WXR file;
 <li>Extend and unify drag and drop handling (e.g. we need to specify multiple drop targets
 that can handle multiple formats).
 <li>Expand the number of controls that can be specified in a WXR file;


@@ -149,16 +177,11 @@ correct help id.
 determining if there is a connection to Internet on the machine and
 wxPhoneDialer for dialing arbitrary phone numbers and otherwise communicating
 with the modem.
 determining if there is a connection to Internet on the machine and
 wxPhoneDialer for dialing arbitrary phone numbers and otherwise communicating
 with the modem.

-<li>wxImage handlers in separate .h and .cpp files.
-<li>PCX writing code.
-<li>GIF animation code.
-<li>Tidying of timer code, addition of wxChrono class.
+<li>GIF animation code (support is already there, but wxAnimation is not yet complete)

 <li>Debug wxPostScriptDC further.
 <li>Debug wxPostScriptDC further.

-<li>wxDateTime class.

 <li>Regular expressions support.
 <li>Expansion of wxHTML to support further tags, and frames.
 <li>MGL port (see Backroom/Future Ports page).
 <li>Regular expressions support.
 <li>Expansion of wxHTML to support further tags, and frames.
 <li>MGL port (see Backroom/Future Ports page).

-<li>Rotated text support.

 <li>FreeType support.
 <li>Support for 'skins', perhaps using a set of alternative control and window classes
 written generically in wxWindows.
 <li>FreeType support.
 <li>Support for 'skins', perhaps using a set of alternative control and window classes
 written generically in wxWindows.


@@ -166,7 +189,6 @@ written generically in wxWindows.
 <li>Modem and telephony support.
 <li>Book, tutorial.
 <li>More examples.
 <li>Modem and telephony support.
 <li>Book, tutorial.
 <li>More examples.

-<li>Bug tracking system.

 </ul>
 
 <P>
 </ul>
 
 <P>


@@ -175,9 +197,7 @@ written generically in wxWindows.
 
 <ul>
 <li>Windows CE port.
 
 <ul>
 <li>Windows CE port.

-<li>Cure bug whereby in a panel within another panel, all buttons become
-default buttons (heavy black border).
-<li>Write a RC->WXR converter.
+<li>Write a RC to WXR converter.

 </ul>
 
 <P>
 </ul>
 
 <P>