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@@ -5,6 +5,12 @@
 INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES SINCE 2.8.x
 ================================
 
+
+        Notice that these changes are described in more details in
+        the "Changes Since wxWidgets 2.8" section of the manual,
+        please read it if the explanation here is too cryptic.
+
+
 Unicode-related changes
 -----------------------
 
@@ -14,9 +20,10 @@ in the manual for more details but here are the most important incompatible
 changes:
 
 - Many wxWidgets functions taking "const wxChar *" have been changed to take
-  either "const wxString&" so that they accept both Unicode and ANSI strings.
-  and the argument can't be NULL or "const char *" if the strings are always
-  ANSI but may be NULL. This change is normally backwards compatible except:
+  either "const wxString&" (so that they accept both Unicode and ANSI strings;
+  the argument can't be NULL anymore in this case) or "const char *" (if the
+  strings are always ANSI; may still be NULL). This change is normally
+  backwards compatible except:
 
   a) Virtual functions: derived classes versions must be modified to take
      "const wxString&" as well to make sure that they continue to override the
@@ -37,6 +44,8 @@ changes:
   to work with "wxChar *" before use "void *" now (some int parameters were
   also changed to size_t). While wxIPC_TEXT can still be used to transfer 7
   bit text, the new wxIPC_UTF8TEXT format is used for transferring wxStrings.
+  Also notice that connection classes should change the parameter types of
+  their overridden OnExecute() or override a more convenient OnExec() instead.
 
 
 wxODBC and contrib libraries removal
@@ -85,6 +94,15 @@ Changes in behaviour not resulting in compilation errors, please read this!
   can still use wxGenericCalendarCtrl instead of wxCalendarCtrl in your code if
   you need the extra features.
 
+- wxDocument::FileHistoryLoad() and wxFileHistory::Load() now take const
+  reference to wxConfigBase argument and not just a reference, please update
+  your code if you overrode these functions and change the functions in the
+  derived classes to use const reference as well.
+
+- Under MSW wxExecute() arguments are now always properly quoted, as under
+  Unix, and so shouldn't contain quotes unless they are part of the argument.
+
+- wxDocument::OnNewDocument() doesn't call OnCloseDocument() any more.
 
 Changes in behaviour which may result in compilation errors
 -----------------------------------------------------------
@@ -114,14 +132,26 @@ Changes in behaviour which may result in compilation errors
   and has to be replaced with this:
      switch (str[i].GetValue()) { ... }
 
-- Return type of wxString::c_str() is now wxCStrData struct and not
-  const wxChar*. wxCStrData is implicitly convertible to const char* and
-  const wchar_t*, so this only presents a problem if the compiler cannot
-  convert the type. In particular, Borland C++ and DigitalMars compilers
-  don't correctly convert operator?: operands to the same type and fail with
-  compilation error instead. This can be worked around by explicitly casting
-  to const wxChar*:
-     wxLogError(_("error: %s"), !err.empty() ? (const wxChar*)err.c_str() : "")
+- Return type of wxString::c_str() is now a helper wxCStrData struct and not
+  const wxChar*. wxCStrData is implicitly convertible to both "const char *"
+  and "const wchar_t *", so this only presents a problem if the compiler cannot
+  apply the conversion. This can happen in 2 cases:
+
+  + There is an ambiguity because the function being called is overloaded to
+    take both "const char *" and "const wchar_t *" as the compiler can't choose
+    between them. In this case you may use s.wx_str() to call the function
+    matching the current build (Unicode or not) or s.mb_str() or s.wc_str() to
+    explicitly select narrow or wide version of it.
+
+    Notice that such functions are normally not very common but unfortunately
+    Microsoft decided to extend their STL with standard-incompatible overloads
+    of some functions accepting "const wchar_t *" so you may need to replace
+    some occurrences of c_str() with wx_str() when using MSVC 8 or later.
+
+  + Some compilers, notably Borland C++ and DigitalMars, don't correctly
+    convert operator?: operands to the same type and fail with compilation
+    error instead. This can be worked around by explicitly casting to const
+    wxChar*: wxLogError(_("error: %s"), !err.empty() ? (const wxChar*)err.c_str() : "")
 
 - wxCtime() and wxAsctime() return char*; this is incompatible with Unicode
   build in wxWidgets 2.8 that returned wchar_t*.
@@ -135,7 +165,7 @@ Changes in behaviour which may result in compilation errors
 
 - Virtual wxHtmlParser::AddText() takes wxString, not wxChar*, argument now.
 
-- Functions that took wxChar* arguments that could by NULL in wxWidgets 2.8.
+- Functions that took wxChar* arguments that could by NULL in wxWidgets 2.8
   are deprecated and passing NULL to them won't compile anymore, wxEmptyString
   must be used instead.
 
@@ -156,6 +186,13 @@ Changes in behaviour which may result in compilation errors
   necessarily allocated consecutively any more. Use GetChildren() to find the
   next/previous control sibling instead.
 
+- Calling wxConfig::Write() with an enum value will fail to compile because
+  wxConfig now tries to convert all unknown types to wxString automatically.
+  The simplest solution is to cast the enum value to int.
+
+- Several wxImage methods which previously had "long bitmaptype" parameters
+  have been changed to accept "wxBitmapType bitmaptype", please use enum
+  wxBitmapType in your code.
 
 Deprecated methods and their replacements
 -----------------------------------------
@@ -175,7 +212,7 @@ Deprecated methods and their replacements
   use simpler OnExec() version which is called with wxString argument
 - wxMenuItem::GetLabel has been deprecated in favour of wxMenuItem::GetItemLabelText
 - wxMenuItem::GetText has been deprecated in favour of wxMenuItem::GetItemLabel
-- wxMenuItem::GetLabelFromText has been deprecated in favour of wxMenuItem::GetLabelText 
+- wxMenuItem::GetLabelFromText has been deprecated in favour of wxMenuItem::GetLabelText
 - wxMenuItem::SetText has been deprecated in favour of wxMenuItem::SetItemLabel
 - wxBrush's, wxPen's SetStyle() and GetStyle() as well as the wxBrush/wxPen ctor now take
   respectively a wxBrushStyle and a wxPenStyle value instead of a plain "int style";
@@ -185,7 +222,14 @@ Deprecated methods and their replacements
 - EVT_CALENDAR_MONTH and EVT_CALENDAR_YEAR events are deprecated,
   use EVT_CALENDAR_PAGE_CHANGED which replaces both of them.
 - wxCalendarCtrl::EnableYearChange() and wxCAL_NO_YEAR_CHANGE are deprecated.
-
+  There is no replacement for this functionality, it is being dropped as it is
+  not available in native wxCalendarCtrl implementations.
+- wxDC::SetClippingRegion(const wxRegion&) overload is deprecated as it used
+  different convention from the other SetClippingRegion() overloads: wxRegion
+  passed to it was interpreted in physical, not logical, coordinates. Replace
+  it with SetDeviceClippingRegion() if this was the correct thing to do in your
+  code.
+- wxTE_AUTO_SCROLL style is deprecated as it's always on by default anyhow.
 
 
 Major new features in this release
@@ -198,6 +242,9 @@ Major new features in this release
 - wxWidgets may now use either wchar_t (UTF-16/32) or UTF-8 internally,
   depending on what is optimal for the target platform.
 
+- New propgrid library containing wxPropertyGrid and related classes, many
+  enhancements to wxDataViewCtrl.
+
 - Events loops, timers and sockets can now be used in wxBase, without GUI.
 
 
@@ -206,9 +253,10 @@ Major new features in this release
 
 All:
 
-- Added (experimental) IPv6 support to wxSocket (Arcen)
+- Added (experimental) IPv6 support to wxSocket (Arcen).
+- Cleaned up wxURI and made it Unicode-friendly.
 - Add support for wxExecute(wxEXEC_ASYNC) in wxBase (Lukasz Michalski)
-- Added wxXLocale class and xlocale-like functions using it
+- 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)
@@ -237,6 +285,17 @@ All:
 - Added wxWeakRef<T>, wxScopedPtr<T>, wxSharedPtr<T> class templates
 - Added wxVector<T> class templates
 - Added wxON_BLOCK_EXIT_SET() and wxON_BLOCK_EXIT_NULL() to wx/scopeguard.h.
+- Added wxEvtHandler::QueueEvent() replacing AddPendingEvent() and
+  wxQueueEvent() replacing wxPostEvent().
+- wxString now uses std::[w]string internally by default, meaning that it is
+  now thread-safe if the standard library provided with your compiler is.
+- Added wxCmdLineParser::AddUsageText() (Marcin 'Malcom' Malich).
+- Fix reading/writing UTF-7-encoded text streams.
+- Corrected bug in wxTimeSpan::IsShorterThan() for equal time spans.
+- Use std::unordered_{map,set} for wxHashMap/Set if available (Jan van Dijk).
+- Added wxString::Capitalize() and MakeCapitalized().
+- Added wxArray::swap().
+- Added wxSHUTDOWN_LOGOFF and wxSHUTDOWN_FORCE wxShutdown() flags (troelsk).
 
 All (Unix):
 
@@ -244,25 +303,33 @@ All (Unix):
 
 All (GUI):
 
-- Added wxDataViewCtrl class and helper classes
-- Added {wxTextCtrl,wxComboBox}::AutoComplete() and AutoCompleteFileNames()
+- Added wxDataViewCtrl class and helper classes.
+- Integrated wxPropertyGrid in wxWidgets itself (Jaakko Salli).
+- Provide native implementation of wxCalendarCtrl under wxMSW and wxGTK.
+- 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 (Arne Steinarson)
-- Added wxSpinCtrlDouble (John Labenski)
-- Added wxNativeContainerWindow to allow embedding wx into native windows
-- Added custom controls support to wxFileDialog (Diaa Sami and Marcin Wojdyr)
+- Added wxNotificationMessage class for non-intrusive notifications.
+- Added wxWindow::Show/HideWithEffect().
+- Added wxWrapSizer (Arne Steinarson).
+- Added wxSpinCtrlDouble (John Labenski).
+- Support custom labels in wxMessageDialog (Gareth Simpson for wxMac version).
+- Also added wxCANCEL_DEFAULT to wxMessageDialog.
+- Allow copying text in the log dialogs.
+- Added multisample (anti-aliasing) support to wxGLCanvas (Olivier Playez).
+- Initialize wx{Client,Paint,Window}DC with fonts/colours of its window.
+- Added wxNativeContainerWindow to allow embedding wx into native windows.
+- Added custom controls support to wxFileDialog (Diaa Sami and Marcin Wojdyr).
 - 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 wxListCtrl::Set/GetColumnsOrder() (Yury Voronov).
+- Made wxLogWindow thread-safe (Barbara Maren Winkler).
+- 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().
@@ -308,6 +375,25 @@ All (GUI):
 - Added wxApp::SetNativeTheme() (Stefan H.).
 - Made wxSpinCtrl::Reparent() in MSW and generic versions (Angelo Mottola).
 - Freeze() and Thaw() now recursively freeze/thaw the children too.
+- Generalized wxScrolledWindow into wxScrolled<T> template that can derive
+  from any window class, not just wxPanel.
+- Allow having menu separators with ids != wxID_SEPARATOR (Jeff Tupper)
+- Fix appending items to sorted wxComboCtrl after creation (Jaakko Salli)
+- Don't blit area larger than necessary in wxBufferedDC::UnMask (Liang Jian)
+- Fixed wxPixelData<wxImage> compilation (Leonardo Fernandes).
+- Added wxImage::GetType() (troelsk).
+- Added wxGenericStaticBitmap suitable for display of large bitmaps.
+- Support wxListCtrl::GetViewRect() in report view too.
+- Implement wxListCtrl::GetSubItemRect() in generic version (David Barnard).
+- Added wxVListBox::GetItemRect() (Javier Urien).
+- Show busy cursor in wxLaunchDefaultBrowser and add wxBROWSER_NOBUSYCURSOR.
+- Added wxFlexGridSizer::Is{Row,Col}Growable() (Marcin Wojdyr).
+- Added "enabled" and "hidden" attributes to radio box items in XRC.
+- wxWindow::IsBeingDeleted() now returns true not only if the window itself is
+  marked for destruction but also if any of its parent windows are.
+- Improved drawing of the hint during column move in wxGrid.
+- Add wxGridSelectRowsOrColumns selection mode to wxGrid.
+- Get/HasModifiers() of wxKeyEvent are now also available in wxMouseEvent.
 
 wxGTK:
 
@@ -324,16 +410,17 @@ wxGTK:
 - 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
+- Fix changing font/colour of label in buttons with images (Marcin Wojdyr).
+- Fix wxDC::Blit() support for user scale and source offset (Marcin Wojdyr).
 
 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
+- Implement wxLocale::GetInfo() using CFLocale.
+- Native wxCollapsiblePane implementation.
 
 wxMSW:
 
@@ -341,44 +428,138 @@ wxMSW:
 - 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)
+- Fix centering wxFileDialog and allow positioning it.
+- Allow centering wxMessageDialog on its parent window (troelsk).
+- Use vertical scrollbar in wxMessageDialog if it's too big to fit on screen.
+- Show resize gripper on resizeable dialogs (Kolya Kosenko).
+- Implement support for display enumeration under WinCE (Vince Harron).
+- Use different Win32 class names in different wx instances (Thomas Hauk).
+- Support multiline labels for wxCheckBox and wxToggleButton.
+- Print preview is now rendered in the resolution used by printer and
+  accurately represents what will be printed. This fixes wxHtmlEasyPrinting
+  preview inaccuracies on Windows; on other platforms, native preview
+  should be used.
 
 wxX11:
 
 - Added mouse wheel support (David Hart).
 - Make Enter key activate the default button (David Hart).
 
+wxDFB:
+
+- Implement wxBitmap ctor from XBM data.
+
 
 2.8.8
 -----
 
 All:
 
-- Fixed bug with parsing some dates in wxDateTime (Bob Pesner)
-- Fixed bug with parsing negative time zones in wxDateTime::ParseRfc822Date()
+- Fixed bug with parsing some dates in wxDateTime (Bob Pesner).
+- Fixed bug with parsing negative time zones in wxDateTime::ParseRfc822Date().
+- Initialize current line in wxTextBuffer ctor (Suzuki Masahiro).
+- Improved performance of XML parsing (Francesco Montorsi).
+- Fix wxDateTime::ParseRfc822Date() to handle missing seconds (Joe Nader).
 
 All (GUI):
 
-- Added wxWindow::GetNextSibling() and GetPrevSibling()
-- Improve wximage::ResampleBox() (Mihai Ciocarlie)
-- Implemented ScrollList() in generic wxListCtrl (Tim Kosse)
+- Added wxWindow::GetNextSibling() and GetPrevSibling().
+- Support wxGRID_AUTOSIZE in wxGrid::SetRow/ColLabelSize() (Evgeniy Tarassov).
+- Ensure that wxGrid::AutoSizeColumn/Row() never sets column/row size
+  smaller than the minimal size.
+- Added <scrollrate> parameter to wxScrolledWindow XRC handler.
+- wxRichTextCtrl performance has been improved considerably.
+- Several wxRichTextCtrl style, paste and undo bugs fixed.
+- Added wxRichTextCtrl superscript and subscript support (Knut Petter Lehre).
+- wxNotebook RTTI corrected, so now wxDynamicCast(notebook, wxBookCtrlBase)
+  works.
+- When focus is set to wxScrolledWindow child, scroll it into view.
+- Improve wximage::ResampleBox() (Mihai Ciocarlie).
+- Implemented ScrollList() in generic wxListCtrl (Tim Kosse).
+- SaveAs in docview takes into account path now.
 - Fixed wxXmlResource::GetText() to convert data to current locale's
   charset in ANSI build.
+- wxGrid now indicates focus by using different colour for selection
+  and hiding cell cursor when it doesn't have focus.
+- Added alpha support to wxImage::Paste() (Steven Van Ingelgem)
+- Use current date when opening popup in generic wxDatePickerCtrl.
+- Remove associated help text from wxHelpProvider when a window is destroyed.
+- Added wxSizerFlags::ReserveSpaceEvenIfHidden() and
+  wxRESERVE_SPACE_EVEN_IF_HIDDEN sizer flag.
+- Added wxWindow::ClientToWindowSize() and WindowToClientSize() helpers.
+- Added wxSizer::ComputeFittingClientSize() and ComputeFittingWindowSize().
+- Fixed wxSizer::SetSizeHints() to work when the best size decreases.
+- Fixed crash in wxHtmlHelpController if the help window is still open.
+- Fixed generic art provider to scale bitmaps down to client-specific
+  best size if needed.
+- Made wxSpinCtrl::Reparent() in MSW and generic versions (Angelo Mottola).
+- Fixed timing of malformed animated GIFs in wxHTML (Gennady Feller).
+- Fixed incorrect layout width caching in wxHTML (Jeff Tupper).
+- wxHTML: preserve TAB characters when copying <pre> content to clipboard.
+- Set focus to wxCalendarCtrl when it is clicked.
+- Don't clear the list control when wxLC_[HV]RULES style is toggled.
+- Don't crash when Ctrl-Shift-T is pressed in empty wxStyledTextControl.
+
+All (Unix):
+
+- Fixed shared libraries to not depend on GStreamer when built with
+  --enable-media; only wxMedia library depends on it now.
+- wxLaunchDefaultBrowser() now uses xdg-open if available.
+- Don't close UDP socket if an empty datagram is received (Mikkel S)
+- Honour locale modifiers such a "@valencia" in system locale (Tim Kosse)
 
 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
+- 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
+- Fix assert when using owner-drawn menu items with the newest (Vista) SDK.
+- Fixed wxTextCtrl to not process clipboard events twice if there's
+  a custom wxEVT_COMMAND_TEXT_* event handler.
+- Fix wxComboBox to not lose the current value if it was programmatically set
+  to a value not in a list of choices on popup close (Kolya Kosenko)
+- Switching wxListCtrl to report mode from another one now uses full row
+  highlight, just as if the control were created in report mode initially.
+- Use correct index of the right-clicked column in wxListCtrl in the
+  corresponding event even when the control is scrolled horizontally.
+- Implement wxRadioBox::Reparent() correctly (Vince Harron).
+- Make context sensitive help work for the text part of wxSpinCtrl.
+- wxFileType::GetCommand() now looks at Explorer associations and CurVer
+  for increased reliability and conformance to user expectations.
+- Fixed double Init() call in wxTopLevelWindow causing a memory leak on
+  SmartPhone.
+- Fixed rendering of borders for wxTextCtrl with wxTE_RICH(2) style when
+  using Windows XP's Classic UI theme.
+- Text controls with wxTE_RICH style now also generate wxClipboardTextEvents.
+- Fixed wxEVT_COMMAND_TEXT_ENTER generation in wxSpinCtrl.
+- Fixed wxSpinCtrl::GetClientSize() to return sensible value and not just
+  spin button's client size.
+- Fixed IMPLEMENT_APP() to be compatible with the -WU flag of Borland C++
+  compiler (Matthias Bohm).
+- Correct size calculation for toolbars containing controls under pre-XP
+  systems (Gerald Giese)
 
 wxGTK:
 
 - Return false from wxEventLoop::Dispatch() if gtk_main_quit() was called and
-  so the loop should exit (Rodolfo Schulz de Lima)
+  so the loop should exit (Rodolfo Schulz de Lima).
+- Implement wxListBox::EnsureVisible() (Andreas Kling)
+- Fixed wxCURSOR_HAND to map to GDK_HAND2 and not GDK_HAND1, for consistency
+  with other applications.
+- Fix wxNotebook::GetPage{Text,Image}() when they were called from the page
+  change event handler for the first added page (Mikkel S).
+- Fixed wxBitmapButton to use focus and hover bitmaps correctly.
+- Fixed race condition which could cause idle processing to stop without
+  processing all pending events.
+- wxAcceleratorTable now works with buttons too.
+
+wxMac:
+
+- Fixed cursor for wxBusyCursor and wxContextHelp.
+- Fixed wxListCtrl to respect items' non-default fonts.
+- wxListCtrl::SetColumnWidth() now supports wxLIST_AUTOSIZE.
+- Fixed handling of transparent background in borderless wxBitmapButton.
 
 
 2.8.7