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@@ -104,6 +104,11 @@ Changes in behaviour not resulting in compilation errors, please read this!
 
 - wxDocument::OnNewDocument() doesn't call OnCloseDocument() any more.
 
+- If you use wxScrolledWindow::SetTargetWindow() you must implement its
+  GetSizeAvailableForScrollTarget() method, please see its documentation for
+  more details.
+
+
 Changes in behaviour which may result in compilation errors
 -----------------------------------------------------------
 
@@ -242,7 +247,17 @@ 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.
 
-- Events loops, timers and sockets can now be used in wxBase, without GUI.
+- New propgrid library containing wxPropertyGrid and related classes, many
+  enhancements to wxDataViewCtrl.
+
+- Event loops, timers and sockets can now be used in wxBase, without GUI.
+
+- Documentation for wxWidgets has been converted from LaTex to C++ headers
+  with Doxygen comments and significantly improved in the process (screenshots
+  of various controls were added, more identifiers are now linked to their
+  definition &c). Any reports about inaccuracies in the documentation are
+  welcome (and due to using the simple Doxygen syntax it is now easier than
+  ever to submit patches correcting them! :-)
 
 
 2.9.0
@@ -264,6 +279,7 @@ All:
 - Added wxMutex::LockTimeout() (Aleksandr Napylov).
 - Added wxMemoryInputStream(wxInputStream&) ctor (Stas Sergeev).
 - Implemented wxMemoryInputStream::CanRead().
+- Implemented wxMemoryFSHandler::FindFirst/Next().
 - Added wxEXEC_BLOCK flag (Hank Schultz).
 - Add support for wxStream-derived classes to wxRTTI (Stas Sergeev).
 - Added wxStreamBuffer::Truncate() (Stas Sergeev).
@@ -291,40 +307,47 @@ All:
 - 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 wxArrayString::swap().
+- Added wxArray::swap().
 - Added wxSHUTDOWN_LOGOFF and wxSHUTDOWN_FORCE wxShutdown() flags (troelsk).
+- Added wxArtProvider::GetNativeSizeHint(); GetSizeHint() as well as
+  GetNativeSizeHint() now return more sensible values in wxMSW and wxMac and
+  no longer return bogus values.
 
 All (Unix):
 
 - Added wx-config --optional-libs command line option (John Labenski).
+- Noticeably (by a factor of ~150) improve wxIPC classes performance.
 
 All (GUI):
 
-- Added wxDataViewCtrl class and helper classes
-- Provide native implementation of wxCalendarCtrl under wxMSW and wxGTK
-- 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 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 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 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 wxWindow::AlwaysShowScrollbars() (Julian Scheid).
+- Added wxMouseEvent::GetClickCount() (Julian Scheid).
+- Added wxBG_STYLE_TRANSPARENT background style (Julian Scheid).
+- Added support for drop-down toolbar buttons to XRC.
+- 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().
@@ -384,6 +407,11 @@ All (GUI):
 - 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 (Santo Pfingsten).
+- Add wxGridSelectRowsOrColumns selection mode to wxGrid.
+- Get/HasModifiers() of wxKeyEvent are now also available in wxMouseEvent.
 
 wxGTK:
 
@@ -440,6 +468,91 @@ wxDFB:
 - Implement wxBitmap ctor from XBM data.
 
 
+2.8.9
+-----
+
+All:
+
+- Optimize wxString::Replace() for single character arguments.
+- Updated Hindi translation (Priyank Bolia).
+- Use tr1::unordered_{map,set} for wxHash{Map,Set} implementation if available
+  in STL build; in particular do not use deprecated hash_{map,set} which
+  results in a lot of warnings from newer g++ (Jan Van Dijk and Pete Stieber).
+
+All (GUI):
+
+- Added support for reading alpha channel in BMP format (Kevin Wright).
+- Fixed help viewer bug whereby the splitter sash in wxHtmlHelpWindow could
+  go underneath the left-hand pane, permanently, after resizing the
+  help window.
+- Fixed wxHTML default font size for printing to be 12pt regardless of the
+  platform, instead of depending on GUI toolkit's screen configuration.
+- Support wxDP_ALLOWNONE style in generic wxDatePickerCtrl version.
+- Set wxKeyEvent::m_uniChar correctly in the events generated by generic
+  wxListCtrl (Mikkel S).
+- Fix changing size of merged cells in wxGrid (Laurent Humbertclaude).
+- Fixed wrapping bug in wxRichTextCtrl when there were images present;
+  now sets the cursor to the next line after pressing Shift+Enter.
+- Fixed Cmd+Back, Cmd+Del word deletion behaviour in wxRichTextCtrl.
+- Fix crash when reading malformed PCX images.
+- Fix bug with wrong transparency in GIF animations (troelsk).
+- Store palette information for XPM images in wxImage (troelsk).
+- Fixed selection bugs and auto list numbering in wxRichTextCtrl.
+- Significantly optimize wxGrid::BlockToDeviceRect() for large grids (kjones).
+- Introduced new wxAuiToolBar class for better integration and look-and-feel.
+- Fix a crash in wxAuiFrameManager when Update() was called in between mouse-up
+  and mouse-down events
+- wxAUI: added various NULL-ptr asserts.
+- Fixed problem with Floatable(false) not working in wxAuiFrameManager.
+- Fixed maximize bug in wxAUI.
+- Allow period in link anchors in wxHTML.
+- Fixed memory corruption in wxHTML when parsing "&;" in the markup.
+- Fixed event type in EVT_GRID_CMD_COL_MOVE and EVT_GRID_COL_MOVE.
+- wxGrid doesn't steal focus when hiding editor any more (Tom Eckert).
+
+All (Unix):
+
+- MIME types reading fixed when running under GNOME, reading .desktop
+  files and also the default application list.
+- Added filesys.no-mimetypesmanager system option so that applications that
+  must load an XRC file at program startup don't have to incur the
+  mime types manager initialization penalty.
+
+wxMSW:
+
+- Potentially incompatible change: wxExecute() arguments are now quoted if they
+  contain spaces and existing quotes are escaped with a backslash. However, to
+  preserve compatibility, the argument is unchanged if it is already quoted.
+  Notice that this behaviour will change in wxWidgets 3.0 where all arguments
+  will be quoted, please update your code now if you are affected and use only
+  wxWidgets 2.8.9 or later.
+- Fix keyboard support in wxSpinCtrl broken in 2.8.8.
+- Compile fix for WinCE in window.cpp (no VkKeyScan in Windows CE).
+- Support disabling items before adding them to the menu (Christian Walther).
+- Allow to call SetFont(wxNullFont) to reset the font to default.
+- Implement UUID::operator==() and !=() (SQLAware Corporation).
+- Fixed long standing (introduced in 2.6.3) bug which resulted in always
+  creating a DIB and not DDB in wxBitmap(const wxImage&) ctor.
+- Fix the bug with wxFileDialog not being shown at all if the default file name
+  was invalid.
+- Fix hang in keyboard navigation code with radio buttons under Windows 2000.
+- Implement wxWinINetInputStream::GetSize() (spicerno).
+- Always copy "has alpha" flag when copying bitmaps (SQLAware Corporation).
+
+wxGTK:
+
+- Fixed masking of disabled bitmaps in wxMenuItem and wxStaticBitmap.
+- Fixed generation of events for an initially empty wxDirPickerCtrl.
+- Fixed detection of Meta key state so that NumLock isn't misdetected
+  as Meta (requires GTK+ 2.10).
+- Fix changing font/colour of label in buttons with images (Marcin Wojdyr).
+
+wxMac:
+
+- Fixed a glitch where clicking on a scrollbar (but not moving the scrollbar)
+  would cause the window to scroll.
+
+
 2.8.8
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