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+++ b/docs/changes.txt
@@ -22,6 +22,18 @@ wxBase:
   by all derived classes, if you have user-defined event classes please
   add "wxEvent *Clone() const { return new MyEvent(*this); }" line to them
 
+- wxCondition now must be used with a mutex, please read the (updated) class
+  documentation for details and revise your code accordingly: this change was
+  unfortunately needed as the old class didn't behave correctly in all cases
+
+- small change to wxStopWatch::Pause() semantics, please see the documentation
+
+- unlikely but possible incompatibility: the definition of TRUE has changed
+  from "1" to "(bool)1" (and the same thing for FALSE), so the code which
+  could be erroneously compiled previously such as doing "return FALSE" from
+  a function returning a pointer would stop compiling now (but this change
+  is not supposed to have any effects on valid code)
+
 All (GUI):
 
 - the event type constants are not constants any more but are dynamically
@@ -57,6 +69,14 @@ All (GUI):
 - wxEvtHandler cannot be copied/assigned any longer - this never worked but
   now it results in compile-time error instead of run-time crashes
 
+- WXK_NUMLOCK and WXK_SCROLL keys no longer result in EVT_CHAR() events,
+  they only generate EVT_KEY_DOWN/UP() ones
+
+- the dialogs use wxApp::GetTopWindow() as the parent implicitly if the
+  parent specified is NULL, use wxDIALOG_NO_PARENT style to prevent this
+  from happening
+
+
 wxMSW:
 
 - build system changed: setup.h is not a static file in include/wx any more
@@ -68,12 +88,19 @@ wxMSW:
   make/project files.
 
 - child frames appear in the taskbar by default now, use wxFRAME_NO_TASKBAR
-  style to avoid it, wxFRAME_FLOAT_ON_PARENT style is now obsolete and has no
-  effect
+  style to avoid it
 
 - all overloads of wxDC::SetClippingRegion() combine the given region with the
   previously selected one instead of replacing it
 
+- wxGetHomeDir() uses HOME environment variable and if it is set will not
+  return the programs directory any longer but its value (this function has
+  never been meant to return the programs directory anyhow)
+  
+- wxHTML apps don't need to include wx/html/msw/wxhtml.rc in resources file
+  anymore. The file was removed from wxMSW
+
+
 Unix ports:
 
 - You should use `wx-config --cxxflags` in your makefiles instead of
@@ -90,23 +117,35 @@ OTHER CHANGES
 
 wxBase:
 
+- wxSemaphore class added, many fixed to wxCondition and wxThread (K.S. Sreeram)
 - fixes to the command line parsing error and usage messages
 - modified wxFileName::CreateTempFileName() to open the file atomically
   (if possible) and, especially, not to leak the file descriptors under Unix
 - memory leak in wxHTTP fixed (Dimitri)
 - fixes to AM_PATH_WXCONFIG autoconf macro
 - added wxHashMap class that replaces type-unsafe wxHashTable and is modelled
-  after STL hash_map
+  after (non standard) STL hash_map
 - wxLocale now works in Unicode mode
 - wxLocale can now load message catalogs in arbitrary encoding
+- fixed the bug related to the redrawing on resize introduced in 2.3.2
+- added static wxFontMapper::Get() accessor (use of wxTheFontMapper is now
+  deprecated)
+- added wxShutdown() function (Marco Cavallini)
 
 Unix (Base/GUI):
 
 - wxWindows may be built using BSD and Solaris (and possibly other) make
   programs and not only GNU make
+- wxTCP-based IPC classes now support communicating over Unix domain sockets
 
 All (GUI):
 
+- it is now possible to set the icons of different sizes for frames (e.g. a
+  small and big ones) using the new wxIconBundle class
+- implemented radio menu items and radio toolbar buttons
+- added possibility to show text in the toolbar buttons
+- added wxArtProvider class that can be used to customize the look of standard
+  wxWindows dialogs
 - significantly improved native font support
 - wxImage::ComputeHistogram() now uses wxImageHistogram instead of type-unsafe
   wxHashTable
@@ -118,6 +157,13 @@ All (GUI):
 - added wxGetFontFromUser() convenience function
 - added EVT_MENU_OPEN and EVT_MENU_CLOSE events
 - added Hungarian translations (Janos Vegh)
+- added wxImage::SaveFile(filename) method (Chris Elliott)
+- added wxImage::FloodFill and implemented wxWindowDC::DoFloodFill method
+  for GTK+, Mac, MGL, X11, Motif ports (Chris Elliott)
+- added (platform-dependent) scan code to wxKeyEvent (Bryce Denney)
+- added wxTextCtrl::EmulateKeyPress()
+- Added wxMouseCaptureChangedEvent
+- Added custom character filtering to wxTextValidator
 
 wxMSW:
 
@@ -125,19 +171,28 @@ wxMSW:
 - refresh the buttons properly when the window is resized (Hans Van Leemputten)
 - huge (40*) speed up in wxMask::Create()
 - changing wxWindows styles also changes the underlying Windows window style
-- wxTreeCtrl supports wxTR_HIDE_ROOT stle (George Policello)
+- wxTreeCtrl supports wxTR_HIDE_ROOT style (George Policello)
 - fixed flicker in wxTreeCtrl::SetItemXXX()
 - fixed redraw problems in dynamically resized wxStaticText
 - improvements to wxWindows applications behaviour when the system colours
   are changed
 - fixed wxProgressDialog for ranges > 65535
+- wxSpinButton and wxSpinCtrl now support full 32 bit range (if the version
+  of comctl32.dll installed on the system supports it)
 - wxFontEnumerator now returns all fonts, not only TrueType ones
 - bugs in handling wxFrame styles (border/caption related) fixed
 - showing a dialog from EVT_RADIOBUTTON handler doesn't lead to an infinite
   recursion any more
 - wxTextCtrl with wxTE_RICH flag scrolls to the end when text is appended to it
 - the separators are not seen behind the controls added to the toolbar any more
+- wxLB_SORT style can be used with wxCheckListBox
 - wxWindowDC and wxClientDC::GetSize() works correctly now
+- Added wxTB_NODIVIDER and wxTB_NOALIGN so native toolbar can be used in FL
+- Multiline labels in buttons are now supoprted (simply use "\n" in the label)
+- Implemented wxMouseCaptureChangedEvent and made wxGenericDragImage check it
+  has the capture before release it.
+- fixed bugs in multiple selection wxCheckListBox
+- default button handling is now closer to expected
 
 wxGTK:
 
@@ -145,6 +200,13 @@ wxGTK:
 - wxButton now honours wxBU_EXACTFIT
 - wxStaticBox now honours wxALIGN_XXX styles
 - added support for non alphanumeric simple character accelerators ('-', '=')
+- new behaviour for wxWindow::Refresh() as it now produces a delayed refresh. 
+  Call the new wxWindow::Update() to force an immediate update
+- support for more SGI hardware (12-bit mode among others)
+- fixed wxDC::Blit() to honour source DC's logical coordinates
+- implemented wxIdleEvent::RequestMore() for simple background tasks
+- implemented wxChoice::Delete()
+- fixed bad memory leak in wxFileDialog (Chris Elliott)
 
 wxHTML: