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@@ -33,6 +33,15 @@ changes:
      wxString, in many cases code using it won't compile any more and NULL
      should be replaced with an empty string.
 
+- Functions returning "const wxChar *" were changed as well. Mostly they now
+  return wxString which is then transparently convertible to either "const char
+  *" or "const wchar_t *" but in some cases, notably wxDateTime::ParseXXX(),
+  the returned string could be NULL and so a separate helper class is used. If
+  you obtain compilation errors because of this, you can always correct them by
+  explicitly assigning the function return value to a variable of wanted type.
+  A slightly more intrusive but better solution is to use ParseXXX() version
+  with wxString::const_iterator output parameter which simply returns bool to
+  indicate the parsing success.
 
 - Some structure fields which used to be of type "const wxChar *" (such as
   wxCmdLineEntryDesc::shortName, longName and description fields) are now of
@@ -71,6 +80,11 @@ Changes in behaviour not resulting in compilation errors, please read this!
 - Default location of wxFileConfig files has changed under Windows, you will
   need to update your code if you access these files directly.
 
+- Return value of wxStandardPaths::GetUserDataDir() and similar functions has
+  changed if the vendor name is defined as it now includes it by default under
+  Windows and OS X. Call wxStandardPaths::UseAppInfo(AppInfo_AppName) to
+  revert to behaviour compatible with 2.8 version.
+
 - wxWindow::IsEnabled() now returns false if a window parent (and not
   necessarily the window itself) is disabled, new function IsThisEnabled()
   with the same behaviour as old IsEnabled() was added.
@@ -87,7 +101,7 @@ Changes in behaviour not resulting in compilation errors, please read this!
   proportions to return to the old behaviour.
 
 - wxWindow::Freeze/Thaw() are not virtual any more, if you overrode them in
-  your code you need to override DoFreeze/Thaw() instead now.
+  your code you need to override DoFreeze/DoThaw() instead now.
 
 - wxCalendarCtrl has native implementation in wxGTK, but it has less features
   than the generic one. The native implementation is used by default, but you
@@ -113,6 +127,33 @@ Changes in behaviour not resulting in compilation errors, please read this!
   or equivalent function should now be done into wxApp::OnEventLoopEnter().
   See wxApp::OnEventLoopEnter() and wxApp::OnEventLoopExit() docs for more info.
 
+- wxLoadFileSelector() now allows the user to select existing files only.
+
+- Erase background events are now not generated at all when background style is
+  changed. See the updated wxWindow::SetBackgroundStyle() description in the
+  manual for more details.
+
+- wxTreeCtrl::GetSelection now asserts if the tree has the wxTR_MULTIPLE style.
+  Instead use GetSelections() for multiple items; or if you want only the
+  single item last touched, the new wxTreeCtrl::GetFocusedItem.
+
+- Custom log targets should be updated to override wxLog::DoLogRecord() method
+  instead of DoLog() or DoLogString() and must be updated if they call the base
+  class versions of these functions as this won't work any more; please see the
+  documentation of wxLog for more information.
+
+- Confusing wxGridSizer(int cols, int vgap = 0, int hgap = 0) ctor which was
+  easy to mistake for wxGridSizer(int rows, int cols) overload was removed, you
+  will need to specify both vertical and horizontal gap if you want to use this
+  overload or specify both rows and columns and the gap otherwise. Use of the
+  new constructors taking wxSize for the gap argument is preferred. The same
+  applies to wxFlexGridSizer as well.
+
+- wxBoxSizer::AddSpacer(x) now adds space in the direction of the sizer only
+  and not in both this and the orthogonal directions. This behaviour is what
+  most of the people expect but if you really relied on this overload adding
+  space in both directions you should change your code to use AddSpacer(x, x).
+
 
 Changes in behaviour which may result in compilation errors
 -----------------------------------------------------------
@@ -217,15 +258,24 @@ Changes in behaviour which may result in compilation errors
 - wxEVT_GRID_CELL_CHANGE event renamed to wxEVT_GRID_CELL_CHANGED and shouldn't
   be vetoed any more, use the new wxEVT_GRID_CELL_CHANGING event to do it.
 
-- Now wxWidgets at startup in debug builds checks if all wxEvent-derived classes
-  correctly implement the Clone() function, logging a warning if they don't.
-  A correct implementation for MyCustomEventClass::Clone() is simply:
-    virtual wxEvent *Clone() const  { return new MyCustomEventClass(*this); }
+- wxListCtrlCompare function used with wxListCtrl::SortItems() must now declare
+  its third parameter as wxIntPtr and not long (this allows passing pointers
+  to it under 64 bit platforms too).
 
 - Global wxPendingEvents and wxPendingEventsLocker objects were removed.
   You may use wxEventLoopBase::SuspendProcessingOfPendingEvents instead of
   locking wxPendingEventsLocker now.
 
+- wxBitmapButton::GetBitmapXXX() overloads returning non-const wxBitmap
+  references have been removed, modifying the returned bitmaps never worked and
+  now results in compile-time error.
+
+- wxLogXXX() are now macros, not functions. Because of this calling them with
+  an explicit scope resolution operator ("::wxLogError()") doesn't work any
+  longer, just remove it. Also notice that using them inside an "if" statement
+  without enclosing parentheses results in warnings from g++ with -Wparentheses,
+  add parentheses around the if statement body to work around it.
+
 
 Deprecated methods and their replacements
 -----------------------------------------
@@ -274,6 +324,15 @@ Deprecated methods and their replacements
   were deprecated in favour of wxFileName methods. See docs for more info.
 - wxEvtHandler::TryValidator/Parent() are deprecated, override the new and
   documented TryBefore/After() methods if you used to override these ones.
+- wxGetMultipleChoices() is deprecated, use wxGetSelectedChoices() which has
+  the same signature but returns -1 and not 0 if the dialog was cancelled.
+- building the windows which are placed inside wxStaticBoxes as siblings of the
+  wxStaticBox is still allowed but it's deprecated as it gives some problems
+  on some ports (e.g. wxGTK).
+  You should now create windows placed inside a wxStaticBox as children of
+  the static box itself.
+- wxMouseState::{Left,Middle,Right}Down() were renamed to XXXIsDown() for
+  consistency with wxMouseEvent and the old names were deprecated.
 
 
 Major new features in this release
@@ -306,6 +365,82 @@ Major new features in this release
   was added.
 
 
+2.9.1:
+------
+
+All:
+
+- Added wxStd{Input,Output}Stream classes (Jonathan Liu).
+- Include port number in host header in wxHTTP (Marcin 'Malcom' Malich).
+- Added wxTempFile::Flush().
+- Added support for wxLongLong and wxULongLong in wxVariant.
+- Added wxVector::swap().
+- Many wxLog improvements:
+ * wxLogXXX() functions are now thread-safe.
+ * Log levels can now be set independently for different log components.
+ * wxLog::DoLogRecord() has access to the location of the log message
+   (file, line and function name) and id of the thread which generated it.
+ * SetThreadActiveTarget() allows to set up thread-specific log targets.
+- Fix output buffer overflow in wxBase64Decode() (Eric W. Savage).
+- Added bilinear image resizing algorithm to wxImage (bishop).
+- Fix bug with position argument in wxImage::Size() (Byron Sorgdrager).
+- Fix bug with parsing concatenated switches in wxCmdLineParser (Mike Funduc).
+- Added wxMBConv::cMB2WC(wxCharBuffer) and cWC2MB(wxWCharBuffer) overloads.
+
+All (GUI):
+
+- Added support for showing bitmaps in wxButton.
+- Added support for corner, row and column headers renderers to wxGrid.
+- wxWindow::SetAutoLayout() now works for all windows, not just panels.
+- Support wxListCtrl columns, items and image lists in XRC (Kinaou Hervé).
+- Added support for wxFileCtrl to XRC (Kinaou Hervé).
+- Added ownfg, ownbg and ownfont tags to XRC.
+- Added wxEditableListBox XRC handler.
+- Added multiple selection support to wxDirCtrl (Steve Lamerton).
+- wxGrid: add possibility to prevent resizing of individual rows/columns.
+- wxHTML: add support for table borders width (Laurent Humbertclaude).
+- Added wxMouseEventsManager.
+- Building OpenGL library is now enabled by default.
+- Improve wxTreeCtrl::ScrollTo() in generic version (Raanan Barzel).
+- Added wxFont::[Make]{Bold,Italic,Smaller,Larger} and Scale[d]() methods.
+- Added wxDC::CopyAttributes() and use it in wxBufferedDC.
+- Added wxTextWrapper helper class useful for wrapping lines of text.
+- Added EVT_DATAVIEW_CACHE_HINT() event (Trigve).
+- Added wxLB_NO_SB style (implemented for MSW only; Dario Senic).
+- Added long version field to wxAboutDialogInfo (Jeff Tupper).
+- Added wxWindow::CanScroll() behaving like the old HasScrollbar() and made
+  HasScrollbar() really check for the scrollbar existence.
+- Added wxKeyEvent::IsKeyInCategory() (Jeff Tupper).
+- Add A0 and A1 paper formats support (Martin Perktold).
+- Fixed wxOwnerDrawComboCtrl popup size on Mac (scrollbars were always shown).
+- Fixed wxOwnerDrawComboCtrl focus problem on Mac (first-time popup
+  dismissed immediately as text control grabbed the focus).
+- wxPropertyGrid: added wxPG_NO_INTERNAL_BORDER, wxPG_EX_NO_TOOLBAR_DIVIDER
+  and wxPG_EX_TOOLBAR_SEPARATOR styles for finer control over borders.
+  Borders around property grid are now native for consistency.
+- Added wxXmlResource::LoadObjectRecursively().
+
+GTK:
+
+- wxRadioBox constructor uses default consistent with other ports now.
+
+MSW:
+
+- Translate wxMessageDialog labels to the language of the current locale.
+- Allow changing the height of wxChoice and wxComboBox.
+- Update CRT environment block in wxSetEnv() too.
+- Fix wxMDIChildFrame::SetSize() (Lars Rosenboom).
+- Fix wxTreeCtrl::UnselectItem() in single selection controls.
+- Allow customizing wxStandardPaths logic for program directory determination.
+- Use time in wxDateTime <-> SYSTEMTIME conversion (troelsk).
+- Setting colours for wxSpinCtrl now works.
+
+i18n:
+
+- Korean translations added (Sungkee Jung).
+- Romanian translations added (Manuel Ciosici).
+
+
 2.9.0
 -----
 
@@ -313,9 +448,9 @@ All:
 
 - 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)
+- Add support for wxExecute(wxEXEC_ASYNC) in wxBase (Lukasz Michalski).
 - Added wxXLocale class and xlocale-like functions using it.
-- Allow loading message catalogs from wxFileSystem (Axel Gembe)
+- 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)
 - Added support for user-defined types to wxConfig (Marcin Wojdyr).
@@ -327,6 +462,7 @@ All:
 - Implemented wxMemoryInputStream::CanRead().
 - Implemented wxMemoryFSHandler::FindFirst/Next().
 - Added wxEventLoop::DispatchTimeout().
+- Added wxZlibStream::SetDictionary() (Axel Gembe).
 - Added wxEXEC_BLOCK flag (Hank Schultz).
 - Add support for wxStream-derived classes to wxRTTI (Stas Sergeev).
 - Added wxStreamBuffer::Truncate() (Stas Sergeev).
@@ -369,7 +505,13 @@ All:
 - Added wxStrnlen() for safe computation of string length.
 - Added wxImage::Clear() (troelsk).
 - Added wxLog::Log().
+- Added wxProtocolLog and use it in wxFTP.
 - Added wxXmlResource::GetResourceNode().
+- Optimize wxString::Replace() to use an O(N) algorithm (Kuang-che Wu).
+- Added support of %l format specifier to wxDateTime::ParseFormat().
+- wxImage handlers can now support multiple extensions (Ivan Krestinin).
+- Added wxFileName::StripExtension() (troelsk).
+- Added wxLOCALE_DATE/TIME_FMT support to wxLocale::GetInfo().
 
 All (Unix):
 
@@ -397,6 +539,7 @@ All (GUI):
 - Also added wxCANCEL_DEFAULT to wxMessageDialog.
 - Allow copying text in the log dialogs.
 - Added multisample (anti-aliasing) support to wxGLCanvas (Olivier Playez).
+- Added wxEVT_COMMAND_COMBOBOX_DROPDOWN/CLOSEUP events (Igor Korot).
 - Added wxCAL_SHOW_WEEK_NUMBERS wxCalendarCtrl style (Sören Meyer-Eppler).
 - Initialize wx{Client,Paint,Window}DC with fonts/colours of its window.
 - Added wxNativeContainerWindow to allow embedding wx into native windows.
@@ -417,7 +560,6 @@ All (GUI):
 - Added wxEventBlocker class (Francesco Montorsi).
 - Added wxFile/DirPickerCtrl::Get/SetFile/DirName() (Francesco Montorsi).
 - Added wxSizerFlags::Top() and Bottom().
-- Slovak translation added.
 - Fixed tab-related drawing and hit-testing bugs in wxRichTextCtrl.
 - Implemented background colour in wxRichTextCtrl.
 - Fixed crashes in helpview when opening a file.
@@ -495,6 +637,13 @@ All (GUI):
   Added also wxEventLoopBase::IsYielding to help cure re-entrancy problems with Yield().
 - Render <th> element contents in bold in wxHTML.
 - Added wxGrid::{Set,Get}{Row,Col}Sizes() methods (Andrey Putrin).
+- Add support for wxSP_WRAP in the generic version of wxSpinCtrlDouble.
+- Add alignment flags support to wxSpinCtrl[Double] (Andrew Radke).
+- Added wxGetSelectedChoices() replacing wxGetMultipleChoices() (Kolya Kosenko).
+- Check whether document fits into page horizontally in wxHtmlPrintout, see the
+  new CheckFit() method for more information.
+- Allow reading GIFs with incorrectly specified animation size.
+- Return number of frames in animated GIF from wxGIFHandler::GetImageCount().
 
 wxGTK:
 
@@ -549,6 +698,7 @@ wxMSW:
   by modern apps.
 - Ellipsize long strings in wxStatusBar (Francesco Montorsi)
 - Fix spurious repaint when changing tooltip text (Jonathan Liu).
+- Fix wxSP_WRAP and wxSP_ARROW_KEYS in wxSpinCtrlDouble (Andrew Radke).
 
 wxX11:
 
@@ -559,6 +709,100 @@ wxDFB:
 
 - Implement wxBitmap ctor from XBM data.
 
+i18n:
+-----
+
+- Slovak translations added (Ivan Masár).
+
+
+2.8.10:
+-------
+
+All:
+
+- wxHashMap::insert() doesn't update the value if it didn't insert the element
+  any more (Marcin Malich).
+- Correct bug in wxTimeSpan::Format() for negative spans.
+- Correct several bugs in wxList using end() iterators (Suzumizaki-Kimitaka).
+- Added Vietnamese translation (Tran Ngoc Quan).
+- Updated Slovenian translation (Martin Srebotnjak).
+- Corrected Serbian locale name (Cody Precord).
+- Fix wxURL::GetInputStream() for URLs with special characters in credentials
+  (Robert Wruck).
+- Fix wxURI::GetUser() for URIs without password.
+- Correct wxDateTime DST computation for 2006 and later (Christopher Barker).
+
+All (GUI):
+
+- wxRTC: fixed input that uses Alt on Mac OS X, for example Polish Pro input.
+  Also fixed a bug whereby e.g. Croatian keys didn't work, by moving more code
+  to key down handler.
+- wxRTC: fixed a problem with HTML list generation.
+- wxRTC: no longer deletes a character when content is selected before
+  pressing Delete.
+- wxRTC: fixed inability to select no superscript and no subscript in
+  formatting dialog.
+- wxRTC: fixed centering and right-justification when combined with left
+  indentation.
+- wxRTC: fixed lack of right margin when centering or right-justifying.
+- wxRTC: fixed wrong descent when wrapping lines with different font sizes.
+- wxRTC: fixed wrapping problem for long lines.
+- wxRTC: all buffer margins now respected.
+- wxRTC: Added wxRE_CENTRE_CARET to centre the caret line vertically.
+- Fixed wxHTML's pagebreaks computation in tables (D.J.Stauffer).
+- Fixed wxHtmlWindow::SelectionToText() to correctly insert newlines after
+  single-cell paragraphs.
+- Fixed wxHTML's line breaks handling in <pre> blocks broken in 2.8.8 (#10120).
+- wxHTML: don't include extra whitespace in table cells.
+- Implemented wxWindow::DragAcceptFiles() on all platforms.
+- Added wxAUI_MGR_LIVE_RESIZE flag to wxAuiManager and made it the default on
+  wxMac with CoreGraphics where sash drawing isn't implemented.
+- Use bitmap mask in wxSplashScreen.
+- Translate "(c)" and "(C)" to the real copyright sign in wxAboutBox.
+- Fix painting of highlight border for merged cells in wxGrid (K. Jones).
+- Fix handling of long lines in wxGridCellAutoWrapStringRenderer.
+
+All (Unix):
+
+- Return false from wxSingleInstanceChecker::IsAnotherRunning() if an error
+  occurred while opening or reading the lock file (Lauri Nurmi).
+
+wxMSW:
+
+- Fixed bug with using non default encoding in wxTextCtrl in ANSI build.
+- Restored generation of events for accelerators when there is no menu bar.
+- Fixed wxArtProvider::GetSizeHint() to return 16x16 for wxART_FRAME_ICON.
+- Fixed toolbar buttons so that they don't disappear temporarily when clicked
+  if the event handler causes window update.
+- Fix display enumeration under WinCE (Vince Harron).
+- Fix best size calculation for wxNotebook with multiple rows (Alex McCarthy).
+- Correct coordinates of wxDropFilesEvent (Dmitriy Maksimov).
+- Fix handling of abandoned mutexes in wxMutex (David Heffernan).
+- Avoid warnings about deprecated localtime with MSVC8/9 (Chris Stankevitz).
+- Fixed invisible CHM tooltip text bug when window text colour is black.
+- Automatically adjust toolbar's tool size if the provided bitmaps
+  don't fit into the default size.
+- Don't generate EVT_LISTBOX_DCLICK events with incorrect indices.
+- Don't reuse the double click handled by activation event handler for toggling
+  the item in wxTreeCtrl.
+
+
+wxMSW/CE:
+
+- Don't hardcode the menu bar height (Michele Spighi).
+
+wxGTK:
+
+- Fixed printing to use fonts sizes adjustment consistent with wxMSW.
+- Make colours used by list, tree and status bar controls more consistent with
+  the system theme settings (Tim Kosse).
+- Worked around bug in GTK+ < 2.14 where enabling some controls such
+  as wxButton didn't re-enable sensitivity until the mouse was moved.
+
+wxOS2:
+
+- Added implementation for wxSingleInstanceChecker contributed by Lauri Nurmi
+
 
 2.8.9
 -----