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@@ -5,6 +5,66 @@
 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
+-----------------------
+
+The biggest changes in wxWidgets 3.0 are the changes due to the merge of the
+old ANSI and Unicode build modes in a single build. See the Unicode overview
+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;
+  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
+     base class version.
+
+  b) Passing NULL as argument: as NULL can't be unambiguously converted to
+     wxString, in many cases code using it won't compile any more and NULL
+     should be replaced with an empty string.
+
+
+- Some structure fields which used to be of type "const wxChar *" (such as
+  wxCmdLineEntryDesc::shortName, longName and description fields) are now of
+  type "const char *", you need to remove wxT() or _T() around the values used
+  to initialize them (which should normally always be ASCII).
+
+- wxIPC classes didn't work correctly in Unicode build before, this was fixed
+  but at a price of breaking backwards compatibility: many methods which used
+  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
+------------------------------------
+
+wxODBC library was unmaintained since several years and we couldn't continue
+supporting it any longer so it was removed. Please use any of the other open
+source ODBC libraries in the future projects.
+
+Also the "applet", "deprecated", "fl", "mmedia" and "plot" contrib libraries
+were removed as they were unmaintained and broken since several years.
+The "gizmos", "ogl", "net" and "foldbar" contribs have been moved to
+wxCode (see http://wxcode.sourceforge.net/complist.php); they are now
+open for futher development by volunteers.
+
+The "stc" and "svg" contribs instead have been moved respectively into a new
+"official" library stc and in the core lib.
+
+
 Changes in behaviour not resulting in compilation errors, please read this!
 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
@@ -26,12 +86,39 @@ Changes in behaviour not resulting in compilation errors, please read this!
   sizes of the sizer items to be in the same proportion as the items
   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.
+
+- wxCalendarCtrl has native implementation in wxGTK, but it has less features
+  than the generic one. The native implementation is used by default, but you
+  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.
+
+- 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
 -----------------------------------------------------------
 
 - WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_4 doesn't exist any more, please update your code if
   you still relied on features deprecated since version 2.4
 
+- wxDC classes hierarchy has changed, if you derived any classes from wxDC you
+  need to review them as wxDC doesn't have any virtual methods any longer and
+  uses delegation instead of inheritance to present different behaviours.
+
 - Return type of wxString::operator[] and wxString::iterator::operator* is no
   longer wxChar (i.e. char or wchar_t), but wxUniChar. This is not a problem
   in vast majority of cases because of conversion operators, but it can break
@@ -50,14 +137,29 @@ 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*.
 
 - DigitalMars compiler has a bug that prevents it from using
   wxUniChar::operator bool in conditions and it erroneously reports type
@@ -66,35 +168,201 @@ Changes in behaviour which may result in compilation errors
   This can be worked around by explicitly casting to bool:
      for ( wxString::const_iterator p = s.begin(); (bool)*p; ++p )
 
+- Virtual wxHtmlParser::AddText() takes wxString, not wxChar*, argument now.
+
+- 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.
+
+- wxTmemxxx() functions take either wxChar* or char*, not void*: use memxxx()
+  with void pointers.
+
+- Removed insecure wxGets() and wxTmpnam() functions.
+
+- Removed global GetLine() function from wx/protocol/protocol.h, use
+  wxProtocol::ReadLine() instead.
+
+- wxVariant no longer derives from wxObject. wxVariantData also no longer
+  derives from wxObject; instead of using wxDynamicCast with wxVariantData you
+  can use the macro wxDynamicCastVariantData with the same arguments.
+
+- wxWindow::Next/PrevControlId() don't exist any more as they couldn't be
+  implemented correctly any longer because automatically generated ids are not
+  necessarily allocated consecutively now. 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.
+
+- wxGridCellEditor::EndEdit() signature has changed and it was split in two
+  functions, one still called EndEdit() and ApplyEdit(). See the documentation
+  of the new functions for more details about how grid editors should be
+  written now.
+
+- 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.
+
+
 Deprecated methods and their replacements
 -----------------------------------------
 
 - wxCreateGreyedImage() deprecated, use wxImage::ConvertToGreyscale() instead.
 - wxString::GetWriteBuf() and UngetWriteBuf() deprecated, using wxStringBuffer
   or wxStringBufferLength instead.
+- wxDIRCTRL_SHOW_FILTERS style is deprecated, filters are alwsys shown if
+  specified so this style should simply be removed
+- wxDocManager::MakeDefaultName() replaced by MakeNewDocumentName() and
+  wxDocument::GetPrintableName() with GetUserReadableName() which are simpler
+  to use
+- wxXmlProperty class was renamed to wxXmlAttribute in order to use standard
+  terminology. Corresponding wxXmlNode methods were renamed to use
+  "Attribute" instead of "Property" or "Prop" in their names.
+- wxConnection::OnExecute() is not formally deprecated yet but new code should
+  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::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";
+  use the new wxBrush/wxPen style names (wxBRUSHSTYLE_XXX and wxPENSTYLE_XXX) instead
+  of the old deprecated wxXXX styles (which however are still available).
+- EVT_CALENDAR_DAY event has been deprecated, use EVT_CALENDAR_SEL_CHANGED.
+- 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.
+- wxThreadHelper::Create() has been deprecated in favour of wxThreadHelper::CreateThread
+  which has a better name for a mix-in class, and allows setting the thread type.
+
 
 Major new features in this release
 ----------------------------------
 
+- wxWidgets is now always built with Unicode support but provides the same
+  simple (i.e. "char *"-tolerant) API as was available in ANSI build in the
+  past.
+
+- 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.
+
+- 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
 -----
 
 All:
 
-- Added wxJoin() and wxSplit() functions (Francesco Montorsi)
-- Added wxMutex::LockTimeout() (Aleksandr Napylov)
-- Added wxMemoryInputStream(wxInputStream&) ctor (Stas Sergeev)
-- Implemented wxMemoryInputStream::CanRead()
-- Added wxEXEC_BLOCK flag (Hank Schultz)
-- Add support for wxStream-derived classes to wxRTTI (Stas Sergeev)
-- Added wxStreamBuffer::Truncate() (Stas Sergeev)
+- 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.
+- 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).
+- Added numeric options support to wxCmdLineParser (crjjrc)
+- Added wxJoin() and wxSplit() functions (Francesco Montorsi).
+- Added wxDateTime::FormatISOCombined() and ParseISODate/Time/Combined()
+- Added wxMutex::LockTimeout() (Aleksandr Napylov).
+- Added wxMemoryInputStream(wxInputStream&) ctor (Stas Sergeev).
+- Implemented wxMemoryInputStream::CanRead().
+- Implemented wxMemoryFSHandler::FindFirst/Next().
+- Added wxEventLoop::DispatchTimeout().
+- Added wxEXEC_BLOCK flag (Hank Schultz).
+- Add support for wxStream-derived classes to wxRTTI (Stas Sergeev).
+- Added wxStreamBuffer::Truncate() (Stas Sergeev).
+- Allow using  wxEventLoop in console applications (Lukasz Michalski).
+- Added functions for Base64 en/decoding (Charles Reimers).
+- Added support for binary data to wxConfig (Charles Reimers).
+- Added functions for atomically inc/decrementing integers (Armel Asselin).
+- wxLogInterposer has been added to replace wxLogPassThrough and new
+  wxLogInterposerTemp was added.
+- Added support for broadcasting to UDP sockets (Andrew Vincent).
+- Documentation now includes the wx library in which each class is defined.
+- wxrc --gettext now generates references to source .xrc files (Heikki
+  Linnakangas).
+- wxVariant::Unshare allows exclusive allocation of data that must be shared,
+  if the wxVariantData::Clone function is implemented.
+- 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).
+- 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 wxH[V]ScrolledWindow (Brad Anderson, Bryan Petty)
-- Added wxDC::StretchBlit() for wxMac and wxMSW (Vince Harron)
-- Added support for labels for toolbar controls (Vince Harron)
+- Added wxDataViewCtrl class and helper classes.
+- Integrated wxPropertyGrid in wxWidgets itself (Jaakko Salli).
+- Provide native implementation of wxCalendarCtrl under wxMSW and wxGTK.
+- Added wxHeaderCtrl and allow using it in wxGrid.
+- Added wxRearrangeList, wxRearrangeCtrl and wxRearrangeDialog.
+- 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).
+- Support custom labels in wxMessageDialog (Gareth Simpson for wxMac version).
+- Added wxScrolledWindow::ShowScrollbars().
+- 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).
+- 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 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().
@@ -102,47 +370,385 @@ All (GUI):
 - Fixed tab-related drawing and hit-testing bugs in wxRichTextCtrl.
 - Implemented background colour in wxRichTextCtrl.
 - Fixed crashes in helpview when opening a file.
-- Set locale to the default in all ports, not just wxGTK
-- Added wxJoystick::GetButtonState/Position() (Frank C Szczerba)
-- Added wxGridUpdateLocker helper class (Evgeniy Tarassov)
-- Support wxGRID_AUTOSIZE in wxGrid::SetRow/ColLabelSize() (Evgeniy Tarassov)
-- Added wxWindow::NavigateIn() in addition to existing Navigate()
-- Add support for <data> tags to wxrc
-- Support wxAPPLY and wxCLOSE in CreateStdDialogButtonSizer() (Marcin Wojdyr)
-- Show standard options in wxCmdLineParser usage message (Francesco Montorsi)
+- Set locale to the default in all ports, not just wxGTK.
+- Added wxJoystick::GetButtonState/Position() (Frank C Szczerba).
+- Added wxGridUpdateLocker helper class (Evgeniy Tarassov).
+- Support wxGRID_AUTOSIZE in wxGrid::SetRow/ColLabelSize() (Evgeniy Tarassov).
+- Added wxWindow::NavigateIn() in addition to existing Navigate().
+- Add support for <data> tags to wxrc.
+- Support wxAPPLY and wxCLOSE in CreateStdDialogButtonSizer() (Marcin Wojdyr).
+- Show standard options in wxCmdLineParser usage message (Francesco Montorsi).
+- Added wxRect::operator+ (union) and * (intersection) (bdonner).
+- Added support for two auxiliary mouse buttons to wxMouseEvent (Chris Weiland).
+- Added wxToolTip::SetAutoPop() and SetReshow() (Jan Knepper).
+- Added wxTaskBarIcon::Destroy().
+- Added XRC handler for wxSearchCtrl (Sander Berents).
+- Read image resolution from TIFF, JPEG and BMP images (Maycon Aparecido Gasoto).
+- Add support for reading alpha data from TIFF images.
+- Added wxSYS_DCLICK_TIME system metric constant (Arne Steinarson).
+- Added wxApp::Get/SetAppDisplayName() (Brian A. Vanderburg II).
+- Added wxWindow::GetPopupMenuSelectionFromUser() (Arne Steinarson).
+- Implemented wxTreeCtrl::GetPrevVisible() in the generic version and made the
+  behaviour of GetNextSibling() consistent between wxMSW and generic versions.
+- Merged wxRichTextAttr and wxTextAttrEx into wxTextAttr, and added a font table
+  to wxRichTextBuffer to reduce wxFont consumption and increase performance.
+- Optimize wxGenericTreeCtrl::Collapse/ExpandAllChildren()
+  (Szczepan Holyszewski).
+- Added <scrollrate> parameter to wxScrolledWindow XRC handler.
+- Added support for automatic dialog scrolling, via the new
+  wxDialogLayoutAdapter class and various new wxDialog functions. See the
+  topic "Automatic Scrolling Dialogs" in the manual for further details.
+- Added support for resizing wxWizard bitmaps to the current page height,
+  via SetBitmapPlacement, SetBitmapBackgroundColour and SetMinimumBitmapWidth.
+  Also made it easier to derive from wxWizard and override behaviour.
+- Made wxSizer::Fit() set the client size of the target window
+- Add support for wxDatePickerCtrl in wxGenericValidator (Herry Ayen Yang)
+- Added wxWindow::HasFocus().
+- Added wxGLCanvas::IsDisplaySupported().
+- 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 (Santo Pfingsten).
+- Add wxGridSelectRowsOrColumns selection mode to wxGrid.
+- Get/HasModifiers() of wxKeyEvent are now also available in wxMouseEvent.
+- Provide new/old cell value in wxEVT_GRID_CELL_CHANGING/CHANGED events.
 
 wxGTK:
 
-- Support for markup and ellipsization in wxStaticText (Francesco Montorsi)
-- Native implementation for wxHyperlinkCtrl (Francesco Montorsi)
-- Native keyboard navigation implementation
-- Don't overwrite primary selection with clipboard and vice versa
+- Support for markup and ellipsization in wxStaticText (Francesco Montorsi).
+- Native implementation for wxHyperlinkCtrl (Francesco Montorsi).
+- Native keyboard navigation implementation.
+- Added wxCB_SORT support to wxComboBox (Evgeniy Tarassov).
+- Don't overwrite primary selection with clipboard and vice versa.
 - Implemented support for underlined fonts in wxStaticText.
 - wxTopLevelWindow::SetSizeHints size increments now work.
 - wxTopLevelWindow::GetSize() returns the size including the WM decorations.
 - wxTopLevelWindow::GetClientSize() returns 0x0 when the window is minimized.
 - Added support for colour cursors (Pascal Monasse).
-- Setting foreground colour of single line wxTextCtrl now works
-- Pass current control text to EVT_TEXT handler for wxSpinCtrl (John Ratliff)
-- Added gtk.tlw.can-set-transparency system option
+- 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)
-- 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)
+- Better IconRef support (Alan Shouls).
+- 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.
+- Native wxCollapsiblePane implementation.
 
 wxMSW:
 
 - Fixed infinite loop in wxThread::Wait() in console applications.
 - Return the restored window size from GetSize() when window is minimized.
-- wxCheckListBox now looks more natively, especially under XP (Marcin Malich)
+- wxCheckListBox now looks more native, especially under XP (Marcin Malich).
+- wxCheckListBox now also supports use of client data (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).
+- 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)
+- Added mouse wheel support (David Hart).
+- Make Enter key activate the default button (David Hart).
+
+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
+-----
+
+All:
+
+- 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().
+- 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.
+- 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.
+- 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).
+- 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
+-----
+
+All:
+
+- Fixed bug with default proxy destruction in wxURL (Axel Gembe).
+
+wxMSW:
+
+- Correct (harmless) warnings given for forward-declared DLL-exported classes
+  by mingw32 4.2 (Tim Stahlhut).
+
+wxGTK:
+
+- Added gtk.window.force-background-colour wxSystemOptions option to work around
+  a background colour bug in the gtk-qt theme under KDE.
+- Implemented wxGetClientDisplayRect() correctly for wxGTK and X11-based ports.
+
+
+2.8.6
+-----
+
+All:
+
+- Fixed another bug in wxFileConfig when deleting entries (Axel Gembe)
+- Added Portuguese translation (Antonio Cardoso Martins)
+
+
+2.8.5
+-----
+
+All (GUI):
+
+- Added colour normalization to PNM image handler (Ray Johnston)
+- Fixed selecting part of word from right to left in wxHTML (Michael Hieke)
+- Selecting text in wxHTML with character precision was made easier, it's
+  enough to select half of a character (Michael Hieke)
+- Significantly improved startup times of XRC-based applications using
+  embedded resources on Unix (requires resources recompilation)
+- Fixed freeing of "static" alpha data in wxImage (Axel Gembe)
+- Don't invalidate the font in SetNativeFontInfo[Desc]() if the string is
+  invalid, to conform to the documented behaviour (Langhammer)
+- Fixed wxXPMHandler::SaveFile for images with more than 92 colors.
+
+wxMSW:
+
+- Correct problem with page setup dialog when using landscape mode
+- Added msw.font.no-proof-quality system option, see manual for description
+- Fix appearance of notebook with non-top tabs under Windows Vista
+- Fixed bug with symbol resolving in wxStackWalker (Axel Gembe)
+- Fixed showing busy cursor for disabled windows and during wxExecute()
+- Set the string of wxEVT_COMMAND_CHECKLISTBOX_TOGGLED events (Luca Cappa)
+- Fix problems with timers on SMP machines in wxAnimationCtrl (Gennady)
+
+wxGTK:
+
+- Setting foreground colour of single line wxTextCtrl now works
+- More work on setting defaults in GNOME print dialogs.
+- Also made landscape printing work as per wxMSW.
+- Add support for clipping in GNOME print backend.
+- Speed up wxBitmap::Rescale()
+- Add right button event for wxToolbar's tools (Tim Kosse)
+- Don't unconditionally add wxCAPTION style to wxMiniFrame
+- Generate wxEVT_COMMAND_LIST_END_LABEL_EDIT event even if label didn't change
+- Fix WX_GL_STEREO attribute handling (Tristan Mehamli)
+- Fix wxThread::SetPriority() when the thread is running (Christos Gourdoupis)
+- Fixed off by 1 bug in wxDC::GradientFillLinear() (Tim Kosse)
 
 
 2.8.4
@@ -151,6 +757,9 @@ wxX11:
 All:
 
 - Fix bug in wxFileConfig when recreating a group (Steven Van Ingelgem)
+- Fix wxStringOutputStream::Write() in Unicode build when the argument
+  overlaps UTF-8 characters boundary
+- Account for lines without newline at the end in wxExecute()
 
 All (Unix):
 
@@ -159,6 +768,9 @@ All (Unix):
 All (GUI):
 
 - Allow status bar children in XRC (Edmunt Pienkowski)
+- Fix memory leak in wxWizard when not using sizers for the page layout
+- Added wxListCtrl::SetItemPtrData()
+- wxHTML: Apply table background colour between the cells too (Michael Hieke)
 
 wxMSW:
 
@@ -170,6 +782,7 @@ wxMSW:
 - Fixed bug in wxThread::Wait() in console applications introduced in 2.8.3
 - Support right-aligned/centered owner drawn items in wxListCtrl (troelsk)
 - Compilation fixed with WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_6==0
+- Fix wxComboCtrl colours under Windows Vista (Kolya Kosenko)
 
 wxGTK:
 
@@ -177,9 +790,14 @@ wxGTK:
 - Fix wxNO_BORDER style for wxRadioBox (David Hart)
 - Fix wxTextCtrl::GetLineText() for empty lines (Marcin Wojdyr)
 
+wxMac:
+
+- Fix wxComboBox::SetSelection(wxNOT_FOUND) (Adrian Secord)
+
 wxUniv:
 
 - Fix wxTextCtrl::SetSelection(-1, -1) to behave as documented (Anders Larsen)
+- Fix wxComboBox::SetSelection(wxNOT_FOUND)
 - Fix setting background colour for controls with transparent background