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April 14, 2021 -- The wxWidgets team is pleased to announce a new
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release of our open source framework for the development of native
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cross-platform applications in C++.
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wxWidgets 3.1.5 is the latest release in the 3.1 development
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branch and is now available at
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https://www.wxwidgets.org/downloads/
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Compared to the stable 3.0.x series, this version brings many
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improvements and even more bug fixes, please see the change log
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https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/v3.1.5/docs/changes.txt
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for the incomplete list of the most important ones. Here is the
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maximally condensed summary of the changes compared to 3.0:
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- Build system improvements: support for new compilers (up to MSVS 2019, g++ 10)
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with an even simpler way of using wxWidgets from MSVS, with wxwidgets.props
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file, and OS versions as well as an entirely new CMake build system.
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- Support for native dark mode under macOS 10.14 Mojave and later and support
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for macOS 11 on ARM hardware.
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- New features: HTTPS and HTTP/2 support with wxWebRequest and friends;
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support for freezing rows/columns in wxGrid; mouse gesture events (GSoC 2017
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project); non-integer font sizes and arbitrary font weights in wxFont;
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fractional pen widths in wxGraphicsContext; arbitrary label windows in
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wxStaticBox; markup in wxDataViewCtrl items text; better support for high
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DPI monitors and per-monitor DPI and dynamic DPI changes support under MSW;
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support for ZIP 64 files; LZMA compression; much improved accessibility
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support under MSW; new Edge-based wxWebView implementation.
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- New classes: wxActivityIndicator, wxAddRemoveCtrl, wxAppProgressIndicator,
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wxNativeWindow, wxPersistentComboBox, wxPowerResourceBlocker, wxSecretStore,
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wxTempFFile and many new features in the existing classes.
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- New XRC handlers for all the new and some of the existing classes.
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- Significant improvements to: wxBusyInfo, wxDataViewCtrl, wxDirDialog, wxGrid,
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wxNotificationMessage, wxSpinCtrl, wxStaticBox, wxStyledTextCtrl,
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wxUIActionSimulator.
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- Improvements to compile-time safety with the possibility to disable dangerous
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implicit conversions between wxString and "char*" strings.
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- Latest versions of all bundled 3rd party libraries, including all the
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security fixed and support for WebKit 2 and GStreamer 1.7 under Unix.
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- Revamped OpenGL support better suited to modern OpenGL (3.2+).
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- Further C++11 and later support improvements, wxWidgets can be built using
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C++20 compilers.
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- A lot of bug fixes, especially in wxGTK3 and wxOSX/Cocoa ports.
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- New experimental wxQt port.
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This release is a "development" one as it makes (very few)
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incompatible API changes compared to 3.0 and does not guarantee the
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ABI stability, unlike the 3.0.x series. It is not inherently more
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buggy or less stable than the "stable" releases and you're encouraged
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to use it, including in production. If you're already using 3.0, upgrading
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shouldn't require any special effort, so please try it out.
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We hope that you will enjoy using the new release!
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Vadim Zeitlin, on behalf of wxWidgets development team.
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