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July 9, 2012 -- The wxWidgets team is pleased to announce the
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latest 2.9.4 release of wxWidgets library.
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wxWidgets 2.9.4 is available at
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https://sourceforge.net/downloads/wxwindows/2.9.4/
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and soon will also appear at our FTP mirror at
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ftp://ftp.wxwidgets.org/pub/2.9.4/
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Please choose the archive format suitable for your platform, i.e. 7z
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or ZIP for Windows platforms and tar.bz2 for the Unix systems
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including OS X (all archives contain sources for all wxWidgets ports
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but they use different line endings) and follow the instructions in
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readme.txt file for installing it. Notice that if you decide to use
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the Windows installer (.exe file) you still need to build wxWidgets
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as only sources, not binaries, are installed.
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However, for the first time ever, we also experimentally provide the
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pre-built versions of wxMSW libraries built with several version of
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Microsoft Visual C++ compiler. You can download them from
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https://sourceforge.net/downloads/wxwindows/2.9.4/binaries/
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Please see the README file there for the descriptions of the
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individual files.
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This release mostly focuses on bug fixes in preparation for 3.0
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release, in particular there are a lot of improvements in wxOSX/Cocoa
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port. The most important new feature in this release is experimental
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support for building wxGTK with GTK+ 3 version of the toolkit. Other
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noteworthy additions are:
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- Transparent background is now support for wxGTK windows.
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- New style directory selection dialog is now used in wxMSW.
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- Native wxDatePickerCtrl and wxTimePickerCtrl for wxOSX.
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- wxFSInputStream stream class for reading data from wxFileSystem.
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- wxGrid::Render() method allows to print or save wxGrid contents.
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- Strike-through fonts are now supported.
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- Horizontal mouse wheel events are now generated.
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The list of of changes since the 2.8 series is much too long to be
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listed here but the most important ones are:
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- Completely overhauled Unicode support which is much easier to use.
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- New Cocoa-based wxOSX port for Mac OS X for both 32 and 64 bits.
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- New property grid and ribbon libraries are now included in wxWidgets.
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- Better interoperability with standard library classes.
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- Totally revised and more readable manual.
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- Improved debugging support.
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Please see the changes.txt file in the "docs" subdirectory of
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wxWidgets distribution or also available online at
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https://sourceforge.net/projects/wxwindows/files/2.9.4/changes.txt/docs/changes.txt
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for more details and http://docs.wxwidgets.org/2.9.4/overview_changes_since28.html
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if you are upgrading from wxWidgets 2.8.
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Note about naming: while 2.9.4 is called a "development" release,
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this only means that API is not guaranteed to remain unchanged in
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the subsequent 2.9.x releases (although it is very unlikely to change
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in incompatible ways at this stage), unlike in the stable 2.8.x branch
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where source and binary compatibility is always preserved between the
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different micro releases. We believe the current version is stable and
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suitable for use in production environment and recommend using it for
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any new projects using wxWidgets.
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We are especially looking forward to your feedback about the changes
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in this release compared to 2.8 version if you're upgrading. Please
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let us know about any regressions (http://trac.wxwidgets.org/newticket)
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so that we could fix them in the upcoming 3.0. Thanks in advance!
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Enjoy!
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Vadim Zeitlin, on behalf of wxWidgets development team.
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