ANN: wxWidgets 2.9.2 release
Vadim Zeitlin
latest 2.9.2 release of wxWidgets library.
wxWidgets 2.9.2 is available at
https://sourceforge.net/downloads/wxwindows/2.9.2/
and
ftp://ftp.wxwidgets.org/pub/2.9.2/
Please choose the archive format suitable for your platform, i.e. 7z
or ZIP for Windows platforms and tar.bz2 for the Unix systems
including OS X (all archives contain sources for all wxWidgets ports
but they use different line endings) and follow the instructions in
readme.txt file for installing it.
This release adds a lot of new features compared to 2.9.1 almost a
year ago and contains a too long list of changes to be listed here
compared to 2.8.x stable release branch. Some of the most important
ones are:
- Completely overhauled Unicode support which is much easier to use.
- New Cocoa-based wxOSX port for Mac OS X for both 32 and 64 bits.
- New property grid and ribbon libraries are now included in wxWidgets.
- Better interoperability with standard library classes.
- Totally revised and more readable manual.
- Improved debugging support.
Please see the changes.txt file in the "docs" subdirectory of
wxWidgets distribution or also available online at
https://sourceforge.net/projects/wxwindows/files/2.9.2/changes.txt/download
for more details.
Note about naming: while 2.9.2 is called a "development" release,
this only means that API is not guaranteed to remain unchanged in
the subsequent 2.9.x releases (although it is still likely to), unlike
in the stable 2.8.x branch where source and binary compatibility is
always preserved between the different micro releases. We believe the
current version is stable and suitable for use in production
environment and recommend using it for any new projects using
wxWidgets.
We are especially looking forward to your feedback about the changes
in this release compared to 2.8 version if you're upgrading. Please
let us know about any regressions (http://trac.wxwidgets.org/newticket)
so that we could fix them in the upcoming 3.0. Thanks in advance!
Enjoy!
Vadim Zeitlin, on behalf of wxWidgets development team.