[ANN] wxRuby3 v1.8.0 released

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Martin Corino

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Apr 15, 2026, 1:51:22 PM (12 days ago) Apr 15
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This is a major upgrade providing improved stability and new classes and features.

What's changed in this release:

  • major refactoring and improvements to life cycle management
  • add Wx::WEB module
  • add full support for wxWebView as Wx::WEB::WebView
  • add Wx::WEB::WebView sample
  • update INSTALL.md for WebView options
  • add Wx::HTML::HtmlModalHelp
  • add Wx::ContextHelp
  • add Wx::HelpProvider sample
  • add support for Ruby Ractor
  • add Wx::RT module
  • add Wx::RT::SharedEvtHandler and Wx::RT::ThreadEvent
  • implement custom main event loop with automatic support for Ruby Thread and Ractor
  • refactor event/threaded.rb sample to properly demonstrate Fiber, Thread and Ractor support
  • extended regression tests
  • update documentation and wiki
  • update wxWidgets master branch compatibility to at least commit 226c77ec2ed77d636afe892acc39b186f03c12a

Note: This release has dropped support for Ruby version < 3.0.

For more details see the original release announcement here: https://github.com/mcorino/wxRuby3/discussions/493
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