3.0.2 Released

We have just released wxWidgets 3.0.2, please see the announcement for the download links. There is nothing particularly exciting about this maintenance release, but it does fix quite a few bugs and so upgrading to it is recommended to all 3.0 users -- there are no drawbacks to it, as the new release remains both API- and ABI-compatible with 3.0.0.

To give slightly more details, the fixes were mostly in wxMSW, quoting from the change log:

• Fix background of wxRadioBox buttons and wxSlider.
• Fix appearance of wxToggleButtons with non default colours.
• Fix drawing on wxDC when using right-to-left layout.
• Fix wxGrid appearance and behaviour in RTL.
• Fix creating wxBitmap from monochrome wxIcon or wxCursor.
• Fix handling of bitmaps with alpha in wxImageList.
• Add paragraph spacing attributes support to wxTextCtrl.
• Show new style directory selector even for non existent paths.
• Fix order of radial gradient stops.
• Fix font created using wxFont(wxFontInfo()) ctor.
• Fix wxFileName::GetShortcutTarget() in console applications.
• Fix wxFileName::MakeRelativeTo() for shortcut files.
• Fix height of initially empty wxBitmapComboBox.
• Fix setting label of submenu items.
• Fix using Esc as accelerator in the menus.
• Fix wrong initial status bar height in some cases.

And there are also build fixes for Cygwin 1.7, for MinGW 4.8 (we now work around the bugs in its headers) as well as improvements for MSVS projects: the ones for 2005 and 2008 now also include x64 configurations, while the ones for the later versions now reliably build when using parallel build.

In wxGTK, wxSearchCtrl was fixed and doesn't truncate the text and icons inside it any more. There were a few changes in wxOSX as well, including a fix for the use of wxPreferencesEditor.

Finally, in spite of the focus on the bug fixes, there are also a couple of new features in this release:

• wxDateTime::Format() now support POSIX %V, %G and %g format specifiers for week-number formatting.
• XRC handler for wxSimplebook was added.
• It is also now possible to specify the window variant (normal, small, large, ...) in XRC.
• wxGenericListCtrl::EndEditLabel() was implemented, for consistency with the native wxMSW version.

As always, please let us know about any problems with this release and we hope you will find it useful!