3.0.4 Released

We have finally, after a long delay, released 3.0.4, please see the announcement or go directly to the release page. As with the previous 3.0.x releases, there are no important new features in this release, but there are quite a few bug fixes as well as support for the relatively recent compiler, platforms and third-party libraries versions which were not yet (widely) available at the time of 3.0.3, so upgrading to it is strongly recommended for all 3.0 users, especially because it is so simple: the new release is 100% compatible with 3.0.3 and doesn't require any changes to your applications code or, if you are using shared libraries, not even recompiling it.

As always, thanks to everyone who has contributed to this release and helped with preparing it, by building the binaries, documentation and testing it!

3.0.3 Released

We have finally, after a long delay, released 3.0.3, please see the announcement or go directly to the release page. As with the previous 3.0.x releases, there are no important new features in this release, but there are quite a few bug fixes as well as support for the relatively recent compiler, platforms and third-party libraries versions which were not yet (widely) available at the time of 3.0.2, so upgrading to it is strongly recommended for all 3.0 users, especially because it is so simple: the new release is 100% compatible with 3.0.2 and doesn't require any changes to your applications code or, if you are using shared libraries, not even recompiling it.

As always, thanks to everyone who has contributed to this release (at least 66 people according to git commit information, but certainly more in practice) and helped with preparing it, by building the binaries, documentation and testing it!

An unexpectedly expected release: 3.1.0 is available

Surprisingly, at least to me, we managed to make 3.1.0 release exactly as planned, i.e. today, without any delays. The price for this is that there are a couple of known problems in this release (see the errata on the release page), but we decided that it was not worth delaying the release for them.

This is not the most exciting release in wxWidgets project history, but it's still very much worth upgrading to as there has been a huge number of bug fixes in it, especially in wxGTK3 and wxOSX ports. Of course, as usual, there are a few new features as well, see the web site for a brief list and the change log for a fuller one and I'll try to find some time to write in more details about one of them, wxNativeWindow here in the near future.

The next goal is to release 3.0.3 to make at least some of the bug fixes, if not the new features, from 3.1.0 available to people using the system packages under Linux or just too cautious to start using the "development" releases (even although in my opinion this is not really justified as, on average, 3.1 branch has fewer, not more, bugs than 3.0.x one). As for 3.1.1, this will depend on how quickly the changes accumulate in the master, we'll see how it goes. In the meanwhile, we hope that you'll enjoy the new release!

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!

Please help with testing 2.9.3 RC

Release candidate for the next 2.9.3 is available from SourceForge and soon will also be at FTP mirror.

Please test the distribution files and let us know about any problems you encounter with downloading, compiling or installing from them. If all goes well the final 2.9.3 should be done next week.

Thanks in advance for your help!