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July 07, 2022 -- The wxWidgets team is pleased to announce a new
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major release of our open source framework for the development of native
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cross-platform applications in C++.
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wxWidgets 3.2.0 is the first release in the new 3.2.x series and is
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available now from
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https://www.wxwidgets.org/downloads/
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Compared to the stable 3.0.x series, this version brings too many
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improvements and even more bug fixes to list all of them here, please
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see the change log
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https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/v3.2.0/docs/changes.txt
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for the incomplete list of the most important ones and here is the
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maximally condensed summary of the changes compared to 3.0:
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- Build system improvements: support for new compilers (up to MSVS 2022,
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g++ 12, clang 14) with an even simpler way of using wxWidgets from
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MSVS, with wxwidgets.props file, and OS versions as well as an
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entirely new CMake build system.
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- Support for native dark mode under macOS 10.14 and later, support for
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ARM hardware and macOS versions up to 13.
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- High DPI support with the new, but almost perfectly backwards-
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compatible, API based on wxBitmapBundle, including per-monitor DPI and
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dynamic DPI changes.
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- New features: HTTPS and HTTP/2 support with wxWebRequest and friends;
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support for freezing rows/columns in wxGrid; mouse gesture events
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(GSoC 2017 project); non-integer font sizes and arbitrary font weights
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in wxFont; fractional pen widths in wxGraphicsContext; arbitrary label
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windows in wxStaticBox; markup in wxDataViewCtrl items text; support
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for ZIP 64 files; LZMA compression; much improved accessibility
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support under MSW; new Edge-based wxWebView implementation.
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- New classes: wxActivityIndicator, wxAddRemoveCtrl, wxAppProgressIndicator,
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wxBitmapBundle, wxNativeWindow, wxPersistentComboBox,
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wxPowerResourceBlocker, wxSecretStore, wxTempFFile and many new
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features in the existing classes.
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- New XRC handlers for all the new and some of the existing classes.
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- Significant improvements to: wxBusyInfo, wxDataViewCtrl, wxDirDialog, wxGrid,
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wxNotificationMessage, wxSpinCtrl, wxStaticBox, wxStyledTextCtrl,
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wxUIActionSimulator.
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- Improvements to compile-time safety with the possibility to disable dangerous
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implicit conversions between wxString and "char*" strings.
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- Latest versions of all bundled 3rd party libraries, including all the
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security fixes and support for WebKit 2 and GStreamer 1.7 under Unix.
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- Revamped OpenGL support better suited to modern OpenGL (3.2+).
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- Further C++11 and later support improvements, wxWidgets can be built using
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C++20 compilers.
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- New experimental wxQt port.
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- Many, many bug fixes.
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This release is the start of a new "stable" release series, meaning that
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it provides an ABI stability guarantee and that applications using it
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will keep working even without recompiling with any of the subsequent
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3.2.x releases.
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In spite of a huge number of changes, this release remains almost fully
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API-compatible with the previous 3.0.x releases and 3.1.7 and updating
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the existing applications to use it should be straightforward.
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We hope that you will enjoy using the new release!
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Vadim Zeitlin, on behalf of wxWidgets development team.
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