wxWidgets 3.1.6 Released
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wxWidgets 3.1.6 release is now available on GitHub. You will find there archives with the library sources and documentation as well as binaries for the selected Windows compilers such as Microsoft Visual C++, MinGW-w64 and TDM-GCC.
Please notice that while 3.1.6 is officially a “development” version because it is not fully compatible with the “stable” 3.0.x, the list of backwards incompatible changes is very short, so you shouldn’t have any problems updating to this version from 3.0.x in practice, and you’re encouraged to use this release, including in production.
This is also the last release before the upcoming 3.2.0 release that will be the start of a new API and ABI-stable wxWidgets version, so please test your existing applications with this version and let us know about any problems and, especially, regressions, so that they could still be fixed before 3.2.0.
Changes in this release
In almost a year since the previous release, there have been more than 1700 commits from 82 unique contributors (41 with multiple contributions), so it is impossible to summarize all the changes in this document without making it too long, please see the fuller changelog for more (but still not all) details, but some of the most important changes are:
- New wxBitmapBundle class allowing to provide art work for both normal and high DPI in a simple way.
- New wxUILocale class replacing the old (but still available) wxLocale, but not suffering from its multiple problems and providing more functionality.
- Support for using native spell-checking in wxTextCtrl.
- Support for undo/redo in wxTextCtrl in wxOSX.
- Better drag-and-drop implementation in wxOSX.
- Fixes for important bugs in wxDataViewCtrl under all platforms.
- Many improvements and bug fixes for Wayland support in wxGTK.
- Support for the latest OS versions (Windows 11, macOS 12) and compilers (MSVS 2022, gcc 12, clang 13).
- Project bug tracker has been moved to GitHub Issues.
Notice that in spite of all the changes, this release remains almost completely compatible with 3.1.5 at the API level, so upgrading to it if you’re already using wxWidgets 3.1 should be straightforward.
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Thanks to everybody who has contributed to this release and we hope that you will enjoy working with it!