wxWidgets News

wxWidgets 3.2.10 and 3.3.2 Released

2026-03-03T00:00:00+00:00

Today not one but two new wxWidgets releases were made available: 3.2.10, the latest maintenance release in the stable 3.2 series, and 3.3.2, the third release in the 3.3 series containing all the latest developments with almost 1000 changes from 61 contributors since the previous 3.3.1 release.

Both releases can be downloaded from GitHub, please follow these links to download archives with the library sources and documentation as well as binaries for the selected Windows compilers such as Microsoft Visual C++ and MinGW-w64: for 3.2.10 release and for 3.3.2 one. Online documentation has also been updated and can be accessed at 3.2.10 documentation home and 3.3.2 respectively.

If you are new to wxWidgets, you may find the installation guide a good starting point. If you are upgrading to 3.3.2 from a previous version, please make sure to check the change log and, especially, the INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES section there.

Changes since previous releases

3.2.10 is a minor bug fix release but does contain a number of important fixes for macOS:

Fix install names of the libraries when using “make install” (#25675).
Fix crash on some key presses in wxDataViewCtrl (#26160).
Fix memory leaks in a number of controls (#26208).
Fix regression in wxFileDialog filters in 3.2.9 (#26148).
Many fixes for macOS 26 Tahoe (#25743, #25766, #25767, #26058, #26095).

It also contains the following changes:

Fix regression in wxStaticBitmap::SetBitmap() in wxMSW 3.2.9 (#26106).
Fix right/middle click events in vertical wxAuiToolBar (#26242).
Don’t use first image for wxListCtrl items without images in wxMSW (#26062).
Handle font names longer than 31 characters in wxMSW (#25333).

3.3.2 release contains all the fixes from 3.2.10 above as well as those from the previous 3.2.9 release, but also a number of new developments and many more bug fixes that couldn’t be done in the stable ABI branch:

Accessibility support improvements: fix it for wxCheckBox in dark mode (#26184), add it for wxCheckListBox (#25948), wxStyledTextCtrl (#25956) and minimal support for wxRichTextCtrl (#26202).
Add support for minimizing panes in wxAUI (#23986) and improve splitting behaviour in wxAuiNotebook (#26081).
Add wxStyledTextCtrlMiniMap (#25887).
Allow using GLX and EGL in the same program in wxGTK (#26023).
Add support for using LunaSVG for SVG rendering (#25902).
Include projects and solution files for MSVS 2026 (#26131).
Add support for scrolling, implement wxListCtrl, wxNotebook in wxiOS (#25827, #25857, #25858).
Implement printing support and wxArtProvider in wxQt (#26126, #26210).
Generate suspend/resume events in wxOSX (#25778).
Make automatic scrolling in wxScrolled<> configurable (#25978).
Improve number and currency formatting (#25765).
Significant improvements in wxSVGFileDC (#25723).
Allow configuring timeouts in wxWebRequest (#25673) and add new wxWebRequestDebugLogger class (#26086).
All bundled third party libraries were updated to latest versions (#26010).
Fix using wxSOCKET_NOWAIT_READ and wxSOCKET_WAITALL_WRITE together (#17114).
Fix crash on mouse hover after closing tab in wxAuiNotebook (#25959).
More dark mode fixes in wxMSW: fix or improve rendering of several controls (#25835), toolbar (#25892) and menus (#26182).
More high DPI fixes as well: for wxToolBar (#26038), wxAuiToolBar (#26076), wxPGMultiButton (#26069), wxTreeCtrl state images (#26059), generic wxCalendarCtrl (#25713) and bitmap position in wxDC::DrawLabel() (#25888).
Many RTL layout fixes in wxMSW, wxGTK and wxQt (#25426, #25822).
Fix multiple bugs in gesture handling in wxGTK (#26241).

Please see the change log for a fuller list of the other improvements and the previous release announcement for the description of changes in wxWidgets 3.3 compared to the previous stable 3.2 branch. Note that in spite of all these changes, wxWidgets 3.3.2 is almost fully compatible with wxWidgets 3.2 and updating the existing applications to use it shouldn’t require much effort.

Feedback

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Thanks to all contributors to this release and we hope that you will enjoy working with it!

wxWidgets 3.2.9 Released

2025-12-12T00:00:00+00:00

3.2.9 is the latest maintenance release in the stable 3.2 series and is now available on GitHub, from where you can download archives with the library sources and documentation as well as binaries for the selected Windows compilers such as Microsoft Visual C++, MinGW-w64, including Winlibs gcc 14.2 binaries using UCRT that can be used with the compiler used by Code::Blocks 25.03 and TDM-GCC. You can also read the updated documentation for this version online and, in particular, if you’re new to wxWidgets, you may find the installation guide a good starting point.

Changes since 3.2.8

This release doesn’t add any major new features, but contains some important fixes for bugs found in the previous 3.2.8 release:

Fix crash when using Farsi as system language under macOS (#25561).
Fix handling total window size with GNOME with X11 (#25348).
Fix wxGLCanvas scale when using EGL/Wayland in high DPI (#23733).
Fix missing wxEVT_CHAR for Ctrl-Letter in non-US layouts (#25384).
Fix selecting columns in wxGrid with mouse (#25884).

The new release still contains a couple of enhancements, including:

Many improvements to CMake build system (#25448, #25749, #25998).
Support for building under macOS 26 Tahoe (#25798).
Fix wxStyledTextCtrl support in screen readers (#25963).
Respect HTML5 charset attribute in wxHTML (#25546).
Add support for using EGL 1.4 (and not 1.5) in wxGLCanvas (#22325).

Other changes include:

Fix memory leak in wxColour::Set() under macOS (#25569).
Fix memory leak when using wxOverlay in wxGTK (#24500).
Reduce wxStaticBitmap GDI resource usage in wxMSW (#25698).
Significantly improve performance of drawing bitmaps in wxAUI (#23841).

Please see the full change log for more details.

This release is API and ABI-compatible with the previous 3.2.x releases, so the existing applications don’t even need to be rebuilt to profit from all the fixes above if they use shared/dynamic libraries. And if they do need to be recompiled, this can be done without any changes to the code.

Feedback

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Thanks to all contributors to this release and we hope that you will enjoy working with it!

wxWidgets 3.3.1 Released

2025-07-21T00:00:00+00:00

wxWidgets 3.3.1 has been released and is now available on GitHub, from where you can download archives with the library sources and documentation as binaries for the selected Windows compilers. Documentation for this version is now also available online or can be downloaded from the link above for the offline use. In particular, if you are new to wxWidgets, you may find the installation guide a good starting point.

This is a second release in the 3.3 series and comes soon after 3.3.0 as it contains a number of important fixes for the regressions and other bugs found in 3.3.0. Please update to this release if you are already using 3.3.0 as it is fully compatible with it.

The most important fixes since 3.3.0 include:

Restore Windows date/time pickers behaviour under non-English OS (#25511).
Fix crash on startup under macOS when using Farsi as system language (#25561).
Fix losing wxGenericListCtrl contents after AppendColumn() (#25519).
Fix crash when sorting wxDataViewCtrl in wxGTK in some circumstances (#25625).
Fix crash when using per-window menu in Windows MDI applications (#25522).
Restore inadvertently broken API compatibility in wxPropertyGrid (#25627).

There were also a number of fixes to the new Windows dark mode support:

Fix crash with wxStaticBitmap inside wxNotebook in dark mode (#25499).
Fix disabled wxButton bitmaps appearance in dark mode (#25575).
Fix disabled wxStaticText appearance in dark mode (#25574).
Fix notebook background in dark high contrast themes (#25542).
Fix regression in wxDataViewCtrl border in light mode (#25532).
Fix selected toolbar buttons in dark mode (#25616).
Fix wxComboCtrl appearance in dark mode (#23766).
Fix wxTE_RICH wxTextCtrl appearance in dark mode (#25602).

And, finally, this release also contains a small number of new features:

Allow setting “app id” under supported platforms (Windows/Wayland) (#25548).
Add persistence support for wxRadioButtons (#25530) and wxCheckBox (#25515).
Add support for PNG “Description” text chunk to wxImage (#25556).
wxNumberFormatter improvements (#25614, #25635).

Please see the change log for a fuller list of the other improvements and the previous release announcement for the description of changes in wxWidgets 3.3 compared to the previous stable 3.2 branch. Note that in spite of all these changes, wxWidgets 3.3.1 is almost fully compatible with wxWidgets 3.2 and updating the existing applications to use it shouldn’t require much effort. However please make sure to read the “INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES” section of the change log when upgrading to be aware of the breaking changes in it.

Thanks to all the people who have contributed to this release and we hope you will find it useful and will enjoy working with it!

wxWidgets 3.3.0 Released

2025-06-06T00:00:00+00:00

wxWidgets 3.3.0 has been released today, as planned, and is now available on GitHub, from where you can download archives with the library sources and documentation as well as binaries for the selected Windows compilers. Documentation for this version is now also available online or can be downloaded from the link above for the offline use. In particular, if you are new to wxWidgets, you may find the installation guide a good starting point.

This is the first release in the 3.3 development branch, bringing many new features and improvements compared to the stable 3.2 branch while remaining mostly API-compatible with it. Please note that even if this is not a “stable” release, it is still considered to be suitable for production use, the only difference with the stable releases is that API and ABI compatibility are not guaranteed for the releases in this series. In practice, however, backwards-incompatible API changes are expected to be rare.

With more than 5300 commits since 3.2, there are too many changes to list them all here, but here are some of the most important ones:

The long awaited support for dark mode for Windows is finally here.
wxWebView has gained a new Chrome-based backend and many other more minor new features and improvements.
Support for pinned and multiline tabs was added to wxAuiNotebook.
wxImage now supports images in WebP format.
Support for high DPI cursors and animations was added.
All included third party libraries have been updated to their latest versions.
The library now builds with the latest compilers (gcc 15, clang 19/Xcode 16) and using recent C++ standards.

Please see the change log for a fuller, even if still incomplete, list of the other improvements. Note that in spite of all these changes, wxWidgets 3.3 is almost fully compatible with wxWidgets 3.2 and updating the existing applications to use it shouldn’t require much effort. However please make sure to read the “INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES” section of the change log when upgrading to be aware of the breaking changes in it.

Thanks to all the people who have contributed to this release, including 180 unique committers and many others who have helped by reporting bugs, providing support, making translations or otherwise contributing to the project! We hope you will find it useful and will enjoy working with it!

wxWidgets 3.2.8.1 Released

2025-05-25T00:00:00+00:00

New 3.2.8.1 maintenance release is now available on GitHub. This is a hot fix release fixing a couple of regressions in 3.2.8 related to ELF symbol versions, as the changes improving their handling done in 3.2.8 broke the build when using custom library flavour (i.e. --with-flavour configure option, see #25436) and also building using LTO with clang (#25438).

There are no other changes in this release compared to 3.2.8, so please refer to this release announcement for more details about the changes since 3.2.7 and more links.

wxWidgets 3.2.8 Released

2025-04-24T00:00:00+00:00

3.2.8 is the latest maintenance release in the stable 3.2 series and is now available on GitHub, from where you can download 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. You can also read the updated documentation for this version online and, in particular, if you’re new to wxWidgets, you may find the installation guide a good starting point.

Changes since 3.2.7

The focus of this release, coming soon after the previous one, is to fix several problems found in 3.2.7:

Fix crash in wxPropertyGrid with wxGTK3 after recent change (#25286).
Fix padding of wxMenu in high DPI under Windows 11 (#25117).
Fix key codes in WXK_NUMPADx events in wxGTK (#25263).
Fix ABI breakage for versioned symbols in 3.2.7 (#25327).
Fix third party libraries build with Xcode 16.3.
Fix using OpenGL and WebView when using CMake install (#25266).

But it still contains a couple of enhancements, including:

Add wxVector(std::initializer_list<U> list) constructor (#25290).
Add mouse scrolling support to generic wxSpinCtrl (#24935).
Add @USER@ macro to HTML and RichText printers (#25318).

Other changes include:

Call OnExceptionInMainLoop() in wxGTK if idle event handler throws (#25312).
Compute wxStaticText best size ourselves if GTK does it wrongly (#24781).
Fix page count display in wxHtmlPrintout when there is only one page ([#25320]).
Miscellaneous CMake build improvements (#25324).
Fix new warnings with gcc 15 (#25338).
Update Brazilian Portuguese translations.

Please see the full change log for more details.

Feedback

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Thanks to all contributors to this release and we hope that you will enjoy working with it!

wxWidgets 3.2.7 Released

2025-03-19T00:00:00+00:00

3.2.7 is the latest maintenance release in the stable 3.2 series and is now available on GitHub, from where you can download 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. You can also read the updated documentation for this version online and, in particular, if you’re new to wxWidgets, you may find the installation guide a good starting point.

Changes since 3.2.6

This release contains more than a hundred bug fixes and improvements. Some of the most important fixes are:

Build fixes for gcc 14 (#24248, #24869) and clang 19 (#24922, #24959, #25064).
Fix build with macOS 15 SDK (#24724, #24879).
Many fixes to key event generation in wxGTK (#25053, #25199, #25200).
Avoid repaint problems when using wxWindow::Update() with Wayland (#25036).
Fix crashes when using wxWebRequest with libcurl (#24885, #24969).

New in this release:

Add wxNO_UNUSED_VARIABLES to opt-in into getting helpful warnings (#24882).
Add wxApp::SetErrorExitCode() to better handle initialization errors (#24770).

Other changes include:

More high DPI fixes in wxMSW (#24650, #24651, #24815, #24850, #24821, #24941).
Improve wxInfoBar appearance (#24838, #24902, #25048).
Fix possible crash during session termination in wxMSW (#24903).
Wayland fixes to copy-pasting (#24701) and drag-and-drop (#25116) in wxGTK.
Fix truncating labels of newly added wxNotebook pages in wxOSX (#25194).
Fix Z-order of auto-complete popup of wxStyledTextCtrl in wxOSX (#25202).
Fix buffer read overflow when compiling RE ending with backslash (#25040).
Make wxTempFile::Commit() and wxRenameFile() really atomic (#25088).

Please see the full change log for more details.

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Thanks to all contributors to this release and we hope that you will enjoy working with it!

wxWidgets Book Examples Now Available on GitHub

2025-03-05T00:00:00+00:00

A comprehensive collection of wxWidgets example applications is now available to the community. These applications were originally developed as supplementary material for the Polish book Cross-Platform Programming with C++ and wxWidgets 3 and are now publicly accessible on GitHub in the dedicated repository All example applications are released under the wxWidgets License.

Repository Contents

The repository contains more than 25 example applications, showcasing various wxWidgets functionalities. These include, among others:

User interface components and custom controls
File handling, logging, and system operations
Networking (HTTP, FTP, and Socket communication)
Multithreading
OpenGL and 3D graphics
Developing a custom code editor with wxScintilla

Additionally, some projects demonstrate more advanced features, making them useful for both beginners and experienced developers looking to integrate wxWidgets into their applications.

All the examples were tested on:

Windows 11 (Visual Studio 2022, wxWidgets 3.3.x)
Linux Mint 22 (wxWidgets 3.2.6)

Each project includes configuration files for Visual Studio, Code::Blocks, and Makefile, ensuring compatibility across different development environments.

All examples have been fully translated into English to support a global audience of developers.

All projects have been re-tested, updated, and adapted to the latest versions of wxWidgets and C++20, ensuring modern compatibility and performance.

The repository also includes the upgrade_wxwidgets.py script, which facilitates both upgrading and adapting projects to any version of the wxWidgets library.

This resource provides an excellent starting point for developers interested in exploring wxWidgets through working examples. Users are encouraged to review the code and adapt it to their own projects.

wxWidgets 3.2.6 Released

2024-09-09T00:00:00+00:00

This is the latest maintenance release in the stable 3.2 series and is now available on GitHub, from where you can download 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. You can also read the updated documentation for this version online and, in particular, if you’re new to wxWidgets, you may find the installation guide a good starting point.

Changes since 3.2.5

This release contains relatively few changes compared to the previous one, but they include important bug fixes, such as:

Fix resource leak in wxBitmapBundle in some circumstances (#24703).
Fix crash when using static wx libraries in a Windows DLL (#24730).
Fix possible crash during drag-and-drop in wxGTK (#24677).
Fix wxDatePickerCtrl being unusable in some locales in wxGTK (#24533).
Fix regression in focus handling under macOS 14+ (#24605, #24667).
Fix regression in wxTranslations introduced in 3.2.3 (#24297).

Other changes include:

High DPI fixes for wxBitmapComboBox (#24563), wxDataViewCtrl (#24648), wxNotebook ([#24606]), wxPropertyGrid (#24607), wxWizard (#24743).
Improve wxSlider appearance under macOS (#24532, #24539).
Correctly use current keyboard layout in key events in wxGTK (#24772).
Fix handling of ligatures in wxStyledTextCtrl in wxGTK (#13168).

Please see the full change log for more details.

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wxRuby3 1.0.0 released

2024-05-18T00:00:00+00:00

It’s time! wxRuby3 has reached its 1.0.0 stable release.

This release targets the wxWidgets 3.2.5 release by default, which contains (among many others) quite some fixes which came from the development of wxRuby3, and can be installed from RubyGems or downloaded from Github.

This release is the result of about 1.5 years of development, starting at the abandoned remains of wxRuby2, taking a page out of the wxPython Phoenix book and ending with this release.

wxRuby3 is a cross-platform GUI library for Ruby, based on the mature wxWidgets GUI toolkit for C++. It uses native widgets wherever possible, providing the correct look, feel and behavior to GUI applications on Windows, macOS and Linux/GTK. wxRuby aims to provide a comprehensive solution to developing professional-standard desktop applications in Ruby. wxRuby3 also provides extensive usage documentation at its Wiki as well as a complete API reference.

What has changed in this release?

improved documentation
support building against wxWidgets GIT master version
improved stability
add Wx::Overlay and Wx::DCOverlay
add 2D affine transformation support
add Wx::GraphicsRenderer
various DC support improvements
add large 2D drawing sample

Full Changelog: https://github.com/mcorino/wxRuby3/compare/v0.9.8…v1.0.0

How to install?

gem install wxruby3

See the INSTALL documentation for more details. Binary packages for major platforms are available as release assets on Github.

Where can I learn more?

Usage Documentation: see the Wiki

API Documentation: see here

Source code: Github

Rubygems: wxRuby3

Where can I provide feedback?

Report problems, bugs, instructions using Github Issues.

Start discussions, submit ideas, feature requests etc. using Github Discussion.

Credits

Thanks go to the dedicated wxWidgets team for providing such a fantastic GUI library to build wxRuby3 on as well as to the wxPython Phoenix team for providing the idea of code generation from the wxWidgets interface docs.

For more credits see here.

wxWidgets 3.2.5 Released

2024-05-13T00:00:00+00:00

The latest release in stable 3.2 series is now available on GitHub and you can download 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 from there. You can also read the updated documentation for this version online and, in particular, if you’re new to wxWidgets, you may find the installation guide a good starting point.

Changes since 3.2.4

This release contains more than a hundred fixes and improvements for all platforms. Some of the most important ones are:

Support macOS 14 Sonoma (#23916, #24054, #24067, #24073, #24515) and fix installation on some Apple Silicon Macs (#23143).
Wayland-related fixes in wxGTK: clipboard (#24391), OpenGL (#24076, #24395) and other (#24021, #24050, #24051).
Fix crash when using wxApp in console wxGTK programs (#24081).
Support for dates after 2038 in wxDateTime (#24464).

Other changes include:

Fix support for using Chinese (zh-Hans-CN) locale under macOS (#24396).
Fix alpha channel in bitmaps loaded from SVG in wxGTK (#24064).
wxGenericListCtrl improvements (#24292, #24293, #24311, #24312, #24332).
wxGrid improvements (#24247, #24286).
More high DPI fixes in wxMSW (#24283, #24196, #24456).
Avoid new gcc 14 warnings in the headers (#24502).

Please see the full change log for more details.

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Modern Icon Sets wxArtProvider Released

2023-11-21T00:00:00+00:00

perazz has released wxMaterialDesignArtProvider, a custom wxArtProvider class providing SVG-based icons from the Material Design, SimpleIcons, FontAwesome and FluentUI system datasets. All these datasets come with permissive licenses (MIT, CC BY 4.0, CC0 1.0, Apache 2.0) that should make it easy to embed it in new and existing projects.

All SVG icons are hardcoded into headers such that no external files are needed to build the art provider class. Each dataset belongs to a custom client (so that filled/outline versions can be used for hovering effects) and color customization is provided via a simple regex-based extension.

Hopefully this can be useful to people who want to make their existing wxWidgets applications access modern icon sets with limited effort.

wxWidgets 3.2.4 Released

2023-11-11T00:00:00+00:00

Yet another release in the stable 3.2 series 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. You can also read the updated documentation for this version and, in particular, if you’re new to wxWidgets, you may find the installation guide a good starting point.

Changes since 3.2.3

This release comes very soon after 3.2.3 because some of the changes in the last release resulted in regressions fixed by this release. Notably, 3.2.4 fixes a critical bug which made applications using wxGTK but not initializing the GUI to crash (see issue #23981).

Other bug fixes include:

Fix regression in wxTranslations::AddCatalog() return value (#24019).
Fix possible crash and too high CPU use when using EGL (#24018).
Fix losing clipboard contents when clearing a different selection (#23988).
Fix possible crash when dragging pages in wxAuiNotebook (#24027).
Fix refreshing multiple selection items in generic wxListCtrl.
Fix showing windows for background apps under macOS Sonoma (#23893).

The only new addition in this release is the possibility to create objects of wx legacy “dynamic arrays” class from std::initializer_list<> (#23966).

Please see the full change log for more details.

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MFC Porting Guide

2023-10-12T00:00:00+00:00

Utah C++ Programmers group has released a new video about porting from MFC to wxWidgets accompanied by a gist with a step-by-step guide.

Hopefully this can be useful to people who want to make their existing MFC applications portable or just to switch to a more actively maintained framework.

wxWidgets 3.2.3 Released

2023-10-10T00:00:00+00:00

Latest release in the stable 3.2 series 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. You can also read the updated documentation for this version and, in particular, if you’re new to wxWidgets, you may find the installation guide a good starting point.

Changes since 3.2.2

This release contains many important bug fixes, including for some regressions in the previous 3.2.x releases, as well as build system improvements and a few optimizations.

Without listing all of them, areas with the most improvements were:

Internationalization support: fix setting Chinese and some other locales in wxOSX and setting Ukrainian locale in wxMSW and fix loading wxWidgets translations with wxTranslations::AddStdCatalog().
Wayland support in wxGTK and, in particular, OpenGL support under Wayland: fix hiding wxGLCanvas and avoid catastrophically slowing down the entire program when it is hidden; fix crash when using IME; fixes to popup windows, menus and wxPreferencesEditor behaviour.
Validators and input: don’t allow pasting characters forbidden by wxTextValidator; do allow entering temporary invalid value when using numeric validators. Also fix entering dates in wxGenericDatePicker in "nb_NO" and other locales using months names in short date format.
Key event generation: more fixes for non-US keyboard layout in wxGTK and also generate events for Command+Alt+Letter combination in wxOSX.

All in all, this release includes more than 200 fixes from almost 50 contributors, please see the full change log for more details.

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wxWidgets 3.2.2.1 Released

2023-02-13T00:00:00+00:00

The very recent 3.2.2 release unfortunately contained a user-visible regression in wxGenericTreeCtrl, which stopped showing icons, so we had to make a hotfix release fixing this problem.

There are no other changes in 3.2.2.1 compared to 3.2.2.

wxWidgets 3.2.2 Released

2023-02-08T00:00:00+00:00

Changes since 3.2.1

This release comes only a few months after the previous 3.2.1, but contains an important number of bug fixes and enhancements, further improving high DPI support, including:

Better window resizing on DPI change in wxMSW.
Fix using native icons returned by wxArtProvider.
Fix menu items using custom font in high DPI.
High resolution icons support in wxGenericTreeCtrl and wxGenericListCtrl.

and also improving locale-related code under Mac and Unix systems:

wxUILocale::UseDefault() works for locales using different language and region under Mac and fails when used for unsupported locale under Unix.
New wxUILocale::GetSystemLocaleId() allows to retrieve such locales IDs.
wxUILocale::GetCurrent() works currently for “C” locale under Mac.

Some other user-visible enhancements made in this release:

Allow selecting and copying text in wxMessageDialog in wxGTK.
Improve size and behaviour of in-place editor in wxGenericTreeCtrl.
Fix sometimes missing overwrite prompt in “Save” file dialog in wxMSW.
Fix glitch in drawing wxStaticBox with a control as label in wxMSW.

There are also some important bug fixes:

Fix regression in saving TIFF images that could end up truncated.
Fix long standing bug in parsing wxHTTP responses.
Fix data race when processing events generated in a worker thread.
Avoid appending extraneous NUL bytes to wxTextDataObject text in wxMSW.
Fix handling of fonts with fractional sizes in wxOSX.
Fix resizing wxGLCanvas with EGL and Wayland in wxGTK.
Fix display artefacts when using AUI without compositor under X11.
Work around crashes when using wxTextCtrl with MinGW TDM 64.
Fix for a possible crash when handling menu events under Mac.
Third-party libraries have been updated to the latest versions.

All in all, this release includes ~150 fixes from 27 unique contributors, please see the full change log for more details.

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wxWidgets 3.2.1 Released

2022-09-09T00:00:00+00:00

The second release in the recently started 3.2 series 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. You can also read the updated documentation for this version and, in particular, if you’re new to wxWidgets, you may find the installation guide a good starting point.

Changes in this release

Coming soon after 3.2.0, this is mostly a bug fix release, with just one noteworthy new feature: the addition of wxFileDialog::AddShortcut() function. However it fixes some important regressions and other problems:

Fix crash in applications calling g_log_set_writer_func() with recent glib.
Several fixes to alpha channel handling in wxMSW bitmaps.
Generate key and focus events for wxSearchCtrl in wxOSX.
Fix creating wxRadioBox without any items in wxOSX.
Fix regression with AUI floating pane positioning.
Avoid new warnings given by gcc 12.
Fix building with MSVS 2022 standard-conforming preprocessor.
Work around MSVS 2022 optimizer bug that broke wxImage resizing.
NetBSD build fixes.

Please see the full change log for more details.

This release is API and ABI-compatible with 3.2.0, so the existing applications don’t even need to be rebuilt to profit from all the fixes above if they use shared/dynamic libraries. And if they do need to be recompiled, this can be done without any changes to the code.

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wxWidgets 3.2.0 Released

2022-07-07T00:00:00+00:00

After almost 9 years since the beginning of the last wxWidgets stable release series, the first release in the new stable 3.2 series is finally 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. You can also read the updated documentation for this version and, in particular, if you’re new to wxWidgets, you may find the installation guide a good starting point.

Changes in this release

This release is a culmination of many years of development since the last stable 3.0 release. It contains more than 15,000 commits from more than 400 unique contributors (including more than 200 with multiple contributions) and has too many improvements to list them all here, but here is a maximally condensed summary of the most important ones:

Build system improvements: support for new compilers (up to MSVS 2022, g++ 12, clang 14) with an even simpler way of using wxWidgets from MSVS, with wxwidgets.props file, as well as an entirely new CMake build system.
Support for native dark mode under macOS 10.14 and later, support for ARM hardware and macOS versions up to 13.
High DPI support with the new, but almost perfectly backwards- compatible, API based on wxBitmapBundle, including per-monitor DPI and dynamic DPI changes.
New features: HTTPS and HTTP/2 support with wxWebRequest and friends; support for freezing rows/columns in wxGrid; mouse gesture events (GSoC 2017 project); non-integer font sizes and arbitrary font weights in wxFont; fractional pen widths in wxGraphicsContext; arbitrary label windows in wxStaticBox; markup in wxDataViewCtrl items text; support for ZIP 64 files; LZMA compression; much improved accessibility support under MSW; new Edge-based wxWebView implementation; support for using native spell-checking in wxTextCtrl; new PCRE-based wxRegEx.
New classes: wxActivityIndicator, wxAddRemoveCtrl, wxAppProgressIndicator, wxBitmapBundle, wxNativeWindow, wxPersistentComboBox, wxPowerResourceBlocker, wxSecretStore, wxTempFFile, wxUILocale and many new features in the existing classes.
New XRC handlers for all the new and some of the existing classes.
Significant improvements to: wxBusyInfo, wxDataViewCtrl, wxDirDialog, wxGrid, wxNotificationMessage, wxSpinCtrl, wxStaticBox, wxStyledTextCtrl, wxUIActionSimulator.
Improvements to compile-time safety with the possibility to disable dangerous implicit conversions between wxString and char* strings.
Latest versions of all bundled 3rd party libraries, including all the security fixes and support for WebKit 2 and GStreamer 1.7 under Unix.
Better, even if still perfectible, Wayland support in wxGTK.
Revamped OpenGL support better suited to modern OpenGL (3.2+).
Further C++11 and later support improvements, wxWidgets can be built using C++20 compilers.
New experimental wxQt port.
Many, many bug fixes.

Note that in spite of all these changes, wxWidgets 3.2.0 is almost fully compatible with wxWidgets 3.0 and updating the existing applications to use it shouldn’t require much effort. But please do read the (relatively short) section listing the incompatible changes in the beginning of the change log file if you’re upgrading from a previous wxWidgets version.

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wxWidgets 3.2.0 Release Candidate

2022-06-27T00:00:00+00:00

wxWidgets 3.2.0 release candidate is now available on GitHub. This release is not perfect (we might need a few more years for this), but if no catastrophic problems are discovered, it will soon officially become 3.2.0, starting the next ABI-stable release series – the first one since the release of 3.0.0 almost 9 years ago.

Please help us with testing this release by reporting any problems, especially new ones, in it, so that we could still fix them before the final 3.2.0, without waiting for another decade to do it in 3.4.0. Thanks in advance!