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July 22, 2020 -- The wxWidgets team is pleased to announce a new
April 14, 2021 -- The wxWidgets team is pleased to announce a new
release of our open source framework for the development of native
cross-platform applications in C++.
wxWidgets 3.1.4 is the latest release in the 3.1 development
wxWidgets 3.1.5 is the latest release in the 3.1 development
branch and is now available at
https://www.wxwidgets.org/downloads/
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Compared to the stable 3.0.x series, this version brings many
improvements and even more bug fixes, please see the change log
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/v3.1.4/docs/changes.txt
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/v3.1.5/docs/changes.txt
for the incomplete list of the most important ones. Here is the
maximally condensed summary of the changes compared to 3.0:
@@ -20,16 +20,17 @@ maximally condensed summary of the changes compared to 3.0:
file, and OS versions as well as an entirely new CMake build system.
- Support for native dark mode under macOS 10.14 Mojave and later and support
for macOS 11 on ARM hardware.
- New features: implement freezing rows/columns in wxGrid; support for 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; better
support for high DPI monitors and per-monitor DPI and dynamic DPI changes
support under MSW; support for ZIP 64 files; LZMA compression; much improved
accessibility support under MSW; new Edge-based wxWebView implementation.
- New classes: wxActivityIndicator, wxAddRemoveCtrl,
wxAppProgressIndicator, wxNativeWindow, wxPowerResourceBlocker,
wxSecretStore, wxTempFFile and many new features in the existing classes.
- 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; better support for high
DPI monitors and per-monitor DPI and dynamic DPI changes support under MSW;
support for ZIP 64 files; LZMA compression; much improved accessibility
support under MSW; new Edge-based wxWebView implementation.
- New classes: wxActivityIndicator, wxAddRemoveCtrl, wxAppProgressIndicator,
wxNativeWindow, wxPersistentComboBox, wxPowerResourceBlocker, wxSecretStore,
wxTempFFile 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,

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* https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/releases/tag/v3.1.5/
Please see https://docs.wxwidgets.org/3.1.5/overview_install.html for full
installation instructions.
Changes since 3.1.3
Changes since 3.1.4
-------------------
In the nine months since the previous release, there have been almost 1700
commits from 74 unique contributors (37 with multiple contributions), so it is
In the nine months since the previous release, there have been more than 1600
commits from 70 unique contributors (40 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 at
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/v3.1.5/docs/changes.txt
for more (but still not all) details, but some of the most important changes are:
for more details, but here are some of the most important changes:
- wxOSX port now supports the latest macOS 11 on ARM hardware.
- wxMSW comes with a new Edge-based wxWebView implementation.
- Better, although still not perfect, per-monitor DPI support in wxMSW.
- wxGrid was has been significantly improved and is now much user friendlier.
- AUI appearance enhancements for non-default GTK themes and macOS dark mode.
- wxWidgets may now be built with C++20 compiler.
- Improvements to CMake build system.
- Allow optionally forbidding dangerous implicit wxString conversions.
And, of course, there were many, many bug fixes in all ports, notably including
fixing several long-standing problems in wxOSX.
- New wxWebRequest and related classes provide a simple way to use HTTPS and
HTTP/2 from wxWidgets applications using native libraries or libcurl.
- Support EGL in wxGLCanvas and Wayland in wxMediaCtrl under Linux.
- Many appearance and other fixes for macOS 11.
- More improvements to wxGrid UI, API and performance.
- wxImage improvements: add alpha support in Paste() and clipboard support.
- API additions: wxPersistentComboBox, wxFileName::ResolveLink(),
wxFileHistory::SetMenuPathStyle(), wxString::utf8_string(), wxEVT_FULLSCREEN.
- Improvements: wxConfig now supports 64-bit integers, wxLog uses millisecond
resolution in timestamps, XRC files can be loaded from URLs.
- Yet more bug fixes, fixes for API inconsistencies and optimizations, notably
in wxDataViewCtrl, wxListCtrl, wxPropertyGrid.
Notice that in spite of all the changes, this release remains almost completely
compatible with 3.1.3 at the API level, so upgrading to it if you're already
compatible with 3.1.4 at the API level, so upgrading to it if you're already
using wxWidgets 3 should be straightforward.
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with an even simpler way of using wxWidgets from MSVS, with wxwidgets.props
file, and OS versions as well as an entirely new CMake build system.
- Support for native dark mode under macOS 10.14 Mojave and later.
- New features: support for mouse gesture events (GSoC 2017 project);
- 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; better support for high DPI
monitors; support for ZIP 64 files; much improved accessibility support under
MSW; Support for non-integer font sizes and arbitrary font weights; LZMA
compression support (using liblzma).
- New classes: wxActivityIndicator, wxAddRemoveCtrl,
wxAppProgressIndicator, wxNativeWindow, wxPowerResourceBlocker,
wxSecretStore.
- And methods: wxDateTime::GetWeekBasedYear(), wxListBox::GetTopItem(),
wxProcess::Activate(), wxTextEntry::ForceUpper(), several ones in
wxRendererNative, wxStandardPaths::GetUserDir(), wxUIActionSimulator
::Select() and many others.
- Significant improvements to: wxBusyInfo, wxDataViewCtrl,
wxNotificationMessage, wxStaticBox, wxStyledTextCtrl.
wxStaticBox; markup in wxDataViewCtrl items text; better support for high
DPI monitors and per-monitor DPI and dynamic DPI changes support under MSW;
support for ZIP 64 files; LZMA compression; much improved accessibility
support under MSW; new Edge-based wxWebView implementation.
- New classes: wxActivityIndicator, wxAddRemoveCtrl, wxAppProgressIndicator,
wxNativeWindow, wxPersistentComboBox, wxPowerResourceBlocker, wxSecretStore,
wxTempFFile and many new features in the existing classes.
- Significant improvements to: wxBusyInfo, wxDataViewCtrl, wxDirDialog, wxGrid,
wxNotificationMessage, wxSpinCtrl, wxStaticBox, wxStyledTextCtrl,
wxUIActionSimulator.
- Latest versions of all bundled 3rd party libraries, including all the
security fixed and support for WebKit 2 and GStreamer 1.7 under Unix.
- Revamped OpenGL support better suited to modern OpenGL (3.2+).
- Further C++11 support improvements.
- Revamped OpenGL support better suited to modern OpenGL (3.2+) and EGL support
and better support for Wayland in wxGTK.
- Further C++11 and later support improvements, wxWidgets can be built using
C++20 compilers.
- A lot of bug fixes, especially in wxGTK3 and wxOSX/Cocoa ports.
- New experimental wxQt port.
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* Most Unix variants with GTK+ 1.2
* Most Unix variants with Qt 5 or newer (experimental)
All C++ compilers in common use are supported; see the install.txt file for
each platform (following the links from docs/index.htm).
Files
-----
wxWidgets is distributed in source form in several archive formats. ZIP and 7z
archives are for Microsoft Windows users and contain the files with DOS/Windows
line endings while the compressed tar archives are for Unix systems (including
macOS) and contain the files with Unix line endings. Please notice that some
Windows tools still don't accept files with Unix line endings and that compiling
sources with DOS line endings under Unix will fail, so please choose the correct
file for your system.
In addition to the sources, documentation in HTML, CHM and HTB (wxWidgets help
viewer) formats is provided as well as an installer for Microsoft Windows.
Notice that you will still need to compile wxWidgets even when using the
installer.
We also supply binaries of wxMSW libraries built with several versions of
Microsoft Visual C++ and GNU g++ compiler for this release.
Installation
------------
Unless you have downloaded the binaries for your compiler, you will need to
build wxWidgets before you can test out the samples or write your own
applications. For installation information, please see the install.md files in
the docs subdirectory appropriate for the platform you use or the "Platform
Details" page of the manual, which contains links to the rendered versions of
these files.
All C++ compilers in common use are supported.
Licence
@@ -216,4 +190,4 @@ developed by its users and your contributions to it are always welcome!
Have fun!
The wxWidgets Team, July 2020
The wxWidgets Team, April 2021