Tweaks to announcement

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-Announcing wxWindows 2.3.4: a cross-platform GUI toolkit
+Announcing wxWindows 2.4.0: a cross-platform GUI toolkit
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-September 15th, 2002 -- the wxWindows team is pleased to
-announce the release of a development snapshot of the mature
-cross-platform C++ application framework.
+January 6th, 2003 -- the wxWindows team is pleased to announce
+an official 2.4.0 release of the mature cross-platform C++
+application framework.
 
 The following platforms are supported:
 
 - Windows 95/98/ME, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP
-- Unix with GTK+ 1.x and 2.0
-- Unix with X11
-- Unix with Motif/Lesstif
+- Linux/Unix with GTK+ 1.x and 2.0
+- Linux/Unix with X11
+- Linux/Unix with Motif/Lesstif
 - VMS with GTK+ 1.x
 - MacOS 8.6, 9.x and 10.x
-- OS/2 (alpha)
+- OS/2 (alpha release)
+
+A non-GUI subset of wxWindows called wxBase is also supported
+on most of these platforms.
 
 To get wxWindows, go to the Download page at:
 
   http://www.wxwindows.org
 
-This is likely to be the last development snapshot in the
-2.3.x series, before the release of the stable 2.4.x series.
+This is the first official release to support the many
+enhancements to wxWindows since the 2.2.x series.
+Improvements have been made to many areas, including:
+
+- better support for Windows XP
+- a much fuller Mac port
+- additional platforms (OS/2 and bare X11)
+- further type-safe container classes
+- improved build system
+- Unicode support for GTK+ and WIN32
+- improved wxBase support
+- wxArtProvider class allows tailoring of standard
+  wxWindows images
+- translations for more languages
+- mousewheel support
+- support for more ODBC databases
+- numerous bug fixes
 
 *** About wxWindows