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Update release notes etc for 3.1.3 release

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Also simplify MSVC binaries use instructions by instructing people to
just use the provided properties file.
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Vadim Zeitlin
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December 10, 2018 -- The wxWidgets team is pleased to announce a new
October 28, 2019 -- 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 3.1.2 is the latest release in the 3.1 development
wxWidgets 3.1.3 is the latest release in the 3.1 development
branch and is now available at
https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/releases/tag/v3.1.2
https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/releases/tag/v3.1.3
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/v3.1.2/docs/changes.txt
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/v3.1.3/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:
- Build system improvements: support for new compilers (MSVS 2017, g++ 8) and
OS versions (macOS 10.14 and its dark mode) as well as an entirely new CMake
build system.
- New features: 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; support
for ZIP 64 files; LZMA compression; much improved accessibility support under
MSW.
- Build system improvements: support for new compilers (up to MSVS 2019, g++ 9)
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: 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 classes: wxActivityIndicator, wxAddRemoveCtrl,
wxAppProgressIndicator, wxNativeWindow, wxPowerResourceBlocker,
wxSecretStore.
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wxListBox::GetTopItem(), wxProcess::Activate(), wxTextEntry::ForceUpper(),
several ones in wxRendererNative, wxStandardPaths::GetUserDir(),
wxToolbook::EnablePage(), wxUIActionSimulator::Select() and many others.
- New XRC handlers for wxActivityIndicator, wxAui classes, wxDataViewCtrl,
wxInfoBar, wxSimplebook, wxSpinCtrlDouble.
- Significant improvements to: wxBusyInfo, wxDataViewCtrl,
wxNotificationMessage, wxStaticBox, wxStyledTextCtrl.
- Latest versions of all bundled 3rd party libraries, including all the