Updates for 3.1.0 release

Update dates, changes descriptions and release preparation instructions.
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Vadim Zeitlin
2016-02-28 22:33:37 +01:00
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Changes
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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/v3.0.2/docs/changes.txt
for the incomplete list of the most important ones. Here is the
maximally condensed summary:
- New classes: wxActivityIndicator, wxAddRemoveCtrl,
wxAppProgressIndicator, wxNativeWindow, wxPowerResourceBlocker.
- And methods: wxDateTime::GetWeekBasedYear(), wxListBox::GetTopItem(),
wxProcess::Activate(), wxTextEntry::ForceUpper(), several ones in
wxRendererNative, wxStandardPaths::GetUserDir(), wxUIActionSimulator
::Select() and many others. Also new wxEVT_MAGNIFY event.
- Significant improvements to: wxBusyInfo, wxNotificationMessage.
- All around better support for high DPI monitors.
- Much newer versions of bundled 3rd party libraries (notably libpng)
and support for GStreamer 1.0 under Unix.
- Revamped OpenGL support better suited to modern OpenGL (3.2+).
- Further C++11 support improvements.
- Support for latest compilers: MSVS 2015, g++ 5.3, clang 3.8.
- A lot of bug fixes in wxGTK3 and wxOSX/Cocoa ports.
- New experimental wxQt port.
@@ -44,11 +67,10 @@ There is some support for the following platforms:
* Most Unix variants with X11
* Most Unix variants with Motif/Lesstif
* Most Unix variants with GTK+ 1.2
* Most Unix variants with Qt 5 or newer
* Most Unix variants with Qt 5 or newer (experimental)
Most popular C++ compilers are supported; see the install.txt file for each
platform (available via docs/html/index.htm) and
https://wiki.wxwidgets.org/Supported_Platforms for the most up to date status.
platform (following the links from docs/index.htm).
Files
@@ -56,7 +78,7 @@ 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 for Unix systems users (including
line endings while the compressed tar archives are for Unix systems (including
OS X) 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
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Have fun!
The wxWidgets Team, June 2016
The wxWidgets Team, February 2016