This is a maintenance release providing some minor bugfixes and improvements. Most importantly this release updates to target the latest wxWidgets 3.3.3 release.

What's Changed

• move CIRRUS CI builds to GitHub actions
• update for removal wxUSE_GEOMETRY in wxw >= 3.3.3
• update for wxSVGFileDC additions in wxw >= 3.3.3
• various other minor wxw >= 3.3.3 compatibility updates
• some small bug fixes
• update targeted wxWidgets release to 3.3.3

Full Changelog: v1.8.0...v1.8.1

This is a major upgrade providing improved stability and new classes and features.

What's changed in this release:

• major refactoring and improvements to life cycle management
• add Wx::WEB module
• add full support for wxWebView as Wx::WEB::WebView
• add Wx::WEB::WebView sample
• update INSTALL.md for WebView options
• add Wx::HTML::HtmlModalHelp
• add Wx::ContextHelp
• add Wx::HelpProvider sample
• add support for Ruby Ractor
• add Wx::RT module
• add Wx::RT::SharedEvtHandler and Wx::RT::ThreadEvent
• implement custom main event loop with automatic support for Ruby Thread and Ractor
• refactor event/threaded.rb sample to properly demonstrate Fiber, Thread and Ractor support
• extended regression tests
• update documentation and wiki
• update wxWidgets master branch compatibility to at least commit b226c77ec2ed77d636afe892acc39b186f03c12a

Note: This release has dropped support for Ruby version < 3.0.

Full Changelog: v1.7.0...v1.8.0

This is a major upgrade providing support for additional platforms, classes, improvements, bugfixes and last but not
least an upgrade to target the new wxWidgets 3.2.10 and 3.3.2 releases.

What's Changed

• target wxWidgets 3.3.2 release by default
• add support for Ruby 4
• added verified support (CI builds) for latest stable wxWidgets 3.2.x version (currently 3.2.10)
• add support for MacOS 26 (both ARM64 and AMD64)
• update support for latest Linux platforms
• add support for building with SWIG >= 4.4.0
• add support for wxDisplay (Wx::Display) class
• add support for wxRichToolTip (Wx::RichToolTip)
• add support for wxGenericCalendarCtrl (Wx::GenericCalendarCtrl)
• add support for Wx::TraybarIcon::GetPopupMenu
• expand Wx::GenericValidator support
• migrate test suite from Test::Unit to Minitest
• additional sample code and tests
• various bugfixes and (stability) improvements

Note: With the release of the Ruby 4.x series it has become time to deprecate support for Ruby 2.x. This release will
the last release to support Ruby versions < 3.0.

Full Changelog: v1.6.1...v1.7.0

This is a minor update to align wxRuby3 with the latest wxWidgets 3.3.1 release.

What's Changed

• target wxWidgets 3.3.1 release by default
• add support for latest wxWidgets persistence classes
• updates for latest VScrolled (template) class changes
• add missing Array support for Wx::Variant
• add extensive PropertyGrid testing
• minor bugfixes and improvements
• remove Ruby 2.5 support, make Ruby 2.7 minimally required version
• update wxWidgets master branch compatibility to at least commit 49c6810948f40c457e3d0848b9111627b5b61de5

Full Changelog: v1.6.0...v1.6.1

This is a major upgrade providing support for additional classes, improvements, bugfixes and last but not least an upgrade to target the new major wxWidgets 3.3.0 release.

What's Changed

• target wxWidgets 3.3.0 release by default
• add support for Wx::CursorBundle
• add Wx::HStaticBoxSizer and Wx::VStaticBoxSizer convenience classes
• add support for Wx::GenericHyperlinkCtrl
• add support for Wx::HScrolledWindow, Wx::VScrolledWindow and Wx::HVScrolledWindow
• add Wx::Position class
• add Wx::Rect2DDouble
• improve documentation for enumerator methods and constructor initializer blocks
• various other improvements and bugfixes
• update wxWidgets master branch compatibility to at least commit e92f57b421938e00f0ad944c281c2e353eee2ab8

Full Changelog: v1.5.4...v1.6.0

This upgrade release provides some fixes for potential problems and some useful enhancements.

What's Changed

• fix potential problems with optional keyword argument handling
• add optional keyword arguments to Sizer classes
• add array compatibility for GridBagSizer position and span values
• update wxWidgets master branch compatibility to at least commit 1652d9882a7e8650d1c14c98c558dbbf7624b10b

Full Changelog: v1.5.3...v1.5.4

This upgrade release updates the targeted wxWidgets release to the new 3.2.8 release and some updates and
fixes.

What's Changed

• update targeted wxWidgets release to 3.2.8
• fix Wx::Dialog sizer creation methods (thanks to @Randalphwa for reporting this)
• update wxWidgets master branch compatibility to at least commit 9495129c5eda0b0a1147cf90f122408787dd4fde

Full Changelog: v1.5.2...v1.5.3

This upgrade release updates the targeted wxWidgets release to the new 3.2.7 release and also provides
a few updates for wxWidgets changes.

What's Changed

• update targeted wxWidgets release to 3.2.7
• update wxWidgets master branch compatibility to at least commit d180041641241306175ab45b685d4c54cfff0e3a

Full Changelog: v1.5.1...v1.5.2

This is a minor update release.

What's Changed

• fix potential crash with use of Wx::PGChoiceEntry objects
• update wxWidgets master branch compatibility to at least commit 4d5fbf5afa276ebec0fed95c8feb5d6ec485622d
• fix some platform build configuration issues

Full Changelog: v1.5.0...v1.5.1

This upgrade release extends the verified platforms and release packages to include MacOS 15 and
the latest LinuxMint release as well as some fixes and improvements.

What's Changed

• add MacOS 15 verification builds and release packages
• add missing Wx::EvtHandler#evt_joystick_events handler method
• improve abd optimize event handler method generation
• fix missing event handler methods due to naming mismatches
• update wxWidgets master branch compatibility to at least commit 5469ba6d8e36af150892a9db16041060d1eec215

Full Changelog: v1.4.2...1.5.0