October 28, 2013 -- The wxWidgets team is pleased to announce the
first release candidate release of wxWidgets 3.0.

wxWidgets 3.0-RC2 is available at

        https://sourceforge.net/downloads/wxwindows/3.0.0-rc2/

and at our FTP mirror at

        ftp://ftp.wxwidgets.org/pub/3.0.0-rc2/

Please choose the archive format suitable for your platform, i.e. 7z
or ZIP for Windows platforms and tar.bz2 for the Unix systems
including OS X (all archives contain sources for all wxWidgets ports
but they use different line endings) and follow the instructions in
readme.txt file for installing it. Notice that if you decide to use
the Windows installer (.exe file) you still need to build wxWidgets
as only sources, not binaries, are installed.

We also provide the pre-built versions of wxMSW libraries for the
selected compilers at

        https://sourceforge.net/downloads/wxwindows/3.0.0-rc2/binaries/

Please see the README file there for the descriptions of the
individual files.


This release is a culmination of several years of development since
the last stable 2.8 release. There are too many changes to be listed
here, but the most important ones are:

- Completely overhauled Unicode support which is much easier to use.
- New Cocoa-based wxOSX port for Mac OS X for both 32 and 64 bits.
- New wxGTK3 port, including support for Broadway (HTML5) backend.
- Access to the native web rendering engine with wxWebView.
- New property grid and ribbon libraries are now included in wxWidgets.
- Better interoperability with standard library classes.
- Totally revised and more readable manual.
- Improved debugging support.

Please see the changes.txt file in the "docs" subdirectory of
wxWidgets distribution or also available online at
https://sourceforge.net/projects/wxwindows/files/3.0.0-rc2/changes.txt
for more details and please read the "INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES" section
in its beginning for a brief description of changes if you are
upgrading from wxWidgets 2.8. For more details, please see
http://docs.wxwidgets.org/3.0.0/overview_changes_since28.html


Please test this release candidate version to help us with making the
final 3.0 release as problem-free as possible. We are especially
looking forward to your feedback about the changes in this release
compared to 2.8 version if you're upgrading. Please let us know about
any regressions (http://trac.wxwidgets.org/newticket) so that we could
fix them in the upcoming 3.0.

 Thanks in advance!

Vadim Zeitlin, on behalf of wxWidgets development team.
