[ruby-talk:444798] [ANN] wxRuby3 1.8.0 released
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April 15, 2026
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.
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