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wxWidgets 2.8.1 silently released?

Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 3:30 pm
by Trikko
I see on wxWidgets ftp a folder named 2.8.1 (with files and changelog) dated 9 jan 2007.Why that wasn't annunced?

Take a look:
http://ftp.wxwidgets.org/pub/2.8.1/

Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 3:47 pm
by Auria
It's probably not finished/ready yet

Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 5:19 pm
by biplab
Strange!! They have posted a changelog, too. Isn't it a sign of final release?

When I downloaded latest snapshot from http://biolpc22.york.ac.uk/pub/CVS_HEAD/ I got wx 2.9.0 branch's code.

Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 5:28 pm
by Trikko
biplab wrote:Strange!! They have posted a changelog, too. Isn't it a sign of final release?

When I downloaded latest snapshot from http://biolpc22.york.ac.uk/pub/CVS_HEAD/ I got wx 2.9.0 branch's code.
Exact! And all files date is freezed... And usually they make folders only when new version is released.

Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 5:33 pm
by biplab
It seems that it has been released. Some wx Gurus can confirm this. :)

Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 5:55 pm
by Auria
well when i release a version of my apps usually the package is ready before the website ;) maybe they just need to put an annoucement

Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 5:58 pm
by biplab
Anyway I've downloaded wx 2.8.1 and 2.9.0. Tomorrow morning I'll start to play with them. ;)

It's time to sleep.... :D

Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 5:58 pm
by Trikko
Auria wrote:well when i release a version of my apps usually the package is ready before the website ;) maybe they just need to put an annoucement
The package is one month old... :)

Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 6:01 pm
by biplab
Trikko wrote:
Auria wrote:well when i release a version of my apps usually the package is ready before the website ;) maybe they just need to put an annoucement
The package is one month old... :)
It seems the wx dev team has forgot to update the website. ;)

Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 9:47 pm
by tierra
biplab wrote:It seems the wx dev team has forgot to update the website. ;)
Allow me to put an end to the confusion. 2.8.1 was in fact silently released. There were some outstanding bugs/issues that hadn't been resolved when the release was spun, so no official announcement was made, and it wasn't uploaded to SF.net servers. So for now it just sits alongside other development releases.

See this wx-dev thread for further details.

However, 2.8.2 is scheduled to come out soon, and will definitely be announced.

Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2007 2:18 am
by biplab
Thanks for the update. :D I was quite looking for it.

Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2007 4:47 pm
by xee
I'm already using the WX_2_8_BRANCH anyways 8)