[ANN] wxRuby3 v1.4.2 released

[mcorino]

This upgrade release brings some additions, bugfixes and performance improvements.

What's Changed

• add Wx::TipWindow
• fix potential GC problems with incompletely created windows
• improve and optimize asynchronous call events
• fix and improve event handler chaining
• fix method redefinition warnings
• add -V/--version switch to wxruby CLI
• improve user feedback for wxruby setup command
• update wxWidgets master branch compatibility to at least commit 15126644aa9093cd1312cb12b9ee5c59b1c9f1f8

New Contributors

• @brandondrew made their first contribution in Update README.md to fix branding issue #326

Full Changelog: v1.3.1...v1.4.2

This release targets the wxWidgets 3.2.6 version.

This release provides binary (prebuilt) install packages for the following platforms:

OS / distro	Architecture	Ruby version
Windows	x86_64	RubyInstaller 3.3.x
Mac OS 13	x86_64	Ruby 3.4.x
Mac OS 14	Arm64	Ruby 3.4.x
Debian 11	x86_64	Ruby 2.7.x
Debian 11	x86_64	Ruby 3.4.x
Debian 11	Arm64	Ruby 2.7.x
Debian 11	Arm64	Ruby 3.4.x
Debian 12	x86_64	Ruby 3.1.x
Debian 12	x86_64	Ruby 3.4.x
Debian 12	Arm64	Ruby 3.1.x
Debian 12	Arm64	Ruby 3.4.x
Fedora 39	x86_64	Ruby 3.2.x
Fedora 39	Arm64	Ruby 3.2.x
Fedora 39	x86_64	Ruby 3.4.x
Fedora 39	Arm64	Ruby 3.4.x
Fedora 40	x86_64	Ruby 3.3.x
Fedora 40	Arm64	Ruby 3.3.x
Fedora 40	x86_64	Ruby 3.4.x
Fedora 40	Arm64	Ruby 3.4.x
Fedora 41	x86_64	Ruby 3.3.x
Fedora 41	Arm64	Ruby 3.3.x
Fedora 41	x86_64	Ruby 3.4.x
Fedora 41	Arm64	Ruby 3.4.x
OpenSuSE 15.5	x86_64	Ruby 2.5.x
OpenSuSE 15.5	Arm64	Ruby 2.5.x
OpenSuSE 15.5	x86_64	Ruby 3.4.x
OpenSuSE 15.5	Arm64	Ruby 3.4.x
OpenSuSE 15.6	x86_64	Ruby 2.5.x
OpenSuSE 15.6	Arm64	Ruby 2.5.x
OpenSuSE 15.6	x86_64	Ruby 3.4.x
OpenSuSE 15.6	Arm64	Ruby 3.4.x
Ubuntu 22.04	x86_64	Ruby 3.0.x
Ubuntu 22.04	Arm64	Ruby 3.0.x
Ubuntu 22.04	x86_64	Ruby 3.4.x
Ubuntu 22.04	Arm64	Ruby 3.4.x
Ubuntu 24.04	x86_64	Ruby 3.2.x
Ubuntu 24.04	Arm64	Ruby 3.2.x
Ubuntu 24.04	x86_64	Ruby 3.4.x
Ubuntu 24.04	Arm64	Ruby 3.4.x

Unfortunately no Mac OS 12 and 13 M1 VMs are available anymore with any of the free CI providers to build a binary package for that platform.

How to install

gem install wxruby3

See the INSTALL documentation for more details.
Binary packages for major platforms are available as release assets on Github.

Where can I learn more?

Usage Documentation: see the Wiki

API Documentation: https://mcorino.github.io/wxRuby3/index.html

Source code: https://github.com/mcorino/wxruby3

Rubygems: https://rubygems.org/gems/wxruby3