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  • An advanced plotting tutorial
  • Try harder to kill maxima on closing it
  • Try harder to clean up maxima's temporary files on closing it
  • Resolved a race condition on closing multiple windows
  • Resolved a CMake error on configuration with -B switch (#1917)
  • More menu icons
  • A better dialogue if Maxima isn't found
  • Better search for the Maxima binary
  • Find Gnuplot on Windows if wxMaxima is packaged alone. This is needed for the 'Popout interactively' function of wxdraw().
  • Security: Use a standard function (CreateTempFileName) for creating a temporary file for the 'popout interactively' function of wxdraw.
  • Security: Add a random number to lisp generated temporary files.
  • Fix the 'Gnuplot command window' (on Windows) (issues #771, #1680 and #1732).
  • A Spanish translation update by cyphra
  • Fix the greek letter replacement for 'beta' with newer Maxima versions (#1921).
  • Fix a problem, when 'maxima-local' (a not installed version of Maxima) was chosen as Maxima. WxMaxima did not finish on File->Exit and used much CPU power.

24.05.0

  • Faster discarding of maths that is too long to read
  • Resolved a crash on closing the last window (#1898)
  • Now only wxWidgets builds with Unicode support (default) are allowed. Builds without Unicode support are strongly discouraged by the wxWidgets team.
  • Update German and Italian translations
  • Use po4a instead of po4a-translate for the generation of internationalized manuals. po4a-translate is deprecated (#1899)
  • Allow compiliation with the current wxWidgets development version
  • Code reorganization to promote stability
  • Security: Use a standard function (CreateTempFileName) for creating temporary filenames instead of using the process id as 'random' number.
  • Security: (autosaved) temporary files now use secure permissions, are not readable by everyone.
  • wxm files no more truncate text (#1908)
  • Unicode sidebar: Allow searching for unicode numbers too, not only the character name.
  • Unicode sidebar: Correct the search filter, the last char was always shown, even if there was no match.
  • Improvements of the manual.
  • Performance: Replaced many copy operations by references to const
  • Correctly hande deletion of the last cell (#1911, #1840)
  • A link from the help menu to maxima's help page
  • Offer more maxima demos in the right-click menu
  • Resolved a threading race condition (#1912)
  • Printing integral, sum and product signs on MS Windows (#1909)
  • Resolved literally hundreds of warnings from static analysis tools
  • Support for the %catalan constant
  • Better MSVC support
  • On MSW wxWidgets >=3.2 now is mandatory for getting high-DPI support
  • A backward-search fix (#1913)

24.02.2

  • Set maxima's LANG variable, not wxMaxima's LANG (#1897)
  • Sped up the communication between maxima and wxMaxima
  • Sometimes newlines in misc text from maxima got lost (#1894)

24.02.1

  • wxMaxima now correctly installs its icons (#1892)
  • A race condition on closing Maxima
  • Update the autocompletion only in idle state
  • Fixed a race condition on dropping the log target
  • Alt+Up at startup no more crashes (#1886)
  • Resolved a compilation error on old wxWidgets versions
  • Resolved GCC errors about too long functions
  • Resolved an assert if no history file exists
  • Ctrl+Alt+M now restarts maxima
  • Added a Maxima/Memory menu

24.02.0

  • Faster start-up
  • Better performance directly after startup
  • Faster loading of files
  • Better button placement in sidebars
  • Got rid of a crash on startup in fedora (#1862)
  • Clear wxMaxima's input buffer on starting a new maxima process (#1856)
  • A nicer ChangeLog dialogue
  • Corrected for swapped row and columns in wizard enter matrix
  • Fixed a few bugs in the XML saving code (#1867)
  • Zooming did cause recalculation only for the 1st cell (#1870)
  • Many config changes now have immediately effect on the worksheet
  • Added the unicode-enhanced ASCII art from maxima to the menus
  • Steamlined the cell size calculation stuff
  • Completely overhauled the printing functionality
  • Moved more of the help file indexing to the background (#1856)
  • Better event handling in the unicode sidebars (#1875, #1863)
  • Reading out the values of maxima variables for the GUI was broken
  • Many checkmarks in menus had the wrong value
  • Maxima's demos are now available in the menu and context menu
  • Default the filter search boxes to text search, not regex
  • Rescaling affected size calculations for code only with a delay
  • Mac Os: way higher stability if multiple windows are open
  • The context menu in the "greek letters" sidebar now works (#1878)
  • Resolved an assert if the internal help browser was disabled, but requested (#1881)
  • wxMaxima now preserves history entries between sessions
  • Better LibreOffice compatibility with the MathML output
  • Better HTML output
  • Fix crash when exporting a worksheet with animations to TeX
  • Resolved a crash on closing a window (#1889)

23.12.0

  • Input text selection was cleared when right-clicking on it (#1845)
  • Pressing both mouse buttons simultaneously caused an assert (#1844)
  • Corrected the cursor position after unsuccessful autocompletes
  • Corrected the handling of question prompts from maxima (#1827)
  • Bug corrections in the search functionality
  • RegEx search works again
  • Clicking on the notification now is more likely to focus the worksheet
  • Corrected the cell folding logic (#1853)
  • Folded cells are no more evaluated (#1853)
  • Now we try to generate a backtrace on crashes (#1802)
  • Corrected the position of integral limits
  • Nicer product, sum and integral signs
  • Hidden cells weren't restored from wxm files (#1855)
  • diff() no longer causes spurious multiplication dots (#1825)

23.11.0

  • Correctly draw the bracket of the cell under the cursor (#1811)
  • Maths display was corrupted if the window was temporarily not wide enough to display it in 2D (#1812)
  • Added many range checks to the code
  • Correct label scaling after changing the zoom factor (#1815)
  • Repaired "copy as bitmap" (#1820)
  • Repaired EMF and SVG output (#1838)
  • Focus the search text on activating the search box (#1821)
  • Correctly support dropping multiple files on the worksheet
  • If the worksheet isn't empty dropping a file on the worksheet no more closes the currently open file
  • Try harder to kill maxima on closing it (#1824)
  • Menu items for displaying the internal representation
  • Better display of diff(), if multiplication dots are enabled (#1825)
  • Tried to resolve a few asserts (#1831)
  • Resolved many warnings from several static analysis tools
  • Fine-tuning of the "undo" function

23.10.0

  • A big rewrite to make the static analysis tools happy
  • Many stability improvements
  • Maxima's help commands work again out-of-the-box.
  • Corrected the worksheet size calculation
  • Better support for loading .wxmx files from weird paths
  • Finally resolved the "Right-click resets zoom" problem (#1810)
  • A speed up
  • Many right-click menu fixes (#1810)
  • Display/Hide label fixes
  • Many help browser improvements (#1802)
  • The worksheet size no more is underestimated (#1802)
  • Cell creation fixes
  • Copy-and-paste improvements (#1809)
  • Better error messages for bitmaps
  • Many additional bug fixes

23.08.0

  • Better print scaling
  • More consistent page size handling for printing
  • Many performance and stability fixes from coverity-scan
  • Resolved many warnings from cppcheck
  • A RegEx search

23.07.0

  • Printing: Made the page margins configurable (#1787)
  • Printing: We no more print page headers (#1791)
  • Printing: Printing no more omits labels (#1507)
  • Printing: A better pagebreak algorithm
  • Printing: No more ghost lines around text cells
  • Less ugly integral signs
  • Many stability fixes
  • More consistent worksheet scaling and sizes (#1780)
  • Correctly save the color settings (#1789)
  • Correctly check the numeric and other menu items
  • The cursor no more disappears (#1788)
  • Updated italian translation

23.05.1

  • Updated the Russian and Italian translation.
  • Process the command line option --maxima=<str>.
  • Resolved several possibilities to crash the config dialogue (#1774, #1766)
  • Correctly calculate the worksheet size in the background (#1766)
  • Correctly restore parenthesis on load (#1779)
  • Always revise the decision what to display as 2D equation on window width changes
  • 2D display of integrals had zero size (#1780)

23.05.0

  • Got rid of some compiler and cppcheck warnings
  • Big performance improvements
  • A "maxima versus typical programming languages" tutorial.
  • Table of contents: Jump to the chapter the cursor is in.
  • Resolved another crash in the config dialogue
  • Updated the unicode character list
  • Resolved more potential event ID clashes
  • Use an external file as wxMathML.lisp is now selected using a command line option, not configured in the GUI. This is mostly needed for developers, no need to expose it to the end user.
  • Better handling of paths to maxima when starting new wxMaxima processes
  • new wxMaxima processes now get more of the command-line args of the parent process
  • wxMaxima no more tries to install its own fonts.

23.04.1

  • More config dialogue tweaks
  • MacOs: No more create config icons that aren't needed
  • Recent file list: Don't try to re-use no-more-used wxWidgets IDs
  • Make sure that the help sidebar is shown when opening a help topic
  • If maxima wants us to open a help browser and wxMaxima was compiled without one it now opens an external help browser
  • Be aware that the MSW port recycles unused window IDs.
  • The load() command now again works with symbols as package names.

23.04.0

  • Made the GUI more responsive for functions with much output
  • Handle errors in the XML from maxima more gracefully
  • Rewrote parts of the lisp part of wxMaxima
  • Resolved a few lisp warnings
  • Resolved a few XML errors caused by not escaping special chars
  • Automatic XML generation tests
  • More MacOs fixes
  • Correct display of operators
  • A better style sample for the config dialogue
  • Resolved several asserts
  • Resolved a few small bugs in the autosave logic

23.03.0

  • Make sure all bitmaps are valid on High-DPI MacOs (#1749)
  • More styles consistency (#1753)
  • Better configuration validation
  • Depending on the wxWidgets version Unicode letters were interpreted inorrectly (#1754)
  • The manual anchors cache now saves the file-per-chapter URLs, too.
  • cmake -DWXM_DISABLE_WEBVIEW now allows to find wxWidgets, if wxWebView wasn't compiled.
  • Completely rewrote the dockable-sidebars-stuff
  • Many files are now build on demand, not at configure time

23.02.0

  • Fix XML generation of wxmx documents (#1556)
  • A faster font cache
  • Faster communication between wxMaxima and Maxima
  • Dropped the dependency on an [internal] ww898 library
  • More consistent text style handling
  • A try to improve locale management on the Mac platform
  • A separate style for operators (#1002)
  • A nicer ChangeLog

22.12.0

  • A cleaner status bar with double-click actions
  • Better display of labels
  • box() now is displayed as a box, as the maxima manual states
  • box(expr, "highlight") display expr in red, instead
  • Resolved a few display glitches
  • Resolved OS-dependant wrong actions on gui events
  • A few system and compiler specific fixes
  • Resolved a few compilation warnings
  • Try harder to connect maxima if one communication port is blocked (#1717)
  • Better display of help text in the console
  • Faster saving of .wxmx files
  • Better toolbar bitmap handling

22.11.1

  • Repaired zooming the worksheet

22.11.0

  • Resolved an ID collision (#1726)
  • Faster restart of maxima (#1715)
  • Make various dialogs window-modal (#1712)
  • Proper handling of unicode in selection (#1726)
  • An unicode conversion error (#1727)
  • Repaired the "enter matrix" dialogue
  • Jump to the correct anchor even if using online help
  • Translation updates
  • Many windows build improvements
  • Resolved a crash on restarting maxima

22.09.0

  • Support for wxWidgets 3.1.7
  • The description field for wizards no more is a MouseOverToolTip
  • Wizards now accept chars from the unicode buttons
  • Wizards now can balance parenthesis
  • Wizards for operatingsystem, basic programming and string operations
  • More miscellaneous work on the wizards
  • The watchlist was broken
  • In MacOs the config dialogue crashed
  • Better scalability of the config dialogue
  • Folded multiline code cells are now sent to Maxima correctly (#1674)
  • The output of the "?" command contained spurious "<" (#1688)
  • ?, ?? and describe() now use a browser window, by default (an up-to-date Maxima is required for that feature)
  • Search harder for the Maxima manual
  • Search harder for Maxima manual entries
  • Now we find Maxima manual entries that have no explicit anchor
  • On Linux, MacOs and, if wxWidgets was compiled with edge support the help browser can be obened in a dockable window
  • wxMaxima can now compiled, even if wxWidgets was configured with the option "--enable-privatefonts=no". Use the option -DWXM_INCLUDE_FONTS=NO when compiling wxMaxima.
  • Names that end in an underscore are now printed correctly (#1706)
  • Made the tests work on more platforms (#1709)
  • Resolved some asserts (#1574)
  • Working MathJaX (#1702)
  • A primitive integrated ChangeLog viewer
  • Better documentation (#1693)
  • Better unicode handling (#1691)
  • Many additional bugfixes

22.05.0:

  • Updated the Ukrainian translation
  • Added guess_exact_value to the numeric menu.
  • Added lapack to the matrix menu
  • Added linpack to the numeric menu
  • Added a "declare facts" right-click menu entry to variables
  • We no more reserve space for hidden input
  • A better logexpand section in the numeric menu
  • Many wizards have a more modern look and feel, now
  • The modern-style wizards are now dockable by default
  • Undo and redo buttons for the toolbar
  • A "construct fraction" wizard (#1664)
  • Printing multiple-page documents now should work again on Linux (#1671)
  • The selection should now no more overwrite test (#1665)
  • Hidden code cells now are correctly sent to maxime (#1674)
  • MacOs: The toolbar icons work now on retina screens (#1657)
  • MacOs: The config dialogue works again (#1662)
  • Many additional MacOs fixes
  • The Cygwin build works again
  • Support for wxWidgets 3.1.6

22.04.0:

  • A Russian translation update from Olesya Gerasimenko
  • Repaired drag-and-drop on MacOs (#1624)
  • Resolved a bug in parenthesis matching (#1649)
  • Faster startup logic

22.03.0:

  • Add an compile option "WXM_INCLUDE_FONTS", which allows to specify, if additional fonts should be included. Current default: YES; use -DWXM_INCLUDE_FONTS=NO when calling CMake to disable that. Including fonts caused some issues on MacOS. (#1580)
  • Rename command line option --logtostdout to --logtostderr. Because the option does print the log messages to STDERR, not STDOUT.
  • A better heuristics for finding out what to style as 1D maths
  • An updated french translation from Frédéric Chapoton
  • Consistent image resolutions
  • No more crashes on exporting multiple animations at once (#1616)
  • Drag-and-Drop in the table of contents
  • Table of contents: Convert sections to subsections and similar (#1629)
  • Parenthesis and quote matching now uses the Maxima parser. This means it now both knows the details of the Maxima language and is much faster than before.
  • A way of limiting the toc depth shown in the table of contents
  • Now the problems after a kill(all) should be finally resolved
  • Better support for the debugger (#1625)
  • Machine-Float NaNs no more causes XML errors
  • Labels with hexadecimal numbers no more cause crashes (#1633)
  • wxMaxima no more skips chars in subscripted variables (#1632)
  • Merging cells per keyboard shortcut works again (#1626)
  • Symbols buttons whose symbols the GUI font lacks are now hidden

21.11.0:

  • Allow seeing all files in the file save dialog. (#1557)
  • Fix an error when using Alt up arrow (show previous command) (#1566)
  • Rewrote a config dialogue
  • Improvements in the manual
  • Update Spanish translation of manual
  • Update German, Russian, Hungarian and Ukrainian translation
  • Fix a warning, which occurred, when starting wxMaxima the first time
  • ww898 unnecessarily limited the list of supported platforms
  • wxMaxima's properties to Maxima symbols can now no more be killed
  • Allow single GroupCells to be converted to LaTeX
  • Enable reloading and changing images inserted via "Cell" -> "Insert Image..." (#1597)
  • Correctly set the document saved state when the size of an image is changed
  • Use the AUTHORS file for the Credits page in the "About" dialogue
  • Handle power events (#1607)
  • Fix ugly buttons in the sidebars with recent wxWidgets

21.05.2:

  • The integral signs disappeared or were misplaced on some MS Windows computers

21.05.1:

  • Resolved a segfault on printing that could be triggered on some computers

21.05.0:

  • Long numbers now can be broken into lines
  • On Export long numbers sometimes got lost
  • The height of folded cells now is calculated correctly, again (bug #1532)
  • Printing now can insert pagebreaks within GroupCells (bug #970, #1528, #1241, #181, #573,#1082)
  • A Russian translation update by OlesyaGerasimenko
  • A Ukrainian translation update by Yuri Chornoivan
  • Changed the font for the PDF manuals to free Google Noto fonts. Now all PDF manuals can be created without missing characters (before cyrillic, chinese and greek characters were missing).
  • Solved a crash when printing.

21.04.0

  • Fix visualization after "Evaluate all cells (Ctrl+Shift+R)" (bug #1512).
  • Fix context sensitive help with F1 (bug #1508).
  • Add an option for not showing matching parenthesis (bug #1509).
  • Changed the weather icons in the toolbar to more meaningful ones (bug #1514).
  • Many bugfixes with respect to correctly breaking lines (bugs #1528, #1471, #1512).
  • Fix a bug in copy-paste of saved/loaded results (bug #1518).
  • Fix a crash when pressing Ctrl-X while a math cell is selected (bug #1519).
  • CMake 3.10 is now required for building wxMaxima.
  • C++ 14 is required for building wxMaxima. Now CMake knows about that fact.
  • Many external build scripts are now replaced by C++ and CMake commands.
  • A menu entry for when to invoke the debugger.

21.02.0

  • A Spanish translation update by cyphra
  • Replaced openMP by c++11's built-in thread handling. This should improve stability at the cost of making loading files with lots of images slower.
  • Language selection now works on Windows.
  • Resolved a crash when deleting regions.
  • The --ini switch should work again correctly.
  • Fix an issue, where demos didn't re-center screen anymore, when screen is full and print was incomplete.
  • Made the time between autosaves configurable.
  • Fixed an issue with reproducible builds.

21.01.0

  • Chinese translation updates by 刘荣.
  • A Russian translation update by OlesyaGerasimenko
  • Many small bugfixes including a crash on loading files with images.

Changes in older wxMaxima versions you can find here

https://github.com/wxMaxima-developers/wxmaxima/blob/Version-21.02.0/NEWS.md