[ANN] wxRuby3 v1.8.0 released

[mcorino]

This is a major upgrade providing improved stability and new classes and features.

What's Changed

• 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.

Full Changelog: v1.7.0...v1.8.0

This release targets the wxWidgets 3.3.2 version.

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

OS / distro	Architecture	Ruby version
Windows	x86_64	RubyInstaller 4.0.x
Mac OS 14	Arm64	Ruby 4.0.x
Mac OS 15	Arm64	Ruby 4.0.x
Mac OS 15	x86_64	Ruby 4.0.x
Mac OS 26	Arm64	Ruby 4.0.x
Mac OS 26	x86_64	Ruby 4.0.x
Debian 12	x86_64	Ruby 3.1.x
Debian 12	x86_64	Ruby 4.0.x
Debian 12	Arm64	Ruby 3.1.x
Debian 12	Arm64	Ruby 4.0.x
Debian 13	x86_64	Ruby 3.3.x
Debian 13	x86_64	Ruby 4.0.x
Debian 13	Arm64	Ruby 3.3.x
Debian 13	Arm64	Ruby 4.0.x
Fedora 42	x86_64	Ruby 3.4.x
Fedora 42	Arm64	Ruby 3.4.x
Fedora 42	x86_64	Ruby 4.0.x
Fedora 42	Arm64	Ruby 4.0.x
Fedora 43	x86_64	Ruby 3.4.x
Fedora 43	Arm64	Ruby 3.4.x
Fedora 43	x86_64	Ruby 4.0.x
Fedora 43	Arm64	Ruby 4.0.x
LinuxMint 22.3	x86_64	Ruby 3.2.x
LinuxMint 22.3	x86_64	Ruby 4.0.x
OpenSuSE 15.6	x86_64	Ruby 4.0.x
OpenSuSE 15.6	Arm64	Ruby 4.0.x
OpenSuSE 16.0	x86_64	Ruby 4.0.x
OpenSuSE 16.0	Arm64	Ruby 4.0.x
Ubuntu 22.04	x86_64	Ruby 3.0.x
Ubuntu 22.04	Arm64	Ruby 3.0.x
Ubuntu 22.04	x86_64	Ruby 4.0.x
Ubuntu 22.04	Arm64	Ruby 4.0.x
Ubuntu 24.04	x86_64	Ruby 3.2.x
Ubuntu 24.04	Arm64	Ruby 3.2.x
Ubuntu 24.04	x86_64	Ruby 4.0.x
Ubuntu 24.04	Arm64	Ruby 4.0.x

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