ANNOUNCE: Tcl/Tk 8.4.14 Release
Don Porter
October 19, 2006
The Tcl Core Team is pleased to announce the 8.4.14 releases of the Tcl
dynamic language and the Tk toolkit. This is the fourteenth patch release
of Tcl/Tk 8.4. More details can be found below. We would like to
express our gratitude to all those who submit bug reports and patches.
This information is invaluable in enabling us to identify and eliminate
problems in the core.
Where to get the new releases:
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Tcl/Tk 8.4.14 sources are freely available as open source from the
Tcl Developer Xchange web site at:
http://www.tcl.tk/software/tcltk/8.4.html
This web page also contains additional information about the releases,
including new features and notes about installing and compiling the
releases. Sources are always available from the Tcl SourceForge
project's file distribution area:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=10894
Binaries for most major platforms are available from:
http://www.activestate.com/Tcl
For additional information:
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Please visit the Tcl Developer Xchange web site:
This site contains a variety of information about Tcl/Tk in general, the
core Tcl and Tk distributions, Tcl development tools, and much more.
Thank you for your contributions:
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As usual, this release includes contributions from the Tcl community.
We have a page honoring these contributors at:
http://www.tcl.tk/software/tcltk/contributors.html
Summary of Changes since Tcl/Tk 8.4.13:
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The following were the main changes in Tcl/Tk 8.4.14. A complete list
can be found in the changes file at the root of the source tree. The
more complete ChangeLog is also included with each source release. This
is a patch release, so it primarily included bug fixes and corrections
to erratic behavior. Below are only the most notable changes.
* Tk_PhotoPutBlock performance restored (JPEG image loading).
* [namespace inscope] change reverted; harmed Itcl.
* Made [expr {srand(.)}] accept wide integer argument.
* Made [lappend $invalidList] raise an error.
* Improved [text] delete performance.
* Support for the WM_UNICHAR window message on Windows
* Stopped excess variable writes by [scale].
* Tcl_Main no longer blocks main loop start for one interactive command.
* [console] made thread safe.
* Thread-enabled configuration uses MT-safe system calls.
* Many Aqua/Tk bug fixes and improvements, see changes file.
* Made unthreaded notifier naked-fork-safe on Darwin.
* Support for weak linking on Mac OS X.
* msgcat support for CFLocale on Darwin (msgcat 1.3.4)
* Fixed crashes due to alignment issues in encoding translation routines.
* Fixed crash with [listbox -listvariable] on namespace variable.
* Fixed crash when Tcl_DeleteTrace changes proc on the active stack.
* Fixed crash when normalizing filesystem pathnames.
* Fixed crash due to invalid font name from XServer.
* Several 64-bit bugs fixed and platform support enhanced.
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Tcl Core Team and Maintainers
Don Porter, Tcl Core Release Manager
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Robert Hicks
Don Porter wrote:
> Tcl/Tk 8.4.14 Release Announcement
> October 19, 2006
Kudos to all who helped to make it happen! : )
Robert
Synic
Don Porter <d...@nist.gov> wrote:
> http://www.tcl.tk/software/tcltk/8.4.html
Would it be possible to add a link to a Bug Reports form of some kind?
The bug I'd like to report is trivial, and may well have been fixed
in this latest version. (Just that the Tk button rendering on Aqua
differs dramatically between -text and -image options.)
It'd be nice to have somewhere obvious to report little things like
this to though without having to post here and hope someone sees it.
Cheers.
Bruce Hartweg
The SourceForge link on the referneced page takes you the SF site
where Tcl/Tk is developed/maintained and is where the bug tracker is located.
You can search and see if the bug is already reported, or submit a new bug.
bruce