ANNOUNCE: Tcl/Tk 8.4.15 released
d...@nist.gov
May 25, 2007
The Tcl Core Team is pleased to announce the 8.4.15 releases of the
Tcl
dynamic language and the Tk toolkit. This is the fifteenth 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 8.4.15 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.
Summary of Changes since Tcl/Tk 8.4.14:
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The following were the main changes in Tcl/Tk 8.4.15. 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.
* [wm attributes $win -transparentcolor] now available on Windows
* Many Aqua/Tk bug fixes and improvements, see Tk changes file.
* Fixed buffer overflow in registry (registry 1.1.5)
* Fixed wrong fd's passed to select() on 64-bit systems.
* [$listbox itemconfigure] performance issues resolved.
* Corrected errors from [tk_getOpenFile] in empty dir
* Corrected underlines in multibyte menu items.
* Fixed build with VC2003.
* Mac OS X: <Escape> binding fixed for dialogs
* Mac OS X: better embedder control over Tk console
via ::tcl_interactive.
* Fixed double write of chars in escape encoding that bridge channel
buffers.
* Fixed [file copy] from an AFS filesystem
* Fixed crash in fts_open() on 64-bit Darwin 8 or earlier.
* Fixed several rare crashes involving list shimmering.
* Fixed hang in [foreach {} x {}].
* New target: `make install-private-headers`
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Tcl Core Team and Maintainers
Don Porter, Tcl Core Release Manager
Robert Hicks
Robert