> Tcl/Tk 8.5.10 Release Announcement
> June 24, 2011
> The Tcl Core Team is pleased to announce the 8.5.10 releases of the Tcl
> dynamic language and the Tk toolkit. This is the tenth patch release
> of Tcl/Tk 8.5. 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:
> ------------------------------
> Tcl/Tk 8.5.10 sources are freely available as open source from the
> Tcl Developer Xchange web site at:
> http://www.tcl.tk/software/tcltk/8.5.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/projects/tcl/files/
> Binaries for most major platforms are available from:
> http://www.activestate.com/Tcl
> For additional information:
> ---------------------------
> Please visit the Tcl Developer Xchange web site:
> http://www.tcl.tk/
> 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 8.5.9:
> --------------------------------------
> The following were the main changes in Tcl/Tk 8.5.10. 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 includes bug fixes and corrections
> to erratic behavior. Below are only the most notable changes.
> * TIP 378: reduced [info frame] accuracy to gain performance.
> - use [interp debug] to restore accuracy and lose performance gain.
> * Unicode codepoint definitions updated to Unicode 6.0 (BMP only)
> * New subcommand [ttk::entry validate].
> * Improved performance formatting numbers for string output.
> * dlopen() in Unix/Mac OS X [load] now uses RTLD_NOW|RTLD_LOCAL.
> *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***
> * Forbid [labelframe $w -container true].
> *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***
> * Fixed crash in [$treeview tag add/remove].
> * Fixed crash in [tk_getSaveFile] on Windows.
> * Repaired server [socket] race condition on Win that stopped new
> accepts.
> * Fixed memory corruption when [$canvas dchars] removes all polygon
> coords.
> * Corrected failure of [$canvas insert $line] to completely refresh
> display.
> * Restored [spinbox $w -from $lo -to $hi] display of "08" and "09".
> * Fixed command name resolution caching involving [namespace path].
> * Fixed crash when append trace unsets traced variable.
> * Fixed Win crash in [wm manage] using Tkhtml3.
> * Fixed crash in Ttk unset traces.
> * Fixed failure of Tcl_ResetResult() to clear Tcl_ObjType information.
> * New version 2.3.3 of tcltest package.
> - Improved reporting from tests in slave interps
> * New version 2.7.6 of http package.
> - Stop surplus \n in POST requests.
> * New version 1.0.10 of platform package.
> - DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH support
> * New version 1.4.4 of msgcat package.
> * Restored tearoff submenus in XP.
> * Modal dialogs on Windows now use MB_TASKMODAL | MB_SETFOREGROUND.
> * Corrected [wm forget $w] losing $w.
> * Corrected loss of -in value by [grid remove].
> * Make [$treeview see] schedule a redisplay.
> * Corrected [console] treatment of '\0'.
> * Fixed crash in nested, traced, compiled [catch].
> * Fixed crash when list parsing overflows int limits.
> * Revised interface of internal routine TclFindElement().
> *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***
> * Imported fixes from libtommath 0.42.0.
> --
> Tcl Core Team and Maintainers
> Don Porter, Tcl Core Release Manager
> --
> | Don Porter Applied and Computational Mathematics Division |
> | donald.por...@nist.gov Information Technology Laboratory |
> |http://math.nist.gov/~DPorter/ NIST |
> |______________________________________________________________________|
