The Tcl Core Team is pleased to announce the 8.4.17 releases of the Tcl
dynamic language and the Tk toolkit.  This is the seventeenth 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 8.4.17 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:

          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 8.4.16:
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The following were the main changes in Tcl/Tk 8.4.17.  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.

    * New Hungarian message catalog for Tk.

    * Support for 64-bit X11 on Mac OS X systems.

    * Fixed crash in [lsearch -exact -integer].

    * Fixed [tk_getOpenFile] crash on Mac OS X Leopard.

    * Fixed crash, hang, and inefficiencies in regexp engine.

    * Fixed open mode "a+"

    * Fixed crash in [photo put] with PPM data.

    * Fixed possible crash in [place] geometery manager.