Tcl/Tk 8.5b2 Release Announcement
October 26, 2007

The Tcl Core Team is pleased to announce the 8.5b2 releases of the Tcl
dynamic language and the Tk toolkit.  This is the second beta 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:
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Tcl/Tk 8.5b2 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/project/showfiles.php?group_id=10894

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.

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 8.5b1:
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The following were the main changes in Tcl/Tk 8.5b2.  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 beta release of 8.5.  The beta designation means that the
feature set for 8.5 is believed to be complete, and the focus is now
on testing and bug fixing moving quickly toward an 8.5.0 release.
All relevant bug fixes (and some more) up to and including 8.4.16 changes
are included in 8.5b1.  The following list focuses on new features added
so far in 8.5.  This release is a development release, and should only be
considered for deployment use after considerable testing.

   * [TIP 242] New [tk_getOpenFile] option: -typevariable .

   * [TIP 125] Dockable frame support.

   * [TIP 145] Font enhancement suppport added for Aqua.

   * Enhanced Tk demo suite.

   * Improvements to [ttk::combobox] and [ttk::notebook].

   * New Hungarian message catalog for Tk.

   * Fixed an intermittent crash in thread support.

   * Fixed possible crash in [place] geometery manager.

   * Fixed auto-loading of [::tcl::tm::path].

   * Fixed [string is integer -failindex (0o... or 0b...)].

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

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