Tcl/Tk 8.5.5 RELEASED
Don Porter
Tcl/Tk 8.5.5 Release Announcement
October 15, 2008
The Tcl Core Team is pleased to announce the 8.5.5 releases of the Tcl
dynamic language and the Tk toolkit. This is the fifth 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:
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Tcl/Tk 8.5.5 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
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 8.5.4:
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The following were the main changes in Tcl/Tk 8.5.5. 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.
* Revised formatting of numeric values returned by [xy]view methods
passed to -[xy]scrollcommand callbacks, and others so they are
explicitly formatted as strings Tcl recognizes as doubles. Avoids
problems that changing locale can otherwise create.
*** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***
* Fixed [tk_getOpenFile -multiple 1] on unix.
* Corrected broken handling of ***= regular expressions.
* Prevent overflow crash in [lrepeat].
* Tcl now only asks the system to unload shared libraries that
explicitly
support Tcl's [unload] facility.
*** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***
* Corrected failure to export [min] and [max] from ::tcl::mathfunc.
* Fixed incorrect isqrt() results on a few values and platforms.
* Fixed crash in [namespace inscope] involving Tcl_ConcatObj().
* Improved efficiency converting between lists and dicts.
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Tcl Core Team and Maintainers
Don Porter, Tcl Core Release Manager
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