Changes in Tcl/Tk 8.6.10
Tcl Changes
New unsupported commands
tcl::unsupported::timerate
tcl::unsupported::corotype
Tk Changes
New Commands
tk::mac::PerformService
tk::mac::LaunchURL
tk::mac::GetAppPath
tk::mac::PrintDocument
Expanded Syntax / New Options
menubutton post x y index
combobox current end
Updated packages
http 2.9.1
Itcl 4.2.0
Thread 2.8.5
sqlite 3.30.1
tdbc 1.1.1
8.6.8:
[array names -regexp] supports backrefs
Fix gcc build failures due to #pragma placement
(bug)[b50fb2] exec redir append stdout and stderr to file
(bug)[2a9465] http state 100 continue handling broken
(bug)[0e4d88] replace command, delete trace kills namespace
(bug)[1a5655] [info * methods] includes mixins
tzdata updated to Olson's tzdata2017c
(bug)[fc1409] segfault in method cloning, oo-15.15
(bug)[6f2f83] More robust [load] for ReactOS
(bug)[3298012] Stop crash when hash tables overflow 32 bits
(bug)[5d6de6] Close failing case of [package prefer stable]
(bug)[fab924] Fix misleading [load] message on Windows
(bug)[4f6a1e] Crash when ensemble map and list are same
(bug)[ce3a21] file normalize failure when tail is empty
(new)[TIP 477] nmake build system reform
(bug)[586e71] EvalObjv exception handling at level 0
Use these versions as well in Makefile and PLIST.
It's unclear whether buildlink3.mk might include Makefile.version, this
is the reason to duplicate this information.
There are other packages that might be versioned similarily:
- sqlite3,
- thread.
No user-visible change in the main package.
Correct Method Search Order
Regression [lreplace {} 1 1]
Crash regression in [oo::class destroy]
Regress [regsub -all {\(.*} a(b) {}]
[try {} on ok {} - on return {} {}] panic
[tcl::unsupported::getbytecode] disassember
[string cat] bytecode optimization
segfault in mangled bytecode
Hang in some [read]s of limited size
segfault in [array set] of traced array
MSVC14 compile support
[fcopy] treats [blocked] as error
regression in Tcl_Write() interface
fix [gets] on non-blocking channels
restore [open comX: r+]
Restore [lappend v] return value
Stop forcing EOF to be permanent
Highlights of Tcl 8.5
* Features: 8.5 has over 90 TIPs included to provide a wide variety of
new features.
* Bignums: Tcl now supports arbitrary-precision integers, which improves
math operations on large integers.
* Safer interps: Tcl's powerful safe interpreter mechanism now has
improved control of time and command limits in slave interpreters.
* clock command: More robust implementation of command for specifying
time, with significant l10n and i18n improvements.
* dict command: New data structure that allows access to data by value
rather than a variable name, which is substantially faster.
* Additional improvements: Faster list search, new and improved
mathematics procedures, anonymous procedures, new ways to package Tcl
extensions, Tcl-level custom channel types, file and line location
information for each command, and more.
There is of course much, much more.
See [8.5 Changes](http://wiki.tcl.tk/10630) on the wiki for a complete
list of new features.
* Fixed possible deadlock in Tcl_Finalize
* Fixed thread IDs on 64-bit systems
* Fixed [scan %ld] handling LP64 systems
* Fixed [string map $samevar $samevar] crash
* Fixed broken [namespace forget] logic
* Fixed [namespace import] cycle prevention
* Improved control over int <-> wideInt conversion
* Fixed buffer overflow when there is a syntax error in [subst]
* Fixed [file executable] result for case insensitivity on Windows
* Fixed [expr {NaN == NaN}] result
* Make [tcl_findLibrary] search $::auto_path as well
* Fixed crash in [fconfigure -ttycontrol] in threaded build
* [TIP 222] implementation of [wm attributes -alpha] on Windows
* [TIP 159] implementation of [wm iconphoto]
* Make Tk [load]-able on OS X/Aqua
* Handle color/screen resolution changes on Windows
* Fixed [wm resizable] for Solaris/CDE
* Handle Windows native dialog double clicks that fall through
* Fixed [place forget] memory leak
* Recompute menu geometry on named font size change
* Fixed X/IME IC focus after creation
* Improved multiple display Tk dialog window placement
* Fixed compound buttons for OS X/Aqua
* Documentation improvements and test suite expansion
tcl packages assume that this directory exists and never delete it
when deinstalled. This fixes the tcl-fbsql build problem noted in
recent bulk builds. Bump PKGREVISION.
All library names listed by *.la files no longer need to be listed
in the PLIST, e.g., instead of:
lib/libfoo.a
lib/libfoo.la
lib/libfoo.so
lib/libfoo.so.0
lib/libfoo.so.0.1
one simply needs:
lib/libfoo.la
and bsd.pkg.mk will automatically ensure that the additional library
names are listed in the installed package +CONTENTS file.
Also make LIBTOOLIZE_PLIST default to "yes".
Besides more bug fixes and several enhancements some of the
NetBSD relevant changes (taken from "changes" in the
distribution):
2001-04-03 (doc fixes) numerous doc corrections and clarifications.
Update of READMEs.
2001-03-29 (bug fix) prevent potential race condition and security leak in
tmp filename creation on Unix. (max)
2001-03-13 (bug fix) Correctly possible memory corruption in string map {}
$str (fellows)
2001-01-30 (bug fix) Fixed possible hangs in fcopy. (porter)
2000-11-23 (mem leak) fixed potential memory leak in error case of lsort
(fellows)
2000-11-01 (mem leak) Corrected excessive mem use of info exists on a
non-existent array element (hobbs)
2000-09-27 (bug fix) fixed a bug introduced by a partial fix in 8.3.2 that
didn't set nonBlocking correctly when resetting the flags for the write
side (mem leak) Correct mem leak in channels when statePtr was released
(hobbs)
2001-07-18 (bug fix) corrected memory overwrite error when buffer size
of a channel is changed after channel use has already begun (kupries, porter)
2001-08-07 (bug fix) corrected bytecode stack management during [break]
(see test foreach-5.5) (sofer, tallneil, jstrot)
2001-08-08 (new features) updated packages msgcat 1.1.1, opt 0.4.3,
tcltest 1.0.1, dependencies checked (porter)
2001-08-24 (bug fix) [auto_import] now matches patterns like
[namespace import], not like [string match] (porter)
**** POTENTIAL INCOMPATABILITY ****
2001-08-27 (new feature) added Tcl_SetMainLoop() to enable loading Tk as a
true package (hobbs)
2001-09-06 (new feature) http 2.4: honor the Content-encoding and charset
parameters; add -binary switch for forcing the issue (hobbs, saoukhi, orwell)
2001-09-10 (bug fix) protect against alias loops (hobbs)
2001-09-19 (bug fix) [format] and [scan] corrected for 64-bit machines (rmax)
2001-09-26 (bug fix) corrected potential deadlock in channels that do not
provide a BlockModeProc (kupries, kogorman)
2001-10-11 (bug fix) corrected cleanup of self-referential bytecodes at
interpreter deletion (sofer, rbrunner)
