* First draft of Tcl changes for 8.3.4 release.

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+2001-10-17  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+	* changes: First draft of Tcl changes for 8.3.4 release.
+
 2001-10-16  Don Porter	<dgp@users.sourceforge.net>
 
 	* unix/Makefile.in: Restored install of tclConfig.sh file
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 Recent user-visible changes to Tcl:
 
-RCS: @(#) $Id: changes,v 1.56.2.3 2001/04/04 23:05:06 hobbs Exp $
+RCS: @(#) $Id: changes,v 1.56.2.4 2001/10/17 15:49:36 dgp Exp $
 
 1. No more [command1] [command2] construct for grouping multiple
 commands on a single command line.
@@ -4970,3 +4970,101 @@ side (mem leak) Correct mem leak in channels when statePtr was released
 (hobbs)
 
 --- Released 8.3.3, April 6, 2001 --- See ChangeLog for details ---
+
+2001-06-27 (bug fix) corrected backslash substitution of non-ASCII characters.
+(hobbs, riefenstahl)
+
+2001-07-02 (bug fix) corrected [concat] treatment of UTF-8 strings (hobbs,
+barras)
+
+2001-07-16 (bug fix) corrected thread-enabled pipe closing on Windows (hobbs,
+jsmith)
+
+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)
+
+2001-08-06 (bug fix) corrected object reference counting in [gets] (jikamens)
+
+2001-08-06 (new feature) added GNU (HURD) configuration target. (brinkmann)
+
+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)
+
+2001-08-20 (new feature) http 2.3.2: include port number in Host: header
+to comply with HTTP/1.1 spec (RFC 2068)  (hobbs, tils)
+
+2001-08-23 (new feature) added QNX-6 build support (loverso)
+
+2001-08-23 (bug fix) corrected handling of spaces in path name passed to
+[exec] on Windows (kenpoole)
+
+2001-08-24 (bug fix) corrected [package forget] stopping on non-existent
+package (porter)
+
+2001-08-24 (bug fix) corrected construction of script library search path
+relative to executable (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() (hobbs)
+
+2001-08-30 (bug fix) build support for Crays (andreasen)
+
+2001-09-01 (bug fix) rewrite of Tcl_Async* APIs to better manage thread
+cleanup  (gravereaux)
+
+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)
+
+2001-09-06 (speed improvement) rewrite of file I/O flush management on
+Windows.  Approximately 100x speedup for some operations. (kupries, traum)
+
+2001-09-10 (bug fix) corrected finalization error in TclInExit (darley)
+
+2001-09-10 (bug fix) protect against alias loops (hobbs)
+
+2001-09-12 (bug fix) added missing #include in tclLoadShl.c (techentin)
+
+2001-09-12 (bug fix) script library path construction on Windows no longer
+uses registry, nor adds the current working directory to the path (porter)
+
+2001-09-12 (bug fix) correct bugs in compatibility strtod() (porter)
+
+2001-09-13 (bug fix) Tcl_UtfPrev now returns the proper location when the
+middle of a UTF-8 byte is passed in (hobbs)
+
+2001-09-19 (bug fix) [format] and [scan] corrected for 64-bit machines (rmax)
+
+2001-09-19 (new feature) --enable-64-bit support for HP-11. (hobbs)
+
+2001-09-19 (new feature) native memory allocator now defaul on Windows (hobbs)
+
+2001-09-20 (new feature) WIN64 support and extra processor definitions (hobbs,
+mstacy)
+
+2001-09-26 (bug fix) corrected potential deadlock in channels that do not
+provide a BlockModeProc (kupries, kogorman)
+
+2001-10-03  (new feature) WIN64 build support (hobbs)
+
+2001-10-03 (bug fix) correction in thread finalization (rbrunner)
+
+2001-10-04 (new feature) updated encodings with latest mappings from
+www.unicode.org (hobbs)
+
+2001-10-11 (bug fix) corrected cleanup of self-referential bytecodes at
+interpreter deletion (sofer, rbrunner)
+	
+2001-10-16 (new feature) config support for MacOSX / Darwin (steffen)
+
+2001-10-16 (new feature, Mac) change in binary extension format from MachO
+bundles to standard .dylib dynamic libraries like on other unices.
+	**POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY*** 
+
+--- Released 8.3.4, October 1X, 2001 --- See ChangeLog for details ---
+