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@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ Recent user-visible changes to Tcl: -RCS: @(#) $Id: changes,v 1.45 1999/05/26 02:39:12 stanton Exp $ +RCS: @(#) $Id: changes,v 1.46 1999/07/13 22:21:56 redman Exp $ 1. No more [command1] [command2] construct for grouping multiple commands on a single command line. @@ -4405,3 +4405,107 @@ Tcl_UniCharIs* character classification functions. (stanton) ../lib directory relative to that to the auto_path variable. (redman) --------------- Released 8.1.1, May 25, 1999 ---------------------- + +5/21/99 (bug fix) Fixed launching command.com on Win95/98, no longer +hangs. [Bug: 2105] (redman) + +5/28/99 (bug fix) Fixed bug where dde calls were being passed an +invalid dde handle. [Bug: 2124] (stanton) + +6/1/99 (bug fix) Small configure.in patches. [Bug: 2121] (stanton) + +6/1/99 (bug fix) Applied latest regular expression patches to fix an +infinite loop bug and add support for testing whether a string could +match with additional input. [Bug: 2117] (stanton) + +6/2/99 (bug fix) Fixed incorrect computation of relative ordering in +Utf case-insensitive comparison. [Bug: 2135] (stanton) + +6/3/99 (bug fix) Fxied bug where string equal/compare -nocase +reported wrong result on null strings. [Bug: 2138] (stanton) + +6/4/99 (new feature) Windows build now uses Cygwin tools plus GNU +make and autoconf to build static/dynamic and debug/nodebug. (stanton) + +6/7/99 (new feature) Optimized string index, length, range, and +append commands. Added a new Unicode object type. (hershey) + +6/8/99 (bug fix) Rolled back Windows socket driver to 8.1.0 +version. (stanton) + +6/9/99 (new feature) Added Tcl_RegExpMatchObj and Tcl_RegExpGetInfo +to public Tcl API, these functions are needed by Expect. Changed +tools/genStubs.tcl to always write output in LF mode. (stanton) + +6/14/99 (new feature) Merged string and Unicode object types. Added +new public Tcl API functions: Tcl_NewUnicodeObj, Tcl_SetUnicodeObj, +Tcl_GetUnicode, Tcl_GetUniChar, Tcl_GetCharLength, Tcl_GetRange, +Tcl_AppendUnicodeToObj. (hershey) + +6/16/99 (new feature) Changed to conform to TEA specification, added +tcl.m4 and aclocal.m4 macro libraries for configure. (wart) + +6/17/99 (new feature) Added new regexp interfaces: -expanded, -line, +-linestop, and -lineanchor switches. Renamed Tcl_RegExpMatchObj to +Tcl_RegExpExecObj and added new Tcl_RegExpMatchObj that is equivalent +to Tcl_RegExpMatch. Added public macros for regexp flags. Added +REG_BOSONLY flag to allow Expect to iterate through a string and only +find matches that start at the current position within the +string. (stanton) + +6/21/99 (bug fix) Fixed memory leak in TclpThreadCreate where thread +attributes were not being released. [Bug: 2254] (stanton) + +6/23/99 (new feature) Updated Unicode character tables to reflect +Unicode 2.1 data. (stanton) + +6/25/99 (new feature) Fixed bugs in non-greedy quantifiers for regular +expression code. (stanton) + +6/25/99 (new feature) Added initial implementation of new Tcl test +harness package. Modified test files to use new tcltest package. +(jenn) + +6/26/99 (new feature) Applied patch from Peter Hardie to add poke +command to dde and changed the dde package version number to +1.1. (redman) + +6/28/99 (bug fix) Applied patch from Peter Hardie to fix problem in +Tcl_GetIndexFromObj() when the key being passed is the empty string. +[Bug: 1738] (redman) + +6/29/99 (new feature) Added options to tcltest package: -preservecore, +-limitconstraints, -help, -file, -notfile, and flags. (jenn) + +7/3/99 (new feature) Changed parsing of variable names to allow empty +array names. Now "$(foo)" is a variable reference. Previously you +had to use something line $::(foo), which is slower. This change was +requested by Jean-Luc Fontaine for his STOOOP package. (welch) + +7/3/99 (new feature) Added Tcl_SetNotifier (public API) and +associated hook points in the notifiers to be able to replace the +notifier calls at runtime. The Xt notifier and test program use this +hook. (welch) + +7/3/99 (new feature) Added a new variant of the "Trf core patch" from +Andreas Kupries that adds new C APIs Tcl_StackChannel, +Tcl_UnstackChannel, and Tcl_GetStackedChannel. This allows the Trf +extension to work without applying patches to the Tcl core. (welch) + +7/6/99 (new feature) Added -timeout option to http.tcl to handle +timeouts that occur during connection attempts to hosts that are +down. (welch) + +7/6/99 (bug fix) Applied new implementation of the Windows serial +port driver from Rolf Schroedter that fixes reading only one byte from +the port at a time. Uses polling every 10ms to implement +fileevents. [Bug: 1980 2217] (redman) + +7/8/99 (bug fix) Applied fix for bug in DFA state caching under +lookahead conditions (regular expressions). [Bug: 2318] (stanton) + +7/8/99 (bug fix) Fixed bug in string range bounds checking +code. (stanton) + +--------------- Released 8.2b1, July 14, 1999 ---------------------- + |