diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'changes')
| -rw-r--r-- | changes | 217 |
1 files changed, 215 insertions, 2 deletions
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ Recent user-visible changes to Tcl: -RCS: @(#) $Id: changes,v 1.97 2005/06/27 18:00:55 dgp Exp $ +RCS: @(#) $Id: changes,v 1.98 2006/03/07 20:58:53 dgp Exp $ 1. No more [command1] [command2] construct for grouping multiple commands on a single command line. @@ -6492,4 +6492,217 @@ Can support [load] from memory as well (steffen) Documentation improvements [1075433,1085127,1117017,1124160,1149605,etc.] ---- Released 8.5a3, June 4, 2004 --- See ChangeLog for details --- +--- Released 8.5a3, June 4, 2005 --- See ChangeLog for details --- + +2005-06-06 (bug fix)[1213678] Windows/gcc: crash in stack.test (kenny) + +2005-06-07 (new feature)[TIP 208] [chan] and [chan truncate] (fellows) + +2005-06-07 (revert) Restored registration of "procbody" Tcl_ObjType (porter) +Reduces the ***POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY*** from 2005-05-17. + +2005-06-13 (bug fix)[1217375,1219176] [file mkdir] race (diekhans,darley) + +2005-06-14 (bug fix)[1220058] [namespace delete] crash (duquette,fellows) + +2005-06-17 (bug fix)[1221395] Tcl_LimitSetTime able to break [vwait] (fellows) + +2005-06-18 (bug fix)[1154163] [format %h] on 64-bit OS's (kraft,fellows) + +2005-06-21 (bug fix)[1201035,1224585] execution trace crashes (porter) + +2005-06-21 (bug fix)[1194458] Windows: [file split] (kenny,porter) + +2005-06-22 (bug fix)[1225727] Windows: pipe finalization crash (kenny) + +2005-06-22 (bug fix)[1225571] Windows: [file pathtype] buffer overflow (thoyts) + +2005-06-22 (bug fix)[1225044] Windows: UMR in pipe close (kenny) + +2005-06-23 (bug fix)[1225957] Windows/gcc: crashes in assembler code (kenny) + +2005-06-24 (bug fix) make Tcl_Preserve safe in Tk exit handlers (kenny) + +2005-07-01 (bug fix)[1222872] notifier spurious wake-up protection (vasiljevic) + +2005-07-05 (bug fix)[1230597] allow idempotent [namespace import] (porter) + +2005-07-15 (bug fix)[1237907] localtime() => NULL => crash (kenny) + +2005-07-21 (dropped support) IRIX 4, RISCos, Ultrix, and ancient BSD (kenny) +***POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY*** + +2005-07-22 (enhancement)[1237755] 8.4 features in script library (fradin,porter) + +2005-07-24 (new feature) configure macros SC_PROG_TCLSH, SC_BUILD_TCLSH (dejong) +2005-07-26 (bug fix)[1047286] cmd delete traces during namespace delete (porter) + +2005-07-26 (new unix feature)[1231015] ${prefix}/share on ::tcl_pkgPath (dejong) +***POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY*** + +2005-07-27 (bug fix)[1214462] [unknown] can return exceptions (porter) + +2005-07-27 (new feature) value of ::tcl_precision now kept per-thread (porter) +***POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY*** + +2005-07-28 (unix bug fix)[1245953] O_APPEND for >> redirection (fellows) + +2005-07-29 (bug fix)[1247135] [info globals] return only existing vars (fellows) + +2005-07-30 (new Darwin feature) TCL_LOAD_FROM_MEMORY configuration (steffen) + +2005-08-05 (bug fix)[1241572] correct [expr abs($LONG_MIN)] (kenny) + +2005-08-05 (Solaris bug fix)[1252475] recognize cp1251 encoding (wagner,fellows) + +2005-08-11 (config options) eliminated USE_THREAD_STORAGE option (kenny) + +2005-08-23 (toolchain support) autoconf-2.59 now required (dejong) + +2005-08-24 (new feature)[TIP 219] reflected channels ([chan create]) (kupries) + +2005-08-25 (bug fix)[1267380] [lrepeat] buffer overflow prevention (fellows) + +2005-08-26 (bug fix) fix [namespace ensemble] crashes in Snit (fellows) + +2005-08-29 (bug fix)[1275043] restore round() away from zero (kenny) + +2005-08-29 (bug fix)[1189657] correct [tcl::tm::roots] (porter) + +2005-09-07 (bug fix)[1283976] invalid [format %c -1] result (porter) + +2005-09-08 (new feature)[1242844][TIP 254] new types for Tcl_LinkVar (fellows) + +2005-09-07 (toolchain support) deprecate TCL_VARARGS*; stdarg.h assumed (porter) +***POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY*** + +2005-09-15 (RHEL bug fix)[1287638] support open >2GB files RHEL 3 (palan) + +2005-09-08 (new feature)[TIP 255] [expr min()] and [expr max()] (hobbs) + +2005-09-30 (bug fix)[1306162] $argv encoding and list formatting (porter) + +2005-10-04 (bug fix)[1067708] [fconfigure -ttycontrol] leak (hobbs) + +2005-10-04 (bug fix)[1182373] [http::mapReply] update to RFC 3986 (aho,hobbs) +=> http 2.5.2 + +2005-10-04 (HPUX bug fix)[1204237] shl_load() and DYNAMIC_PATH (collins,hobbs) + +2005-10-05 (bug fix)[979640] buffer overrun mixing putenv(), ::env (bold,hobbs) + +2005-10-08 (new feature)[TIP 237] unlimited range for integers (kenny,porter) + +2005-10-14 (platform support)[1256937] MSVC++ static builds (thoyts) + +2005-10-19 (bug fix)[1331475] [dict append] crash (bills,sofer) + +2005-10-20 (bug fix)[1333036] [lset] shared sublist handling (sofer) + +2005-10-23 (bug fix)[1335006] memleack in [glob] (melbardis,darley) + +2005-10-23 (bug fix)[1325803] Win: [file stat] on links (bonilla,darley) + +2005-11-01 (bug fix)[1337941] Tcl_TraceCommand() -> crash (devilliers,porter) + +2005-11-02 (platform support)[1256937] MSVC 8 support (thoyts) + +2005-11-03 (new Win NT/XP feature) Unicode console support (kovalenko,thoyts) + +2005-11-04 (bug fix)[1337229,1338280] [namespace delete] / unset traces (sofer) + +2005-11-04 (enhancement) Korean timezone abbreviations (kenny) + +2005-11-04 (platform support)[1163896] LynxOS [load] (heidibr) + +2005-11-04 (bug fix)[1334947] value refcount error in var setting (sofer) + +2005-11-04 (Win enhancement)[1267871] extended exit codes (newman,thoyts) + +2005-11-07 (bug fix)[1348775] unset trace memory leak (sofer) + +2005-11-08 (bug fix)[1162286] [package require] checks that the script +registered by [package ifneeded] provides the version it claims (lavana,porter) +*** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *** + +2005-11-09 (bug fix)[1350293,1350291] [after $negative $script] fixed (kenny) + +2005-11-12 (bug fix)[1352734,1354540,1355942,1355342] [namespace delete] +issues with [namespace path] and command delete traces (sofer,fellows) + +2005-11-18 (bug fix)[1358369] URL parsing standards compliance (wu,fellows) +=> http 2.5.2 + +2005-11-18 (revert) Restored registration of "list" Tcl_ObjType (porter) +Reduces the ***POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY*** from 2005-05-17. + +2005-11-18 (bug fix)[1359094] Tclkit crash (thoyts, kupries) + +2005-11-20 (bug fix)[1091431] Tcl_InitStubs failure crashes wish (english) + +2005-11-27 (platform support) Darwin 64bit, Tiger copyfile(), and +Max OSX universal binaries support (steffen) + +2005-11-28 (bug fix) [clock] DST transition error (mackerras,kenny) + +2005-11-29 (bug fix)[1366683] [lsearch -regexp] backrefs (cleverly,fellows) + +2005-11-30 (performance) recoded portions of [clock] in C (kenny) + +2005-11-30 (enhancement) improved bytecode compiling of [switch] (fellows) +*** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *** +For loading bytecode compiled and saved by earlier 8.5alpha releases + +2005-12-05 (Darwin bug fix)[1034337] NFS recursive file delete (steffen) + +2005-12-08 (platform support) Win x64 build (hobbs) + +2005-12-09 (bug fix)[137478] [lsearch -start $pastEnd] => -1 (fellows) + +2005-12-12 (bug fix)[1377619] configure syntax error exposed in bash-3.1 (hobbs) + +2005-12-13 (bug fix)[1379349] [dict for] CoW error (ring,hippler,fellows) + +2005-12-18 (bug fix)[1382528] [dict for {k v} {} {}] crash (kovalenko,fellows) + +2005-12-27 clock tzdata updated to Olson's tzdata2005r (kenny) + +2005-12-27 libtommath updated to release 0.37 (kenny) + +2006-01-09 (bug fix)[1480572] [info level $l] => "namespace inscope" (porter) + +2006-01-11 (compat support)[1397843] when ::errorInfo is traced, fall back to +old pattern of stack trace construction (porter). +Reduces the ***POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY*** from 2004-10-05. + +2006-01-12 (bug fix)[1366227] Win: [file stat] sharing violation (darley) + +2006-01-23 (bug fix)[1410553] Tcl_GetRange Unicode confusion (twylite,spjuth) + +2006-01-23 (bug fix)[1412695] args handling in precompiled procs (traum,sofer) + +2006-02-01 (new feature)[1275435][TIP 250] [namespace upvar] (sofer) + +2006-02-01 (new feature)[958222][TIP 181] [namespace unknown] (madden) + +2006-02-01 (new feature)[944803][TIP 194] [apply] (mistachkin) + +2006-02-08 (new feature)[1413934][TIP 258] [encoding dirs], etc. (porter) + +2006-02-09 (new feature)[1413115][TIP 215] auto-init [incr] (leitgeb) + +2006-03-02 (bug fix)[1379287] norm of paths with /../ back to root (porter) + +2006-03-03 (compat support) Restored registration of a "boolean" Tcl_ObjType +(porter) +Reduces the ***POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY*** from 2005-05-17. + +2006-03-06 (bug fix)[1439836,1444291] fix TCL_EVAL_{GLOBAL,INVOKE} handling +when auto-loading or exec traces are present (porter) + +(platform support) Use of _ANSI_ARGS_ purged. ANSI compiler required (fellows) + +Documentation improvements [1211078,1190891,1292427,1277503,1104682,1359183, +1415725] + +--- Released 8.5a4, March 17, 2006 --- See ChangeLog for details --- |