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@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ Recent user-visible changes to Tcl: -RCS: @(#) $Id: changes,v 1.60 2000/11/04 00:03:29 hobbs Exp $ +RCS: @(#) $Id: changes,v 1.61 2001/08/07 02:44:40 hobbs Exp $ 1. No more [command1] [command2] construct for grouping multiple commands on a single command line. @@ -5015,3 +5015,116 @@ DumpActiveMemory.3. (melski) tclsh. This enables Tk as a truly loadable package. --- Released 8.4a2, November 3, 2000 --- See ChangeLog for details --- + +2001-04-04 (build improvements) redid Mac build structure (steffen) +Corrected IRIX-5* configure (english). Added support for AIX-5 (hobbs). +Added support for Win64 (hobbs). + +2001-04-03 (doc fixes) numerous doc corrections and clarifications. +Update of READMEs. + +2001-03-30 (bug fix) corrected Windows memory error on exit (wu) +Fixed race condition in readability of socket on Windows. + +2001-03-29 (bug fix) prevent potential race condition and security leak in +tmp filename creation on Unix. (max) +Fixed handling of timeout for threads (corrects excessive CPU usage issue +for Tk on Unix in threaded Tcl environment). (ruppert) + +2001-03-13 (bug fix) Correctly possible memory corruption in string map {} +$str (fellows) + +2001-02-15 (feature enhancement) improved efficiency of [string split] +(fellows) + +2001-01-30 (bug fix) Fixed possible hangs in fcopy. (porter) + +2001-01-04 (bug fix) corrected parsing of $tcl_libPath at startup on +Windows (porter) + +2000-12-14 (feature enhancement) improved (s)rand for 64-bit platforms +(porter) + +2000-12-09 (feature enhancement) changed %o and %x to use strtoul instead +of strtol to correctly preserve scan<>format conversion of large integers +(hobbs) +Fixed handling of {!<boolean>} in expressions (hobbs, fellows) + +2000-11-23 (mem leak) fixed potential memory leak in error case of lsort +(fellows) + +2000-11-02 (bug fix) Corrected sharing of tclLibraryPath in threaded +environment (gravereaux) + +2000-11-01 (mem leak) Corrected excessive mem use of info exists on a +non-existent array element (hobbs) + +2000-10-20 (feature enhancement) call stat only when necessary in 'glob' to +speed up command significantly in base cases (hobbs) + +2000-10-06 (bug fix) corrected [file channels] to only return channels in +the current interpreter (hobbs) + +2000-09-29 (bug fix) corrected reporting of space parity on Windows (Eason) + +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) + +--- Released 8.3.3, April 6, 2001 --- See ChangeLog for details --- + + * new higher resolution timer on Windows [TIP #7] (kenny) + + * fixed handling of thread timeouts to prevent excessive CPU usage + by Tk when built threads-enabled. (ruppert) + + * improved build support for IRIX, GNU HURD, Mac OS 9 and OS X + + * configure scripts revamped for better support of cygwin and gcc on + Windows (mdejong) + + * added support for thread-aware/hot channels [TIP #10] (kupries) + + * fixed potential crash in threaded reinitialization race condition (wu) + + * updated and improved man pages + + * started CONST-ification of the Tcl APIs. [TIP #27] + + * corrected panic when extra items where left on the byte compiler + execution stack (sofer) + + * improved use of thread-safe functions in unix time commands (kenny) + + * added ISO-8859-15 and koi8-u encodings, updated other encoding tables + based on http://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/ (kuhn) + + * corrected several minor errors noted by Purify (hobbs) + + * added new Tcl_GetUnicodeFromObj API + + * added byte-compiled versions of 'lappend', 'append' simple cases (hobbs) + + * updated to Unicode 3.1.0 data set (still using 16 bits for Tcl_UniChar + though) (hobbs) + + * Added Tcl_GetMathFuncInfo, Tcl_ListMathFuncs, Tcl_InfoObjCmd, + InfoFunctionsCmd APIs [TIP #15] + + * fixed regexp bug that returned non-matching sub-pairs to have index pair + {-1 -1} (fellows) + + * fixed backslash handling of multibyte utf-8 characters + + * corrected buggy construction of search path entries relative to + executable (porter) + + * added Tcl_SubstObj API [TIP #36] (fellows) + + * added TclFS* APIs with a new Tcl virtual file system [TIP #17] (darley) + See Tcl_FSEvalFile doc for more information and links to other new APIs + + * fixed use of tmpname in TclpCreateTempFile on Unix (lim) + +--- Released 8.4a3, August 6, 2000 --- See ChangeLog for details --- |