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@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ Recent user-visible changes to Tcl: -RCS: @(#) $Id: changes,v 1.44 1999/04/30 22:44:59 stanton Exp $ +RCS: @(#) $Id: changes,v 1.45 1999/05/26 02:39:12 stanton Exp $ 1. No more [command1] [command2] construct for grouping multiple commands on a single command line. @@ -4323,3 +4323,85 @@ pointer declaration so the stub library can be used from C++. (stanton) --------------- Released 8.1 final, April 29, 1999 ---------------------- +4/22/99 (bug fix) Changed Windows NT socket implementation to avoid +creating a communication window. This avoids the problem where the +system hangs waiting for tclsh to respond to a system-wide synchronous +broadcast (e.g. if you change system colors). (redman) + +4/22/99 (bug fix) Added call to TclWinInit from TclpInitPlatform when +building a static library since DllMain will not be invoked. This +could break old code that explicitly called TclWinInit, but should be +simpler in the long run. (stanton) +*** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *** + +4/23/99 (bug fix) Added support for the koi8-r Cyrillic +encoding. [Bug: 1771] (stanton) + +4/28/99 (bug fix) Changed internal Tcl_Obj usage to avoid freeing the +internal representation after the string representation has been +freed. This makes it easier to debug extensions. (stanton) + +4/30/99 (bug fix) Fixed a memory leak in CommandComplete. (stanton) + +5/3/99 (bug fix) Fixed a bug where the Tcl_ObjType was not being set +in a duplicated Tcl_Obj. [Bug: 1975, 2047] (stanton) + +5/3/99 (bug fix) Changed Tcl_ParseCommand to avoid modifying eval'ed +strings that are already null terminated. [Bug: 1793] (stanton) + +5/3/99 (new feature) Applied Jeff Hobbs's string patch which includes +the following changes: + - added new subcommands: equal, repeat, map, is, replace + - added -length option to "string compare|equal" + - added -nocase option to "string compare|equal|match" + - string and list indices can be an integer or end?-integer?. + - added optional first and last index args to string toupper, et al. +See the string.n manual entry for more details about the new string +features. [Bug: 1845] (stanton) + +5/6/99 (new feature) Added Tcl_UtfNcmp and Tcl_UtfNcasecmp to make Utf +string comparision easier. (stanton) + +5/7/99 (bug fix) Improved OS/390 support. [Bug: 1976, 1997] (stanton) + +5/12/99 (bug fix) Changed Windows initialization code to avoid using +GetUserName system call in favor of the env(USERNAME) variable. This +provides a significant startup speed improvement. (stanton) + +5/12/99 (bug fix) Replaced the per-interpreter regexp cache with a +per-thread cache. Changed the Regexp object to take advantage of this +extra cache. Added a reference count to the TclRegexp type so regexps +can be shared by multiple objects. Removed the per-interp regexp cache +from the interpreter. Now regexps can be used with no need for an +interpreter. This set of changes should provide significant speed +improvements for many Tcl scripts. [Bug: 1063] (stanton) + +5/14/99 (bug fix) Durining initialization on Unix, Tcl now extracts the +encoding subfield from the LANG/LC_ALL environment variables in cases +where the locale is not found in the built-in locale table. It also +attempts to initialize the locale subsystem so X11 is happy. [Bug: 1989] +(stanton) + +5/14/99 (bug fix) Applied the patch to fix 100-year and 400-year +boundaries in leap year code, from Isaac Hollander. [Bug: 2066] (redman) + +5/14/99 (bug fix) Fixed a crash caused by a failure to reset the result +before evaluating the test expression in an uncompiled for +statement. (stanton) + +5/18/99 (bug fix) Modified initialization code on Windows to avoid +inherenting closed or invalid channels. If the standard input is +anything other than a console, file, serial port, or pipe, then we fall +back to the standard Tk window console. (stanton) + +5/19/99 (bug fix) Added an extern "C" block around the entire tcl.h +header file to avoid C++ linkage issues. (redman) + +5/19/99 (new feature) Applied Jeff Hobb's patch to add +Tcl_StringCaseMatch to support case insensitive glob style matching and +Tcl_UniCharIs* character classification functions. (stanton) + +5/20/99 (bug fix) Added the directory containing the executuble and the +../lib directory relative to that to the auto_path variable. (redman) + +--------------- Released 8.1.1, May 25, 1999 ---------------------- |