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@@ -1,7 +1,5 @@ Recent user-visible changes to Tcl: -RCS: @(#) $Id: changes,v 1.149 2010/08/10 20:36:39 dgp Exp $ - 1. No more [command1] [command2] construct for grouping multiple commands on a single command line. @@ -128,7 +126,7 @@ Tcl_Eval. that came after version 3.3 was released. 40. 5/17/91 Changed tests to conform to Mary Ann May-Pumphrey's approach. - + 41. 5/23/91 Massive revision to Tcl parser to simplify the implementation of string and floating-point support in expressions. Newlines inside [] are now treated as command separators rather than word separators @@ -262,7 +260,7 @@ argument (before file name), for consistency with other Tcl commands. *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *** 72. 8/20/91 Changed format of information in $errorInfo variable: -comments such as +comments such as ("while" body line 1) are now on separate lines from commands being executed. *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *** @@ -1194,7 +1192,7 @@ under some dynamic loading systems (e.g. SunOS 4.1 and Windows). 6/8/95 (feature change) Modified interface to Tcl_Main to pass in the address of the application-specific initialization procedure. Tcl_AppInit is no longer hardwired into Tcl_Main. This is needed -in order to make Tcl a shared library. +in order to make Tcl a shared library. 6/8/95 (feature change) Modified Makefile so that the installed versions of tclsh and libtcl.a have version number in them (e.g. tclsh7.4 and @@ -1618,7 +1616,7 @@ file name. Under Windows '95, this is incorrectly interpreted as a UNC path. They delays came from the network timeouts needed to determine that the file name was invalid. Tcl_TranslateFileName now suppresses duplicate slashes that aren't at the beginning of the file name. (SS) - + 1/25/96 (bug fix) Changed exec and open to create children so they are attached to the application's console if it exists. (SS) @@ -2256,21 +2254,21 @@ version of Tcl. It's quite a bit faster than MetroWerk's version. (RJ) 8/26/96 (documentation update) Removed old change bars (for all changes in Tcl 7.5 and earlier releases) from manual entries. (JO) -8/27/96 (enhancement) The exec and open commands behave better and work in -more situations under Windows NT and Windows 95. Documentation describes +8/27/96 (enhancement) The exec and open commands behave better and work in +more situations under Windows NT and Windows 95. Documentation describes what is still lacking. (CS) 8/27/96 (enhancement) The Windows makefiles will now compile even if the compiler is not in the path and/or the compiler's environment variables -have not been set up. (CS) +have not been set up. (CS) -8/27/96 (configuration improvement) The Windows resource files are +8/27/96 (configuration improvement) The Windows resource files are automatically updated when the version/patch level changes. The header file now has a comment that reminds the user which other files must be manually updated when the version/patch level changes. (CS) 8/28/96 (new feature) Added file manipulation features (copy, rename, delete, -mkdir) that are supported on all platforms. They are implemented as +mkdir) that are supported on all platforms. They are implemented as subcommands to the "file" command. See the documentation for the "file" command for more information. (JH) @@ -2373,7 +2371,7 @@ the Tcl script in the fileevent wasn't closing the socket immediately. (JL) package goes in a separate subdirectory of a directory in $tcl_pkgPath). These directories are included in auto_path by default. - - Changed the package auto-loader to look for pkgIndex.tcl files + - Changed the package auto-loader to look for pkgIndex.tcl files not only in the auto_path directories but also in their immediate children. This should make it easier to install and uninstall packages (don't have to change auto_path or merge pkgIndex.tcl @@ -2623,7 +2621,7 @@ lookups of keyword arguments. (JO) 1/12/97 (new feature) Serial IO channel drivers for Windows and Unix, available by using Tcl open command to open pseudo-files like "com1:" or -"/dev/ttya". New option to Tcl fconfigure command for serial files: +"/dev/ttya". New option to Tcl fconfigure command for serial files: "-mode baud,parity,data,stop" to specify baud rate, parity, data bits, and stop bits. Serial IO is not yet available on Mac. @@ -2703,7 +2701,7 @@ to Feb 31.) The code now will return the last valid day of the month in these situations. Thanks to Hume Smith for sending in this bug fix. (RJ) -2/10/97 (feature change) Eliminated Tcl_StringObjAppend and +2/10/97 (feature change) Eliminated Tcl_StringObjAppend and Tcl_StringObjAppendObj procedures, replaced them with Tcl_AppendToObj and Tcl_AppendStringsToObj procedures. Added new procedure Tcl_SetObjLength. (JO) @@ -3070,7 +3068,7 @@ compilation errors from "invoked from within" to "while compiling". (BL) modified the interpreter result even if there was no error. - The argument parsing procedure used by several compile procedures always treated "]" as end of a command: e.g., "set a ]" would fail. - - Changed errorInfo traceback message for compilation errors from + - Changed errorInfo traceback message for compilation errors from "invoked from within" to "while compiling". - Problem initializing Tcl object managers during interpreter creation. - Added check and error message if formal parameter to a procedure is @@ -3145,7 +3143,7 @@ is leaked to safe interps. Error message fixes for interp sub commands. Likewise changes in safealias.tcl; tcl_safeCreateInterp can now be called without argument to generate the slave name (like in interp create). (DL) -7/10/97 (bug fixes) Bytecode compiler now generates more detailed +7/10/97 (bug fixes) Bytecode compiler now generates more detailed command location information: subcommands as well as commands now have location information. This means command trace procedures now get the correct source string for each command in their command parameter. (BL) @@ -3183,7 +3181,7 @@ malloc and free. (SS) sourcing/loading (see safe.n) to hide pathnames, use virtual paths tokens instead, improved security in several respects and made it more tunable. Multi level interp loading can work too now. Package auto -loading now works in safe interps as long as the package directory is in +loading now works in safe interps as long as the package directory is in the auto_path (no deep crawling allowed in safe interps). (DL) *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY with previous alpha and beta releases *** @@ -3211,7 +3209,7 @@ exists" command returns 0 for them. (BL) 7/29/97 (feature change) Changed the http package to use the ::http namespace. http_get renamed to http::geturl, http_config renamed to http::config, http_formatQuery renamed to http::formatQuery. -It now provides the 2.0 version of the package. +It now provides the 2.0 version of the package. The 1.0 version is still available with the old names. *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY with Tcl 8.0b2 but not with Tcl 7.6 *** @@ -3275,7 +3273,7 @@ except that the default precision is 12 instead of 6. (JO) ----------------- Released 8.0, 8/18/97 ----------------------- 8/19/97 (bug fix) Minimal fix for glob -nocomplain bugs: -"glob -nocomplain unreadableDir/*" was generating an anonymous +"glob -nocomplain unreadableDir/*" was generating an anonymous error. More in depth fixes will come with 8.1. (DL). 8/20/97 (bug fix) Removed check for FLT_MIN in binary command so @@ -3320,7 +3318,7 @@ does not prevent stack overflow by multi-interps recursion or aliasing} (DL) 9/11/97 (bug fix) An uninitialized variable in Tcl_WaitPid caused pipes to fail to report eof properly under Windows. (SS) -9/12/97 (bug fix) "exec" was misidentifying some DOS executables as not +9/12/97 (bug fix) "exec" was misidentifying some DOS executables as not executable. (CCS) 9/14/97 (bug fix) Was using the wrong structure in sizeof operation in @@ -3344,7 +3342,7 @@ Roseman for the pointer on the fix.) (RJ) cause the compare function to run off the end of an array if the number only contained 0's. (Thanks to Greg Couch for the report.) (RJ) -9/18/97 (bug fix) TclFinalizeEnvironment was not cleaning up +9/18/97 (bug fix) TclFinalizeEnvironment was not cleaning up properly. (DL, JI) 9/18/97 (bug fix) Fixed long-standing bug where an "array get" command @@ -3380,9 +3378,9 @@ Now you can "join $list \0" for instance. (DL) non-existent directory, exec would fail when trying to create its temporary files. (CCS) -10/9/97 (bug fix) Under mac and windows, "info hostname" would crash if +10/9/97 (bug fix) Under mac and windows, "info hostname" would crash if sockets were installed but the hostname could not be determined anyhow. -Tcl_GetHostName() was returning NULL when it should have been returning +Tcl_GetHostName() was returning NULL when it should have been returning an empty string. (CCS) 10/10/97 (bug fix) "file attribute /" returned error on windows. (CCS) @@ -3470,7 +3468,7 @@ around to be really closed in this case. (JL) 12/8/97 (bug fix) Need to protect the channel in a fileevent so that it is not deleted before the fileevent handler returns. (CS, JL) -12/18/97 (bug fix) In the opt argument parsing package: if the description +12/18/97 (bug fix) In the opt argument parsing package: if the description had only flags, the "too many arguments" case was not detected. The default value was not used for the special "args" ending argument. (DL) @@ -3513,7 +3511,7 @@ that could lead to a crash. (SS) non-local variable references. (SS) 6/25/98 (new features) Added name resolution hooks to support [incr Tcl]. -There are new internal Tcl_*Resolver* APIs to add, query and remove the hooks. +There are new internal Tcl_*Resolver* APIs to add, query and remove the hooks. With this changes it should be possible to dynamically load [incr Tcl] as an extension. (MM) @@ -3541,7 +3539,7 @@ TclAccessInsertProc, TclStatInsertProc, & TclOpenFileChannelInsertProc insert pointers to such routines; TclAccessDeleteProc, TclStatDeleteProc, & TclOpenFileChannelDeleteProc delete pointers to such routines. See the file generic/tclIOUtils.c for more details. (SKS) - + 7/1/98 (enhancement) Added a new internal C variable tclPreInitScript. This is a pointer to a string that may hold an initialization script; If this pointer is non-NULL it is evaluated in @@ -3625,7 +3623,7 @@ internal representation holds a pointer to a Proc structure. Extended TclCreateProc to take both strings and "procbody". (EMS) 10/13/98 (bug fix) The "info complete" command can now handle strings -with NULLs embedded. Thanks to colin@field.medicine.adelaide.edu.au +with NULLs embedded. Thanks to colin@field.medicine.adelaide.edu.au for providing this fix. (RJ) 10/13/98 (bug fix) The "lsort -dictionary" command did not properly @@ -3693,7 +3691,7 @@ by default. Fixed socket code so it turns off this bit right after creation so sockets aren't kept open by exec'ed processes. [Bug: 892] Thanks to Kevin Kenny for this fix. (SS) -1/11/98 (bug fix) On HP, "info sharedlibextension" was returning +1/11/98 (bug fix) On HP, "info sharedlibextension" was returning empty string on static apps. It now always returns ".sl". (RJ) 1/28/99 (configure change) Now support -pipe option on gcc. (RJ) @@ -3738,7 +3736,7 @@ panic. (stanton) 2/2/99 (feature change/bug fix) Changed the behavior of "file extension" so that it splits at the last period. Now the extension of -a file like "foo..o" is ".o" instead of "..o" as in previous versions. +a file like "foo..o" is ".o" instead of "..o" as in previous versions. *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *** ----------------- Released 8.0.5, 3/9/99 ------------------------- @@ -3759,15 +3757,15 @@ a file like "foo..o" is ".o" instead of "..o" as in previous versions. of a UTF-8 string remains \0. Thus Tcl strings once again do not contain null bytes, except for termination bytes. - For Java compatibility, "\uXXXX" is used in Tcl to enter a Unicode - character. "\u0000" through "\uffff" are acceptable Unicode - characters. + character. "\u0000" through "\uffff" are acceptable Unicode + characters. - "\xXX" is used to enter a small Unicode character (between 0 and 255) in Tcl. - Tcl automatically translates between UTF-8 and the normal encoding for the platform during interactions with the system. - The fconfigure command now supports a -encoding option for specifying the encoding of an open file or socket. Tcl will automatically - translate between the specified encoding and UTF-8 during I/O. + translate between the specified encoding and UTF-8 during I/O. See the directory library/encoding to find out what encodings are supported (eventually there will be an "encoding" command that makes this information more accessible). @@ -3841,7 +3839,7 @@ imported procedures as well as procedures defined in a namespace. (BL) in place of Tcl_GetStringFromObj() if the string representation's length isn't needed. (BL) -12/18/97 (bug fix) In the opt argument parsing package: if the description +12/18/97 (bug fix) In the opt argument parsing package: if the description had only flags, the "too many arguments" case was not detected. The default value was not used for the special "args" ending argument. (DL) @@ -3851,11 +3849,11 @@ procs now in auto.tcl and package.tcl can be autoloaded if needed. (DL) 1/7/98 (enhancement) tcltest made at install time will search for it's init.tcl where it is, even when using virtual path compilation. (DL) -1/8/98 (os bug workaround) when needed, using a replacement for memcmp so +1/8/98 (os bug workaround) when needed, using a replacement for memcmp so string compare "char with high bit set" "char w/o high bit set" returns the expected value on all platforms. (DL) -1/8/98 (unix portability/configure) building from .../unix/targetName/ +1/8/98 (unix portability/configure) building from .../unix/targetName/ subdirectories and simply using "../configure" should now work fine. (DL) 1/14/98 (enhancement) Added new regular expression package that @@ -3887,7 +3885,7 @@ to generate direct loading package indexes (such those you need if you use namespaces and plan on using namespace import just after package require). pkg_mkIndex still has limitations regarding package dependencies but errors are now ignored and with -direct, correct -package indexes can be generated even if there are dependencies as long +package indexes can be generated even if there are dependencies as long as the "package provide" are done early enough in the files. (DL) 1/28/98 (enhancement) Performance tuning of regexp and regsub. (CCS) @@ -3911,7 +3909,7 @@ continue to use the argv array after calling Tcl_OpenCommandChannel(). (CCS) 2/1/98 (bug fix) More bugs with %Z in format string argument to strftime(): 1. Borland always returned empty string. 2. MSVC always returned the timezone string for the current time, not the - timezone string for the specified time. + timezone string for the specified time. 3. With MSVC, "clock format 0 -format %Z -gmt 1" would return "GMT" the first time it was called, but would return the current timezone string on all subsequent calls. (CCS) @@ -3933,7 +3931,7 @@ root directory was returning error. (CCS) determine the attributes for a file. Previously it would return different error messages on Unix vs. Windows vs. Mac. (CCS) -2/4/98 (bug fixes) Fixed several instances of bugs where the parser/compiler +2/4/98 (bug fixes) Fixed several instances of bugs where the parser/compiler would reach outside the range of allocated memory. Improved the array lookup algorithm in set compilation. (DL) @@ -3941,13 +3939,13 @@ lookup algorithm in set compilation. (DL) deprecated and ignored. The part1 is always parsed when the part2 argument is NULL. This is to avoid a pattern of errors for extension writers converting from string based Tcl_SetVar() to new Tcl_SetObjVar2() and who could easily -forget to provide the flag and thus get code working for normal variables +forget to provide the flag and thus get code working for normal variables but not for array elements. The performance hit is minimal. A side effect of that change is that is is no longer possible to create scalar variables -that can't be accessed by tcl scripts because of their invalid name -(ending with parenthesis). Likewise it is also parsed and checked to -ensure that you don't create array elements of array whose name is a valid -array element because they would not be accessible from scripts anyway. +that can't be accessed by tcl scripts because of their invalid name +(ending with parenthesis). Likewise it is also parsed and checked to +ensure that you don't create array elements of array whose name is a valid +array element because they would not be accessible from scripts anyway. Note: There is still duplicate array elements parsing code. (DL) *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *** @@ -3993,7 +3991,7 @@ registry call. (CCS) 2/11/98 (enhancement) Eliminate the TCL_USE_TIMEZONE_VAR definition from configure.in, because it was the same information as the already existing HAVE_TM_ZONE definition. The lack of HAVE_TM_ZONE is used to work around a -Solaris and Windows bug where "clock format [clock sec] -format %Z -gmt 1" +Solaris and Windows bug where "clock format [clock sec] -format %Z -gmt 1" produces the local timezone string instead of "GMT". (CCS) 2/11/98 (bug fix) Memleaks and dereferencing of uninitialized memory in @@ -4351,7 +4349,7 @@ 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 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?. @@ -4380,7 +4378,7 @@ improvements for many Tcl scripts. [Bug: 1063] (stanton) 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) +(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) @@ -4468,7 +4466,7 @@ harness package. Modified test files to use new tcltest package. 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) +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. @@ -4531,7 +4529,7 @@ notation for opening serial ports on Windows. (redman) instead of the platform-specific "size_t", primarily after SunOS 4 users could no longer compile. (redman) -7/22/99 (bug fix) Fixed crashing during "array set a(b) {}". +7/22/99 (bug fix) Fixed crashing during "array set a(b) {}". [Bug: 2427] (redman) 7/22/99 (bug fix) The install-sh script must be given execute @@ -4566,7 +4564,7 @@ pack-old.n [Bug: 2469]. Patches from Don Porter. (redman) 7/29/99 (bug fix) Allow tcl to open CON and NUL, even for redirection of std channels. [Bug: 2393 2392 2209 2458] (redman) -7/30/99 (bug fix) Applied fixed Trf patch from Andreas Kupries. +7/30/99 (bug fix) Applied fixed Trf patch from Andreas Kupries. [Bug: 2386] (hobbs) 7/30/99 (bug fix) Fixed bug in info complete. [Bug: 2383 2466] (hobbs) @@ -4576,7 +4574,7 @@ provided by James Dennett. [Bug: 2450] (redman) 7/30/99 (bug fix) Fixed launching of 16bit applications on Win9x from wish. The command line was being primed with tclpip82.dll, but it was -ignored later. +ignored later. 7/30/99 (bug fix) Added functions to stub table, patch provided by Jan Nijtmans. [Bug: 2445] (hobbs) @@ -4589,7 +4587,7 @@ thread's stack space. (redman) --------------- Released 8.2b2, August 5, 1999 ---------------------- 8/4/99 (bug fix) Applied patches supplied by Henry Spencer to greatly -enhance performance of certain classes of regular expressions. +enhance performance of certain classes of regular expressions. [Bug: 2440 2447] (stanton) 8/5/99 (doc change) Made it clear that tcl_pkgPath was not set for @@ -4603,7 +4601,7 @@ terminated in tclLiteral.c. [Bug: 2496] (hobbs) 8/9/99 (bug fix) Fixed test suite to handle larger integers (64bit). Patch from Don Porter. (hobbs) -8/9/99 (documentation fix) Clarified Tcl_DecrRefCount docs +8/9/99 (documentation fix) Clarified Tcl_DecrRefCount docs [Bug: 1952]. Clarified array pattern docs [Bug: 1330]. Fixed clock docs [Bug: 693]. Fixed formatting errors [Bug: 2188 2189]. Fixed doc error in tclvars.n [Bug: 2042]. (hobbs) @@ -4663,7 +4661,7 @@ and in testthread code. No more known (reported) mem leaks for Tcl built using gcc on Solaris 2.5.1. Also none reported for Tcl on NT (using Purify 6.0). (hobbs) -10/30/99 (bug fix) fixed improper bytecode handling of +10/30/99 (bug fix) fixed improper bytecode handling of 'eval {set array($unknownvar) 5}' (also for incr) (hobbs) 10/30/99 (bug fix) fixed event/io threading problems by making @@ -5117,7 +5115,7 @@ bits for Tcl_UniChar though) (hobbs) 2001-05-30 (new feature)[TIP 15] Tcl_GetMathFuncInfo, Tcl_ListMathFuncs, Tcl_InfoObjCmd, InfoFunctionsCmd APIs (fellows) -2001-06-08 (bug fix,feature enhancement)[219170,414936] all Tcl_Panic +2001-06-08 (bug fix,feature enhancement)[219170,414936] all Tcl_Panic definitions brought into agreement (porter) 2001-06-12 (bug fix)[219232] regexp returned non-matching sub-pairs to have @@ -5286,7 +5284,7 @@ compiles to 0 bytecodes (sofer) 2001-09-13 (new feature) Old ChangeLog entries => ChangeLog.1999 (hobbs) -2001-09-17 (new feature) compiling with TCL_COMPILE_DEBUG now required to +2001-09-17 (new feature) compiling with TCL_COMPILE_DEBUG now required to enable all compile and execution tracing (sofer) *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *** @@ -5568,7 +5566,7 @@ options to configure (max) 2002-07-30 (bug fix)[584603] WriteChars infinite loop non-UTF-8 string (kupries) -2002-08-04 (new feature)[584051,580433,585105,582429][TIP 27] Tcl interfaces +2002-08-04 (new feature)[584051,580433,585105,582429][TIP 27] Tcl interfaces are now fully CONST-ified. Use the symbols USE_NON_CONST or USE_COMPAT_CONST to select interfaces with fewer changes. *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *** @@ -5578,7 +5576,7 @@ options to configure (max) => tcltest 2.2 2002-08-07 (bug fix)[587488] mem leak with USE_THREAD_ALLOC (sofer,sass) - + 2002-08-07 (feature enhancement)[584794,584650,472576] boolean values are no longer always re-parsed from string. (sofer) @@ -5712,7 +5710,7 @@ packages in multiple interps. 2003-02-01 (bug fix)[675356] [clock clicks {}]; [clock clicks -] - syntax errs -2003-02-01 (bug fix)[656660] MT-safety for [clock format] +2003-02-01 (bug fix)[656660] MT-safety for [clock format] 2003-02-03 (bug fix)[651271] command rename traces get fully-qualified names *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *** @@ -5931,7 +5929,7 @@ various odd regexp "can't happen" bugs. 2003-12-09 (platform support)[852369] update errno usage for recent glibc -2003-12-12 (bug fix)[858937] fix for [file normalize ~nobody] +2003-12-12 (bug fix)[858937] fix for [file normalize ~nobody] 2003-12-17 (bug fix)[839519] fixed two memory leaks (vasiljevic) @@ -5946,7 +5944,7 @@ various odd regexp "can't happen" bugs. 2004-02-12 (feature enhancement) update HP-11 build libs setup -2004-02-17 (bug fix)[849514,859251] corrected [file normailze] of $link/.. +2004-02-17 (bug fix)[849514,859251] corrected [file normailze] of $link/.. 2004-02-17 (bug fix)[772288] Unix std channels forced to exist at startup. @@ -6039,7 +6037,7 @@ in this changeset (new minor version) rather than bug fixes: * [TIP #139] documented portions of Tcl's namespace C APIs * [TIP #148] correct [list]-quoting of the '#' character - *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *** + *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *** For scripts that assume a particular (buggy) string rep for lists. * [TIP #156] add "root locale" to msgcat @@ -6534,7 +6532,7 @@ Reduces the ***POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY*** from 2005-05-17. 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) +2005-07-24 (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) @@ -6629,7 +6627,7 @@ registered by [package ifneeded] provides the version it claims (lavana,porter) 2005-11-09 (bug fix)[1350293,1350291] [after $negative $script] fixed (kenny) -2005-11-12 (bug fix)[1352734,1354540,1355942,1355342] [namespace delete] +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) @@ -6758,7 +6756,7 @@ naked-fork safe on Tiger (steffen) 2006-06-20 (internal change) Dropped the internal routines used to hook into filesystem operations back in the pre-Tcl_Filesystem days. (porter) ***POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY*** -For extensions and programs that have never migrated to the supported Tcl 8.4 +For extensions and programs that have never migrated to the supported Tcl 8.4 interface for virtual filesystems 2006-07-05 (enhancement) Expression parser rewrite avoids stack overflow, @@ -7534,7 +7532,7 @@ evaluation in extensions (sofer,kenny) 2009-05-08 (bug fix)[2414858] tailcall in oo constructor (fellows) -2009-05-14 (new subcommand) [info object namespace] (fellows) +2009-05-14 (new subcommand)[TIP 354] [info object namespace] (fellows) 2009-05-29 (platform support) account for ia64_32 (kupries) => platform 1.0.5 @@ -7565,7 +7563,7 @@ avoid otherwise very tricky multi-thread finalization bugs. (staplin,ferrieux) 2009-07-16 (bug fix)[2819200] underflow settings on MIPS systems (porter) -2009-07-19 (interface) new public routine Tcl_GetObjectName() (fellows) +2009-07-19 (interface)[TIP 354] new routine Tcl_GetObjectName() (fellows) 2009-07-20 (performance) favor [string is] success cases over empty (fellows) @@ -7605,7 +7603,7 @@ avoid otherwise very tricky multi-thread finalization bugs. (staplin,ferrieux) 2009-10-04 (bug fix)[2569449] Core Foundation memory bug in Tiger (steffen) -2009-10-06 (bug fix) repair intrep loss in slave interp evaluations +2009-10-06 (bug fix) repair intrep loss in slave interp evaluations introduced by first versions of the NRE conversion (nadkarni,porter) 2009-10-06 (bug fix)[1941434] broken tclTomMath.h includes (porter) @@ -7767,8 +7765,6 @@ memory with buffer backup (ferrieux) 2010-07-28 (bug fix)[3037525] crash deleting vars @ callframe pop (sofer) -2010-08-02 tzdata updated to Olson's tzdata2010k (kenny) - 2010-08-04 (bug fix)[3034840] mem corrupt when refchan loses interp (kupries) 2010-08-04 (enhancement) Win [load] use LOAD_WITH_ALTERED_SEARCH_PATH (hobbs) @@ -7776,4 +7772,394 @@ memory with buffer backup (ferrieux) 2010-08-04 (platform support) panic on detection of win9x system (hobbs) *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *** ---- Released 8.6b2, September ??, 2010 --- See ChangeLog for details --- +2010-08-10 (fix) Handle non-null-terminated bytearrys in glob matching (hobbs) + +2010-08-11 (fix) copy-paste bug in [yield] implementation (sofer, goth) + +2010-08-11 (platform) Drop pre-aix 4.2 support, ldAix (hobbs) + +2010-08-14 (frq)[2819611] changed signatures of hash fnctions, delete-file, and get-native-path (nijtmans) + *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *** + +2010-08-15 (bug fix)[3045010] tweaked error message for wrong#args of lambda's (fellows) + +2010-08-18 (bug fix)[3004191] fixed safe [glob] (fellows) + +2010-08-21 (patch)[3034251] genStubs steal features of ttkGenStubs (nijtmans) + +2010-08-26 (bug fix)[1230554] configure, OSF-1 problems, windows manifest issues (hobbs) + +2010-08-30 (bug fix) [3046594,3047235,3048771] reimplemented tailcall (sofer) + +2010-08-31 fixed manifest handling on windows (hobbs, kupries) + +2010-08-31 windows makefile and stub changes (nijtmans) + +2010-09-01 (bug fix)[3057639] compiled lappend trace consistency (hobbs,kupries) + *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *** + +2010-09-01 fixed safe glob handling of -directory (kupries) + +2010-09-02 fixed safe glob handling of -join (kupries) + +2010-09-08 (bug fix)[3059922] build with mingw on amd64 (porter, mescalinum) + +2010-09-15 (bug fix)[3067036] stop hang in bytearray append (fellows) + +2010-09-22 unified set of link libraries between mingw and vc (nijtmans) + +2010-09-22 (bug fix)[3072640] protect writes to ::error* variables (sofer) + +2010-09-23 fix leak of return options [catch $err m constant] (porter, hobbs) + +2010-09-24 (bugfix)[3056775] fixed race condition in windows sockets (kupries) + +2010-09-24 (performance) string eq/cmp (hobbs) + +2010-09-26 (patch)[3072080] rewritten NRE core (sofer) + +2010-09-28 (new feature)[TIP 162] implementation of ipv6 sockets (max) + +2010-10-02 (bug fix)[3079830] properly invalidate string rep of dicts (fellows) + +2010-10-06 (bug fix)[3081065] fix writing to freed Tcl_Obj (porter) + +2010-10-08 fix in ipv6 code on windows (nijtmans) + +2010-10-09 fixed overallocation of execution stack (sofer) + +2010-10-11 windows unicode changes (nijtmans) + +2010-10-12 (bug fix)[3084338] fixed meamleak in ipv6 code (max) + +2010-10-13 (bug fix)[467523,983660] alt fix allows empty literal share (porter) + +2010-10-15 (bugfix)[3085863] updated unicode tables (nijtmans) + *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *** + +2010-10-16 refactored implementation of dict iteration (fellows) + +2010-10-17 (patch)[2995655] report inner contexts on error stack (ferrieux) + +2010-10-19 (bug fix)[3081008] fixed bytearray zlib interaction (fellows) + +2010-10-19 improved crc, appending to bytearray (fellows) + +2010-10-20 improved compilation of [dict for] (fellows) + +2010-10-26 Added private support to disable reverse dns (max) + +2010-10-26 Prevent crashes when querying socket options (fellows, max) + +2010-10-28 (bug fix)[3093120] prevent freeaddrinfo(NULL) (porter, virden) + +2010-10-29 (bug fix)[2905784] stop cycle waste in short [after] (ferrieux) + +2010-11-01 tzdata updated to Olson's tzdata2010o (kenny) + +2010-11-04 (bug fix)[3099086] Clarified docs of var substitution (fellows) + +2010-11-04 improved install targets (cassof) + +2010-11-04 improved testing of sockets (max) + +2010-11-05 (frq)[491789] setargv/unicode cmdline for MSVC (nijtmans) + +2010-11-09 (bug fix)[3105999] fixed memleak in OO var resolver (fellows) + +2010-11-15 (TIP 378)[3081184] improved TIP 280 performance (kupries) + +2010-11-16 (platform) VS 2005 SP1 MSVC compiler (nijtmans) + +2010-11-18 (bug fix)[3111059] leak in [namespace delete] w coroutines (sofer) + +2010-11-28 [3120139,3105247] Tcl_PrintDouble improvements (kenny) + +2010-11-29 (new cmd) [tcl::unsupported::inject] (ferrieux,sofer) + +2010-11-30 (enhancement) Restore TclFormatInt for performance (hobbs) + +2010-12-09 (new feature) [file] is now a [namespace ensemble] (fellows) + +2010-12-19 (bug fix) [fcopy -size 1 -command] asynchronous (ferrieux) + +2010-12-12 (platform) OpenBSD build improvements (cassoff) + +2010-12-17 (platform) Revisions to support rpm 4.4.2 (cassoff) + +2010-12-27 (bug fix) crash in [lsort] w multiple -index options (fellows) + +2010-12-30 (bug fix)[3142026] GrowEvaluationStack OBOE (harder,sofer) + +2011-01-18 (bug fix)[3001438] [info frame -1] crash (mccormack,fellows) + +2011-03-01 (performance)[3168398] optimize [interp cancel] (mistachkin) + +2011-03-05 (bug fix)[3185009] crash in OO variables (danckaert,fellows) + +2011-03-05 (new cmd) [tcl::unsupported::assemble] (ugurlu,kenny) + +2011-03-06 (bug fix)[3200987,3192636] parser buffer overruns (porter) + +2011-03-08 (bug fix)[3202905] failed intrep release of interp result (mccormack) + +2011-03-09 (bug fix)[3202171] repair [namespace inscope] optimizer (porter) + +2011-03-10 (new version) better tcltest reporting from child interps (fellows) +=> tcltest 2.3.3 + +2011-03-10 (new feature) [namespace] is now a [namespace ensemble] (fellows) + +2011-03-12 (interface) reduce casting by ckalloc(), ckfree() callers (fellows) + +2011-03-14 (bug fix) Fixes from libtommath 0.42.0 release (fellows) + +2011-03-21 (bug fix)[3216070] [load] extension from embed Tcl apps (nijtmans) + ***POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY*** + +2011-03-27 (performance) NRE: LIST lset foreach benchmark (twylite) + +2011-04-11 (bug fix)[3282869] coroutine + eval + locals crash (ferrieux,sofer) + +2011-04-13 (bug fix)[2662380] crash when variable append trace unsets (sofer) + +2011-04-13 (bug fix)[3285375] Buffer overflow in [concat] (porter) + +2011-05-02 (internals change) revised TclFindElement() interface (porter) + *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *** + +2011-05-05 (enhancement) dict->list w/o string rep generation (porter) + +2011-05-10 (bug fix)[3173086] Crash parsing long lists (rogers,porter) + +2011-05-24 (enhancement) msgcat internal improvements (fellows) +=> msgcat 1.4.4 + +2011-05-25 (TIP 381) [info object|class call] [self call] [nextto] (fellows) + +2011-05-31 (bug fix)[3293874] let lists grow all the way to the limit (porter) + +2011-06-02 (bug fix)[3185407] cmd resolution epoch flaw (nadkarni,fellows) + +2011-06-13 (bug fix)[3315098] mem leak generating double string rep (neumann) + +2011-06-22 (new feature) DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH support (kupries) +=> platform 1.0.10 + +2011-07-15 (bug fix)[3357771] Prevent circular refs in bytecode (porter) + +2011-07-28 tzdata updated to Olson's tzdata2011h (porter) + +2011-08-01 (bug fix)[3383616] memleak exposed by XOTcl (neumann,sofer) + +Many more Tcl built-in command errors now set an -errorcode. + +--- Released 8.6b2, August 8, 2011 --- See ChangeLog for details --- + +2011-07-02 (bug fix)[3349507] correct double(1[string repeat 0 23]) (kenny) + +2011-07-19 (bug fix)[3371644] Tcl_ConvertElement() segfault (sader, ferrieux) + +2011-07-21 (bug fix)[3372130] hypot(.) segfault (nijtmans) + +2011-08-12 (bug fix)[3389764] memleaks due to reference cycles in dup'd paths + +2011-08-15 (bug fix)[3390272] leak of [info script] value (porter) + +2011-08-17 (bug fix)[3393150] bignum leaks in Tcl_Get*() routines (porter) + +2011-08-18 (bug fix)[3393714] [string toupper] overflow (nijtmans) + +2011-08-30 (bug fix)[3398794] panic in interp limit setting (gavlian,fellows) + +2011-09-08 (bug fix)[3401704] revised expr parser to permit function names +like "nano()" instead of parsing as "nan o()" with missing op (duquette,porter) + *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *** + +2011-09-10 (bug fix)[3400658] wrong num args msg with TclOO (rsooltan,fellows) + +2011-09-13 (bug fix)[3390638] solaris studio cc workaround (kechel,porter) + +2011-09-13 (bug fix)[3405652] DTrace workaround (michelson,porter) + +2011-09-16 (bug fix)[3391977] -headers overrides -type (ziegenhagen,fellows) +=> http 2.8.3 + +2011-09-16 (TIP 388) New \Uhhhhhhhh syntax (nijtmans) + +2011-10-06 (enhancement) bytecode compile [dict with] (fellows) + +2011-10-11 (bug fix)[2935503] [file stat] returns bad mode (nadkarni,nijtmans) + +2011-10-20 (bug fix)[3418547] cmd lits and custom resolvers (soberning,fellows) + +2011-10-31 (bug fix)[3414754] EIAS violation in fs paths (porter) + +2011-11-22 (bug fix)[3354324] Win: [file mtime] sets wrong time (nijtmans) + +2011-11-30 (bug fix)[967195] Simply args passed to child processes (nijtmans) +=> tcltest 2.3.4 + +2011-12-07 (bug fix)[3444754] fix [string tolower \u01C5] (nijtmans) + +2011-12-11 (update)[3457031] Update [[:print:]] to Unicode 6.0 (nijtmans) + +2011-12-24 (bug fix)[3464428] fix [string is graph \u0120] (nijtmans) + +2012-01-08 (bug fix)[3470928] zoneinfo trouble with Windhoek data file (kenny) + +2012-01-13 (bug fix)[3472316] fix retrieval of socket error (fellows) + +2012-01-21 (bug fix)[3475667] [regexp] buffer read overflow (sebres) + +2012-01-22 (bug fix)[3475264] [dict exists] return 0, not error (fellows) + +2012-01-25 (bug fix)[3474460] [oo::copy] var resolution list (fellows) + +2012-01-26 (bug fix)[3475569,3479689] mem corrupt in fs path (sebres,porter) + +2012-01-30 (enhancement) improve bytecode compile of [catch] (fellows) + +2012-02-02 (bug fix)[2974459,2879351,1951574,1852572,1661378,1613456] Fix +problems where [file *able] would return false results on Win/Samba (porter) + +2012-02-06 (bug fix)[3484621] bump bytecode epoch on exec traces (kuhn,sofer) + +2012-02-15 (bug fix)[3487626] crash compiling [dict for] (fellows) + +2012-02-15 (enhancement) bytecode compile [lrange],[lreplace] (fellows) + +2012-02-17 (bug fix)[2233954] compile problem on AIX & Android (nijtmans) + +2012-02-29 (bug fix)[3466099] BOM in Unicode (nijtmans) + +2012-03-07 (bug fix)[3498327] RFC 3986 compliance (kupries) + +2012-03-26 (TIP 380) New builtin class [oo::Slot] (fellows) + *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *** + +2012-03-27 (TIP 397) <cloned> method to extend [oo::copy] (fellows) + *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *** + +2012-03-27 (TIP 395) New subcommand [string is entier] (fellows) + +2012-04-02 (TIP 396) New command [yieldto] (fellows) + +2012-04-04 (bug fix)[3514761] crash combining objects and ensembles (fellows) + +2012-04-09 (bug fix)[2712377] [info vars] and oo variables (fellows) + +2012-04-09 (bug fix)[3396896] no dups in oo var lists (fellows) + +2012-04-11 (bug fix)[3448512] [clock scan 1958-01-01] fail on Win (nijtmans) + +2012-04-15 (bug fix)[3517696] fix flush of zlib chan xform (fellows) + +2012-04-18 tzdata updated to Olson's tzdata2012c (kenny) + +2012-04-28 (TIP 398) exit non-blocking chan without flush (ferrieux) + *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *** + +2012-05-02 (enhancement) Better use of Intel cpuid instruction (nijtmans) + +2012-05-03 (bug fix)[3428753] Unbreak synchronous [socket -async] (porter) + +2012-05-10 (bug fix)[2812981] force consistent config of Tcl+pkgs (ferrieux) + +2012-05-10 (bug fix)[473946] correct send of special characters (nijtmans) + +2012-05-17 (bug fix)[3445787] fix [file] ensemble in Safe Base (fellows) + +2012-05-17 (bug fix)[2964715] fix [glob] in Safe Base (fellows) + +2012-05-17 (bug fix)[3106532] proper [switch -indexvar] values (fellows) + *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *** + +2012-05-21 (TIP 106) New -binary option to [dde execute|poke] (oehlmann) +=> dde 1.4.0 + +2012-05-23 (bug fix)[3525907] [zlib push decompress] & [chan event] +(fellows,ferrieux,kupries) + +2012-05-28 (bug fix)[3529949] Protect ~ paths in Safe Base (fellows) + +2012-06-21 (bug fix)[3362446] [registry keys] failure (nijtmans) +=> registry 1.3.0 + +2012-06-25 (bug fix)[3537605] [encoding dirs a b] error message (fellows) + +2012-06-25 (bug fix)[3024359] crash when multi-thread concurrent [file system] +and Tcl_FSMountsChanged(). (porter) + +2012-06-29 (bug fix)[3536888] fix locale guessing (oehlmann,nijtmans) + +2012-07-05 (bug fix)[1189293] make "<<" redirect binary safe (porter) + +2012-07-08 (bug fix)[3531209] accept IPv6 URLs (max) +=> http 2.8.4 + +2012-07-24 (bug fix) stop mem corruption in stacked channel events (max,porter) + +2012-07-25 (bug fix)[3546275] [auto_execok] search match [exec] (danckaert) + +2012-07-27 (update)[3464401] Support Unicode 6.2 (nijtmans) + +2012-08-20 (bug fix)[3559678] [file normalize] EIAS failure (phao,dgp) + +2012-08-25 (bug fix)[3561330] Ukranian translation of "March" (teterin) + +2012-09-07 (TIP 404) New msgcat commands [mcflset], [mcflmset] (oehlmann) +=> msgcat 1.5.0 + +Many revisions to better support a Cygwin environment (nijtmans) + +Dropped support for OS X versions less than 10.4 (Tiger) (fellows) + +--- Released 8.6b3, September 18, 2012 --- See ChangeLog for details --- + +2012-09-20 (enhancement) full Unicode support (nijtmans) +=> dde 1.4.0 + +2012-09-20 (enhancement) update bundled zlib to 1.2.7 (nijtmans) + +2012-10-03 (bug fix) exit panic on stacked std channel (griffin,porter) + +2012-10-14 (bug fix) [tcl::Bgerror] crash on non-dict options (nijtmans) + +2012-10-16 (TIP 400) New [zlib] options to set compression dict (fellows) + +2012-10-16 (TIP 405) New commands [lmap] and [dict map] (fellows) + +2012-10-24 (enhancement) [dict unset] now bytecompiled (fellows) + +2012-11-05 (TIP 413) Revisions to default [string trim*] trimset (nijtmans) + *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *** + +2012-11-05 (enhancement) Now bytecompiled: [array exists], [array set], +[array unset], [dict create], [dict exists], [dict merge], [format], +[info commands], [info coroutine], [info level], [info object], +[namespace current], [namespace code], [namespace qualifiers], [namespace tail], +[namespace which], [regsub], [self], [string first], [string last], +[string map], [string range], [tailcall], [yield]. (fellows) + +2012-11-06 (bug fix)[3581754] avoid multiple callback on keep-alive (fellows) +=> http 2.8.5 + +2012-11-07 tzdata updated to Olson's tzdata2012i (kenny) + +2012-11-13 (bug fix)[3567063] thread fp settings from master (mistachkin) + +2012-11-14 (bug fix)[2933003] tempfile creation in $TMPDIR (fellows) + +2012-11-15 (TIP 416) New [load] options -global and -lazy (nijtmans) + +2012-11-20 (bug fix)[3033307] base64 trail whitespace (kovalenko,goth) + +2012-12-03 (bug fix) [configure] query broke init from argv (porter) +=> tcltest 2.3.5 + +2012-12-13 (bug fix)[3595576] crash: [catch {} -> noSuchNs::var] (sofer,porter) + +2012-12-13 (bug fix) crash: [zlib gunzip $data -header noSuchNs::var] (porter) + +--- Released 8.6.0, December 20, 2012 --- See ChangeLog for details --- |