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Tcl/Tk 8.6.15 Release Announcement
September 13, 2024

The Tcl Core Team is pleased to announce the 8.6.15 releases of the Tcl
dynamic language and the Tk toolkit.  This is the fifteenth patch release
of Tcl/Tk 8.6.  More details can be found below.

We would like to express our gratitude to all those who submit bug
reports and patches.  This information is invaluable in enabling us
to identify and eliminate problems in the core. Such reports can be
submitted here.

         https://core.tcl-lang.org/tcl/ticket
         https://core.tcl-lang.org/tk/ticket

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Where to get the new releases:
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Tcl/Tk 8.6.15 sources are freely available as open source from the Tcl
SourceForge project's file distribution area:

         http://sourceforge.net/projects/tcl/files/

This distribution is source code only.  We keep links to some third
parties offering pre-built binaries for various systems here:

         http://www.tcl-lang.org/software/tcltk/bindist.html

For additional information:
---------------------------

Please visit the Tcl Developer Xchange web site:

         http://www.tcl-lang.org/

This site contains a variety of information about Tcl/Tk in general, the
core Tcl and Tk distributions, Tcl development tools, and much more.

Summary of Changes since Tcl/Tk 8.6.14:
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This is a patch release, so it primarily includes bug fixes and corrections
to erratic behavior.  Highlighted changes are noted below.  The changes file
at the root of the source tree contains a more complete list.  The Timelines
of all changes are online.

	http://core.tcl-lang.org/tcl/timeline
	http://core.tcl-lang.org/tk/timeline

    * [TIP 692] Deprecate Tcl_GetAlias(). Migrate to Tcl_GetAliasObj()

    * Invoke binding scripts for events with detail field NotifyInferior
         *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***

    * Tcl_NewObjectInstance() errors on namespace re-use.
         *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY -- breaks Itcl 4.2 ***

    * TCL_PACKAGE_PATH change from Tcl list to platform path convention
         *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***

    * Make [self] work inside [$obj eval]

    * Fix [$obj varname] for linked varnames

    * Restore access to alternate data streams (ADS) in NTFS filesystems.

    * Fix crashes or hangs in...
       - TclOO + coroutine, oo-22.[34]
       - entangled destructor and namespace deletion, oo-35.7.*
       - destruction of reflected channel, iocmd-32.3.*
       - select notifier with file descriptor >= FD_SETSIZE
       - [child invokehidden info frame], info-40.0
       - [focus -force], focus-8.1
       - [$canvas dchars], canvas-11.4
       - [$menubutton destroy]

    * Appearance improvements for...
       - focus ring, arrows, and classic theme.
       - last item in a [ttk::treeview].
       - down arrow in [ttk::combobox].

    * Repair [$photo read -from] flaws in GIF,PNG formats. imgPhoto-19.*

    * [$photo copy] coordinate check error. See imgPhoto-12.5

    * Detect corrupt GIF file and raise error. See imgPhoto-18.6.1

    * Fixes to [ttk::treeview] subcommands 'see' and 'bbox'.

    * Fix default font detection for high DPI

    * [treeview identify] now point aware

    * Fix broken undo/redo in [text] widget.

    * Fix GENFUNC mode of Tcl_ParseArgsObjv(). See tests indexObj-7.*

    * Fix removal of oo variable by [info exists]. See oo-19.4

    * Fix byte compiled [incr] with wide int increment. See incr-1.31

    * Repair encoding flaws in [info hostname] visible for non-ASCII names.

    * Fix incorrect [string is control] results on some private codepoints

    * Autoload of [::tcl::tm::path]

    * Fix missing error message in some [interp limit] failures.

    * Improved hash performance for some hash tables.

    * Performance optimizations in several encoding primitives.

    * Correction to rare failed startup search for system encoding

    * Add encodings: koi8-ru, koi8-t

    * Add keycodes ISO_Group_Shift and dead_hamza

    * Updated bundled packages, libraries, standards, data
       - Itcl 4.3.0 -- supports multi-thread operations
       - sqlite3 3.45.3
       - Thread 2.8.10
       - TDBC* 1.1.9
       - tcltest 2.5.8
       - libtommath 1.3.0
       - Unicode 16
       - tzdata 2024b

--
Tcl Core Team and Maintainers
Don Porter, Tcl Core Release Manager

-- 
| Don Porter            Applied and Computational Mathematics Division |
| donald.porter@nist.gov             Information Technology Laboratory |
| http://math.nist.gov/~DPorter/                                  NIST |
|______________________________________________________________________|

Am 16.09.2024 um 18:19 schrieb Don Porter:
> 
> Tcl/Tk 8.6.15 Release Announcement
> September 13, 2024
> 
> The Tcl Core Team is pleased to announce the 8.6.15 releases of the Tcl
> dynamic language and the Tk toolkit.  This is the fifteenth patch release
> of Tcl/Tk 8.6.  More details can be found below.

Awesome work, Don and Team, I really appreciate !

Harald