From: Jeff Hobbs <JeffH@ActiveState.com> To: Subject: ANNOUNCE: Tcl/Tk 8.3.4 Final Release Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 16:45:24 -0700 Tcl/Tk 8.3.4 Release Announcement October 22, 2001 The Tcl maintainers are pleased to announce the 8.3.4 releases of the Tcl scripting language and the Tk toolkit. This is the fourth patch release of Tcl/Tk 8.3. More details can be found below. We'd like to thank all those that submit bugs and patches as they are the primary source of information for us to identify problems in the core. Where to get the new releases: ------------------------------ Tcl/Tk 8.3.4 sources are freely available from the Tcl Developer Xchange web site at: http://www.tcl-tk.net/software/tcltk/8.3.html http://tcl.ActiveState.com/software/tcltk/8.3.html This web page also contains additional information about the releases, including new features and notes about installing and compiling the releases. The files are directly available from the Tcl SourceForge project's file distribution area (which includes Mac binaries): http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=10894 ActiveState also provides Windows, Linux and Solaris binaries that include numerous popular extensions at: http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Downloads/ActiveTcl/ (should be available by end of day Oct 23) For additional information: --------------------------- Please visit the Tcl Developer Xchange web site: http://www.tcl-tk.net/ http://tcl.ActiveState.com/ This site contains a variety of information about Tcl/Tk in general, the core Tcl and Tk distributions, and much more. Thank you for your contributions: --------------------------------- As usual, this release includes contributions from the Tcl community. Tcl/Tk is maintained by the community, with the source repository and bug database at SourceForge: http://tcl.SourceForge.net/ Everyone is encouraged to participate in making Tcl an even better language. Summary of Changes in Tcl/Tk 8.3.4: -------------------------------------- The following were the main changes in this release. A complete list can be found in the ChangeLog file at the root of the source tree. This is a patch release, so it primarily included bug fixes and corrections to erratic behavior. Below are only the most notable changes. * Improved build support for GNU (HURD), QNX and Mac OS X * Enabled 64bit compilation on HP-11 via --enable-64bit * Updated msgcat and http packages * New file I/O flush management for Windows (up to 100x speedup) * Plugged a few minor memory leaks in error cases * Corrected handling of spaces in pathnames passed to 'exec' on Windows * Win64 support using Whistler64 RC 1 * Native memory allocator now the default on Windows. * Corrected thread finalization problems for threaded builds. * Updated unicode encodings from http://www.unicode.org/ * Fixed tk_chooseDirectory crash on Win95 * Removed 2 second 'raise' delay for some Unix windows managers * Updated Mac/Windows wish console * Enhanced 'bgerror' dialog * Fixed file filtering in Motif file dialogs The full list can be seen at http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=57667 -- Jeff Hobbs Tcl Core Release Manager