[TCLCORE] Tcl/Tk 8.4.7 Release Announcement

[Andreas K. <andreask@ActiveState.com>]

Tcl/Tk 8.4.7 Release Announcement
July 27, 2004

The Tcl Core Team is pleased to announce the 8.4.7 releases of the Tcl
scripting language and the Tk toolkit.  This is the seventh patch release
of Tcl/Tk 8.4.  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.

Where to get the new releases:
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Tcl/Tk 8.4.7 sources are freely available as open source from the
Tcl Developer Xchange web site at:

	http://www.tcl.tk/software/tcltk/8.4.html

This web page also contains additional information about the releases,
including new features and notes about installing and compiling the
releases.  Sources are always available from the Tcl SourceForge
project's file distribution area:

	http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=10894

Windows, Linux, Solaris and HP-UX binaries are available from:

	http://www.activestate.com/Tcl

Mac OS X binaries are available from:

	http://tcltkaqua.sourceforge.net/

Additionally, SuSE Linux RPMs are available from:

	ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/tcl/

For additional information:
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Please visit the Tcl Developer Xchange web site:

	http://www.tcl.tk/

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

Thank you for your contributions:
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As usual, this release includes contributions from the Tcl community.
We have a page honoring these contributors at:

	http://www.tcl.tk/software/tcltk/contributors.html

Summary of Changes since Tcl/Tk 8.4.6:
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The following were the main changes in Tcl/Tk 8.4.7.  A complete list
can be found in the changes file at the root of the source tree.  The
more complete ChangeLog is also included with each source release.  This
is a patch release, so it primarily included bug fixes and corrections
to erratic behavior.  Below are only the most notable changes.

  * Fixed [glob -path] bug when in the root directory

  * Fixed unicode-char path installation on Windows NT-based platforms

  * Properly subsitute more values in Windows tclConfig.sh

  * Improved stack overflow prevention on Windows

  * Fixed mem leak in [fconfigure $serial -xchar]

  * Fixed crash with [cd] with a volumerelative $HOME

  * Fixed clock %G %V formats for ISO8601 week numbers

  * Fixed support for non-WIDE_INT aware math functions

  * Added [http::config -urlencoding] option

  * Fixed utf-8 encoding of \u0000 on system I/O

  * Prevented dde hangs with non-responsive apps

  * Added round() wide integer support

  * Cleaner exit and correction of mem leaks when using the threaded
    memory allocator and reinitializing

  * Improved build configuration on 64-bit systems

  * Added read support of PPM/PGM with the -data option

  * Correct issue with displaying maximize window button on KDE-3.2.1

  * Fix drawing of unicode chars in menu titles on Windows

  * Correctly post Tk clipboard data to the Windows clipboard on exit

  * Fix the panedwindow -opaqueresize option to work as per the docs

  * Reduce Tk tk_messageBox default font size to 14-point

  * Prevent possible segfault in -maxundo

  * Fix XIM initialization on Solaris

  * Complete the implementation of the CG version of the X drawing
    emulation layer on Mac OS X

  * Fix several Mac OS X usability issues

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Tcl Core Team and Maintainers
Jeff Hobbs, Tcl Core Release Manager