Tcl/Tk8.5b3

11月19日付けで Tcl/Tk 8.5 の3番目のβ版がリリースされました。

リリース予定は 11月16日だったのですが、Don Porter 氏がが忙しかったためにリリースが遅れただけのようです。今回もバグフィックスが中心で、予定では最後のβ版となります。

なお正式版 8.5.0 のリリースは、12 月 14 日の予定になっています。Tcl/Tk 8.4.0 がリリースされたのが、2002 年 9 月 10 日のことですから、マイナーバージョンの更新は、実に 5 年ぶりとなります。定義では、8.5.0 の太字の部分はマイナーバージョンなのですが、あたかもメジャーバージョンがリリースされるような印象を受けます。

この週末に、Tcl/Tk8.5b3 の Windows 用のバイナリパッケージを MinGW クロスコンパイル環境でビルドして公開する予定です。

Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 13:59:59 -0500
From: dgp at nist.gov
To: tcl-core at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [TCLCORE] Tcl/Tk 8.5b3 RELEASED

Tcl/Tk 8.5b3 Release Announcement
November 19, 2007

The Tcl Core Team is pleased to announce the 8.5b3 releases of the Tcl
dynamic language and the Tk toolkit.  This is the third beta release of
Tcl/Tk 8.5.  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:
------------------------------

Tcl/Tk 8.5b3 sources are freely available as open source from the Tcl
Developer Xchange web site at:

        http://www.tcl.tk/software/tcltk/8.5.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

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

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:
---------------------------------

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 8.5b2:
--------------------------------------

The following were the main changes in Tcl/Tk 8.5b3.  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 beta release of 8.5.  The beta designation means that the
feature set for 8.5 is believed to be complete, and the focus is now
on testing and bug fixing moving quickly toward an 8.5.0 release.
All relevant bug fixes (and some more) up to and including 8.4.16 changes
are included in 8.5b3.  This release is a development release, and should
only be considered for deployment use after considerable testing.

  * New Tk look and default fonts on X11.  [tk::classic::restore] to undo.

  * New configure option: --disable-rpath.

  * Continued Tk demo enhancement and documentation improvement.

  * Fixed broken compile on x86_64.

  * Fixed crash and infinite loop in regexp engine.

  * Fixed [tk_getOpenFile] crash on Mac OS X Leopard.

  * Font adjust interface for [console].

  * Arabic and Hebrew rendering on Windows.

  * Corrected locale for sv.msg message catalog.

  * Performance improvements for binary [gets], binary [string match]ing,
    [info exists], stack overflow checking, list indexing, interpreter
    state reset, and simple regular expressions.

  * Embed iso8859-1 encoding directly in libtcl.

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