tcl-8.6.13

[Bruce Dubbs]

New point version.

[Bruce Dubbs]

Summary of Changes since Tcl/Tk 8.6.12:

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 622] Tcl_GetRange defined for index args < 0

* POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *

• [TIP 599] [tk::build-info] when paired with Tcl 8.7+

• Fallback initialization of ::env(HOME) from USERPROFILE

• text: direct mouse events to insert mark, not current (textTag-15.4)

* POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *

• New color for Mac: SelectedMenuItemTextColor

• [tk_fontchooser] improvements

• Consistent cross-platform polygon fill

• Fix crashes or hangs in...
  • extract signed int operand from bytecode on Plan9
  • invalid bytecode in lambda (see apply-10.1)
  • writing ill-formed utf-8 (see io-60.1)
  • [menu .m -type {}]
  • Mac: destroy and re-create toplevel after dragging
  • Geometry requests on window not fully created or destroyed
  • [ttk::combox .foo] current end
  • canvPs-5.1
  • canvWind-2.1
  • textWind-18.3
  • unixW-50.4
  • bind-37.1

• Fat binary compiles on Mac M1

• Portability to CHERI-enabled Morello processor

• Floating point rounding portability to x86 Alpine Linux (musl libc)
  • Restore Tk builds on MacOSX 10.11 (El Capitan)

• Enable Tk builds on Windows ARM

• Improved cygwin path support in Tk.

• Handle deprecation of OSTypes by MacOSX.

• Mac: Mouse events not delivered to dialog with global grab.

• Mac: Stop beeping when clicking outside comboboxes.

• Win: Adapt pointer warp and [tk busy] for better multi-screen support

• Mac: When a toplevel is minimized, pass focus to another toplevel.

• Mac: fix image positions in canvas screenshots.

• GIF with multiple images may reuse transparent color

• PGM reads with graylevel > 255

• Fixed broken optimization of smoothed line redraws

• Mac: ttk::notebook loses control of tab content

• Mac: enable removal of embedded windows from text widget

• Win, X11: improve (ttk) menubutton menu position

• <Enter> event after one toplevel is destroyed (event-9.[12])

• Execution order when compiled: try second finally [first] (error-9.6)

• CR-LF split between packets/buffers/reads (tests io-29.36.*)

• [string is integer 18446744073709551615]

• ttk::label defaults for -justify/-anchor (test ttk-9.9)

• Win: middle mouse click blocks system clipbord

• Avoid invalid <<TreeviewSelect>> events

• Many code changes to avoid undefined behavior or integer overflow.

• Updated keysym tables to latest X11R6

• Updated bundled packages, libraries, standards, data
  • Itcl 4.2.3
  • sqlite3 3.40.0
  • Thread 2.8.8
  • TDBC* 1.1.5 - restored MariaDB support in tdbcmysql
  • http 2.9.8 - numeric IPv6 in URL, connection reuse after code 101
  • platform 1.0.19 - Ventura support
  • tcltest 2.5.5
  • libtommath support/1.x branch
  • zlib 1.2.13
  • Unicode 15
  • tzdata 2022e
  • msg catalog updates: Chinese, Finnish, Russian, Esperanto

[Bruce Dubbs]

Fixed at commit 38311c3ea.