tcl-8.6.14

[Bruce Dubbs]

New point version.

[Bruce Dubbs]

Summary of Changes since Tcl/Tk 8.6.13:

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 402] revise path normalization for x-platform UNC path support

* POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *

• Harmonize Tk's parse of numbers (screen distance, etc) with Tcl

* POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *

• Iconlist ignores options db for fg text color; affects dialogs

* POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *

• Aqua: XPutImage() swaps red and blue channels

* POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *

• [encoding convertfrom] handling of incomplete code sequences

* POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *

• Harmonize handling of ~ in paths across platforms.

* POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *

• Fix menu clone binding misbehavior, menu-20.1[2-6].

* POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *

• Improved performance of [exec] and [open |$cmd] on unix-lke systems, especially with large memory footprints.

• Improve performance of large treeview destruction.

• Improve performance of large image insertions into text.

• Improve widget creation performance due to poor font caching.

• Fix notebook tab appearances when placed on edge other than top.

• Enable treeview display of partial final line.

• Win: restore [exec %var%] that was dropped in 8.6.13.

• Allow [chan create {} $cmd]. Enables simulation of server channels.

• Allow return from [tk scaling] in safe interps.

• Prevent navigation by word exposing clues to masked entry contents.

• Fix crashes or hangs in...
  • [chan pop] with pending input
  • thread finalization of reflected channels
  • [label .l -bitmap floppy]
  • [set tcl_precision 15; expr 6.4623485355705287e-27]
  • [tk busy forget] and [tk busy hold]
  • channel read into "string" Tcl_Obj can BO, and perform poorly
  • KVO crash after destroying Aqua's first root toplevel
  • Test treeview-6ee162c3f9
  • Test tailcall-bug-784befb0ba
  • Tests menu-40.[12]

• Repair memory leaks and errors
  • Eliminate undefined realloc() calls
  • Silence many warnings from -fsanitize=function
  • Flawed interfacing with XIM
  • Tcl_UtfToExternal writing to one-byte buffer
  • Tcl_UtfToUniChar() handling of 0xC1.
  • Tk_ConfigureValue could call wrong free() routine.
  • tests getuncichar-1.* in utf.test
  • ...and many more

• No more support for 32-bit Cygwin

• ::tcl_platform(osVersion) updated to report Windows 11

• Accommodate macOS deprecation of sprintf()

• Silence macOS 14 warnings about secure restorable state.

• Code changes to support ASan use-after-return detection

• Revise Tcl_MakeFileChannel() to better partner with pledge()

• Prevent false [clock format] error reports on FreeBSD

• Region clip & copy make better use of OS facilities.

• Update handling of Apple FourCC creator codes.

• Text selection omits first character, text-38.1

• Windows: improved support of non-BMP pathnames

• Fixed some Y2038 limitations

• Fix photo color drawing on X11 32-bit visuals.

• Fix <<MenuSelect>> regression on menus with -tearoff

• Correct rounding of [nsFont pointSize].

• zlib comment/filename error handling (zlib-8.19, zlib-8.2[012])

• Prevent theme change attempts after Tk finalize.

• Make dialogs robust against parent destruction.

• Make [tk_chooseColor] robust against failed grab.

• Fix menu parsing of @x,y indices. menu-22.[6-9]

• Fix inconsistent results from [font measure].

• Fixed [clock scan|add] handling of abbreviated options

• Avoid endless loops replacing [unknown] or [history].
• Fix polluted error messages from [send -option].

• PNG photo image decoder missed a 0xFF entry.

• Fix failing winTime-2.1 on Windows

• test string-2.20.1 failed on big endian platforms

• Updated bundled packages, libraries, standards, data
  • Itcl 4.2.4
  • sqlite3 3.44.2
  • Thread 2.8.9
  • TDBC* 1.1.7
  • tcltest 2.5.7
  • libtommath 1.2.1
  • zlib 1.3.1
  • Unicode 15.1
  • tzdata 2024a

[Bruce Dubbs]

Fixed at commits

    Update to iana-etc-20240222.
    Update to vim-9.1.0145.
    Update to xz-5.6.0.
    Update to tcl-8.6.14.
    Update to shadow-4.14.6.
    Update to setuptools-69.1.1.
    Update to linux-6.7.7.
    Update to libffi-3.4.6.
    Update to gettext-0.22.5.
    Update to expat-2.6.1.