tcl-8.6.15

[Bruce Dubbs]

New point version.

[Bruce Dubbs]

Summary of Changes since Tcl/Tk 8.6.14:

This is a patch release, so it primarily includes bug fixes and corrections to erratic behavior. Highlighted changes are noted below.

• [TIP 692] Deprecate Tcl_GetAlias(). Migrate to Tcl_GetAliasObj()

• Invoke binding scripts for events with detail field NotifyInferior * POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *

• Tcl_NewObjectInstance() errors on namespace re-use. * POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY -- breaks Itcl 4.2 *

• TCL_PACKAGE_PATH change from Tcl list to platform path convention * POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *

• Make [self] work inside [$obj eval]
• Fix [$obj varname] for linked varnames
• Restore access to alternate data streams (ADS) in NTFS filesystems.
• Fix crashes or hangs in...
  • TclOO + coroutine, oo-22.[34]
  • entangled destructor and namespace deletion, oo-35.7.*
  • destruction of reflected channel, iocmd-32.3.*
  • select notifier with file descriptor >= FD_SETSIZE
  • [child invokehidden info frame], info-40.0
  • [focus -force], focus-8.1
  • [$canvas dchars], canvas-11.4
  • [$menubutton destroy]
• Appearance improvements for...
  • focus ring, arrows, and classic theme.
  • last item in a [ttk::treeview].
  • down arrow in [ttk::combobox].
• Repair [$photo read -from] flaws in GIF,PNG formats. imgPhoto-19.*
• [$photo copy] coordinate check error. See imgPhoto-12.5
• Detect corrupt GIF file and raise error. See imgPhoto-18.6.1
• Fixes to [ttk::treeview] subcommands 'see' and 'bbox'.
• Fix default font detection for high DPI
• [treeview identify] now point aware
• Fix broken undo/redo in [text] widget.
• Fix GENFUNC mode of Tcl_ParseArgsObjv(). See tests indexObj-7.*
• Fix removal of oo variable by [info exists]. See oo-19.4
• Fix byte compiled [incr] with wide int increment. See incr-1.31
• Repair encoding flaws in [info hostname] visible for non-ASCII names.
• Fix incorrect [string is control] results on some private codepoints
• Autoload of [::tcl::tm::path]
• Fix missing error message in some [interp limit] failures.
• Improved hash performance for some hash tables.
• Performance optimizations in several encoding primitives.
• Correction to rare failed startup search for system encoding
• Add encodings: koi8-ru, koi8-t
• Add keycodes ISO_Group_Shift and dead_hamza
• Updated bundled packages, libraries, standards, data
  • Itcl 4.3.0 -- supports multi-thread operations
  • sqlite3 3.45.3
  • Thread 2.8.10
  • TDBC* 1.1.9
  • tcltest 2.5.8
  • libtommath 1.3.0
  • Unicode 16
  • tzdata 2024b

[Bruce Dubbs]

Fixed at commit 984e1f1068.