Opened 3 months ago
Closed 7 weeks ago
#5781 closed enhancement (fixed)
tcl-8.6.17
| Reported by: | Douglas R. Reno | Owned by: | lfs-book |
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| Priority: | normal | Milestone: | 12.5 |
| Component: | Book | Version: | git |
| Severity: | normal | Keywords: | |
| Cc: |
Description
New point version
Summary of Changes since Tcl/Tk 8.6.16:
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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
* Win: support PNG images in icon files.
* Aqua: dark mode improvements.
* Aqua: interop with clipboard managers.
* Win: [exec] now dispatches App Execution Aliases.
* Win: [auto_execok] recognizes more shell commands.
* encoding cp864: missing Euro/Tail-sign.
* Corrections to zh_cn message catalog for Tk console menu.
* Fix crashes or hangs or undefined behavior in...
- Tcl_SplitList on string that exceeds max list size
- Win: Use-after-free memory corruption in multi-thread [glob].
- macOs: Pointer alignment in file attribute functions
- Aqua: tk_getOpenFile
- div by zero in [$scale get $x $y] when trough resized to invisibility.
* Correct failure in [namespace children $ns $nonGlob].
* Number parsing failure: [scan "1.[string repeat 1 191]e-321" %g]
* block cursor size on a tab is too large.
* Win: incorrect system menu entries for transient toplevels
* Win: withdrawn transient windows can reappear in taskbar preview.
* Win: misplaced underline in menu entry
* Aqua: cannot iconify all windows.
* Aqua: wm-iconbitmap-{1.4,2.1}, uniwWm-22.3
* Nested [return -options], cmdMZ-return-2.{19,20,21}.
* errorline into errorinfo from [$interp eval $script], interp-26.9.
* Updated bundled packages, libraries, standards, data
- Itcl 4.3.4
- sqlite3 3.50.4
- Thread 2.8.12
- TDBC* 1.1.12
- tcltest 2.5.10
- dde 1.4.5
- tzdata 2025b
Change History (2)
comment:1 by , 3 months ago
| Milestone: | 12.4 → 12.5 |
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comment:2 by , 7 weeks ago
| Resolution: | → fixed |
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| Status: | new → closed |
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Fixed at commit df4169523d: