Tcl/Tk 8.4.11 Release Announcement

Tcl/Tk 8.4.11 Release Announcement
June 28, 2005

The Tcl Core Team is pleased to announce the 8.4.11 releases of the Tcl
dynamic language and the Tk toolkit. This is the eleventh patch
release
of Tcl/Tk 8.4. 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:
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Tcl/Tk 8.4.11 sources are freely available as open source from the
Tcl Developer Xchange web site at:

        http://www.tcl.tk/software/tcltk/8.4.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

Binaries for most major platforms are available from:

        http://www.activestate.com/Tcl

In addition, Mac OS X binaries are available from:

        http://tcltkaqua.sourceforge.net/

For additional information:
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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:
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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 8.4.10:
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The following were the main changes in Tcl/Tk 8.4.11. 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 patch release, so it primarily included bug fixes and corrections
to erratic behavior. Below are only the most notable changes.

  * Corrected compile failure on unix in thread-enabled configuration.

  * Stopped crash in stack tests on Windows/gcc.

  * Stopped crashes in execution traces.

  * Stopped crash due to [file split] error on Windows.

  * Stopped crash/UMR in pipe close/finalization on Windows.

  * Fixed UID thread-safety in canvas.

  * Eliminate buffer overflow in GIF decoder.

  * Aqua: better default [entry] border width

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