- Update from version 8.6.13 to 8.6.14
- Update of rootfile
- Changelog
8.6.14
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/timelinehttp://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
Signed-off-by: Adolf Belka <adolf.belka@ipfire.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Tremer <michael.tremer@ipfire.org>
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