Tcl 8.6b2

2008-12-27 [TIP 234] Tcl_Zlib* interface revisions (fellows)
 *** INCOMPATIBILITY with interface of 8.6b1 ***

2009-01-02 (platform support)[878333] IRIX compat for mkstemp() (fellows)

2009-01-03 (bug fix)[2481670] [clock add] error message (talvo)

2009-01-05 (bug fix)[2412068] NR-enable [source] (fellows)

2009-01-06 (bug fix)[2489836] crash unknown method dispatch (nadkarni,fellows)

2009-01-06 (bug fix)[2481109] fix context of instance name check (fellows)

2009-01-08 (enhancement) more -errorcode values (fellows)

2009-01-19 (new feature) CONFIG_INSTALL_DIR - where tclConfig.sh goes (cassoff)

2009-01-19 (platform support) better tools for BSD ports (cassoff)

2009-01-21 (bug fix)[2458202] exit crash with [chan create]d channel (kupries)

2009-01-26 (bug fix)[2446662] uniformly declare EOF on RST on sockets (ferrieux)

2009-01-26 (bug fix)[1028264] delay WSACleanup() from under our feet (ferrieux)

2009-01-29 (bug fix)[2519474] Tcl_FindCommand() bug exposed by oo (fellows)

2009-01-29 (bug fix)[2537939] Fix Tcl_OOInitStubs() for no-stubs build (fellows)

2009-02-04 (bug fix)[2561746] [string repeat] overflow crash (porter)

2009-02-05 (enhancement) optimize string operations on bytearrays (fellows)

2009-02-12 (bug fix) enable simpler [oo::define] extension (ferri,fellows)

2009-02-15 (bug fix)[2603158] Tcl_AppendObjToObj: append to self crash (porter)

2009-02-17 (platform support) MSVC and _WIN64 (hobbs)

2009-02-20 (bug fix)[2571597] [file pathtype /a] wrong result (nadkarni,porter)

2009-03-03 (bug fix)[2662434] [zlib crc32] result now unsigned (gavilan,fellows)

2009-03-15 (platform support) translate SIGINFO where defined (BSD) (teterin)

2009-03-15 (bug fix)[2687952] TSD struct memleak (mistachkin)

2009-03-18 (bug fix)[2688184] memleak in [file normalize] (mistachkin)

2009-03-20 (bug fix)[2597185] crash in Tcl_AppendStringToObj (porter)

2009-03-20 (bug fix)[2561794,2669109,2494093,2553906] string overflow (porter)

2009-03-22 (bug fix)[2502037] NR-enable [namespace unknown] (sofer)

2009-03-27 (bug fix)[2710920] [file dirname|tail /foo/] errors (epler,porter)

2009-04-08 (bug fix)[2570363] unsafe [eval]s in tcltest (bron,porter)
=> tcltest 2.3.1

2009-04-08 (platform support) more Darwin kernel patterns (steffen)
=> platform 1.0.4

2009-04-09 (bug fix)[26245326] [http::geturl] connection failures (golovan)
=> http 2.7.3

2009-04-10 (new feature) Darwin: embeddable CoreFoundation notifier (steffen)

2009-04-10 (bug fix)[1961211] Darwin [load] back-compatibility (steffen)

2009-04-09 (new feature) http chunked+gzip modes (thoyts)
=> http 2.8.0

2009-04-11 (enhancement) clarified cmd name resolution in oo forwards (fellows)

20009-04-19 (bug fix)[2715421] http: excess bytes after POST (thoyts)
=> http 2.8.1

2009-04-30 (bug fix)[2486550] coroutine in [interp invokehidden] (sofer)

2009-05-07 (bug fix)[2785893] find command in deleted namespace (sofer)

2009-05-08 (bug fix)[2414858] tailcall in oo constructor (fellows)

2009-05-14 (new subcommand)[TIP 354] [info object namespace] (fellows)

2009-05-29 (platform support) account for ia64_32 (kupries)
=> platform 1.0.5

2009-06-02 (bug fix)[2798543] incorrect [expr] integer ** results (porter)

2009-06-10 (bug fix)[2801413] overflow in [format] (porter)

2009-06-13 (bug fix)[2802881] corrected compile env context (tasada,porter)

2009-06-17 (redesign) reduced ambition of [exit] finalization with aim to
avoid otherwise very tricky multi-thread finalization bugs. (staplin,ferrieux)
 *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY for exit handlers ***

2009-06-26 (platform support) updates for Xcode 3.1 & 3.2 (steffen)

2009-06-30 (platform support) clang static analyzer macros (steffen)

2009-07-01 (bug fix)[2806622] Win: bad tcl_platform(user) value (thoyts)

2009-07-05 (bug fix) zlib support asynch [chan copy] on chan transform (fellows)

2009-07-12 (bug fix)[1895546] TclOO support for Itcl 4 method caching (fellows)

2009-07-13 (bug fix)[1605269] NR-related [info frame] fixes (kupries)

2009-07-14 (bug fix)[2821401] NR-enable direct eval [switch] (kenny)

2009-07-16 (bug fix)[2819200] underflow settings on MIPS systems (porter)

2009-07-19 (interface)[TIP 354] new routine Tcl_GetObjectName() (fellows)

2009-07-20 (performance) favor [string is] success cases over empty (fellows)

2009-07-22 (interface) removed TclpPanic() routine (nijtmans)

2009-07-23 (bug fix)[2820349] plug event leak in notifier (mistachkin)

2009-07-24 (bug fix)[2826248] crash in Tcl_GetChannelHandle (sonnenburg,kupries)

2009-07-31 (bug fix)[2830354] overflow in [format] (misch,porter)

2009-08-06 (bug fix)[2827000] reflected channels can signal EGAIN (kupries)

2009-08-12 (new feature)[TIP 353] Tcl_NRExprObj() (porter)

2009-08-20 (bug fix)[2823276] NR-enable [if], [for], [while] (fellows)

2009-08-20 (bug fix)[2806250] EIAS violation in ~foo pathnames (porter)

2009-08-21 (bug fix)[2837800] [glob */foo] return ./~x/foo (porter)

2009-08-24 (bug fix) nested event loop notifier w/TkAqua Cocoa (alaoui,steffen)

2009-08-25 (bug fix) [info frame] account for continuation lines (kupries)

2009-08-27 (bug fix)[2845535] overflows in [format] (porter)

2009-09-01 (bug fix) improved error message in tcltest (porter)
=> tcltest 2.3.2

2009-09-11 (bug fix)[2849860] http handle "quoted" charset value (fellows)
=> http 2.7.4

2009-09-11 (enhancement)[2314561] [subst] now bytecompiled, NR-enabled (porter)

2009-09-24 (new feature)[TIP 356] Tcl_NRSubstObj() (porter)

2009-10-04 (bug fix)[2569449] Core Foundation memory bug in Tiger (steffen)

2009-10-06 (bug fix) repair intrep loss in slave interp evaluations
introduced by first versions of the NRE conversion (nadkarni,porter)

2009-10-06 (bug fix)[1941434] broken tclTomMath.h includes (porter)

2009-10-07 (bug fix)[2871908] leaked hash table (mistachkin,kupries)

2009-10-08 (bug fix)[2874678] bignum leak in [dict incr] (fellows)

2009-10-17 (bug fix)[2629338] crash in var unset traces (raney,fellows)

2009-10-19 (bug fix)[2107634] extend [read] and [gets] to Tcl string limits
(morrison,parker,porter)

2009-10-21 (bug fix)[2882561] Haiku OS signal support (morrison,fellows)

2009-10-22 (bug fix)[2883857] [my varname arr(index)] (boudaillier,fellows)

2009-10-23 (bug fix) 0-length writes: spurious SIG_PIPE (teterin,kupries)

2009-10-24 Broken DST applied EU rules to US zones (lehenbauer,kenny)

2009-10-29 (bug fix)[2800740] halved bignum memory on 64-bit systems (porter)
        *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***

2009-11-05 (bug fix)[2854929] TM search path support in Safe Base (kupries)

2009-11-05 (enhancement) rewrite of the Safe Base commands (kupries)

2009-11-11 (bug fix)[2888099] [close] loses ENOSPC error (khomoutov,ferrieux)

2009-11-11 (bug fix)[2891171] RFC 3986 compliance for ? in URL (nijtmans)
=> http 2.8.2

2009-11-12 (bug fix)[2895565] [fcopy -size] miscounts when converting encodings
(kupries)

2009-11-16 (bug fix)[2891556] encoding finalization crash (mistachkin,ferrieux)

2009-11-18 (bug fix)[2849797] consistent names for std chans (nijtmans,fellows)
        *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***

2009-11-19 (enhancement) [load]able Tcltest extension (nijtmans)

2009-11-24 (bug fix)[2893771] [file stat] on Win locked files (thoyts)

2009-11-24 (bug fix)[2903011] crash call destructor from constructor (fellows)

2009-12-03 (bug fix)[2906841] Safe Base [glob ../*] fixes (fellows)

2009-12-09 (bug fix)[2901998] consistent I/O buffering (ferrieux,kupries)

2009-12-11 (bug fix)[2806407] NR-enabled coroutines (sofer)

2009-12-16 (bug fix)[2913616] msgcat: improved safe interp support (fellows)
=> msgcat 1.4.3

2009-12-22 (bug fix)[2918962] [lsort -index -stride] crash (moore,fellows)

2009-12-23 (bug fix)[2913625] [info script/nameof] in safe interps (fellows)

2009-12-28 (bug fix)[2891362] enable time limit in child interps (fellows)

2009-12-29 (bug fix)[2922555] [binary decode hex { }] crash (thoyts)

2009-12-29 (bug fix)[2895741] enable min(), max() in safe interps (fellows)

2009-12-30 (bug fix)[2824981] guard [unknown] against [set] undef (sofer)

2010-01-05 (bug fix)[2918610] [file rootname] corruption (magerya,porter)

2010-01-18 (bug fix)[2932421] less [format %s] shimmer (ferrieux)

2010-01-18 (bug fix)[2918110] [chan postevent] crash (bron,kupries)

2010-01-21 (bug fix)[2910748] NR-enable epoch fallback direct eval (sofer)

2010-01-30 (enhancement) [unset] now bytecompiled (fellows)

2010-02-01 (bug fix)[2942697] faster match: some pathological regexp patterns
(lane,fellows)

2010-02-01 (bug fix)[2939073] [array unset] unset trace crash (ferrieux)

2010-02-02 (bug fix)[2944404] crash in oo destructor (fellows)

2010-02-02 (new feature) [array] is now a [namespace ensemble] (fellows)

2010-02-05 (enhancement) [error] now bytecompiled (fellows)

2010-02-08 (bug fix)[2947783] Tcl_Zlib*flate fail on shared values (fellows)

2010-02-09 (enhancement) [try] now bytecompiled (fellows)

2010-02-11 (bug fix)[2826551] line-sensitive matching in regexp (dejong)

2010-02-11 (bug fix)[2949740] [open |noSuch rb] crash (kovalenko,fellows)

2010-02-15 (bug fix)[2950259] harden (delete obj ns -> delete obj) (fellows)

2010-02-21 (bug fix)[2954959] get sign of abs($zero) right (nijtmans)

2010-02-22 (bug fix)[2762041] zlib chan transforms read EOF too early (kupries)

2010-02-27 (bug fix)[801429] Tcl_SetMainLoop() thread safety (fellows)
        *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***

2010-03-02 (enhancement) -fvisibility-hidden build support (nijtmans)

2010-03-04 (bug fix)[2962664] [oo::class destroy] crash (fellows)

2010-03-05 (interface) TclOO typedefs for function pointers (fellows)
        *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***

2010-03-09 (bug fix)[2936225] stop [chan copy] to slow channel consuming all
memory with buffer backup (ferrieux)

2010-03-17 (bug fix)[2921116] crash in chan transfrom teardown (kupries)

2010-03-19 (enhancement) [throw] now bytecompiled (fellows)

2010-03-20 (enhancement) permit [fcopy] of > 2**31 bytes (fellows)

2010-03-24 (new feature) [info object methodtype] (fellows)

2010-03-24 (bug fix)[2383005] [return -errorcode] reject non-list (porter)

2010-03-25 (bug fix)[2976504] broken fstatfs() call (reeuwijk,fellows)

2010-03-30 (new feature)[TIP 362] [registry -32bit|-64bit] (courtney,fellows)
=> registry 1.3

2010-03-30 (bug fix)[2978773] refchan mem preservation (kupries)

2010-04-02 (new feature)[TIP 357] Tcl_LoadFile, Tcl_FindSymbol, etc. (kenny)

2010-04-05 (configure change)[TIP 364] default build: --enable-threads (fellows)
        *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***

2010-04-02 (new feature)[TIP 348] [info errorstack], [return -errorstack]
(ferrieux)

2010-04-20 (enhancement) update bundled zlib to 1.2.5 (nijtmans)

2010-04-29 (enhancement)[2992970] optimize bytearray appends (fellows)

2010-05-19 (bug fix)[3004007] dict/list shimmer w/o string rep loss (fellows)

2010-06-09 (bug fixes) platform: several fixes for 64 bit systems (kupries)
=> platform 1.0.9

2010-06-16 (bug fix)[3016135] [clock format] in he_IL locale (nijtmans)

2010-06-18 (bug fix)[3017997] Add .cmd to file extensions for [exec] (fellows)

2010-06-28 (bug fix)[3019634] support errno.h changes in MSVC++ 2010 (nijtmans)
        *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***

2010-07-02 (enhancement) -errorcode for [expr] domain errors (fellows)

2010-07-28 (bug fix)[3037525] crash deleting vars @ callframe pop (sofer)

2010-08-04 (bug fix)[3034840] mem corrupt when refchan loses interp (kupries)

2010-08-04 (enhancement) Win [load] use LOAD_WITH_ALTERED_SEARCH_PATH (hobbs)

2010-08-04 (platform support) panic on detection of win9x system (hobbs)
        *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***

2010-08-10 (fix) Handle non-null-terminated bytearrys in glob matching (hobbs)

2010-08-11 (fix) copy-paste bug in [yield] implementation (sofer, goth)

2010-08-11 (platform) Drop pre-aix 4.2 support, ldAix (hobbs)

2010-08-14 (frq)[2819611] changed signatures of hash fnctions, delete-file, and get-native-path (nijtmans)
        *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***

2010-08-15 (bug fix)[3045010] tweaked error message for wrong#args of lambda's (fellows)

2010-08-18 (bug fix)[3004191] fixed safe [glob] (fellows)

2010-08-21 (patch)[3034251] genStubs steal features of ttkGenStubs (nijtmans)

2010-08-26 (bug fix)[1230554] configure, OSF-1 problems, windows manifest issues (hobbs)

2010-08-30 (bug fix) [3046594,3047235,3048771] reimplemented tailcall (sofer)

2010-08-31 fixed manifest handling on windows (hobbs, kupries)

2010-08-31 windows makefile and stub changes (nijtmans)

2010-09-01 (bug fix)[3057639] compiled lappend trace consistency (hobbs,kupries)
        *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***

2010-09-01 fixed safe glob handling of -directory (kupries)

2010-09-02 fixed safe glob handling of -join (kupries)

2010-09-08 (bug fix)[3059922] build with mingw on amd64 (porter, mescalinum)

2010-09-15 (bug fix)[3067036] stop hang in bytearray append (fellows)

2010-09-22 unified set of link libraries between mingw and vc (nijtmans)

2010-09-22 (bug fix)[3072640] protect writes to ::error* variables (sofer)

2010-09-23 fix leak of return options [catch $err m constant] (porter, hobbs)

2010-09-24 (bugfix)[3056775] fixed race condition in windows sockets (kupries)

2010-09-24 (performance) string eq/cmp (hobbs)

2010-09-26 (patch)[3072080] rewritten NRE core (sofer)

2010-09-28 (new feature)[TIP 162] implementation of ipv6 sockets (max)

2010-10-02 (bug fix)[3079830] properly invalidate string rep of dicts (fellows)

2010-10-06 (bug fix)[3081065] fix writing to freed Tcl_Obj (porter)

2010-10-08 fix in ipv6 code on windows (nijtmans)

2010-10-09 fixed overallocation of execution stack (sofer)

2010-10-11 windows unicode changes (nijtmans)

2010-10-12 (bug fix)[3084338] fixed meamleak in ipv6 code (max)

2010-10-13 (bug fix)[467523,983660] alt fix allows empty literal share (porter)

2010-10-15 (bugfix)[3085863] updated unicode tables (nijtmans)
        *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***

2010-10-16 refactored implementation of dict iteration (fellows)

2010-10-17 (patch)[2995655] report inner contexts on error stack (ferrieux)

2010-10-19 (bug fix)[3081008] fixed bytearray zlib interaction (fellows)

2010-10-19 improved crc, appending to bytearray (fellows)

2010-10-20 improved compilation of [dict for] (fellows)

2010-10-26 Added private support to disable reverse dns (max)

2010-10-26 Prevent crashes when querying socket options (fellows, max)

2010-10-28 (bug fix)[3093120] prevent freeaddrinfo(NULL) (porter, virden)

2010-10-29 (bug fix)[2905784] stop cycle waste in short [after] (ferrieux)

2010-11-01 tzdata updated to Olson's tzdata2010o (kenny)

2010-11-04 (bug fix)[3099086] Clarified docs of var substitution (fellows)

2010-11-04 improved install targets (cassof)

2010-11-04 improved testing of sockets (max)

2010-11-05 (frq)[491789] setargv/unicode cmdline for MSVC (nijtmans)

2010-11-09 (bug fix)[3105999] fixed memleak in OO var resolver (fellows)

2010-11-15 (TIP 378)[3081184] improved TIP 280 performance (kupries)

2010-11-16 (platform) VS 2005 SP1 MSVC compiler (nijtmans)

2010-11-18 (bug fix)[3111059] leak in [namespace delete] w coroutines (sofer)

2010-11-28 [3120139,3105247] Tcl_PrintDouble improvements (kenny)

2010-11-29 (new cmd) [tcl::unsupported::inject] (ferrieux,sofer)

2010-11-30 (enhancement) Restore TclFormatInt for performance (hobbs)

2010-12-09 (new feature) [file] is now a [namespace ensemble] (fellows)

2010-12-19 (bug fix) [fcopy -size 1 -command] asynchronous (ferrieux)

2010-12-12 (platform) OpenBSD build improvements (cassoff)

2010-12-17 (platform) Revisions to support rpm 4.4.2 (cassoff)

2010-12-27 (bug fix) crash in [lsort] w multiple -index options (fellows)

2010-12-30 (bug fix)[3142026] GrowEvaluationStack OBOE (harder,sofer)

2011-01-18 (bug fix)[3001438] [info frame -1] crash (mccormack,fellows)

2011-03-01 (performance)[3168398] optimize [interp cancel] (mistachkin)

2011-03-05 (bug fix)[3185009] crash in OO variables (danckaert,fellows)

2011-03-05 (new cmd) [tcl::unsupported::assemble] (ugurlu,kenny)

2011-03-06 (bug fix)[3200987,3192636] parser buffer overruns (porter)

2011-03-08 (bug fix)[3202905] failed intrep release of interp result (mccormack)

2011-03-09 (bug fix)[3202171] repair [namespace inscope] optimizer (porter)

2011-03-10 (new version) better tcltest reporting from child interps (fellows)
=> tcltest 2.3.3

2011-03-10 (new feature) [namespace] is now a [namespace ensemble] (fellows)

2011-03-12 (interface) reduce casting by ckalloc(), ckfree() callers (fellows)

2011-03-14 (bug fix) Fixes from libtommath 0.42.0 release (fellows)

2011-03-21 (bug fix)[3216070] [load] extension from embed Tcl apps (nijtmans)

2011-03-27 (performance) NRE: LIST lset foreach benchmark (twylite)

2011-04-11 (bug fix)[3282869] coroutine + eval + locals crash (ferrieux,sofer)

2011-04-13 (bug fix)[2662380] crash when variable append trace unsets (sofer)

2011-04-13 (bug fix)[3285375] Buffer overflow in [concat] (porter)

2011-05-02 (internals change) revised TclFindElement() interface (porter)
 *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***

2011-05-05 (enhancement) dict->list w/o string rep generation (porter)

2011-05-10 (bug fix)[3173086] Crash parsing long lists (rogers,porter)

2011-05-24 (enhancement) msgcat internal improvements (fellows)
=> msgcat 1.4.4

2011-05-25 (TIP 381) [info object|class call] [self call] [nextto] (fellows)

2011-05-31 (bug fix)[3293874] let lists grow all the way to the limit (porter)

2011-06-02 (bug fix)[3185407] cmd resolution epoch flaw (nadkarni,fellows)

2011-06-13 (bug fix)[3315098] mem leak generating double string rep (neumann)

2011-06-22 (new feature) DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH support (kupries)
=> platform 1.0.10

2011-07-15 (bug fix)[3357771] Prevent circular refs in bytecode (porter)

2011-07-28 tzdata updated to Olson's tzdata2011h (porter)

2011-08-01 (bug fix)[3383616] memleak exposed by XOTcl (neumann,sofer)

Many more Tcl built-in command errors now set an -errorcode.

--- Released 8.6b2, August 8, 2011 --- See ChangeLog for details ---