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Subject: Tcl/Tk 8.2b3 release - DN [1]

"Paul Gardiner" <paul@scriptics.com> - 11 Aug 1999 - comp.lang.tcl

 Tcl/Tk 8.2b3 Release Announcement
 11 August, 1999

 We are pleased to announce the release today of Tcl/Tk 8.2b3. The list of
 bugs fixed since the last beta release is described below. Please let us
 know of any problems you find. This beta is effectively a candidate release.
 Unless something major is found, v8.2 will go final next week.

 1. Removed the TclpMutexLock and TclpMutexUnlock internal APIs and added a
 new
    exported api, Tcl_GetAllocMutex. These APIs are all for the mutex used in
    the simple memory allocators.  By making this change we are able to
    substitute different implementations of the thread-related APIs without
    having to recompile the Tcl core.

 2. There is a new C API: Tcl_GetChannelNames returns a list of open channel
    names in the interpreter result. Server-like applications can use this
    to clean up files without deleting interpreters.

 3. Applied patches supplied by Henry Spencer to greatly enhance performance
    of certain classes of regular expressions. [Bug: 2440 2447]

 4. Fixed reference to bytes that might not be null terminated in
    tclLiteral.c. [Bug: 2496]

 5. Fixed typo in http.tcl. [Bug: 2502]

 6. Fixed test suite to handle larger integers (64bit). Patch from Don
 Porter.

 7. Clarified documentation for a number of issues [Bugs 693, 1330, 1952,
 2042,
    2188, 2189, 2455]

 8. Fixed path handling in auto_execok [Bug: 1276]