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Subject: ANNOUNCE: Tcl/Tk 8.2.2 Release - DN [1]

Jeffrey Hobbs <jeffrey.hobbs@scriptics.com> - 05 Nov 1999 - comp.lang.tcl

 Tcl/Tk 8.2.2 Release Announcement
 November 5th, 1999

 We are pleased to announce the 8.2.2 releases of the Tcl scripting
 language and the Tk toolkit.  This is primarily a bugfix release.
 More details can be found below.  We'd like to thank all those that
 submit bugs and patches as they are the primary source of information
 for us to identify problems in the core.

 Where to get the new releases:
 ------------------------------

 Tcl 8.2.2 and Tk 8.2.2 are freely available in open source from the
 Scriptics web site at
         http://www.scriptics.com/products/tcltk/8.2.html
 This web page also contains additional information about the
 releases, including new features and notes about installing and
 compiling the releases.

 For additional information:
 ---------------------------

 Please visit the Scriptics Web site.
         http://www.scriptics.com/
 This site contains a variety of information about Tcl/Tk in general,
 the core Tcl and Tk distributions, the TclPro tool suite, and much
 more.

 Thank you for your contributions:
 ---------------------------------
 As usual, this release includes contributions from the Tcl
 community. We have a page honoring these contributions at:
         http://www.scriptics.com/products/tcltk/contributors.html

 Summary of Changes since Tcl/Tk 8.2.1:
 ---------------------------------

 The following were the main changes in Tcl/Tk 8.2.2. A complete
 list can be found in the changes file at the root of the source tree.
 The more complete ChangeLog is also now included with each release.

 1. Fixed all reported mem leaks from Purify on Solaris and NT in the
 threaded and non-threaded builds (about a half dozen separate items).

 2. Added streamlined regular expression engine (RE) from Henry Spencer.
 This greatly reduces stack usage of regexps (although they can still
 grow dynamically).

 3. Fixed event/io threading problems (patch from Kisserbeth).

 4. Fixed va_list usage portability problem for Linux PPC (patch from
 English).

 5. Fixed problem that resulted in corrupted literal table and
 consequently a segmentation fault (patch from Whitehouse).

 6. Fixed some UTF filename handling problems on the Mac (Ingham).

 7. Fixed mapping of keysym to keycode in Windows (caused incorrect
 keysym generation during an 'event generate' call for symbolic keysyms
 like <Home>, <Left>, etc).

 8. Removed while loop from private tkEntrySeeInsert that would cause
 reduced performance problems in entry widget when typing rapidly or
 adding a lot of text.

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    Jeffrey Hobbs                          The Tcl Guy
    jeffrey.hobbs at scriptics.com         Scriptics Corp.