Tcl/Tk 8.6.0 - Changelog

What's new in Tcl/Tk 8.6 Beta 3:

November 21st, 2012

· New command: [yieldto].
· A new OO builtin class: [oo::Slot].
· A new OO standard method: (extends [oo::copy].
· A new subcommand: [string is entier].
· Redefined color names to match Web colors.
· Bundled distribution of SQLite 3 3.7.14.
· Updates to Unicode 6.2 support.
· Several bugfixes.
· Mac OS X versions before 10.4 (Tiger) are no longer supported.

What's new in Tcl/Tk 8.6 Beta 2:

September 2nd, 2011

· PNG format support in photo images.
· IPv6 networking support.
· New OO commands: [info ... call], [self call], and [nextto].
· The command [$notebook config -tabposition] is enhanced.
· Default handling of events has been revised.
· New interfaces for NRE support by extensions.

What's new in Tcl/Tk 8.5.7:

April 16th, 2009

· Embeddable CoreFoundation notifier on Darwin.
· Improved compatibility support in [load] on Darwin.
· Restored Tk_CreatePhotoImageFormat compat with aMSN.
· Stopped blurry large fonts on Vista.
· New version 1.0.3 of platform package: more details in identifiers for Darwin
· New version 2.7.3 of http package: fixes connect failure when partial lines returned
· New version 2.3.1 of tcltest package: removes several unsafe [eval]s
· Menu image display fixes.
· Fixed crash in Tk_MakeWindowExist() seen with gitk.
· Fixed [file pathtype] on volumerelative paths.
· Extended virtual events to work when Caps Lock is on.
· Stopped memory leak in [file normalize].
· Fixed crash on exit with [chan create]d channels.
· Prevent crashes overflowing max string lengths.
· Improved support for MSVC builds on _WIN64 systems.

What's new in Tcl/Tk 8.6 Beta 1:

December 29th, 2008

· The new commands [try], [throw], [zlib], and [ttk::spinbox] were added.
· The new subcommads [file tempfile], [tk busy], [tk fontchooser], [$canvas imove], and [$canvas rchars] were added.
· A new ttk theme was added: vista uses the new "hover" state.
· The build script now supports bundled packages.