[TCLCORE] Tcl/Tk 8.5.17 RELEASED

Tcl/Tk 8.5.17 Release Announcement
October 25, 2014

The Tcl Core Team is pleased to announce the 8.5.17 releases of the Tcl
dynamic language and the Tk toolkit.  This is the seventeenth patch release
of Tcl/Tk 8.5.  More details can be found below.  We would like to
express our gratitude to all those who submit bug reports and patches.
This information is invaluable in enabling us to identify and eliminate
problems in the core.

Where to get the new releases:
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Tcl/Tk 8.5.17 sources are freely available as open source from the
Tcl Developer Xchange web site at:

         http://www.tcl.tk/software/tcltk/8.5.html

This web page also contains additional information about the releases,
including new features and notes about installing and compiling the
releases.  Sources are always available from the Tcl SourceForge
project's file distribution area:

	http://sourceforge.net/projects/tcl/files/

Binaries for most major platforms will be available from:

         http://www.activestate.com/Tcl

For additional information:
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Please visit the Tcl Developer Xchange web site:

         http://www.tcl.tk/

This site contains a variety of information about Tcl/Tk in general, the
core Tcl and Tk distributions, Tcl development tools, and much more.

Summary of Changes since Tcl/Tk 8.5.16:
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The following were the main changes in Tcl/Tk 8.5.16.  A complete list
can be found in the changes file at the root of the source tree.  The
more complete Timelines of all changes are online

	http://core.tcl.tk/tcl/
	http://core.tcl.tk/tk/

This is a patch release, so it primarily includes bug fixes and corrections
to erratic behavior.  Below are only the most notable changes.

    * Fixed crash in Cocoa Tk after [$button destroy].

    * Stop hangs in...
	-  some [read]s of limited size.
	-  [gets] from non-blocking binary channels.

    * Fix: [gets] failure to honor non-blocking setting.

    * Fix: failure of [chan copy] to handle blocked input channel.

    * Fix: Cocoa: PNG transparency appearance.

    * Fix: Cocoa: button and scroll display.

    * Fix: manage effects of [text] elide changes.

    * Enhancement: Cocoa: improved drawing performance.

    * Corrected button click event handling to support browser plugin.

    * Update: Support build and run on OS X Yosemite.

    * Update: MSVC14 compile support.

--
Tcl Core Team and Maintainers
Don Porter, Tcl Core Release Manager
-- 
| Don Porter            Applied and Computational Mathematics Division |
| dona...@nist.gov             Information Technology Laboratory |
| http://math.nist.gov/~DPorter/                                  NIST |
|______________________________________________________________________|

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