[TCLCORE] CORRECTED Re: Tcl/Tk 8.6.5 RELEASED

The flawed distribution files from the retracted release have
now been replaced.

Since I'm sure people are curious, the difference in the correction
is the deletion of 4 lines of code in tclVar.c that were a debugging
print in very rarely executed code. This sneaked into the released
sources by a mistaken commit of sandbox work. The flaw was not
caught by a run of the test suite. 

We do not want the Tcl library just writing to stdout
unexpectedly, so the retraction and correction seemed the
least bad choice available.

DGP

________________________________________
From: Porter, Don (Fed) <dona...@nist.gov>
Sent: Monday, February 29, 2016 8:29 PM
To: Tcl List Core
Subject: [TCLCORE] RETRACTED!! Re:  Tcl/Tk 8.6.5 RELEASED

With sincere regret, I retract this release.  Due to careless
error in the release process, unintended changes from the
final RC entered the release.  A second attempt will follow soon.

DGP

________________________________________
From: Don Porter <dona...@nist.gov>
Sent: Monday, February 29, 2016 5:13 PM
To: Tcl List Core
Subject: [TCLCORE] Tcl/Tk 8.6.5 RELEASED

Tcl/Tk 8.6.5 Release Announcement
February 29, 2016

The Tcl Core Team is pleased to announce the 8.6.5 releases of the Tcl
dynamic language and the Tk toolkit.  This is the fifth patch release
of Tcl/Tk 8.6.  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:
------------------------------

Tcl/Tk 8.6.5 sources are freely available as open source from the
Tcl Developer Xchange web site at:

         http://www.tcl.tk/software/tcltk/8.6.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 are available from:

         http://www.activestate.com/Tcl

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

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 8.6.4:
--------------------------------------

This is a patch release, so it primarily includes bug fixes and corrections
to erratic behavior.  All relevant bug fixes (and some more) up to and
including 8.5.19 changes are included in 8.6.5.  Highlighted changes are
noted below.  The changes file at the root of the source tree contains
a more complete list.  The Timelines of all changes are online.

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

    * [TIP 436] [info object isa] favors 'false' over error.

    * [TIP 441] New option [listbox ... -justify].

    * New Tk icons have clear free license.

    * Stopped use of deprecated Cocoa API calls that trigger warnings in
clang.

    * Cocoa: Smoother window resizing; eliminated redraw/flicker on El
Capitan.

    * Cocoa: Elimination of zombie windows when windows are closed.

    * Fixed crashes or hangs in...
       - traced [expr].
       - OO teardown.
       - [$text delete].
       - asynchronous socket connection on Windows.
       - large-scale multi-threading with forks.
       - overflows and memory errors in image handling.

    * Repaired memory leaks in
       - compiled [unset a($i)].
       - zlib compresion errors.
       - [file] operations on Windows.
       - Cocoa event loop processing.

    * Fix: [tailcall] combinations with [next] or ensembles.

    * Fix: compiled [lreplace] handling of end.

    * Fix: Ctrl-C/Ctrl-Break in Window console not treated as EOF.

    * Fix: [tk_getOpenFile] -initialdir on Windows.

    * Fix: streaming [zlib deflate] failure on empty input.

    * Fix: non-empty [self] in destructor after failed constructor.

    * Updated bundled packages
       - msgcat 1.6.0: [TIP 412] dynamic and per-package locale.
       - http 2.8.9: Default gzip transfer encoding; per-connection -accept
         *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***
       - registry 1.3.1: Unicode SendMessageTimeout().
       - Itcl 4.0.4
       - Thread 2.7.3
       - sqlite 3.11.0
       - TDBC* 1.0.4

--
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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