Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 20th Dec 2007 21:35 UTC, submitted by wordtech
Tcl/Tk 8.5.0 has been released. "The 8.5 release was a long time in development, and brought about several good enhancements to Tcl/Tk. Source releases, the exact changes and ChangeLog for each release are available in the SourceForge Tcl project's file distribution area."
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2006-01-03
There are a lot of nice things in this release. It now has a core OO framework that can be used as a minimal OO system but is really designed for other more robust frameworks to build on. Native themeing in Tk. There is now a dictionary data structure.
There is also the start of the much clamored for CPAN for Tcl called Teapot (or something like that).
Highlights of Tcl 8.5
Speed: 8.5 now runs 10% faster than 8.4 with bytecode improvements, object caching and reduced memory usage.
Bignums: Tcl now supports arbitrary-precision integers, which improves math operations on large integers.
Safer interps: Tcl's powerful safe interpreter mechanism now has improved control of time and command limits in slave interpreters.
clock command: More robust implementation of command for specifying time, with significant l10n and i18n improvements.
dict command: New data structure that allows access to data by value rather than a variable name, which is substantially faster.
Additional improvements: Faster list search, new and improved mathematics procedures, anonymous procedures, new ways to package Tcl extensions, Tcl-level custom channel types, file and line location information for each command, and more.
Highlights of Tk 8.5
New modern theming engine: New and complementary widgets that make use of platform-specific theming on Mac OS X and Windows to better fit in with those environments, and feature an improved look and feel under X11.
New widgets: Part of the themed widget set, Tk now has core notebook, combobox, treeview and progressbar widgets.
text widget: Smooth scrolling, widget peering, and improved procedures for counting and replacing text.
Font rendering: Now uses anti-aliased text under X11, and a more modern text engine (ATSUI) on Mac OS X.
Additional improvements: Window transparency, new fullscreen option for windows, enhancements to specific widgets and window layout, and more.
Resource:
http://wiki.tcl.tk/