Download Tcl/Tk 8.5.4

The Tcl Core Team has released a new version of the Tcl/tk package, which consists of the tcl scripting language and its toolkit. Tcl is a powerful scripting language that is simple to build and offers cross-platform support. Tk is a graphical toolkit for this scripting language and allows you to develop graphical applications. The version number has now arrived at 8.5.4 and is being distributed as source code as usual. The release announcement is as follows:

Tcl/Tk 8.5.4 Release Announcement

The Tcl Core Team is pleased to announce the 8.5.4 releases of the Tcl dynamic language and the Tk toolkit. This is the fourth 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.

Summary of Changes since Tcl/Tk 8.5.3:

The following were the main changes in Tcl/Tk 8.5.4. A complete list can be found in the changes file at the root of the source tree. The more complete ChangeLog is also included with each source release. This is a patch release, so it primarily included bug fixes and corrections to erratic behavior. Below are only the most notable changes.

• Restored ability to compile Tk against the latest X header files from X.org, which are incompatible with earlier Tk releases.
• Restored ability to embed non-stub-enabled Tk in a C program as a static package using MSVC compilers, by providing a missing export.
• Restored ability to find packages on Samba shares on Windows.
• Fixed duplicate inode errors accessing native filesystem on Windows.
• Fixed crash in [ttk::scale].
• Fixed crashes in unmapped top level windows.
• Better internal rep preservation shimmering lists and dicts.
• Improved Tcl Module maintenance with automatic [package provide].
• Improved portability of value returned by [winfo id].
• Fixed rare panic in [scan].

Tcl Core Team and Maintainers
Don Porter, Tcl Core Release Manager