Download Tcl/Tk 8.5.3

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 8.5.3 and is being distributed as source code as usual. The release announcement is as follows:

Tcl/Tk 8.5.3 Release Announcement

The Tcl Core Team is pleased to announce the 8.5.3 releases of the Tcl dynamic language and the Tk toolkit. This is the third 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 8.5.2:

The following were the main changes in Tcl/Tk 8.5.3. 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.

• Corrected unreliable [fcopy] callbacks and enabled bidirectional fcopy.
• Support Tcl Module packages in a Safe Base interp.
• Fixed [slave bgerror] to operate in slave, not master.
• Fixed crash when a ttk::label gets width or height of zero.
• Fixed crash in [chan postevent].
• Fixed crash in [dict append].
• Fixed crash in [glob -dir {} a].
• Fixed crash in Tk_ParseArgv().
• Fixed crash in a global [grab].
• Fixed [tell] overflow on large files.
• Fixed missing events on canvas items.
• Made Tk more robust when Tcl and Xlib disagree about system encoding.
• Improved Solaris support for DTrace and 64 bit.
• Fixed floating point rounding on Solaris/x86.

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