ActiveTcl Release Notes

New in This Release

Latest change: UPX compression of basekits has been dropped for Linux, removing it in its entirety.

ActiveTcl 8.4.20.0 June, 2013

This ActiveTcl release is based on the 8.4.20 Tcl core.

Release History

ActiveTcl 8.5.14March, 2013

This ActiveTcl release is based on the 8.5.14 Tcl core.

This release includes:

ActiveTcl 8.6.0.0 January, 2013

This ActiveTcl release is based on the 8.6.0 Tcl core.

ActiveTcl 8.5.13 November, 2012

This ActiveTcl release is based on the 8.5.13 Tcl core.

This release includes:

ActiveTcl 8.5.12.1 August, 2012

This ActiveTcl release is based on the 8.5.12 Tcl core incorporating fixes to the OSX platform.

This release includes:

ActiveTcl 8.5.12.0 July, 2012

This ActiveTcl release is based on the 8.5.12 Tcl core.

This release includes:

ActiveTcl 8.5.11.1 February, 2012

This ActiveTcl release is based on the 8.5.11 Tcl core.

This release includes:

ActiveTcl 8.4.19.6 February, 2012

This ActiveTcl release is based on the 8.4.19 Tcl core.

Removed:
None

ActiveTcl 8.5.11.0 November, 2011

This ActiveTcl release is based on the 8.5.11 Tcl core.

This release includes:

ActiveTcl 8.4.19.5 February, 2011

This ActiveTcl release is based on the 8.4.19 Tcl core.

ActiveTcl 8.5.10.1 July, 2011

This ActiveTcl release is based on the 8.5.10 Tcl core.

This release includes:

ActiveTcl 8.5.10.0 June, 2011

This ActiveTcl release is based on the 8.5.10 Tcl core.

This release includes:

ActiveTcl 8.5.9.2 February, 2011

This ActiveTcl release is based on the 8.5.9 Tcl core.

This release includes:

ActiveTcl 8.5.9.1 December, 2010

This ActiveTcl release is based on the 8.5.9 Tcl core.

This release includes:

ActiveTcl 8.4.19.4 December, 2010

This ActiveTcl release is based on the 8.4.19 Tcl core.

ActiveTcl 8.5.9.0 October, 2010

This ActiveTcl release is based on the 8.5.9 Tcl core.

This release includes:

ActiveTcl 8.4.19.4 May, 2010

This ActiveTcl release is based on the 8.4.19 Tcl core.

ActiveTcl 8.5.8.2 May, 2010

This ActiveTcl release is based on the 8.5.8 Tcl core.

This release includes:

ActiveTcl 8.5.8.1 January, 2010

This ActiveTcl release is based on the 8.5.8 Tcl core.

This release includes:

ActiveTcl 8.5.8.0 November, 2009

This ActiveTcl release is based on the 8.5.8 Tcl core.

This release includes:

ActiveTcl 8.5.7.1 September, 2009

This ActiveTcl release is based on the 8.5.7 Tcl core.

This release includes:

ActiveTcl 8.4.19.2 August, 2009

This ActiveTcl release is based on the 8.4.19 Tcl core.

ActiveTcl 8.5.7.0 April, 2009

This ActiveTcl release is based on the 8.5.7 Tcl core.

This release includes:

ActiveTcl 8.5.6.0 January, 2009

This ActiveTcl release is based on the 8.5.6 Tcl core.

This release includes:

ActiveTcl 8.5.5.0 October, 2008

This ActiveTcl release is based on the 8.5.5 Tcl core. Note: This release should be deployed in a production environment after extensive testing only.

This release includes:

ActiveTcl 8.4.19.1 August, 2008

This ActiveTcl release is based on the 8.4.19 Tcl core.

ActiveTcl 8.5.4.0 August, 2008

This ActiveTcl release is based on the 8.5.4 Tcl core. Note: This release should be deployed in a production environment after extensive testing only.

This release includes:

ActiveTcl 8.5.3.0 June, 2008

This ActiveTcl release is based on the 8.5.3 Tcl core. Note: This release should be deployed in a production environment after extensive testing only.

This release includes:

ActiveTcl 8.5.2.0 April, 2008

This ActiveTcl release is based on the 8.5.2 Tcl core. Note: This release should be deployed in a production environment after extensive testing only.

This release includes:

ActiveTcl 8.4.19.0 April, 2008

This ActiveTcl release is based on the 8.4.19 Tcl core.

ActiveTcl 8.5.1.0 February, 2008

This ActiveTcl release is based on the 8.5.1 Tcl core. Note: This release should be deployed in a production environment after extensive testing only.

This release includes:

ActiveTcl 8.4.18.0 February, 2008

This ActiveTcl release is based on the 8.4.18 Tcl core.

ActiveTcl 8.5.0.0 December, 2007

This ActiveTcl release is the first release based on the final 8.5.0 Tcl core. Note: This first non-beta release should be deployed in a production environment after extensive testing only.

This release includes:

ActiveTcl 8.4.17.0 December, 2007

This ActiveTcl release is based on the 8.4.17 Tcl core.

Linux x86_64 has been added to the set of platforms.

Solaris 2.8 is now required, Solaris 2.6 has been dropped.

ActiveTcl 8.4.16.1 October, 2007

This ActiveTcl release is based on the 8.4.16 Tcl core.

ActiveTcl 8.4.16.0 September, 2007

This ActiveTcl release is based on the 8.4.16 Tcl core.

ActiveTcl 8.4.15.0 July, 2007

This ActiveTcl release is based on the 8.4.15 Tcl core.

ActiveTcl 8.4.14.0 November, 2006

This ActiveTcl release is based on the 8.4.14 Tcl core.

ActiveTcl 8.4.13.0 April, 2006

This ActiveTcl release is based on the 8.4.13 Tcl core.

ActiveTcl 8.4.12.0 December, 2005

This ActiveTcl release is based on the 8.4.12 Tcl core.

ActiveTcl 8.4.11.2 October, 2005

This ActiveTcl release is based on the 8.4.11 Tcl core.

ActiveTcl 8.4.11.1 August, 2005

This ActiveTcl release is based on the 8.4.11 Tcl core and is for the Windows platform only.

ActiveTcl 8.4.11.0 July, 2005

This ActiveTcl release is based on the 8.4.11 Tcl core.

ActiveTcl 8.4.10.1 June, 2005

This ActiveTcl release is based on the 8.4.10 Tcl core.

ActiveTcl 8.4.10.0 June, 2005

This ActiveTcl release is based on the 8.4.10 Tcl core.

ActiveTcl 8.4.9.1 April, 2005

This ActiveTcl release is based on the 8.4.9 Tcl core.

ActiveTcl 8.4.9.0 December, 2004

This ActiveTcl release is based on the 8.4.9 Tcl core.

ActiveTcl 8.4.8.0 November, 2004

This ActiveTcl release is based on the 8.4.8 Tcl core.

ActiveTcl 8.4.7.1 October, 2004

This ActiveTcl release is based on the 8.4.7 Tcl core.

ActiveTcl 8.4.7.0 July, 2004

This ActiveTcl release is based on the 8.4.7 Tcl core.

ActiveTcl 8.4.6.1 May, 2004

ActiveTcl 8.4.6.0 February, 2004

This ActiveTcl release is based on the 8.4.6 Tcl core. It includes Tcllib version 1.6.

ActiveTcl 8.4.5.0 November, 2003

This ActiveTcl release is based on the 8.4.5 Tcl core, and includes minor module updates.

ActiveTcl 8.4.4.0 July, 2003

This ActiveTcl release is based on the 8.4.4 Tcl core.

ActiveTcl 8.4.3.0 May, 2003

This is the first ActiveTcl release based on the 8.4.3 Tcl core.

ActiveTcl 8.4.2.0 February, 2003

This is the first ActiveTcl release based on the 8.4.2 Tcl core

ActiveTcl 8.3.5.0 October, 2002

This is the first ActiveTcl release based on the 8.3.5 Tcl core

ActiveTcl 8.3.4.4 October, 2002

ActiveTcl 8.4.1.1 December, 2002

ActiveTcl 8.4.1.0 October, 2002

ActiveTcl 8.4.0.1 September, 2002

ActiveTcl 8.4.0.1 beta 2 March, 2002

ActiveTcl 8.4.0.1 beta 1 January, 2002

ActiveTcl 8.4.0.1b1 is made up of the latest Tcl/Tk 8.4a4 core from CVS, plus the following extensions (a * denotes updates since the last release):

   % [incr Tcl/Tk] 3.2 and iwidgets 4.0.0
     http://incrtcl.sourceforge.net/
   % Tcllib 1.2 and Bwidgets 1.4.0
     http://tcllib.sourceforge.net/
   % tktable 2.7 
     http://tktable.sourceforge.net/
   % tkcon 2.3
     http://tkcon.sourceforge.net/
   % TclX 8.3 
     http://tclx.sourceforge.net/
   % expect 5.38 (Unix only) *
     http://expect.nist.gov/
   % Img 1.2.4
     http://purl.oclc.org/net/nijtmans/img.html 
   % TclXML 2.0 (now including expat C library) and TclDOM 2.0
     http://sf.net/projects/tclxml 
   % TclSOAP 1.6
     http://sf.net/projects/tclsoap 
   % Snack 2.1.3
     http://www.speech.kth.se/snack/ 
   % TkHTML 2.0
     http://www.hwaci.com/sw/tkhtml/index.html

ActiveTcl 8.3.4.3 June, 2002

ActiveTcl 8.3.4.3 consists of the latest stable core of Tcl/Tk (8.3.4 with patches).

ActiveTcl 8.3.4.2 January, 2002

ActiveTcl 8.3.4.1 October, 2001

ActiveTcl 8.3.3.3 August, 2001

ActiveTcl 8.3.3.2 July, 2001