Tcl/Tk 8.4.10 Release Announcement
June 4, 2004

The Tcl Core Team is pleased to announce the 8.4.10 releases of the Tcl
dynamic language and the Tk toolkit.  This is the tenth patch release
of Tcl/Tk 8.4.  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:
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Tcl/Tk 8.4.10 sources are freely available as open source from the
Tcl Developer Xchange web site at:

	http://www.tcl.tk/software/tcltk/8.4.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/project/showfiles.php?group_id=10894

Binaries for most major platforms are available from:

	http://www.activestate.com/Tcl

In addition, Mac OS X binaries are available from:

	http://tcltkaqua.sourceforge.net/

For additional information:
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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.

Thank you for your contributions:
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As usual, this release includes contributions from the Tcl community.
We have a page honoring these contributors at:

	http://www.tcl.tk/software/tcltk/contributors.html

Summary of Changes since Tcl/Tk 8.4.9:
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The following were the main changes in Tcl/Tk 8.4.10.  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.

  * Updated build support for Mac OS X, Solaris 10 (64-bit, x86 and sparc),
    AIX gcc and HP-UX gcc builds, OpenBSD ports, and allow msys builds
    without cygwin installed

  * [TIP 218] Tcl_Channel API update for threads

  * Tcl_Expr* corrections for Tcl_WideInt

  * Clean up memory loss at thread exit

  * Lower minimum buffer size from 10 to 1 byte

  * Windows pipes now honor -blocking on close to mirror existing unix
    behavior, set -blocking 1 before 'close' to receive exit status
	***POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY***

  * Make unix notifier thread joinable

  * Improve BMP, JPG image load speed

  * Add Spanish msg catalog

  * Several panedwindow drawing, destruction fixes

  * Correct MouseWheel %A translation

  * Improve Aqua native look and feel for entry and spinbox

  * Improve load-able Tk on Aqua

  * Several Aqua widget usability fixes

  * tk_popup menus are now "sticky"

  * Correctly display Unicode characters in X11 titlebars

  * Documentation improvements

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Tcl Core Team and Maintainers
Jeff Hobbs, Tcl Core Release Manager
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