Friday, 24 June 2011
Jim Tcl version 0.71
ANNOUNCE: Jim Tcl version 0.71
Jim Tcl 0.71 has been released and is available from:
http://repo.or.cz/w/jimtcl.git or https://github.com/msteveb/jimtcl
CHANGES SINCE VERSION 0.70
This release incorporates bug fixes and several new features, including:
Bugs fixed
- Line editing works better on serial consoles
- Fix various parsing bugs and crashes in unusual cases
- package require now loads packages at the global level
- string trim* and string last are now 8-bit clean and faster
- exec child processes are now reaped
- FD_CLOEXEC is now set on opened filehandles
- dlopen() handles are now freed on freeing interpreter
Features added
- Add optional support for the binary command
- Test suite is now tcltests v2 compatible
- proc ‘args’ can now be renamed
- Automatic proc upref args are now supported with &varname
- expr shorthand syntax with $(…)
- Previous proc definitions can be saved with local and invoked with upcall
- Non-greedy regexp/regsub support with the built-in regexp implementation
- Minimal exec implementation is supported even without vfork/waitpid
- configure is now faster and simpler with autosetup (https://github.com/msteveb/autosetup)
- Add string byterange
- Ability to create a single source file bootstrap jimsh
- Added debian packaging support
Steve Bennett (steveb@workware.net.au)
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