Jim Tcl version 0.78

ANNOUNCE: Jim Tcl version 0.78

Jim Tcl 0.78 has been released and is available from:

http://repo.or.cz/w/jimtcl.git or https://github.com/msteveb/jimtcl

Find out all about Jim Tcl athttp://jim.tcl.tk/

CHANGES SINCE VERSION 0.77

This release contains some bug fixes plus a number of additional features. A summary is below. See git for the full changelog.

Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release.

Bugs fixed in version 0.78

• local - Fix crash when local command is deleted
• history - When creating ~/.jim_history, set permissions to 0600 for security
• exec - Fix windows exec with empty or unset env
• exec - Fix check for | and |&
• jim.c - Fix Object leak in zlib support
• signal - Restore default signal handling on interp exit
• dict - Fix [dict values] with duplicate values
• Fix ‘/’ command, divide by zero
• expr - Replace expression engine to fix a number of problems
• zlib - Various fixes
• lsort -unique - Fix case with no duplicates
• aio tempname - Fix a crash when the template is invalid
• Tcl compatibility - Error on extra characters after close brace
• eventloop - Return from callback is not an error
• oo - Fix methods for superclasses
• Various refcount and edge case fixes found by fuzz testing

Features added in version 0.78

• Add support for utf-8 wide characters
• aio - Add tty for termios settings
• aio - Add sockopt for broadcast , tcp_nodelay , etc.
• utf-8 - Update UnicodeData.txt to 9.0.0
• jimsh - Add support for jimsh -
• jimsh - Scriptable command-line completion support via tcl::autocomplete
• history - Add autocompletion support history completion <cmd>
• Add support for -commands to many commands
• Add pkg-config support - jimtcl.pc
• clock - Add -gmt option to format and scan
• tree - Allow nodes to be deleted
• defer , $jim::defer - Allow scripts to run on proc exit
• eventloop - Support sub-millisecond timer resolution
• Support lambda even if references are disabled
• Performance - Improve a number of common cases through caching
• signal , exec , wait , pid , pipe - Many improvements
• build - Support --silent-rules , and enable by default
• regexp - Implement class shorthand escapes in brackets
• linenoise ( jimsh ) - Add ^Z (SUSP) support
• linenoise ( jismh ) - Update to support multiline mode

Other changes

• signal - Remove the signal command from child interpreters
• os.wait is now wait
• aio ssl now upgrades the current channel rather than creating a new channel
• Update autosetup to v0.6.8

Steve Bennett ( [email protected] )