CHANGES SINCE VERSION 0.80

This release contains 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 0.81

• info complete - return 0 if the script is missing an end quote
• sqlite3 - return integers as 64 bit values, not 32 bit

Features and improvements added in version 0.81

• New redis client extension
• expr - TIP 582 - support comments in expressions
• Many commands now accept “safe” integer expressions rather than simple integers: loop, range, incr, string repeat, lrepeat, pack, unpack, rand
• string and list indexes now accept “safe” integer expressions
• loop can now omit the start value
• New xtrace command for execution trace support
• Add history keep
• Add support for lsearch -index and lsearch -stride, the latter per TIP 351
• lsort -index now supports multiple indices
• Add support for lsort -stride
• open now supports POSIX-style access arguments
• sdl extension now supports SDL2, and basic text support is added as well as polling support
• ABI version checking is now available to allow dynamic modules to verify they are loaded into a compatible interpreter

Possible incompatibilities in version 0.81

• If the --compat configure option is not set, expr now only allows a single argument (per TIP 526)

CHANGES SINCE VERSION 0.79

This release contains 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 0.80

• return -level 0 -code xxx now returns the correct result
• regexp - fix an issue with failed optional group
• oo - fix an issue when no class variables are given
• oo - fix super invocation with multiple inheritance levels
• tailcall - fix to avoid growing the C stack frame
• regsub -all with \A now works correctly
• scan - fix an issue with chars vs bytes in utf-8 mode
• aio - fix eventloop and eof for ssl connections
• lsearch -regexp - fix the case where the pattern begins with a dash
• lsearch -command - handle the case with too few args
• Disallow renaming a local proc with upcall to avoid inconsistent behaviour

Features and improvements added in version 0.80

• Dictionaries now preserve insertion order
• string map and string compare now support embedded nulls
• string match and other glob matches now support embedded nulls
• Variable and proc names now support embedded nulls
• Interactive mode now prints results containing embedded nulls
• Generate a build warning if system is non-Y2038 compliant
• package names added as an alias for package list
• file rootname, file dirname are now more consistent with Tcl
• aio - add Server Name Indication (SNI) ssl support
• aio - add socket pty support
• The 0d radix prefix is now supported for decimal (base 10)
• String comparison operators lt, gt, le and ge are now supported
• dict getwithdefault (and the alias dict getdef) are now supported
• Build has coverage support, and test coverage is now over 90%
• Performance improvements in a number of areas

CHANGES SINCE VERSION 0.78

This release contains 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 0.79

• aio - Fix closing stdin in bootstrap jimsh
• clock scan - Unspecified fields use the current date/time
• Fix linenoise assertion failure on Windows
• file - Improved support for trailing slashes in pathnames
• regexp, regsub - Various fixes in UTF-8 mode
• $(...) syntax now properly returns non-error codes

Features added in version 0.78

• file - Add mtimeus for microsecond resolution
• file - Add missing split subcommand
• lreplace - Implement TIP #505
• aio - Add dgram unix socket support
• aio - Add support for lock -wait
• aio copyto - Significantly improve performance
• aio tty - Allow setting echo
• signal - Add block for blocking signals with SIG_IGN
• Add built-in JSON support with the json extension
• Improve performance when indexing UTF-8 strings

Other changes

• Documentation updates to improve consistency, remove obsolete commands, add some missing commands
• exec no longer forces SIGPIPE disposition to SIG_DFL
• Update autosetup to v0.6.9 with optimised insert/delete