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# ActiveTcl Release Notes

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- Release History

## New in This Release

## Release History

ActiveTcl 8.6.0.0 Beta 9 November, 2012

This ActiveTcl release is based on the 8.6 Tcl core. Note: This release should not be deployed in a production environment.

ActiveTcl 8.6.0.0 Beta 8 September, 2012

This ActiveTcl release is based on the 8.6b3 Tcl core. Note: This release should not be deployed in a production environment.

ActiveTcl 8.6.0.0 Beta 7 February, 2012

This ActiveTcl release is based on the 8.6b2 Tcl core. Note: This release should not be deployed in a production environment.

ActiveTcl 8.6.0.0 Beta 6 August, 2011

This ActiveTcl release is based on the 8.6b2 Tcl core. Note: This release should not be deployed in a production environment.

ActiveTcl 8.6.0.0 Beta 5 February, 2011

This ActiveTcl release is based on the 8.6b1.2 Tcl core. Note: This release should not be deployed in a production environment.

ActiveTcl 8.6.0.0 Beta 4 October, 2010

This ActiveTcl release is based on the 8.6b1.2 Tcl core. Note: This release should not be deployed in a production environment.

ActiveTcl 8.6.0.0 Beta 3 May, 2010

This ActiveTcl release is based on the 8.6b1.2 Tcl core. Note: This release should not be deployed in a production environment.

ActiveTcl 8.6.0.0 Beta 2 September, 2009

This ActiveTcl release is based on the 8.6b1.1 Tcl core. Note: This release should not be deployed in a production environment.

ActiveTcl 8.6.0.0 Beta 1 January, 2009

This ActiveTcl release is based on the 8.6b1 Tcl core. Note: This release should not be deployed in a production environment.

This release includes:

- TDBC (Tcl Data Base Connectivity).

ActiveTcl 8.5.0 beta 12 December, 2007

This ActiveTcl release is the twelfth beta release based on the 8.5.0 Tcl core. Note: This release includes beta code. It should not be deployed in a production environment. It has not been tested with ActiveState's Tcl Dev Kit.

This release includes:

- Bugfixes in several packages, and in the Tcl/Tk core.
- Updated:

ActiveTcl 8.5.0 beta 11 November, 2007

This ActiveTcl release is the eleventh beta release based on the 8.5.0 Tcl core. Note: This release includes beta code. It should not be deployed in a production environment. It has not been tested with ActiveState's Tcl Dev Kit.

This release includes:

- Bugfixes in several packages, and in the Tcl/Tk core.
- Updated:

ActiveTcl 8.5.0 beta 10 October, 2007

This ActiveTcl release is the tenth beta release based on the 8.5.0 Tcl core. Note: This release includes beta code. It should not be deployed in a production environment. It has not been tested with ActiveState's Tcl Dev Kit.

This release includes:

- Bugfixes in several packages, and in the Tcl/Tk core.
- Updated:
    - Basekits. Fixed problem with them not able to run on Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon). Updated to upx 3.00.

ActiveTcl 8.5.0 beta 9 September, 2007

This ActiveTcl release is the ninth beta release based on the 8.5.0 Tcl core. Note: This release includes beta code. It should not be deployed in a production environment. It has not been tested with ActiveState's Tcl Dev Kit.

This release includes:

- Bugfixes in several packages, and in the Tcl/Tk core.

ActiveTcl 8.5.0 beta 8 July, 2007

This ActiveTcl release is the eight beta release based on the 8.5.0 Tcl core. Note: This release includes beta code. It should not be deployed in a production environment. It has not been tested with ActiveState's Tcl Dev Kit.

This release includes:

- Bugfixes in several packages, and in the Tcl/Tk core.

ActiveTcl 8.5.0 beta 7 April, 2007

This ActiveTcl release is the seventh beta release based on the 8.5.0 Tcl core.

This release includes:

- Bugfixes in several packages, and in the Tcl/Tk core.

ActiveTcl 8.5.0 beta 6 November, 2006

This ActiveTcl release is the sixth beta release based on the 8.5.0 Tcl core.

This release includes:

- Bugfixes in several packages, and in the Tcl/Tk core.

ActiveTcl 8.5.0 beta 5 April, 2006

This ActiveTcl release is the fifth beta release based on the 8.5.0 Tcl core.

This release includes:

- Bugfixes in several packages, and in the Tcl/Tk core.

ActiveTcl 8.5.0 beta 4 October, 2005

This ActiveTcl release is the fourth beta release based on the 8.5.0 Tcl core.

This release includes:

- Bugfixes in several packages, and in the Tcl/Tk core.

ActiveTcl 8.5.0 beta 3 December, 2004

This ActiveTcl release is the third beta release based on the 8.5.0 Tcl core.

This release includes:

- Bugfixes in several packages, and in the Tcl/Tk core.

ActiveTcl 8.5.0 beta 2 May, 2004

This ActiveTcl release is the second beta release based on the 8.5.0 Tcl core.

This release includes:

- Bugfixes in several packages, and in the Tcl/Tk core.
- The installer now installs correctly from paths containing unicode characters.

ActiveTcl 8.5.0 beta 1 March, 2004

This ActiveTcl release is the first beta release based on the 8.5.0 Tcl core.

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.

- Tcom 3.8 (Windows only)
- tcllib 1.4

ActiveTcl 8.4.2.0 February, 2003

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

- BWidgets version 1.6
- TclXML version version 2.6
- TclSOAP version 1.6.6

ActiveTcl 8.3.5.0 October, 2002

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

- TclXML version 2.4
- TclDOM version 2.4
- BWidgets version 1.5

ActiveTcl 8.3.4.4 October, 2002

- TclXML version 2.3 (including expat)
- TclDOM version 2.3
- Fixed bug in handling of PATHEXT variable when running a Windows installation as a user without administrative rights

ActiveTcl 8.4.1.1 December, 2002

- Snack version 2.2
- TclXML version 2.5
- TkImg version 1.3

ActiveTcl 8.4.1.0 October, 2002

- TclXML version 2.4
- TclDOM version 2.4
- BWidgets version 1.5

ActiveTcl 8.4.0.1 September, 2002

- This version is built from the official Tcl 8.4 sources, as opposed to unofficial CVS head versions (ActiveTcl 8.4.0.1b1).
- This version includes Snack version 2.1.5

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