The Jim Interpreter

Thursday, 27 February 2014

Jim Tcl version 0.75

ANNOUNCE: Jim Tcl version 0.75

Jim Tcl 0.75 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 at http://jim.tcl.tk/

CHANGES SINCE VERSION 0.74

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 0.75

• eventloop - Correct file handler should be deleted
• eventloop - Fix memory management of aio event handlers
• local - Requires at least one argument
• exec - Support nulls in exec immediate redirection
• binary - More compliant with Tcl
• aio - Fix aio recvfrom for non-inet socket
• Fix string tolower buffer overflow for non-utf8
• jimsh - consider scripts with trailing backslash as unfinished
• Properly respect backslashes in comments
• Avoid infinite recursion with namespace import
• Fix dict/list shimmering with embedded nulls
• Fix aio close from non-global namespace
• tailcall should resolve command in current namespace
• errors caught by catch shouldn`t affect later stacktrace
• tailcall: properly merge tailcall frames
• exec: fix reaping of detached processes
• clock: handle case of format string too long
• format: fix format %hd on some platforms
• jim.c: fix some dict/list shimmering issues

Features added in version 0.75

• binary, pack and unpack now support floating point
• file copy -force handles source and target as the same file
• format now supports %b for binary conversion
• lsort now supports -unique and -real
• Add support for half-close with aio close ?r|w?
• Add socket pair for a bidirectional pipe
• Add –random-hash to randomise hash tables for greater security
• dict now supports for, values, incr, append, lappend, update, info and replace
• file stat no longer requires the variable name

Compatiblity

• The deprecated case command has been removed

Steve Bennett (steveb@workware.net.au)