The Tcl/Tk 8.1b3 release features a number of bug fixes and patches that came from the Tcl user community. In this message we acknowledge and thank those users who contributed to this release. "sfreed" Configure fixes for BSD/OS 4.* Christian Krone Fixes to build Tcl for OS/390 (!) Christian Krone Fixed copy/paste for entries that use -show Kazuro Furukawa Compilation fix for Digital UNIX Jan Nijtmans Compilation warning fix for tclUnixSock.c Jan Nijtmans Various bug fixes for the stubs implementation Jan Nijtmans Fixed Windows installer .tcl file association Ulrich Ring Compilation fix for tclCmdIL.c Taketo Kabe IO test improvements for slow machines Andreas Kupres Test suite improvements Zach Frey Makefile fix for make test and --enable-sybols Don Porter (similar fix for make test and --enable-sybols) Don Porter Evaluation of aliases at the global scope, always Don Porter Fixed text widget crash when indexing before 1.0 Petteri Kettunen Compilation errors for MSVC 6 Syd Polk Text widget search returned incorrect character count Frank Leitner Fixed "sticky" Open button in tk_getSaveFile Harald Oehlmann DDE bug fixes We log all bug reports and patch submissions in our bug database. During each release cycle, we devote some engineering resources to review the submissions. While we may not apply a patch directly, they provide a valuable aid to our engineers as they fix problems. We encourage you to submit patches to fix your favorite (or least favorite!) bug via our form at http://www.scriptics.com/support/bugForm.html All postings to this form that include patches will be cataloged under the Tcl Resource Center at http://www.scriptics.com/resource/software/patches/