Tcl/Tk 8.2.1 Release Announcement
October 4th, 1999

We are pleased to announce the 8.2.1 releases of the Tcl scripting
language and the Tk toolkit.  This is primarily a bugfix release.
More details can be found below.  We'd like to thank all those that
submit bugs and patches as they are the primary source of information
for us to identify problems in the core.

Where to get the new releases:
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Tcl 8.2.1 and Tk 8.2.1 are freely available in open source from the
Scriptics web site at
	http://www.scriptics.com/products/tcltk/8.2.html
This web page also contains additional information about the
releases, including new features and notes about installing and
compiling the releases.

For additional information:
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Please visit the Scriptics Web site.
	http://www.scriptics.com/
This site contains a variety of information about Tcl/Tk in general,
the core Tcl and Tk distributions, the TclPro tool suite, and much
more.

Thank you for your contributions:
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As usual, this release includes contributions from the Tcl
community. We have a page honoring these contributions at:
        http://www.scriptics.com/products/tcltk/contributors.html

Summary of Changes since Tcl 8.2.0:
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The following were the main changes in Tcl/Tk 8.2.1. A complete
list can be found in the changes file at the root of the source tree.
The more complete ChangeLog is also now included with each release.

1. Applied several config patches to get AIX support working again.
There are still some issues with using gcc and possibly also with
threading that we are working on.

2. Fixed an expr double-evaluation problem (see tests expr-20.[45]).

3. Fixed a static buffer problem that affected megawidget users
with long widget pathnames.

4. Fixed linsert interpretation of end-integer indexing.

5. Fixed core dump when using array set on a variable in a
non-existent namespace.

6. Other minor fixes, see ChangeLog for exquisite detail.