The Tcl/Tk 8.0.5 release features many bug fixes that came from the Tcl user community. In this message we acknowledge and thank those users that contributed to this release. Along with each name is the ID and synopsis of the bug he or she helped fix. Ian Taylor 581: TclGetDefaultStdChannel core dump Dave Mielke (same bug, similar patch) Kevin Kenny 892: Socket inheritance on Windows Gordon Chaffee 893: socket -async error cases Victor Dukhovni 895: Windows test fixes for registry package Jan Nijtmans 908: configure.in fixes for Tk Jan Nijtmans 914: test fixes in winFCmd and winPipe Jan Nijtmans 920: dumpexts fix for C++ extensions Jan Nijtmans 972: egcs-1.1 support in tcl.h Jan Nijtmans 978: Windows init bug when no registry values exist Jan Nijtmans 1113: Objectify the "open" command Jan Nijtmans 1138: Robustness of init.tcl Larry Virden 919: Tk send used uninitialized memory Frank Leitner 924: tkMenuFind walks through wrong menus Sebastian Wangnick 925: Can't select width 0 canvas lines Felix Lee 928: compiler emits bad code for "if" expressions Tom Wilkason 973: tkconsole fails to return result from ConsoleCmd Ed Murphy 975: Problem 'make'ing Tcl 8.0.4 under BSDI 4.0 Jim Ingham 1006: entry widget crashes on NT4.0/J service pack 3 Mo Dejong 1010: The cd command has incorrect error message Mo Dejong 1017: bug in make runtest rule Mo Dejong 1018: configure bug on Linux and IRIX systems Luc Deschenaux 1108: can't catch ::eof error in ::http::CopyDone Robin Becker 1109: Win32 registry keys aren't complete Jonathan Kamens 1117: n32 library support on IRIX 6.5 doesn't work Don Libes 1126: file extension bug John Ellson 1137: ENOTSUP == EOPNOTSUPP compile failure 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/