Index: doc/Announce2.4.0 =================================================================== diff -u -N -r58af8a711fea665ca5b7bf41c06c521f58487c5d -r3fcd7b1d7185545b051b297c40416e579f06dfec --- doc/Announce2.4.0 (.../Announce2.4.0) (revision 58af8a711fea665ca5b7bf41c06c521f58487c5d) +++ doc/Announce2.4.0 (.../Announce2.4.0) (revision 3fcd7b1d7185545b051b297c40416e579f06dfec) @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ - Maintenance & bug fixes: * Tcl 9: For the first time, NSF now compiles and its test suite - completes with Tcl 9. Kudos to Jan Njitmans and Gustaf Neumann. + completes with Tcl 9. Kudos to Jan Njitmans. * Tcl 8.7: @@ -35,25 +35,30 @@ o NSF is now TIP-538 ready (Tcl starting relying on libtommath as an extrinsic dependency). - * Plug a small memory leak when using mp_int (libtommath) data internally. + * Fixed type name abbreviation bug: Previous versions did not + handle cases correctly where an application type name starts with + the same character sequence as a built-in type. So it was not + possible to define a type "object_id", since a a spec of the form + "x:object_id" was interpreted as "x:object" ("object" is a + predefined type). Now, such type name abbreviations are not + allowed. - * Fix a crash when using volatile combined with configure in XOTcl 2. + * Plugged a small memory leak when using mp_int (libtommath) data internally. - * Fix crashes due to internal cache mismanagement of flag names + * Fixed a crash when using volatile combined with method "configure" + in XOTcl 2. + + * Fixed crashes due to internal cache mismanagement of flag names processed by configure/ cget. See https://groups.google.com/g/comp.lang.tcl/c/F9cn_Ah4js4/m/eL22xbQaCgAJ - * Exit from non-threaded NSF builds will not hang anymore. + * Fixed exit from non-threaded NSF builds (will not hang anymore). - * Prefer using Tcl_InterpDeleted() over explicitly checking bit mask - flags internal to Tcl. + * Added a warning when a slot name hints a typing error. - * Misc (esp. NSF/C): Ran valgrind checks, as well as Facebook's/ - Meta's "infer". - - Build environments, automated builds: - * Render Makefile more robust in light of file paths containing + * Made "Makefile" more robust in light of file paths containing whitespace characters * Due to Travis becoming unavailable, we moved to GitHub Actions for