The Jim Interpreter

Wednesday, 20 November 2019

Jim Tcl version 0.79

ANNOUNCE: Jim Tcl version 0.79

Jim Tcl 0.79 has been released and is available from:

https://github.com/msteveb/jimtcl

Find out all about Jim Tcl at http://jim.tcl.tk/

CHANGES SINCE VERSION 0.78

This release contains 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 0.79

• aio - Fix closing stdin in bootstrap jimsh
• clock scan - Unspecified fields use the current date/time
• Fix linenoise assertion failure on Windows
• file - Improved support for trailing slashes in pathnames
• regexp, regsub - Various fixes in UTF-8 mode
• $(...) syntax now properly returns non-error codes

Features added in version 0.78

• file - Add mtimeus for microsecond resolution
• file - Add missing split subcommand
• lreplace - Implement TIP #505
• aio - Add dgram unix socket support
• aio - Add support for lock -wait
• aio copyto - Significantly improve performance
• aio tty - Allow setting echo
• signal - Add block for blocking signals with SIG_IGN
• Add built-in JSON support with the json extension
• Improve performance when indexing UTF-8 strings

Other changes

• Documentation updates to improve consistency, remove obsolete commands, add some missing commands
• exec no longer forces SIGPIPE disposition to SIG_DFL
• Update autosetup to v0.6.9 with optimised insert/delete

Steve Bennett (steveb@workware.net.au)