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Release Tk 9.0.3 arises from the check-in with tag core-9-0-3.

Tk 9.0.3 continues the Tk 9.0 series of releases. The Tk 9.0 series does not support Tcl 8.6. The Tk 9.0 series extends the Tcl 9.0 series. To make use of Tk 9.0.3, first a Tcl 9.0 release must be present. As new Tk features are developed, expect them to appear in Tk 9, but not necessarily in Tk 8.

Tk patch releases have the primary purpose of delivering bug fixes to the userbase.

• Pressing Alt- triggers an error popup
• error popup on ttk::scale with invisible trough
• loading windows dll's in Cygwin doesn't work with high-entropy-va
• TIP 604 widget demo: canvas text fill color not specified
• Undefined behavior while touchpad scrolling
• leak in XCreateBitmapFromData() in ImgGetPhoto()
• Add support for Copy/Cut/Paste keys in X11
• Aqua: compiler warning in tkMacOSXImage.c
• tkpWinRopModes[GXnoop] is R2_NOT, should be R2_NOP
• image svg: support paint order and fix possible nan race condition
• Windows: install man pages
• Windows: install pkg-config file
• Windows: Missing border pixels in alt theme
• nanosvg upstream changes: #273, #275: add paint order parsing
• Artifacts in a few themed widgets on x11 and aqua
• Core dump Tk_GetFontFromObj
• MS-Win canvas arcs with small extent are drawn 360 degrees
• pixel values can report false list lengths
• Xft text is unusable for 32-bit visual when default visual is 24-bit
• tk print: several issues printing i18n text
• tk print, canvas: raw smooth not implemented
• Aqua: avoid use-after-free during RefocusGrabWindow()
• Aqua: ttk::notebook tabs
• Fix crash on exit due to faulty asm code in DllMain

Release Tk 9.0.2 arises from the check-in with tag core-9-0-2.

Tk 9.0.2 continues the Tk 9.0 series of releases. The Tk 9.0 series does not support Tcl 8.6. The Tk 9.0 series extends the Tcl 9.0 series. To make use of Tk 9.0.2, first a Tcl 9.0 release must be present. As new Tk features are developed, expect them to appear in Tk 9, but not necessarily in Tk 8.

Tk patch releases have the primary purpose of delivering bug fixes to the userbase.

• Visible grip element added in ttk::panedwindow sashes of most built-in themes

• inaccurate scrollbar error-message
• Build tk 9.0.1 failed on macos 10.13
• image svg upstream out of bound read nanosvg#262
• wm iconbitmap does not correctly set the icon pixmap hint on macOS
• Backspace crashes 9.0 interpreter on FreeBSD
• Bug in the ttk::scale widget of the "default" theme
• Wrong appearance of the ttk::menubutton indicator of the "xpnative" theme
• English shortcuts for Chinese locale
• Tk_Get3DBorderColors broken by design
• MS-Win: Incorrect system menu entries for transient toplevels
• MS-Win: Withdrawn Tk transient windows can reappear in Windows taskbar preview
• Aqua windows don't always move focus correctly
• Cross compiling using x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc
• BWidget Drag & Drop no longer works on Aqua
• tk print command fails with canvas widget
• tk print command fails on windows
• tk print fails for canvas items with non integer widths
• tk print canvas with smooth lines crashes on windows
• Collect utility procs for the Tk test suite
• Setting ttk state may change the a variable passed by value
• wm iconbitmap does not support icon files with png images on Windows
• block cursor size on a tab is too large
• macOS clipboard managers do not notice clipboard changes done by Tk

• The ActiveCodePage element has been removed from the Windows executable manifest for wish

Release Tk 9.0.1 arises from the check-in with tag core-9-0-1.

Tk 9.0.1 continues the Tk 9.0 series of releases. The Tk 9.0 series does not support Tcl 8.6. The Tk 9.0 series extends the Tcl 9.0 series. To make use of Tk 9.0.1, first a Tcl 9.0 release must be present. As new Tk features are developed, expect them to appear in Tk 9, but not necessarily in Tk 8.

Tk patch releases have the primary purpose of delivering bug fixes to the userbase. As the first patch release in the Tk 9.0 series, Tk 9.0.1 also includes a small number of interface changes that complete some incomplete features first delivered in Tk 9.0.0.

• TIP #706: Expose three Tk "In Context" functions via stubs table
• Tilde file syntax not available on 9.0 but used by "~/.Xdefaults"
• leftover use of tilde in filename string

• Canvas widget handles pixel objects incorrectly in Tk 9.0
• SIGABRT from Tk_DeleteErrorHandler()
• build failure on macOS < 10.13
• Two potentially bogus binding scripts for
• Aqua: canvas items are not always redrawn
• Aqua: color rgb values do not behave as expected when appearance is changed
• Aqua: winfo rgb . systemLabelColor returns a weird result on aqua
• Aqua: background thread became slower
• Use of Tcl_Obj vs char * in Widget storage
• cannot build .chm help file (Windows)
• Tk initialization overwrites thread specific data
• File clamTheme.tcl misses code related to the -indicatorforeground option
• Segfault when using menu(button) with the -font option
• Bind mechanism vs. GNOME
• many PIXEL options don't keep their configured value
• Menu entry underline does not consider activeborderwidth

Release Tk 9.0.0 arises from the check-in with tag core-9-0-0.

Highlighted differences between Tk 9.0 and Tk 8.6 are summarized below, with focus on changes important to programmers using the Tk library and writing Tcl scripts containing Tk commands.

• Built-in widgets and themes are scaling-aware.
• Improved support of two-finger gestures, where available
• The tk windowingsystem "aqua" needs macOS 10.9 or later

• tk sysnotify — Access to the OS notifications system
• tk systray — Access to the OS tray facility
• tk print — Access to the OS printing facility

• New ttk::progressbar option: -text
• $frame ... -backgroundimage $img -tile $bool
• $menu id, $menu add|insert ... ?$id? ...
• $image get ... -withalpha ...
• All indices now accept the forms end, end-int, int+|-int

• ttk::notebook with nondefault tab positions

• Partial SVG support
• Read/write access to photo image metadata

• Inconsistent reporting of child geometry changes to grid container
• slow widget creation if default font is not used
• The wm manage command does not work on current macOS versions
• Slow processing irregular transparencies
• text's cursor width on 0th column
• text widget breaks graphemes with combining diacritical marks