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Release Tcl 9.1.1 arises from the check-in with tag core-9-1-1.

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

Bug fixes

• regexp sometimes allows an invalid backref to be matched
• regexp -all did not try to match at the end of the string
• regexp/regsub -all restarted matching on the substring after the previous match
• with REG_BOSONLY only the first alternative was anchored at the beginning of the string
• TclUnixWaitForFile: infinite wait may return early
• lsearch -regexp released the pattern when matching failed
• restore the blocking mode when "socket -async" connects at once
• compiled [clock clicks -mi] should give "ambiguous option" error
• writing a file beyond the file size limit (ulimit -f) killed the process
• Incorrect argument handling by [regexp]
• compiled regexp behaves differently
• a {1,1} quantifier was always dropped as vacuous
• regexp with backreferences could loop forever
• remove empty directories from the zipfs VFS with POSIX find options
• tailcall panicked in a command called directly by its objProc
• compiled [self n] should be ambiguous
• difference between bcc'ed and eval'ed regexp
• regsub always asked the regexp engine for 10 submatches
• regsub -command panics with more than 9 capturing groups
• Problem with ::http::OpenSocket
• on Windows a joinable thread which exits before it is joined leaked
• on Unix, Tcl_JoinThread() should not call pthread_join() for detached threads
• zlib-8.3 and zlib-9.3 connected to localhost
• zipfs channels never generated file events
• interp create resets the system encoding set by encoding system
• traceback using clock format with locale of he_IL
• he locale: BCE and CE era names are swapped
• format %A garbles negative, padded and infinite values
• socket-2.12 failed on OpenBSD
• do not throw from [socket -async] when the connect fails at once
• test portability for illumos: skip socket-14.19 where SO_REUSEPORT is not supported
• lset with several indices on an abstract list (lseq) used a freed sublist

Updated bundled packages, libraries, standards, data

• http 2.10.3
• msgcat 1.7.2
• tzcode 2026e

Updated bundled packages, libraries, standards, data

Release Tcl 9.1.0 arises from the check-in with tag core-9-1-0.

Highlighted differences between Tcl 9.1 and Tcl 9.0 are summarized below, with focus on changes important to programmers using the Tcl library and writing Tcl scripts.

Incompatibilities

• Remove expr behavior from lseq Incompatibility
• File paths are now treated as case-insensitive on MacOS Incompatibility
• New command tcl::registry as replacement for the registry command without needing the registry package to be loaded. The registry module is now part of the core Tcl DLL in all build configurations.
• Custom applications must call Tcl_FindExecutable or TclZipfs_AppHook to initialize Tcl Potential incompatibility
• Search path for locating Tcl core script and encodings is changed Potential incompatibility

New commands and options

• New options -backslashes, -commands and -variables for subst command
• New command unicode for Unicode normalization
• New timer command, switch to monotonic clock and microsecond resolution
• New lfilter command for selecting items from a list
• Many new functions from C99, specifically: acosh(), asinh(), atanh(), cbrt(), copysign(), dim(), erf(), erfc(), exp2(), expm1(), fma(), gamma(), ldexp(), lgamma(), log1p(), log2(), logb(), nextafter(), remainder(), signbit(), and trunc(), and (for functions that return multiple values in their C99 API) the commands: divmod, frexp, modf, and remquo. (See this page for more information about these functions; the Tcl functions are intentionally only thin wrappers around the functions in the C99 standard.)
• New switch option -integer to compare values as integers
• Reading and writing of child interpreter variables
• Updated Tcl Bytecode opcodes

• Add support for \z in regex as end-of-string anchor

• New tcltest::configure option -iterations to control number of iterations of each test.

New public C API

• Tcl_IsEmpty() — checks if the string representation of a value would be the empty string
• Tcl_GetEncodingNameForUser() — returns name of encoding from user settings
• Tcl_AttemptCreateHashEntry() — version of Tcl_CreateHashEntry() that returns NULL instead of panic'ing on memory allocation errors
• Tcl_ListObjRange(), Tcl_ListObjRepeat(), Tcl_ListObjReverse() — C API for new list operations
• Tcl_UtfToNormalized(), Tcl_UtfToNormalizedDString() — C API for Unicode normalization
• Tcl_UtfToExternalEx() and Tcl_ExternalToUtfEx() — C encoding API supporting output buffers larger than INT_MAX
• New API for monotonic clock and microseconds resolution
• Windows auto_execok enhancements and exec search reform
• New timer API using long long in stead of Tcl_Time
• Tcl_RegisterPostInitProc callback for post-initialization of interpreters

Performance

• Memory efficient internal representations for list operations on large lists.
• Continued 64-bit capacity: Command line arguments larger than 2Gb
• Support for long paths on Windows
• Faster UTF-8 encoding and I/O
• Faster interpreter creation

Bug fixes

• Inconsistent glob matching on MacOS
• file normalize does not uniquely identify a file on MacOS
• Inconsistencies between cd and file normalize for volume-relative paths on Windows
• Tcl cannot run from an arbitrary build directory with --disable-zipfs
• Crash on finalization with an active thread running.
• Crash on use-after-free in Windows socket thread.

Updated bundled packages, libraries, standards, data

• Unicode 18.0.0
• platorm 1.2.0: Add support for musl C runtime