Dear OpenACS Community
XOTcl 1.5.6 is available. This version is mostly a fix release for
some problems that were apparently quite long in the code and could
cause crashes for threaded applications. Some of this bugs
are "programming errors", but nevertheless it is recommended
to upgrade.
best regards
-gustaf neumann
Announcing XOTcl 1.5.6
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We are pleased to announce the availability of XOTcl 1.5.6.
Major changes relative to 1.5.4 are:
* Fixes for treating global volatile objects (many thanks to Zoran
for his concise reports). The problem was that XOTcl uses
C-level var traces containing pointers to objects.
If for some reason, these objects are destroyed earlier, this
results in dangling references. This problem caused especially
problems in the automatic cleanup of variables at the end
of a thread.
* Fix for Tcl 8.4.* for situations, where Tcl variables
contained references to deleted XOTcl objects. The problem
was introduced by the VarReform changes between 1.5.3 and
1.5.4 by a bad side effect of a Tcl_Obj based command
to look up Tcl command structurs. The problem did not
exist for xotcl compiled against Tcl 8.5 and is as well
fixed on the Tcl side in CVS (might become available,
when one more Tcl 8.4 release is eventually released)
* Serializer:
- Added dependency rule in serializer to ensure slots of
super-classes are listed before subclasses. (Thanks to Stefan
Sobernig for reporting the problem)
- Moved deactivation of traces into "Serializer all"
to get simpler results on "o serialize".
* Extended regression tests
For more details about the changes, please consult the ChangeLog and
documentation.
MORE INFO
General and more detailed information about XOTcl and its components
can be found at http://www.xotcl.org
