Import Tcl 8.6.12

ChangeLog

@@ -8096,7 +8096,7 @@ a better first place to look now.
 2009-03-25  Jan Nijtmans  <nijtmans@users.sf.net>
 
 	* doc/tclsh.1:		 Bring doc and tools in line with
-	* tools/installData.tcl: http://wiki.tcl.tk/812
+	* tools/installData.tcl: https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/exec+magic
 	* tools/str2c
 	* tools/tcltk-man2html.tcl
 

ChangeLog.2004

@@ -345,7 +345,7 @@
 	* library/clock.tcl: Corrected the regular expressions that match a
 	time zone to allow for time zones specified as +HH or -HH.
 	* tests/clock.test: Added regression test case for the above issue.
-	Thanks to Rolf Ade for reporting this issue [http://wiki.tcl.tk/13094]
+	Thanks to Rolf Ade for reporting this issue [https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/Parsing+ISO8601+dates+and+times]
 	* win/tclWinDde.c (Tcl_DdeObjCmd): Corrected a typo that caused a
 	compilation failure on VC++.
 

ChangeLog.2007

@@ -5262,7 +5262,7 @@
 	* generic/tclStrToD.c: Added code to support the "middle endian"
 	floating point format used in the Nokia N770's software-based floating
 	point. Thanks to Bruce Johnson for reporting this bug, originally on
-	http://wiki.tcl.tk/15408.
+	https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/Nokia+770.
 	* library/clock.tcl: Fixed a bug with Daylight Saving Time and Posix
 	time zone specifiers reported by Martin Lemburg in
 	http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/9a8b15a4dfc0b7a0

README.md

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # README:  Tcl
 
-This is the **Tcl 8.6.11** source distribution.
+This is the **Tcl 8.6.12** source distribution.
 
 You can get any source release of Tcl from [our distribution
 site](https://sourceforge.net/projects/tcl/files/Tcl/).
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ and selling it either in whole or in part.  See the file
 ## <a id="doc">2.</a> Documentation
 Extensive documentation is available on our website.
 The home page for this release, including new features, is
-[here](https://www.tcl.tk/software/tcltk/8.6.html).
+[here](https://www.tcl-lang.org/software/tcltk/8.6.html).
 Detailed release notes can be found at the
 [file distributions page](https://sourceforge.net/projects/tcl/files/Tcl/)
 by clicking on the relevant version.
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ Tcl Dev Kit builds on the earlier TclPro toolset and provides a debugger,
 static code checker, single-file wrapping utility, bytecode compiler, and
 more.  More information can be found at
 
-	http://www.ActiveState.com/Tcl
+	https://www.activestate.com/products/tcl/
 
 ## <a id="complangtcl">5.</a> Tcl newsgroup
 There is a USENET newsgroup, "`comp.lang.tcl`", intended for the exchange of

changes

@@ -8893,7 +8893,7 @@ improvements to regexp engine from Postgres (lane,porter,fellows,seltenreich)
 
 2018-11-16 (bug)[00d04c] Repair [binary encode base64] (sebres)
 
-- Released 8.6.9, November 16, 2018 - details at http://core.tcl-lang.org/tcl/ -
+- Released 8.6.9, November 16, 2018 - details at https://core.tcl-lang.org/tcl/ -
 
 2018-11-22 (bug)[7a9dc5] [file normalize ~/~foo] segfault (sebres)
 
@@ -8944,7 +8944,7 @@ improvements to regexp engine from Postgres (lane,porter,fellows,seltenreich)
 2019-11-18 (bug)[13657a] application/json us text, not binary (noe,nijtmans)
 => http 2.9.1
 
-- Released 8.6.10, Nov 21, 2019 - details at http://core.tcl-lang.org/tcl/ -
+- Released 8.6.10, Nov 21, 2019 - details at https://core.tcl-lang.org/tcl/ -
 
 2019-12-03 (bug)[3cd9be] Corner case in surrogate handling (nijtmans)
 
@@ -8972,8 +8972,8 @@ improvements to regexp engine from Postgres (lane,porter,fellows,seltenreich)
 2020-02-25 (bug) release refs when setting class's superclasses fails (dkf)
 
 2020-02-26 (bug) C++ compiler compatibility for registry and dde (nijtmans)
-=> registry 1.4.3
-=> dde 1.3.5
+=> registry 1.3.5
+=> dde 1.4.3
 
 2020-03-05 (new) Update to Unicode-13 (nijtmans)
 
@@ -9073,4 +9073,46 @@ See RFC 2045
 
 2020-12-23 tzdata updated to Olson's tzdata2020e (jima)
 
-- Released 8.6.11, Dec 31, 2020 - details at http://core.tcl-lang.org/tcl/ -
+- Released 8.6.11, Dec 31, 2020 - details at https://core.tcl-lang.org/tcl/ -
+
+2021-02-02 (new) support for MacOS Big Sur updates (nijtmans)
+=> platform 1.0.17
+
+2021-02-15 (bug)[d43f96] [string trim*] broken for Emoji (werner)
+
+2021-02-16 (bug)[22324b] [string reverse] broken for Emoji (werner)
+
+2021-02-19 (bug)[1dab71,7c64aa] BRE broken by uninitialized value use (lane)
+
+2021-03-09 (bug)[8419c5] Unix tty channels tolerate EINTR (nijtmans)
+        *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***
+
+2021-03-10 (bug)[4c591f] [string compare] EIAS violation (nijtmans)
+
+2021-04-08 (new) dde package installation compatible with Tcl 9 (nijtmans)
+=> dde 1.4.4
+
+2021-04-14 (bug)[266494] [concat foo [list #]] EIAS violation (porter)
+
+2021-05-03 (bug)[24b918] Save IO buffers from modern optimizers (rupprecht)
+
+2021-05-06 (new) support for POSIX error EILSEQ (nijtmans)
+
+2021-05-17 (bug)[688fcc] segfault during traced delete of alias (coulter)
+
+2021-06-22 (bug)[bad6cc] More secure build tool. CVE-2021-35331 (nijtmans)
+
+2021-07-17 (bug)[592a25] Win: segfault in Tcl_PutEnv() (danckaert,nijtmans)
+
+2021-09-02 (bug)[ccc448] segfault in ensemble rewrite machinery (coulter)
+
+2021-09-14 (new) Update to Unicode-14 (nijtmans)
+
+2021-10-08 (bug)[a8579d] failed proc argument spec processing (russell,coulter)
+
+2021-10-27 (new) support for MacOS Monterey (nijtmans)
+=> platform 1.0.18
+
+2021-10-27 tzdata updated to Olson's tzdata2021e (nijtmans)
+
+- Released 8.6.12, Nov 5, 2021 - details at https://core.tcl-lang.org/tcl/ -