Dear XOTcl Community,

XOTcl 1.5.2 is available. This is mostly a bug fix release and fixes most prominantly two serious bugs, which were in the code for a some longer time, but showed up after 1.5.1. It seems as if the new features of XOTcl attracked more users to try/upgrade the code. One bug showed up on 64 bit code on AMD processes with FreeBSD, the other bug showed on some "odd, old, 64-bit system" of Don Porter, but turned out to be a problem on every system.

I hope, this ends the series of quick bug fix releases, such we can address more functional improvements.

Another good news is that Martin Matuska has volunteered to provide a FreeBSD port such that XOTcl will be most likely included on the DVD of the forthcoming 6.2 release. Many thanks!

best regards -gustaf neumann

PS: The binary version for windows will follow soon.

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Announcing XOTcl 1.5.2 *************************

Hi everybody. We are pleased to announce the availability of XOTcl 1.5.2. Major changes relative to 1.5.1 are:

* Improved Functionality

+ allowing to trace objects as well as classes via the package xotcl::trace (many thanks to jima for suggesting this)

* Improved code quality: + terminating all vararg lists in C by ..., (char *) NULL There was a problem with this on 64bit AMD on FreeBSD, as some lists were terminated previously by an integer typed zero-value. + better handling of Tcl result objects. Make sure that no changes happen on shared objects. Removed all occurrences of Tcl_AppendResult() from xotcl.c + Fixed memory corruption (accessing feed memory) in the invalidation of transitive mixins (many thanks to Don Porter for reporting)

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

Best regards,

Gustaf Neumann Uwe Zdun