Tk 9.0.2 Release Announcement
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July 2, 2025
The Tcl Core Team is pleased to announce the release of Tk 9.0.2.
This is the second patch release of Tk 9.0.
The Tk Toolkit is an extension to Tcl, providing commands and supports
for the creation of graphical user interfaces. Tk originates with John
Ousterhout and his team at U.C. Berkeley in the late 1980s. Its development
is continued by the efforts of a global network of volunteers guided by
the Tcl Core Team.
We would like to express our gratitude to all those who submit bug
reports and patches. This information is invaluable in enabling us
to identify and eliminate problems. Such reports can be submitted here.
[Tk Ticket Tracker](https://core.tcl-lang.org/tk/ticket)
We ask that you log in (anonymous if you wish) to create tickets.
This deters abuse of the ticketing system:
[Tk Contributor Login](https://core.tcl-lang.org/tk/login)
Where to get the new releases
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Tk 9.0.2 sources are freely available as open source from the Tcl
SourceForge project's file distribution area:
[Tcl Source Distribution](https://sourceforge.net/projects/tcl/files/)
The Tk 9.0.2 distribution is source code only. We keep links to some
third parties offering pre-built binaries for various systems here:
[Tcl Binary Distribution](https://www.tcl-lang.org/software/tcltk/bindist.html)
Tcl Improvement Proposals (TIPs)
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Each new user-visible feature in Tk should find its origins in a Tcl
Improvement Proposal (TIP). TIPs are published, edited, considered and
voted in public, and should contain valuable information about how a
feature came to be the way it is. See the full collection here:
[TIP Index](https://tip.tcl-lang.org/)
Tk 9.0.2 Changes Summary
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(from changes.md in the source code distribution)
The source code for Tk is managed by fossil. Tk developers coordinate all
changes to the Tk source code at
[Tk Source Code](https://core.tcl-lang.org/tk/)
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.
## Improved widget appearance
- [Visible grip element added in ttk::panedwindow sashes of most built-in themes](
https://core.tcl-lang.org/tk/tktview/9902d8)
# Bug fixes
- [inaccurate scrollbar error-message](
https://core.tcl-lang.org/tk/tktview/f88118)
- [Build tk 9.0.1 failed on macos 10.13](
https://core.tcl-lang.org/tk/tktview/cb5d77)
- [image svg upstream out of bound read nanosvg#262](
https://core.tcl-lang.org/tk/tktview/121786)
- [wm iconbitmap does not correctly set the icon pixmap hint on macOS](
https://core.tcl-lang.org/tk/tktview/13ac26)
- [Backspace crashes 9.0 interpreter on FreeBSD](
https://core.tcl-lang.org/tk/tktview/1da19a)
- [Bug in the ttk::scale widget of the "default" theme](
https://core.tcl-lang.org/tk/tktview/126d07)
- [Wrong appearance of the ttk::menubutton indicator of the "xpnative" theme](
https://core.tcl-lang.org/tk/tktview/525536)
- [English shortcuts for Chinese locale](
https://core.tcl-lang.org/tk/tktview/c99266)
- [Tk_Get3DBorderColors broken by design](
https://core.tcl-lang.org/tk/tktview/517165)
- [MS-Win: Incorrect system menu entries for transient toplevels](
https://core.tcl-lang.org/tk/tktview/159aa5)
- [MS-Win: Withdrawn Tk transient windows can reappear in Windows taskbar preview](
https://core.tcl-lang.org/tk/tktview/91d0e9)
- [Aqua windows don't always move focus correctly](
https://core.tcl-lang.org/tk/tktview/28d33f)
- [Cross compiling using x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc](
https://core.tcl-lang.org/tk/tktview/f6d40f)
- [BWidget Drag & Drop no longer works on Aqua](
https://core.tcl-lang.org/tk/tktview/855ec4)
- [tk print command fails with canvas widget](
https://core.tcl-lang.org/tk/tktview/d2eac2)
- [tk print command fails on windows](
https://core.tcl-lang.org/tk/tktview/bb5c3d)
- [tk print fails for canvas items with non integer widths](
https://core.tcl-lang.org/tk/tktview/7716cb)
- [tk print canvas with smooth lines crashes on windows](
https://core.tcl-lang.org/tk/tktview/9b23b6)
- [Collect utility procs for the Tk test suite](
https://core.tcl-lang.org/tk/tktview/718cbc)
- [Setting ttk state may change the a variable passed by value](
https://core.tcl-lang.org/tk/info/7231bf)
- [wm iconbitmap does not support icon files with png images on Windows](
https://core.tcl-lang.org/tk/info/17b509)
- [block cursor size on a tab is too large](
https://core.tcl-lang.org/tk/info/5d0bc3)
- [macOS clipboard managers do not notice clipboard changes done by Tk](
https://core.tcl-lang.org/tk/info/e94c8b)
# Incompatibilities
- [The ActiveCodePage element has been removed from the Windows executable manifest for wish](
https://core.tcl-lang.org/tips/doc/trunk/tip/716.md)
## Known bugs
- [Inconsistent reporting of child geometry changes to grid container](
https://core.tcl-lang.org/tk/tktview/beaa8e)
- [Inconsistency in whether widgets allow negative borderwidths](
https://core.tcl-lang.org/tk/tktview/5f739d)
- [slow widget creation if default font is not used](
https://core.tcl-lang.org/tk/tktview/8da7af)
- [The wm manage command does not work on current macOS versions](
https://core.tcl-lang.org/tk/tktview/8a6012)
- [Slow processing irregular transparencies](
https://core.tcl-lang.org/tk/tktview/919066)
- [text's cursor width on 0th column](
https://core.tcl-lang.org/tk/tktview/47fbfc)
- [text widget breaks graphemes with combining diacritical marks](
https://core.tcl-lang.org/tk/tktview/442208)
For additional information:
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-- Tcl Core Team and MaintainersDon Porter, Tcl Core Release Manager-- | Don Porter Applied and Computational Mathematics Division || donald.porter@nist.gov Information Technology Laboratory || http://math.nist.gov/~DPorter/ NIST ||______________________________________________________________________|
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