Purpose: to document various historical events in the life of Tcl.
John Ousterhout's essay on the "History of Tcl (alternate )" is a natural starting point.
Particular milestones of frequent interest include
1988
- spring: JO first uses Tcl in one of his own graphical text editors
- late 1988: JO begins Tk
1989
- JO gives away Tcl source to early adopters
1990
1991
- Tcl 5.0
- Tcl 6.0
- Tcl 6.1
- JO presents Tk at X Technical Conference and at Winter USENIX conference.
- 1991–1992: JO's "epiphany" that the work of Kevin Kenny and others demonstrates Tcl's utility as an "application shell".
- comp.lang.tcl passed its vote for creation
1992
- Tcl 6.2
- Tcl 6.3
- Tcl 6.4, with Tk 2.2 (release announcement [L2 ] dated 1992-08-07); Tk 2.3 released with bugfixes the same month [L3 ] [L4 ]
- Tcl 6.5, with Tk 3.0 (release announcement [L5 ] dated 1992-12-18)
1993
- Perspecta Software formed. Perspecta Presents, a presentation software package using Tcl commands, was the company's first, and only, product. See [L6 ] for some old info.
- Tcl 6.6
- Tcl 6.7
- Tcl 7.0
- Tcl 7.1
- Tcl 7.3
- First Tcl workshop held at Berkeley, organized by Larry Rowe, see 1993 Tcl/Tk Workshop.
1994
1995
During 1995–1997, the center of Tcl activity moves from embedding-and-extending to general-purpose Unix programming, then to portable general-purpose programming.
- Tcl 7.4
- Tk 4.0 released; first version of Tk that's really as we know it today (bindings worked very differently before then.)
- Third Annual Tcl/Tk Workshop held in Toronto, Canada
1996
1997
1998
1999
- jcw makes The Tcler's Wiki available to the community (1999/02)
- Tcl/Tk 8.1 released (1999-04-30) - now with Unicode support
- Tcl/Tk 8.1.1 released (1999-05-27)
- Tcl/Tk 8.2 released (1999-08-18)
- Tcl/Tk 8.2.1 released (1999-10-04)
- Tcl/Tk 8.2.3 released (1999-12-16)
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
- Tcl/Tk 8.4.6 released (2004-03-04)
- Tcl/Tk 8.5a1 released (2004-03-04)
- Fifth European Tcl/Tk Users Meeting held in Nuremberg, Germany <- is this correct? 5th meeting appears in 2005, too, and Tcl Conferences doesn't list a meeting in 2004
- Tcl/Tk 8.4.7 released (2004-07-25)
- Eleventh Annual Tcl/Tk Conference held in New Orleans, USA
- Tcl/Tk 8.4.8 released (2004-11-22)
- Tcl/Tk 8.4.9 released (2004-12-07)
- Tcl/Tk 8.5a2 released (2004-12-07)
2005
2006
2007
- Tcl/Tk 8.5a6 (2007-04-25)
- Tcl/Tk 8.4.15 (2007-05-24)
- Tcl/Tk 8.4.16 (2007-09-20)
- Tcl/Tk 8.5b1 (2007-09-20)
- Fourteenth Annual Tcl/Tk Conference (2007) in New Orleans, LA, USA (2007-09)
- The Wiki received a substantial makeover, see also Wiki with style (2007-10 to 2007-11)
- Tcl/Tk 8.5b2 (2007-10-26)
- Tcl/Tk 8.5b3 (2007-11-19 ?)
- Tcl/Tk 8.5.0 (2007-12-20)
- Tcl/Tk 8.4.17 (2007-12-31)
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
- Tcl/Tk 9.0.0a3 (2021-06-23)
- Tcl/Tk 8.6.12 (2021-11-05)
2022
2023
2024
Comments
SourceForge has some very old source releases of Tcl at http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=10894 e.g. Tcl 2.1 (March 1990)!
See also