Yes, major reasons to move to Tk 8.6.12 on macOS, least of which is that it already incorporates all the fixes the back ported patches address as well as supports a couple of things added to macOS 12.

For a summary, see: https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data/pull/1414

On Dec 9, 2021, at 8:57 PM, pd-list-request@lists.iem.at wrote:

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Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2021 11:57:29 -0800
From: Miller Puckette <msp@ucsd.edu>
To: Dan Wilcox <danomatika@gmail.com>
Cc: Pd-List <pd-list@lists.iem.at>
Subject: Re: [PD] [PD-announce]  Pd version 0.52-0test3 released
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I might have something mislabeled, but I _think_ all the Pd builds I'm
making are indeed based on Wish-8.6.10, with these 4 patches:

tk8.6.10_helpmenu.patch
tk8.6.10_keyfix.patch
tk8.6.10_scrollbars.patch
tk8.6.10_zombiewindows.patch

OTOH, should I 'upgrade' to ish-8.6.12?  If there/s no reason to, I'd just
as soon keep things as they are.

cheers
M

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