Julia 1.6 is shaping up to be a beast of a release, however, we are already significantly overdue with starting the release preparations. Therefore, we are announcing a (soft) feature freeze already at November 8th. The term “soft” here means that if something that has been worked on for a long time…

Suggestion: For the benefit of those of us who catch up on Discourse only once a week, would it be possible to send future feature-freeze announcements also to the Announcement category , such that we just have to set the notification level there to at least “Watching First Post” to get a timely warn…

There is now a new release-1.6 branch. PRs that are aimed to go into 1.6 need a backport label.

At some point I read that 1.6 might be an LTS release. Is that still a possibility?

Yes. 1.6 is currently expected to become the LTS once 1.7 is out. (we don’t declare LTS right away since anyone that wants an LTS definitely wants at least 1 patch release)

[image] Oscar_Smith: Yes. 1.6 is currently expected to become the LTS once 1.7 is out. I don’t think that is decided yet.

Yeah. I said expected not because it’s definite, but because it was announced at JuliaCon, and the reasons it was originally announced remain true.

Personally, I’d prefer 1.7 to be the new LTS because the new AD additions aren’t in 1.6.

1.6 (Soft)-Feature Freeze: Nov 8th

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1.6 (Soft)-Feature Freeze: Nov 8th

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