# 1.7 is great

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/1-7-is-great/72344>\
**Category:** Community\
**Created:** [December 1, 2021, 6:19am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/1-7-is-great/72344 "2021-12-01T06:19:15Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![gustaphe](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/gustaphe/32/18174_2.png) [@gustaphe](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/gustaphe)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2021, 6:19am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/1-7-is-great/72344/1 "2021-12-01T06:19:16Z")

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I have been running the rc version of 1.7 for a while, but I guess now is as good a time as any to say it: I really like the improvements made (and Julia in general!)

A big thanks to the developers. Good job!

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**Author:** ![carstenbauer](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/carstenbauer/32/4981_2.png) [@carstenbauer](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/carstenbauer)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2021, 6:47am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/1-7-is-great/72344/2 "2021-12-01T06:47:57Z")

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IMHO, we’re really spoiled. Almost every Julia release brings massive improvements + awesome new features and Julia 1.7 is no exception here. Quite the contrary! Effortlessly switching between OpenBLAS and MKL, boom! Improving registry processing speed by a factor of \>10, boom! Multidimensional array literals, boom! …

I can only second @gustaphe: massive shoutout to everyone involved in producing and delivering these awesome releases!

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**Author:** ![yewalenikhil65](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/yewalenikhil65/32/26873_2.png) [@yewalenikhil65](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/yewalenikhil65)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2021, 6:49am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/1-7-is-great/72344/3 "2021-12-01T06:49:58Z")

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Indeed 1.7 is really cool ! What i really liked so far `using notaddedpackage` prompts to add package 😬 .Makes me really lazy

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**Author:** ![StefanKarpinski](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/stefankarpinski/32/24_2.png) [@StefanKarpinski](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/StefanKarpinski)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2021, 2:45pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/1-7-is-great/72344/4 "2021-12-01T14:45:12Z")

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This is my favorite new feature too. So convenient and something I always envisioned for Pkg! Thanks so much to @ianshmean for implementing it. On Julia master it’s even better because there’s also an `o` option that lets you pick a different environment in the load path than the active one to install the package into (and then load it from). That’s great when you want to use a developer tool like Debugger or Revise while working on a project but you don’t want to add the package to the current active project.

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**Author:** ![davidanthoff](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/davidanthoff/32/223493_2.png) [@davidanthoff](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/davidanthoff)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2021, 5:35pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/1-7-is-great/72344/5 "2021-12-01T17:35:09Z")

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We should add the same feature to `juliaup`! You could just run `julia +1.3` and if that isn’t installed, similar prompt shows up, installs and then runs it.