# About Julia's development policy regarding Windows

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/about-julias-development-policy-regarding-windows/128011
**Category:** General Usage
**Tags:** windows
**Created:** [April 12, 2025, 7:29pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/about-julias-development-policy-regarding-windows/128011 "2025-04-12T19:29:51Z")
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### Author: ![mbauman](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/mbauman/32/31082_2.png) [@mbauman](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mbauman)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2025, 1:07pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/about-julias-development-policy-regarding-windows/128011/75 "2025-04-23T13:07:09Z")

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> [@uwestoehr](#):
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> - a different understanding of a beta release

Do you know that the current understanding of the beta release is _explicitly to test packages_? From the [announcement](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-v1-12-0-beta1-is-now-available/127686):

> [@Julia v1.12.0-beta1 is now available](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-v1-12-0-beta1-is-now-available/127686/1):
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> As a beta version, 1.12.0-beta1 should **not** be considered production-ready. Rather, it’s intended to give users, especially package developers, a chance to try out their code with 1.12.0 prior to a full release.

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