# And now... Julia 0.6.2!

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/and-now-julia-0-6-2/7822>\
**Category:** Announcements\
**Tags:** release\
**Created:** [December 17, 2017, 11:00pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/and-now-julia-0-6-2/7822 "2017-12-17T23:00:40Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![ararslan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/ararslan/32/3825_2.png) [@ararslan](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/ararslan)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2017, 7:53pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/and-now-julia-0-6-2/7822/21 "2017-12-18T19:53:10Z")

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> [@Tamas\_Papp](#):
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> I wonder if, in the future, we could get a root directory name in the tarball that reflects the version instead of the git hash

Indeed, that’s planned. I’d like to use the full `VERSION` rather than just the Git SHA for all downloads, so for example recent 0.7 would be `julia-v0.7.0-DEV.3089`, this would be `julia-v0.6.2`, etc.

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**Author:** ![ararslan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/ararslan/32/3825_2.png) [@ararslan](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/ararslan)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2017, 7:57pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/and-now-julia-0-6-2/7822/22 "2017-12-18T19:57:28Z")

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> [@ssfrr](#):
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> I personally would be grateful for a reduction in redundancy.

Indeed, this is already posted in the announcements category, so further specifying it as an announcement is probably not necessary.

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**Author:** ![juliohm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/juliohm/32/215266_2.png) [@juliohm](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/juliohm)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2017, 9:52pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/and-now-julia-0-6-2/7822/23 "2017-12-18T21:52:11Z")

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I like the idea of removing it all together as well. The “Announcements” category should be enough. 👍

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**Author:** ![Liso](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/898d66/32.png) [@Liso](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Liso)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2017, 9:52am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/and-now-julia-0-6-2/7822/24 "2017-12-19T09:52:02Z")

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> [@Elrod](#):
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> But you would have a separate folder for v0.7, and thus you would probably have to reinstall packages when making that switch.

If 0.7 is intended to be just transition version to 1.0 could be possible to rename `.julia/v0.7` to `.julia/v1.0` ?

Or new `Pkg` will help to make transition smooth by some recipe for “exporting” “importing” installed packages?

What is future plan for transition from 1.0 to 1.1 ?

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**Author:** ![vchuravy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/vchuravy/32/8_2.png) [@vchuravy](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/vchuravy)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2017, 7:04pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/and-now-julia-0-6-2/7822/25 "2017-12-22T19:04:09Z")

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Split this topic on December 22, 2017, 7:04pm UTC

14 posts were split to a new topic: [Issues with using Mercurial instead of Git](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/issues-with-using-mercurial-instead-of-git/7925)

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