# 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")
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### Author: ![Tamas\_Papp](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/tamas_papp/32/25949_2.png) [@Tamas\_Papp](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Tamas_Papp)
#### Post date: [December 18, 2017, 7:42am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/and-now-julia-0-6-2/7822/11 "2017-12-18T07:42:40Z")

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Great! 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, at least for releases. Eg `julia-v0.6.2` instead of `julia-d386e40c17`.

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