# 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: ![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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