# \[ANN\] Juliaup Preview - Julia version manager and Windows Store installer

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**Category:** Community\
**Tags:** announcement, juliaup\
**Created:** [May 27, 2021, 12:50pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-juliaup-preview-julia-version-manager-and-windows-store-installer/61920 "2021-05-27T12:50:16Z")\
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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:** [March 1, 2022, 8:10pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-juliaup-preview-julia-version-manager-and-windows-store-installer/61920/97 "2022-03-01T20:10:43Z")

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The process is probably a bit too convoluted at the moment. I monitor the `release` channel on Slack and try to understand when things are ready in terms of official builds being available for downloads, but there are always many steps discussed there, and it is not entirely clear to me when I can start to move things on the `juliaup` side. But when I have the sense that things are ready, I bump a build for `juliaup`. It takes about 10-15 minutes for the build to finish, then I deploy it to the `dev` channel of `juliaup` itself. For that build to make it through the Windows Store infrastructure it typically takes a few hours. Once that has happened, I test whether everything works, and then I trigger the release of the build to everyone. At that point the build has to go through the Windows Store process _again_, and that typically also takes a few hours, although with the latest build it was more like a day.

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