# \[ANN\] - MetaGraphs major changes coming

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-metagraphs-major-changes-coming/33992>\
**Category:** Package Announcements\
**Tags:** package, announcement, lightgraphs, metagraphs\
**Created:** [January 30, 2020, 5:56pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-metagraphs-major-changes-coming/33992 "2020-01-30T17:56:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![anon94023334](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e274bd/32.png) [@anon94023334](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/anon94023334)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2020, 5:56pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-metagraphs-major-changes-coming/33992/1 "2020-01-30T17:56:21Z")

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Hi all,

I just wanted to announce that we’ve released v0.6.5 of [MetaGraphs](https://github.com/JuliaGraphs/MetaGraphs.jl), the LightGraphs-with-metadata package. This will be, hopefully, the final release of MetaGraphs before a fairly significant set of breaking changes.

The new changes can be tracked via [PR #97](https://github.com/JuliaGraphs/MetaGraphs.jl/pull/97). In short, metadata can now be type-stable, and the package will be much simpler to use.

We anticipate tagging v0.7.0 once the changes have been made. Please stay on v0.6.x until you can confirm that the new code works in your environment, and please report any issues via the tracker.

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**Author:** ![bramtayl](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/bramtayl/32/3614_2.png) [@bramtayl](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/bramtayl)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2020, 11:06pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-metagraphs-major-changes-coming/33992/2 "2020-06-11T23:06:01Z")

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An experimental type stable fork of MetaGraphs is up. You can find it [here](https://github.com/JuliaGraphs/MetaGraphsNext.jl), with examples in the documentation [here](https://juliagraphs.org/MetaGraphsNext.jl/dev/) . Test it out and let us know what you think!

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**Author:** ![anon94023334](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e274bd/32.png) [@anon94023334](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/anon94023334)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2020, 11:15pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-metagraphs-major-changes-coming/33992/3 "2020-06-11T23:15:13Z")

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This is really worthy of its own announcement. @bramtayl has done amazing work on this code and it deserves its own place.

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**Author:** ![Jakob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/71c47a/32.png) [@Jakob](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Jakob)\
**Post date:** [June 17, 2020, 6:47am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-metagraphs-major-changes-coming/33992/4 "2020-06-17T06:47:18Z")

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This sounds really nice, I’m looking forward to giving it a try.  
I guess the changes proposed in MetaGraphsNext will go into MetaGraphs when they are more stable?

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**Author:** ![anon94023334](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e274bd/32.png) [@anon94023334](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/anon94023334)\
**Post date:** [June 17, 2020, 4:40pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-metagraphs-major-changes-coming/33992/5 "2020-06-17T16:40:09Z")

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We will likely keep them separate packages and then eventually either deprecate MetaGraphs or switch over.