# Difference between toml files for 1.5 and 1.6

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/difference-between-toml-files-for-1-5-and-1-6/56920>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Created:** [March 11, 2021, 12:35am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/difference-between-toml-files-for-1-5-and-1-6/56920 "2021-03-11T00:35:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![PetrKryslUCSD](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/petrkryslucsd/32/215825_2.png) [@PetrKryslUCSD](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/PetrKryslUCSD)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2021, 12:35am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/difference-between-toml-files-for-1-5-and-1-6/56920/1 "2021-03-11T00:35:17Z")

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has been driving me nuts for a while now. For instance, on mybinder. Is the end of the divergence nigh?

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**Author:** ![giordano](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/giordano/32/2166_2.png) [@giordano](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/giordano)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2021, 2:19am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/difference-between-toml-files-for-1-5-and-1-6/56920/2 "2021-03-11T02:19:00Z")

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Are you talking about the manifest file of an environment? Generally speaking, don’t assume a manifest generated with julia v1.x can be instantiated with julia v1.y, with x != y. This principle has always been true since v1.0, even though some minor versions may have been compatible between each other.

In particular, it is known manifests are incompatible between v1.5 and v1.6. But I don’t understand your struggle with binder: in binder i usually use the same version of Julia I test my code locally with. In Project.toml you can force a specific version of Julia to use in binder

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**Author:** ![PetrKryslUCSD](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/petrkryslucsd/32/215825_2.png) [@PetrKryslUCSD](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/PetrKryslUCSD)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2021, 2:31am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/difference-between-toml-files-for-1-5-and-1-6/56920/3 "2021-03-11T02:31:54Z")

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Yes, struggle is the right word. No matter what I do I get Julia 1.5 in mybinder, which promptly chokes on the configuration files. Is there some magic that you use?

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**Author:** ![PetrKryslUCSD](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/petrkryslucsd/32/215825_2.png) [@PetrKryslUCSD](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/PetrKryslUCSD)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2021, 2:33am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/difference-between-toml-files-for-1-5-and-1-6/56920/4 "2021-03-11T02:33:16Z")

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Up to 1.6 I’ve never even noticed that the config files might have been mismatched with the versions of the Julia exe. It just always worked.

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**Author:** ![Shuhua](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/shuhua/32/27618_2.png) [@Shuhua](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Shuhua)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2021, 3:08am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/difference-between-toml-files-for-1-5-and-1-6/56920/5 "2021-03-11T03:08:04Z")

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Is it the entry

```julia
[compat]
julia = "1.6"

```

in Project.toml?

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**Author:** ![PetrKryslUCSD](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/petrkryslucsd/32/215825_2.png) [@PetrKryslUCSD](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/PetrKryslUCSD)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2021, 3:20am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/difference-between-toml-files-for-1-5-and-1-6/56920/6 "2021-03-11T03:20:49Z")

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Yes, that is what I’ve been playing with.

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**Author:** ![giordano](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/giordano/32/2166_2.png) [@giordano](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/giordano)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2021, 6:48am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/difference-between-toml-files-for-1-5-and-1-6/56920/7 "2021-03-11T06:48:14Z")

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I don’t know exactly what binder does to install Julia, but there is no stable release of v1.6, that may be a problem 🙂

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**Post date:** [March 11, 2021, 4:53pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/difference-between-toml-files-for-1-5-and-1-6/56920/8 "2021-03-11T16:53:07Z")

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That may be an aspect to consider, but one wouldn’t know it from the documentation: [Choose languages for your environment — Binder 0.1b documentation](https://mybinder.readthedocs.io/en/latest/howto/languages.html#julia).

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**Author:** ![giordano](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/giordano/32/2166_2.png) [@giordano](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/giordano)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2021, 5:02pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/difference-between-toml-files-for-1-5-and-1-6/56920/9 "2021-03-11T17:02:21Z")

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Pinging @davidanthoff for how Binder installs Julia and whether Julia v1.6 can be used at the moment