Forward compatibility and stability of Julia vs. Packages

[mkitti]

The issue with XGBoost.jl and LIBSVM.jl breaking within the Julia 1.8 series is very unfortunate.

Issue with XGBoost.jl and LIBSVM.jl when Julia 1.8.4

Dear all I am using XGBoost.jl v2.2.0 and LIBSVM.jl v0.8.0, under Windows 11. It works fine with Julia 1.8.3 versioninfo() Julia Version 1.8.3 Commit 0434deb161 (2022-11-14 20:14 UTC) Platform Info: OS: Windows (x86_64-w64-mingw32) CPU: 16 × Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-10885H CPU @ 2.40GHz WORD_SIZE: 64 LIBM: libopenlibm LLVM: libLLVM-13.0.1 (ORCJIT, skylake) Threads: 8 on 16 virtual cores Environment: JULIA_EDITOR = code JULIA_NUM_THREADS = 8 But when I uses Julia 1.8.4 julia> ver…