# General julia v0.4 deprecation/drop?

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/general-julia-v0-4-deprecation-drop/5248>\
**Category:** Internals & Design\
**Created:** [August 6, 2017, 2:13pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/general-julia-v0-4-deprecation-drop/5248 "2017-08-06T14:13:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![lobingera](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/lobingera/32/211_2.png) [@lobingera](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/lobingera)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2017, 2:13pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/general-julia-v0-4-deprecation-drop/5248/1 "2017-08-06T14:13:50Z")

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At the moment i’m moving my own, local, production environment from 0.5 to 0.6 and start supporting v0.7 for the packages (two) i maintain: Cairo and Rsvg. And i somehow have the feeling nobody told me, that we have decided to drop v0.4 support. First it was only tkelman’s comment on one commit and later (today) i learned that Compat is in the process to drop 0.4 completely - well actually they already did.

So is this the situation?

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**Author:** ![rdeits](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/rdeits/32/286_2.png) [@rdeits](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/rdeits)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2017, 3:39pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/general-julia-v0-4-deprecation-drop/5248/2 "2017-08-06T15:39:53Z")

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I think that’s right. [Download Julia](https://julialang.org/downloads/) says:

> For Julia 0.5, only bugfixes are being supported. Releases older than 0.5 are now unmaintained.

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**Author:** ![lobingera](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/lobingera/32/211_2.png) [@lobingera](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/lobingera)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2017, 5:19am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/general-julia-v0-4-deprecation-drop/5248/3 "2017-08-07T05:19:53Z")

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This i knew. But support of the julia development and support by packages are a different story.

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**Author:** ![nalimilan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/nalimilan/32/147_2.png) [@nalimilan](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/nalimilan)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2017, 10:24am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/general-julia-v0-4-deprecation-drop/5248/4 "2017-08-07T10:24:45Z")

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That’s really up to package maintainers, but I think the general trend is indeed to drop support for Julia 0.4. Having to support Julia 0.5, 0.6 and (sometimes) 0.7 in parallel is enough work. 😉

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**Author:** ![lobingera](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/lobingera/32/211_2.png) [@lobingera](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/lobingera)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2017, 10:25am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/general-julia-v0-4-deprecation-drop/5248/5 "2017-08-07T10:25:55Z")

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I can understand the delegation to package maintainers, but the decision in Compat enforces this in quite many places.

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**Author:** ![dlfivefifty](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/dlfivefifty/32/1959_2.png) [@dlfivefifty](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/dlfivefifty)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2017, 3:50pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/general-julia-v0-4-deprecation-drop/5248/6 "2017-08-07T15:50:13Z")

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At some point the 0.4 METADATA is also frozen: one can no longer update packages with minimum julia version of 0.3, for example. But I don’t think this has happened yet.