Installing Dowloads 1.7 on julia 1.10 installs v1.6

General Usage
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What is going on with this. I assume it is some kind of stdlib shenanigans?

(@v1.10) pkg> add Downloads@1.7
    Updating registry at `~/.julia/registries/General.toml`
   Resolving package versions...
    Updating `~/dotfiles/universal/.julia/environments/v1.10/Project.toml`
  [f43a241f] + Downloads v1.6.0
...

I asked for 1.7 and it gave me 1.6.
My reading of the registry is that v1.7 is compatible with Julia 1.10

2

This was already discussed on Slack, but to answer the question also here: most stdlibs aren’t upgradable, whatever the registry says, so you can only have the single version bundled with your current Julia installation.

3

IMO this should simply be an error, whether or not stdlibs can be upgraded. “ERROR: You asked for v1.7, but this is not possible because …, the latest available version is …”

Silently installing the wrong version is confusing.