# Installing Dowloads 1.7 on julia 1.10 installs v1.6

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/installing-dowloads-1-7-on-julia-1-10-installs-v1-6/137558>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Tags:** pkg\
**Created:** [June 11, 2026, 9:18am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/installing-dowloads-1-7-on-julia-1-10-installs-v1-6/137558 "2026-06-11T09:18:22Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![oxinabox](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/oxinabox/32/206603_2.png) [@oxinabox](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/oxinabox)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2026, 9:18am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/installing-dowloads-1-7-on-julia-1-10-installs-v1-6/137558/1 "2026-06-11T09:18:22Z")

</div>

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

```julia-auto
(@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

> <https://github.com/JuliaRegistries/General/blob/d48883cd86115c14a6c0cb4db0fc5d2666194736/D/Downloads/Compat.toml#L16-L17>

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**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:** [June 11, 2026, 2:05pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/installing-dowloads-1-7-on-julia-1-10-installs-v1-6/137558/2 "2026-06-11T14:05:52Z")

</div>

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.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![ForceBru](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/forcebru/32/21389_2.png) [@ForceBru](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/ForceBru)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2026, 2:08pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/installing-dowloads-1-7-on-julia-1-10-installs-v1-6/137558/3 "2026-06-11T14:08:27Z")

</div>

> [@oxinabox](#):
>
> I asked for 1.7 and it gave me 1.6.

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.