# Julia 0.6-alpha released, please update your projects

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-0-6-alpha-released-please-update-your-projects/2571>\
**Category:** Announcements\
**Tags:** announcement, release\
**Created:** [March 9, 2017, 5:43pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-0-6-alpha-released-please-update-your-projects/2571 "2017-03-09T17:43:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![StefanKarpinski](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/stefankarpinski/32/24_2.png) [@StefanKarpinski](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/StefanKarpinski)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2017, 5:43pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-0-6-alpha-released-please-update-your-projects/2571/1 "2017-03-09T17:43:20Z")

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In case people missed [the announcement](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/0-6-release-timeline/836/38) in the 0.6 release timeline thread, Julia 0.6-alpha has been released:

> 0.6 alpha has been tagged and binaries are available. You can now use “0.6” on Travis, or “0.6-latest” on Appveyor, and it will use the most recently tagged pre-release or release candidate. We haven’t branched release-0.6 off of master yet though and probably won’t until we go through a beta and a few release candidates, whenever there are enough blocked feature PR’s to make it worth branching. So for now the nightlies will be more up-to-date with bug fixes but should be functionally equivalent. Please report anything that regresses between this alpha and nightlies.
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> - [https://s3.amazonaws.com/julialang/bin/checksums/julia-0.6.0-pre.alpha.sha256](https://s3.amazonaws.com/julialang/bin/checksums/julia-0.6.0-pre.alpha.sha256)
> - [https://s3.amazonaws.com/julialang/bin/winnt/x86/0.6/julia-0.6.0-pre.alpha-win32.exe](https://s3.amazonaws.com/julialang/bin/winnt/x86/0.6/julia-0.6.0-pre.alpha-win32.exe)
> - [https://s3.amazonaws.com/julialang/bin/winnt/x64/0.6/julia-0.6.0-pre.alpha-win64.exe](https://s3.amazonaws.com/julialang/bin/winnt/x64/0.6/julia-0.6.0-pre.alpha-win64.exe)
> - [https://s3.amazonaws.com/julialang/bin/osx/x64/0.6/julia-0.6.0-pre.alpha-osx10.7+.dmg](https://s3.amazonaws.com/julialang/bin/osx/x64/0.6/julia-0.6.0-pre.alpha-osx10.7+.dmg)
> - [https://s3.amazonaws.com/julialang/bin/linux/x86/0.6/julia-0.6.0-pre.alpha-linux-i686.tar.gz](https://s3.amazonaws.com/julialang/bin/linux/x86/0.6/julia-0.6.0-pre.alpha-linux-i686.tar.gz)
> - [https://s3.amazonaws.com/julialang/bin/linux/x64/0.6/julia-0.6.0-pre.alpha-linux-x86\_64.tar.gz](https://s3.amazonaws.com/julialang/bin/linux/x64/0.6/julia-0.6.0-pre.alpha-linux-x86_64.tar.gz)
> - [https://s3.amazonaws.com/julialang/bin/linux/arm/0.6/julia-0.6.0-pre.alpha-linux-arm.tar.gz](https://s3.amazonaws.com/julialang/bin/linux/arm/0.6/julia-0.6.0-pre.alpha-linux-arm.tar.gz)
> - [https://s3.amazonaws.com/julialang/bin/linux/ppc64le/0.6/julia-0.6.0-pre.alpha-linux-ppc64le.tar.gz](https://s3.amazonaws.com/julialang/bin/linux/ppc64le/0.6/julia-0.6.0-pre.alpha-linux-ppc64le.tar.gz)

Maintainers of projects and packages:

- **Please update your packages now and report any issues you encounter**
- **Now is a good time to upgrade your projects too**
  - if it works now, it should work in 0.6 final
  - if it doesn’t work, now is the time to report an issue so that we have a change to address it

There should be a 0.6-beta out in about a week or so, at which point it’s _really_ time to upgrade.

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![StefanKarpinski](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/stefankarpinski/32/24_2.png) [@StefanKarpinski](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/StefanKarpinski)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2017, 5:44pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-0-6-alpha-released-please-update-your-projects/2571/2 "2017-03-09T17:44:25Z")

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**Author:** ![jminardi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/jminardi/32/452_2.png) [@jminardi](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/jminardi)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2017, 5:51pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-0-6-alpha-released-please-update-your-projects/2571/3 "2017-03-09T17:51:58Z")

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Is there a list of breaking changes or an upgrade guide somewhere?

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**Author:** ![tkelman](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/tkelman/32/692_2.png) [@tkelman](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/tkelman)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2017, 5:53pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-0-6-alpha-released-please-update-your-projects/2571/4 "2017-03-09T17:53:13Z")

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NEWS.md on master. Though if it’s missing anything, do let us know so we can make it more complete.

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**Author:** ![joshday](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/joshday/32/368_2.png) [@joshday](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/joshday)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2017, 5:53pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-0-6-alpha-released-please-update-your-projects/2571/5 "2017-03-09T17:53:34Z")

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[https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/master/NEWS.md](https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/master/NEWS.md)

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**Author:** ![jminardi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/jminardi/32/452_2.png) [@jminardi](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/jminardi)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2017, 5:54pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-0-6-alpha-released-please-update-your-projects/2571/6 "2017-03-09T17:54:56Z")

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Thanks!

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**Author:** ![StefanKarpinski](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/stefankarpinski/32/24_2.png) [@StefanKarpinski](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/StefanKarpinski)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2017, 6:06pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-0-6-alpha-released-please-update-your-projects/2571/7 "2017-03-09T18:06:03Z")

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Of course, the lazy way to find out what needs to change is to run your tests and do what the deprecations tell you. I believe there’s only one change that we couldn’t deprecate, which is that `readline` / `eachline` / `readlines` now chomps lines by default (i.e. removes the trailing newline). If you require the newline, you can use the `chomp=false` keyword argument.

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**Author:** ![Balinus](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/balinus/32/243_2.png) [@Balinus](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Balinus)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2017, 9:41pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-0-6-alpha-released-please-update-your-projects/2571/8 "2017-03-11T21:41:35Z")

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Justo to understand correctly, I simply replace 0.5 by 0.6 in the travis file (and similarly “0.6-latest” instead of “0.5-latest”) ?

Or should I use both version and both will be tested?

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**Author:** ![cstjean](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/cstjean/32/1444_2.png) [@cstjean](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/cstjean)\
**Post date:** [March 12, 2017, 12:09am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-0-6-alpha-released-please-update-your-projects/2571/9 "2017-03-12T00:09:53Z")

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Yes, either just 0.6 or

```julia
julia:
    - 0.5
    - 0.6

```