# Julia 0.7.0-alpha is now available

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-0-7-0-alpha-is-now-available/11314>\
**Category:** Announcements\
**Tags:** release\
**Created:** [June 1, 2018, 1:07am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-0-7-0-alpha-is-now-available/11314 "2018-06-01T01:07:55Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![fredrikekre](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/fredrikekre/32/1688_2.png) [@fredrikekre](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/fredrikekre)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2018, 7:27pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-0-7-0-alpha-is-now-available/11314/41 "2018-06-08T19:27:22Z")

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Just create it then.

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**Author:** ![chobbes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/848f3c/32.png) [@chobbes](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/chobbes)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2018, 7:29pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-0-7-0-alpha-is-now-available/11314/42 "2018-06-08T19:29:44Z")

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Can I simply copy my current `~/.juliarc.jl` to `~/.julia/config` and then rename it to `startup.jl`?

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**Author:** ![fredrikekre](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/fredrikekre/32/1688_2.png) [@fredrikekre](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/fredrikekre)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2018, 7:34pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-0-7-0-alpha-is-now-available/11314/43 "2018-06-08T19:34:41Z")

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Yes. And add the symlink if you want 0.6 to use the same file.

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**Author:** ![chobbes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/848f3c/32.png) [@chobbes](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/chobbes)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2018, 7:40pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-0-7-0-alpha-is-now-available/11314/44 "2018-06-08T19:40:36Z")

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Thanks! Probably I’ll keep them separate as a lot of old stuff seem obsoleted now. For example,

```julia
Base.@everywhere is deprecated: it has been moved to the standard library package `Distributed`.
Add `using Distributed` to your imports.

```

So, the following line originally in ./juliarc.jl

```julia
@everywhere push!(LOAD_PATH, "/home/chobbes/Documents/git/MyPackage.jl/src")

```

shall be

```julia
using Distributed 
push!(LOAD_PATH, "/home/chobbes/Documents/git/MyPackage.jl/src")

```

in startup.jl?

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**Author:** ![Elrod](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/elrod/32/22461_2.png) [@Elrod](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Elrod)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2018, 8:04pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-0-7-0-alpha-is-now-available/11314/45 "2018-06-08T20:04:24Z")

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You would still need the `@everywhere`. The macro is just located in the module Distributed now.  
Check out the documentation. Some things have also been renamed, eg `@distributed` instead of `@parallel`.

[https://docs.julialang.org/en/latest/manual/parallel-computing/](https://docs.julialang.org/en/latest/manual/parallel-computing/)

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**Author:** ![chobbes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/848f3c/32.png) [@chobbes](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/chobbes)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2018, 8:19pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-0-7-0-alpha-is-now-available/11314/46 "2018-06-08T20:19:32Z")

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Thanks. Quickly scan the page. No idea what to do. Probably will leave it for the time being. Thanks anyhow!

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**Author:** ![iwelch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8c91f0/32.png) [@iwelch](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/iwelch)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2018, 2:09am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-0-7-0-alpha-is-now-available/11314/47 "2018-06-11T02:09:46Z")

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what is the target date for 0.7.0-beta ?

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**Author:** ![Nosferican](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/nosferican/32/9275_2.png) [@Nosferican](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Nosferican)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2018, 2:15am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-0-7-0-alpha-is-now-available/11314/48 "2018-06-11T02:15:19Z")

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I would like to get `Pkg` production ready for `beta` and any potential breaking C.I. changes done before it.

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**Author:** ![iwelch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8c91f0/32.png) [@iwelch](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/iwelch)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2018, 2:40am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-0-7-0-alpha-is-now-available/11314/49 "2018-06-11T02:40:07Z")

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just a guess for the release of 0.7.0-beta, please… 3 days, 3 weeks, or 3 months? regards, /iaw

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**Author:** ![Nosferican](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/nosferican/32/9275_2.png) [@Nosferican](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Nosferican)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2018, 2:48am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-0-7-0-alpha-is-now-available/11314/50 "2018-06-11T02:48:59Z")

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Ideally is to get 1.0 before/during Juliacon (Aug 7-11).

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**Author:** ![iwelch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8c91f0/32.png) [@iwelch](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/iwelch)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2018, 10:37pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-0-7-0-alpha-is-now-available/11314/51 "2018-06-12T22:37:21Z")

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seems optimistic. I have been playing with 0.7-alpha, and basic packages like Distributions.jl do not install. (ERROR: LoadError: LoadError: LoadError: UndefVarError: RangeGeneratorInt not defined)

so, about a month for 0.7-beta?

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**Author:** ![Keno](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/keno/32/285_2.png) [@Keno](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Keno)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2018, 10:48pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-0-7-0-alpha-is-now-available/11314/52 "2018-06-12T22:48:35Z")

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The current plan is to release a beta as soon as the items currently on the 0.7 milestone are taken care of. Hopefully this week.

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**Author:** ![Nosferican](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/nosferican/32/9275_2.png) [@Nosferican](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Nosferican)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2018, 2:59am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-0-7-0-alpha-is-now-available/11314/53 "2018-06-13T02:59:50Z")

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Would be nice to focus now or very soon in getting FemToCleaner up and running. Many packages are waiting for it to start migrating. I would put it there with any breaking changes or any really that could disrupt C.I. (e.g., external libraries).

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**Author:** ![Yifan\_Liu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/4da419/32.png) [@Yifan\_Liu](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Yifan_Liu)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2018, 3:17am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-0-7-0-alpha-is-now-available/11314/54 "2018-06-13T03:17:17Z")

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I think I will wait until 1.0. By the way, R 3.5.0 is a major release this year and there seems a large performance improvement, hopefully there will be an updated performance benchmark against Julia 1.0.

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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:** [June 13, 2018, 5:20pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-0-7-0-alpha-is-now-available/11314/55 "2018-06-13T17:20:41Z")

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That is what @keno is focusing on.

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**Author:** ![Iagoba\_Apellaniz](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/iagoba_apellaniz/32/34406_2.png) [@Iagoba\_Apellaniz](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Iagoba_Apellaniz)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2018, 10:12pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-0-7-0-alpha-is-now-available/11314/56 "2018-06-13T22:12:16Z")

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Those errors are in general more about packages. Since 0.7 is kind of equivalent to 1.0 with deprecations, package developers have now the pressure to catch Julia, and not the other way around. Still some bugs and other things must be fixed in Julia, but I think that from 0.7-beta we’ll go to 1.0 suddenly, removing in the same process the deprecations

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**Author:** ![Tamas\_Papp](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/tamas_papp/32/25949_2.png) [@Tamas\_Papp](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Tamas_Papp)\
**Post date:** [June 14, 2018, 7:06am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-0-7-0-alpha-is-now-available/11314/57 "2018-06-14T07:06:39Z")

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> [@ararslan](#):
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> get a feeling for what a 0.7 release will be like, start getting their code up to date, and test for issues

I wonder if it is OK to just follow `master` until `v0.7` is released? I expect issues would be fixed gradually.

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**Author:** ![o314](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/o314/32/252_2.png) [@o314](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/o314)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2018, 12:54pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-0-7-0-alpha-is-now-available/11314/58 "2018-06-24T12:54:00Z")

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It seems that some work has been done this we  
[https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/releases](https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/releases)

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**Author:** ![datnamer](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/datnamer/32/3471_2.png) [@datnamer](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/datnamer)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2018, 8:05pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-0-7-0-alpha-is-now-available/11314/59 "2018-06-25T20:05:35Z")

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What are the steps between the beta and the full 0.7 release?

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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:** [June 25, 2018, 8:07pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-0-7-0-alpha-is-now-available/11314/60 "2018-06-25T20:07:57Z")

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Getting more packages working on 0.7, getting people to test the beta and report bugs, finally, when we think things are in good shape, cutting a “release candidate” and getting people to test that for bugs and report them and fix them. In the past when a release candidate has been out for a week without any bugs, we’ll make it the final release.

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