# Julia 1.7 feature freeze: June 1

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-1-7-feature-freeze-june-1/61032>\
**Category:** Internals & Design\
**Tags:** announcement\
**Created:** [May 12, 2021, 4:59pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-1-7-feature-freeze-june-1/61032 "2021-05-12T16:59:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![ararslan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/ararslan/32/3825_2.png) [@ararslan](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/ararslan)\
**Post date:** [May 12, 2021, 4:59pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-1-7-feature-freeze-june-1/61032/1 "2021-05-12T16:59:18Z")

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We’ve set the feature freeze date for Julia 1.7 to Monday, June 1st. If there are any feature PRs you’d like to get into Julia 1.7, they’ll need to be in prior to that date.

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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:** [May 12, 2021, 8:26pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-1-7-feature-freeze-june-1/61032/2 "2021-05-12T20:26:41Z")

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**Author:** ![bicycle1885](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/bicycle1885/32/107_2.png) [@bicycle1885](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/bicycle1885)\
**Post date:** [May 13, 2021, 10:56pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-1-7-feature-freeze-june-1/61032/3 "2021-05-13T22:56:40Z")

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I wonder if someone could check [this PR](https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/40220) so that it would be in 1.7.

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**Author:** ![Ronis\_BR](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/ronis_br/32/50999_2.png) [@Ronis\_BR](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Ronis_BR)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2021, 7:23pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-1-7-feature-freeze-june-1/61032/4 "2021-05-20T19:23:36Z")

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Hi @ararslan

Is there any chance to resurrect the discussion about adding a break-line character to Julia or it is something that was already rejected?

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**Author:** ![jzr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/eb9ed0/32.png) [@jzr](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/jzr)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2021, 7:29pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-1-7-feature-freeze-june-1/61032/5 "2021-05-20T19:29:06Z")

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> [@Ronis\_BR](#):
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> adding a break-line character to Julia

I’m curious what this refers to?

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**Author:** ![mbauman](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/mbauman/32/31082_2.png) [@mbauman](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mbauman)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2021, 7:36pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-1-7-feature-freeze-june-1/61032/6 "2021-05-20T19:36:08Z")

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Last time Triage considered this (in my memory), the syntax in question was `#\` and that was deemed to be too brittle and unintuitive and yet still breaking for not a nice enough of a syntax.

[https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/35336#issuecomment-611704238](https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/35336#issuecomment-611704238)

Note that Stefan says in that comment:

> The main use case that’s currently unaddressed is array literals…

That’s [now addressed](https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/33697) (as of 3 hours ago).

Another case that’s unhandled is in string literals, but that’s also [independently pending](https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/40753).

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**Author:** ![Ronis\_BR](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/ronis_br/32/50999_2.png) [@Ronis\_BR](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Ronis_BR)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2021, 7:41pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-1-7-feature-freeze-june-1/61032/7 "2021-05-20T19:41:16Z")

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> [@mbauman](#):
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> That’s [now addressed](https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/33697) (as of 3 hours ago).

I think the first time I opened an issue about this is related to a way of breaking lines in arrays with very long lines:

```julia
A = [ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 ...

```

to something like

```julia
A = [ 1 2 3 #\
      4 5 6 #\
      7 8 9 #\

```

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**Author:** ![mbauman](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/mbauman/32/31082_2.png) [@mbauman](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mbauman)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2021, 7:44pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-1-7-feature-freeze-june-1/61032/8 "2021-05-20T19:44:07Z")

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Yes, that’s now supported in Julia 1.7 with `;;` (two semicolons because you’re moving along the second dimension).

```julia
julia> A = [ 1 2 3 ;;
             4 5 6 ;;
             7 8 9]
1×9 Matrix{Int64}:
 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

```

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**Author:** ![Ronis\_BR](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/ronis_br/32/50999_2.png) [@Ronis\_BR](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Ronis_BR)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2021, 7:48pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-1-7-feature-freeze-june-1/61032/9 "2021-05-20T19:48:13Z")

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> [@mbauman](#):
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> Yes, that’s now supported in Julia 1.7 with `;;` (two semicolons because you’re moving along the second dimension).

Wow! That’s awesome! Sorry, I thought it would be only for arrays with more than 2 dimensions. Thanks for pointing this out 😃

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**Author:** ![sostock](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/sostock/32/5546_2.png) [@sostock](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/sostock)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2021, 7:49pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-1-7-feature-freeze-june-1/61032/10 "2021-05-20T19:49:21Z")

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> [@ararslan](#):
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> Monday, June 1st

The next time June 1st falls on a Monday is in 2026, so we have lots of time to get more features in! 😉

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**Author:** ![tk3369](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/tk3369/32/2824_2.png) [@tk3369](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/tk3369)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2021, 1:39am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-1-7-feature-freeze-june-1/61032/11 "2021-05-28T01:39:05Z")

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Is 1.7 going to be the new LTS release?

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**Author:** ![Oscar\_Smith](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/oscar_smith/32/25343_2.png) [@Oscar\_Smith](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Oscar_Smith)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2021, 3:37am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-1-7-feature-freeze-june-1/61032/12 "2021-05-28T03:37:55Z")

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The plan is still for 1.6 to be LTS, which will be formally announced when 1.7 is released. In general, we only announce a release as LTS once it’s been around for a while, since users who want an LTS don’t want a new release which still has bugs.