Julia 1.8, 1.9 (rapid release?)

[Palli]

@Palli

backporting that PR to 1.8.1 if 1.9 isn’t released soon and 1.8.1 just skipped…

It turns out we need 1.8.1 for bugfixes (unlike that non-essential PR of mine), for e.g. this bug, but I had an idea for a Bugfig.jl (or Hotfix.jl?), explained there:

Julia 1.8.0: 10.0^-Inf = NaN

Ouch, we need tests for the tests (and tests for the tests-tests…). FYI: For a hotfix if you can’t wait for 1.8.1 (and don’t want to downgrade): julia> import Base:^, @constprop julia> @constprop :aggressive function ^(x::Float64, y::Float64) xu = reinterpret(UInt64, x) xu == reinterpret(UInt64, 1.0) && return 1.0 # Exponents greater than this will always overflow or underflow. # Note that NaN can pass through this, but that will end up fine. …

When I think about it, maybe all of Base (or a lot of it… and LinearAlgera.jl etc.) could be provided the same we to decouple the release schedule of the standard-lib from core Julia (what I

@jakobnissen

making demands about the release schedule.

I’m not doing that, just suggesting/discussing the release process. It felt like 1.8 was delayed (due date cancelled), and I’m blaming no one, just thinking if/how the process can be improved, and if 1.9 is then delayed as much. Some of the work on releases is overlapping, for other languages, e.g. Python by design in PEP.