Julia nightly downloads seem outdated

Just downloaded the nightly build from the official download link, and I find

(base) jishnu:Downloads/ $ wget https://julialangnightlies-s3.julialang.org/bin/linux/x64/julia-latest-linux64.tar.gz
--2022-02-10 11:13:27--  https://julialangnightlies-s3.julialang.org/bin/linux/x64/julia-latest-linux64.tar.gz
Resolving julialangnightlies-s3.julialang.org (julialangnightlies-s3.julialang.org)... 2a04:4e42:400::561, 2a04:4e42:600::561, 2a04:4e42::561, ...
Connecting to julialangnightlies-s3.julialang.org (julialangnightlies-s3.julialang.org)|2a04:4e42:400::561|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 129611646 (124M) [application/x-tar]
Saving to: ‘julia-latest-linux64.tar.gz.1’

julia-latest-linux64.tar.gz.1           100%[=============================================================================>] 123.61M  1.32MB/s    in 2m 9s   

2022-02-10 11:15:36 (985 KB/s) - ‘julia-latest-linux64.tar.gz.1’ saved [129611646/129611646]

(base) jishnu:Downloads/ $ ls -lh julia-latest-linux64.tar.gz.1
-rw-rw-r-- 1 jishnu jishnu 124M Feb  6 20:32 julia-latest-linux64.tar.gz.1

(base) jishnu:Downloads/ $ tar -xzf julia-latest-linux64.tar.gz.1 

(base) jishnu:Downloads/ $ ls -lh julia-e0a4b7727c/bin/julia                                                                                      
-rwxr-xr-x 1 jishnu jishnu 13K Feb  6 18:59 julia-e0a4b7727c/bin/julia

(base) jishnu:Downloads/ $ julia-e0a4b7727c/bin/julia
               _
   _       _ _(_)_     |  Documentation: https://docs.julialang.org
  (_)     | (_) (_)    |
   _ _   _| |_  __ _   |  Type "?" for help, "]?" for Pkg help.
  | | | | | | |/ _` |  |
  | | |_| | | | (_| |  |  Version 1.8.0-DEV.1455 (2022-02-06)
 _/ |\__'_|_|_|\__'_|  |  Commit e0a4b7727c (3 days old master)
|__/                   |

julia> 

Why is this dated Feb 6? Is the server not updated?

I believe they are only updated once tests pass. And unfortunately tests and CI for JuliaLang/julia have been in a very bad state lately.

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