# Julia nightly downloads seem outdated

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-nightly-downloads-seem-outdated/76146
**Category:** General Usage
**Tags:** question, release
**Created:** [February 10, 2022, 7:23am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-nightly-downloads-seem-outdated/76146 "2022-02-10T07:23:57Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author: ![jishnub](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/jishnub/32/33620_2.png) [@jishnub](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/jishnub)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2022, 7:23am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-nightly-downloads-seem-outdated/76146/1 "2022-02-10T07:23:57Z")

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Just downloaded the nightly build from [the official download link](https://julialangnightlies-s3.julialang.org/bin/linux/x64/julia-latest-linux64.tar.gz), and I find

```julia
(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?

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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: [February 10, 2022, 9:17am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-nightly-downloads-seem-outdated/76146/2 "2022-02-10T09:17:34Z")

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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.
