# Julia v1.0-rc1 is now available

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-v1-0-rc1-is-now-available/13008>\
**Category:** Announcements\
**Tags:** release\
**Created:** [August 7, 2018, 11:47pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-v1-0-rc1-is-now-available/13008 "2018-08-07T23:47:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![louisponet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/louisponet/32/2070_2.png) [@louisponet](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/louisponet)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2018, 9:33am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-v1-0-rc1-is-now-available/13008/61 "2018-08-16T09:33:41Z")

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I had some similar experience. I basically waited with updating my packages until the packages I use to develop (mainly Atom) and the packages on which I depend had working 0.7 branches. After that it was a breeze (except for `occursin` that was a bit of a nightmare :P)

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