# 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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**Post date:** [August 8, 2018, 12:35am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-v1-0-rc1-is-now-available/13008/5 "2018-08-08T00:35:49Z")

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I know I read somewhere that work was being done on having Julia use a more up-to-date LLVM, and I left with the impression that it’d switch before 1.0. The README still says 3.9 though; is the plan to switch some time later on a minor version? LLVM 3.9 is currently being packaged on my system solely for Julia, and it’d be really nice to eliminate that.

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