# Julia v1.5.0-beta1 is now available

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**Category:** Announcements\
**Tags:** release\
**Created:** [May 28, 2020, 10:16pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-v1-5-0-beta1-is-now-available/40381 "2020-05-28T22:16:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![heliosdrm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/heliosdrm/32/3851_2.png) [@heliosdrm](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/heliosdrm)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2020, 1:16pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-v1-5-0-beta1-is-now-available/40381/22 "2020-05-29T13:16:57Z")

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Not really; he recently said that **1.6** is likely to become the next LTS:

> [@What are the guarantees of LTS Julia versions?](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/what-are-the-guarantees-of-lts-julia-versions/39572/6):
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> In addition to what I wrote in that post, it’s looking very likely that 1.6 will become the new LTS. Supporting 1.0 is starting to get fairly onerous for packages and for making new Julia releases to what is now a very old branch. In particular, the package manager has added enough new features that continuing to support both 1.0 and 1.6+ would be increasingly tricky.

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