Julia version 1.5.3, the third patch release in the 1.5 series of releases, is now available. You can get binaries for glibc Linux (i686, x86-64, AArch64), musl Linux (x86-64), FreeBSD (x86-64), macOS, and Windows (32-, 64-bit) at Download Julia.
As a patch release, 1.5.3 contains no new features or breaking changes, only bug fixes, documentation improvements, and performance improvements. You can see the list of commits included since 1.5.2 here. We recommend anyone currently using 1.5.0, 1.5.1, or 1.5.2 upgrade to 1.5.3.
I didnât need to do either of these things to get the previous version to work in VSCode. I donât mind doing a workaround for me, but I am trying to convince others at work to use Julia. Manual configuration for every update is a point of frustration.
Many people have multiple versions of Julia installed, for testing purposes. Also, they use many different editors, and different operating systems. So, how VSCode on Windows reacts to a new installation of Julia is probably not something that the Julia developers can take into account. There are just too many possible behaviors that different people might want as the default.
Julia updates often, but if taking 5 minutes to manually update Julia each couple months is a problem, then I guess you are living in the bleeding edge of efficiency. I probably lose more work time than this every day looking at memes people sent me and I did not even search for.
Like I said, it is more about the hassle of going around to everyone in the office and showing them how to manually update Julia and reconfigure their IDE every time. They are just users of my code at this point and are used to all their software auto-updating.
It seems that in this instance itâs not really necessary to update everyone for every minor bugfix release (unless the code youâre writing happens to suffer from something thatâs fixed in a minor release)?
There are ways to update Julia automatically, e.g. thereâs a Julia package in the AUR here and I know @johnh swears by chocolatey installs on Windows which I believe (he will correct me if Iâm wrong) replace the installed version on your machine, so presumably this would be picked up by VSCode/Juno etc
@nilshg Chocolatey does not unistall previous versions of Julia.
Perhaps I should ask the maintainer why this is.
@Nathan_Boyer Are you using Windows? I would recommend trying chocolatey
If you are using Linux it is easy to make a link to (say) /usr/local/julia/bin
Even better use the âmodulesâ environment. I Can give you some pointers - modules works really well.
