# Julia v1.5.3 has been released

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-v1-5-3-has-been-released/49931>\
**Category:** Announcements\
**Tags:** release\
**Created:** [November 10, 2020, 6:29pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-v1-5-3-has-been-released/49931 "2020-11-10T18:29:42Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![ararslan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/ararslan/32/3825_2.png) [@ararslan](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/ararslan)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2020, 6:29pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-v1-5-3-has-been-released/49931/1 "2020-11-10T18:29:42Z")

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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](https://julialang.org/downloads).

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](https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/compare/v1.5.2...v1.5.3). We recommend anyone currently using 1.5.0, 1.5.1, or 1.5.2 upgrade to 1.5.3.

Note that 1.5 on Travis, [AppVeyor](https://github.com/JuliaCI/Appveyor.jl), [Cirrus](https://github.com/ararslan/CirrusCI.jl), and [GitHub Actions](https://github.com/julia-actions/setup-julia) now refers to 1.5.3.

Enjoy!

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**Author:** ![brett\_knoss](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/brett_knoss/32/13050_2.png) [@brett\_knoss](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/brett_knoss)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2020, 7:01pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-v1-5-3-has-been-released/49931/2 "2020-11-10T19:01:45Z")

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Does this require installing the new version?

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**Author:** ![nilshg](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/nilshg/32/2283_2.png) [@nilshg](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/nilshg)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2020, 7:21pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-v1-5-3-has-been-released/49931/3 "2020-11-10T19:21:50Z")

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As always - if you want to use it, you have to install it!

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**Author:** ![brett\_knoss](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/brett_knoss/32/13050_2.png) [@brett\_knoss](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/brett_knoss)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2020, 9:11pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-v1-5-3-has-been-released/49931/4 "2020-11-10T21:11:30Z")

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Ok, it’s installed, what file, does the path need to lead to , and where is in the Julia 1.5.3 folder?

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**Author:** ![brett\_knoss](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/brett_knoss/32/13050_2.png) [@brett\_knoss](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/brett_knoss)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2020, 9:24pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-v1-5-3-has-been-released/49931/5 "2020-11-10T21:24:05Z")

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![Screenshot (111)](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/original/3X/d/6/d639df12adb04bea9a3a4790ca0aee2649e280a8.png)

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**Author:** ![dpsanders](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/dpsanders/32/3573_2.png) [@dpsanders](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/dpsanders)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2020, 9:34pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-v1-5-3-has-been-released/49931/6 "2020-11-10T21:34:42Z")

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The executable is called `julia` (I guess `.exe` on Windows) and is inside the `bin` directory (for “binary”).

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**Author:** ![aquarelle332](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/aquarelle332/32/20816_2.png) [@aquarelle332](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/aquarelle332)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2020, 10:10pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-v1-5-3-has-been-released/49931/7 "2020-11-10T22:10:57Z")

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Great! Downloaded and installed.

Many thanks to contributors 😉

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**Author:** ![Nathan\_Boyer](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/nathan_boyer/32/14825_2.png) [@Nathan\_Boyer](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Nathan_Boyer)\
**Post date:** [November 11, 2020, 9:18pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-v1-5-3-has-been-released/49931/8 "2020-11-11T21:18:12Z")

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VSCode is supposed to automatically find my Julia installation right?

It isn’t picking up the new Julia version even if I delete the old ones. ![Screenshot 2020-11-11 161404](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/original/3X/e/7/e7a1fdcc636745f0156dda651371d7f0fe3c1171.png)

The executable path in VSCode settings is empty which worked before.

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**Author:** ![DaymondLing](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/daymondling/32/8474_2.png) [@DaymondLing](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/DaymondLing)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2020, 12:54am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-v1-5-3-has-been-released/49931/9 "2020-11-12T00:54:35Z")

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Julia needs to be on your PATH. For windows, Control Panel \> edit the system environment variables

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/original/3X/6/1/61262dbd1f1294edfcaa64b57ad303a355ac5f31.png)

Click Environment Variables… and edit the PATH entry

![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/original/3X/3/2/32217b89504a5ceef31e0e269bfe8ff65c8c5c1c.png)

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**Author:** ![abobroff](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/abobroff/32/3752_2.png) [@abobroff](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/abobroff)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2020, 10:56am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-v1-5-3-has-been-released/49931/10 "2020-11-12T10:56:17Z")

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> [@Nathan\_Boyer](#):
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> The executable path in VSCode settings is empty which worked before.

Specify the path to the version you need.

 ![path_to_julia](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/original/3X/e/f/efe922578aa8d507c74c0d6a6af84cd2cf406123.png)

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**Author:** ![harven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@harven](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/harven)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2020, 12:12pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-v1-5-3-has-been-released/49931/11 "2020-11-12T12:12:04Z")

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Is there a LTS version planned? Perhaps 1.5.4?

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**Author:** ![Rudi79](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/rudi79/32/3884_2.png) [@Rudi79](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Rudi79)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2020, 12:25pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-v1-5-3-has-been-released/49931/12 "2020-11-12T12:25:01Z")

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I guess it is answered here:

> [@What are the guarantees of LTS Julia versions?](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/what-are-the-guarantees-of-lts-julia-versions/39572/11):
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> That was considered but too many things didn’t quite make it into 1.5. We won’t change 1.6 to LTS until it’s been out for a release cycle, so for a few months 1.0 will be LTS and get one last point release while 1.6 is the stable release. After 1.7 is released, 1.6 will become the new LTS and after that 1.0 will be retired and get no further releases.

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**Author:** ![Nathan\_Boyer](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/nathan_boyer/32/14825_2.png) [@Nathan\_Boyer](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Nathan_Boyer)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2020, 1:35pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-v1-5-3-has-been-released/49931/13 "2020-11-12T13:35:38Z")

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> [@DaymondLing](#):
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> Julia needs to be on your PATH.

> [@abobroff](#):
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> Specify the path to the version you need.

I didn’t need to do either of these things to get the previous version to work in VSCode. I don’t 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.

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**Author:** ![johnh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/johnh/32/3615_2.png) [@johnh](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/johnh)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2020, 4:04pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-v1-5-3-has-been-released/49931/14 "2020-11-12T16:04:37Z")

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For Windows users please consider using the Chocolatey package manager. this works great with Juila and the latest versions are quickly available.

> **[Chocolatey - The package manager for Windows](https://chocolatey.org/)**
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> Chocolatey is software management automation for Windows that wraps installers, executables, zips, and scripts into compiled packages. Chocolatey integrates w/SCCM, Puppet, Chef, etc. Chocolatey is trusted by businesses to manage software...

After you install chocolatey

choco install julia

Then when a new version is available  
choco upgrade julia

To be honest 1.5.3 is available - but still under test/review

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**Author:** ![mcreel](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/mcreel/32/30088_2.png) [@mcreel](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mcreel)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2020, 5:02pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-v1-5-3-has-been-released/49931/15 "2020-11-12T17:02:18Z")

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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.

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**Author:** ![Henrique\_Becker](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/henrique_becker/32/15443_2.png) [@Henrique\_Becker](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Henrique_Becker)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2020, 9:27pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-v1-5-3-has-been-released/49931/16 "2020-11-12T21:27:31Z")

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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.

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**Author:** ![Nathan\_Boyer](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/nathan_boyer/32/14825_2.png) [@Nathan\_Boyer](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Nathan_Boyer)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2020, 2:43pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-v1-5-3-has-been-released/49931/17 "2020-11-13T14:43:10Z")

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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.

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**Author:** ![nilshg](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/nilshg/32/2283_2.png) [@nilshg](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/nilshg)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2020, 2:53pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-v1-5-3-has-been-released/49931/18 "2020-11-13T14:53:58Z")

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It seems that in this instance it’s not really necessary to update everyone for every minor bugfix release (unless the code you’re writing happens to suffer from something that’s fixed in a minor release)?

There are ways to update Julia automatically, e.g. there’s a Julia package in the AUR [here](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/julia-bin) and I know @johnh swears by chocolatey installs on Windows which I believe (he will correct me if I’m wrong) replace the installed version on your machine, so presumably this would be picked up by VSCode/Juno etc

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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:** [November 13, 2020, 3:26pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-v1-5-3-has-been-released/49931/19 "2020-11-13T15:26:07Z")

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> [@Nathan\_Boyer](#):
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> VSCode is supposed to automatically find my Julia installation right?

See [julia 1.5.3 path by pfitzseb · Pull Request #1755 · julia-vscode/julia-vscode · GitHub](https://github.com/julia-vscode/julia-vscode/pull/1755) (and preemptively for 1.5.4: [Add support for Julia 1.5.4 by davidanthoff · Pull Request #1759 · julia-vscode/julia-vscode · GitHub](https://github.com/julia-vscode/julia-vscode/pull/1759)).

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**Author:** ![johnh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/johnh/32/3615_2.png) [@johnh](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/johnh)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2020, 4:06pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-v1-5-3-has-been-released/49931/20 "2020-11-13T16:06:21Z")

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@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 ‘modules’ environment. I Can give you some pointers - modules works really well.

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