# Julia v1.5.4 and v1.6.0-rc2 have been released

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-v1-5-4-and-v1-6-0-rc2-have-been-released/57040
**Category:** Announcements
**Tags:** release
**Created:** [March 12, 2021, 8:09pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-v1-5-4-and-v1-6-0-rc2-have-been-released/57040 "2021-03-12T20:09:36Z")
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### Author: ![stillyslalom](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/stillyslalom/32/45687_2.png) [@stillyslalom](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/stillyslalom)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2021, 4:16pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-v1-5-4-and-v1-6-0-rc2-have-been-released/57040/12 "2021-03-15T16:16:07Z")

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I’m getting errors during `Pkg.update()` on 1.6.0-rc2:

```julia
┌ Warning: failed to extract archive downloaded from https://api.github.com/repos/JuliaFolds/InitialValues.jl/tarball/26c8832afd63ac558b98a823265856670d898b6c
└ @ Pkg.Operations C:\buildbot\worker\package_win64\build\usr\share\julia\stdlib\v1.6\Pkg\src\Operations.jl:590
┌ Warning: failed to extract archive downloaded from https://api.github.com/repos/JuliaFolds/Transducers.jl/tarball/9550eba57ebc2f7677c4c946aaca56e149ca73ff
└ @ Pkg.Operations C:\buildbot\worker\package_win64\build\usr\share\julia\stdlib\v1.6\Pkg\src\Operations.jl:590
┌ Warning: failed to extract archive downloaded from https://api.github.com/repos/JuliaPlots/AbstractPlotting.jl/tarball/a1c75127d5e08b29443ab458fc9150090305c105
└ @ Pkg.Operations C:\buildbot\worker\package_win64\build\usr\share\julia\stdlib\v1.6\Pkg\src\Operations.jl:590
┌ Warning: failed to extract archive downloaded from https://api.github.com/repos/JuliaImages/ImageContrastAdjustment.jl/tarball/210f8fb370d4b97fa12d65322c62df06f3e5563b
└ @ Pkg.Operations C:\buildbot\worker\package_win64\build\usr\share\julia\stdlib\v1.6\Pkg\src\Operations.jl:590
┌ Warning: failed to extract archive downloaded from https://pkg.julialang.org/package/bdcacae8-1622-11e9-2a5c-532679323890/e9f52dd5b33bba1b825bdb69b72844e81285c2c1
└ @ Pkg.Operations C:\buildbot\worker\package_win64\build\usr\share\julia\stdlib\v1.6\Pkg\src\Operations.jl:590
┌ Warning: failed to extract archive downloaded from https://api.github.com/repos/JuliaSIMD/LoopVectorization.jl/tarball/e9f52dd5b33bba1b825bdb69b72844e81285c2c1
└ @ Pkg.Operations C:\buildbot\worker\package_win64\build\usr\share\julia\stdlib\v1.6\Pkg\src\Operations.jl:590

```

Packages are automatically being cloned instead, which is slower, but not show-stopping:

```julia
     Cloning [f27f6e37-5d2b-51aa-960f-b287f2bc3b7a] libvorbis_jll from https://github.com/JuliaBinaryWrappers/libvorbis_jll.jl.git
   Installed libvorbis_jll ──────────────── v1.3.6+6
     Cloning [a51ab1cf-af8e-5615-a023-bc2c838bba6b] ICU_jll from https://github.com/JuliaBinaryWrappers/ICU_jll.jl.git
   Installed ICU_jll ────────────────────── v67.1.0+3
     Cloning [d25df0c9-e2be-5dd7-82c8-3ad0b3e990b9] Inflate from https://github.com/GunnarFarneback/Inflate.jl.git
   Installed Inflate ────────────────────── v0.1.2
     Cloning [a51aa0fd-4e3c-5386-b890-e753decda492] Xorg_libXi_jll from https://github.com/JuliaBinaryWrappers/Xorg_libXi_jll.jl.git
   Installed Xorg_libXi_jll ─────────────── v1.7.10+4
     Cloning [1019f520-868f-41f5-a6de-eb00f4b6a39c] JLFzf from https://github.com/Moelf/JLFzf.jl.git
   Installed JLFzf ──────────────────────── v0.1.3
     Cloning [90137ffa-7385-5640-81b9-e52037218182] StaticArrays from https://github.com/JuliaArrays/StaticArrays.jl.git
   Installed StaticArrays ───────────────── v1.0.1
     Cloning [647866c9-e3ac-4575-94e7-e3d426903924] PolygonOps from https://github.com/JuliaGeometry/PolygonOps.jl.git
   Installed PolygonOps ─────────────────── v0.1.1

```

Looks similar to this (old, fixed) issue: [failed to extract archive downloaded · Issue #33591 · JuliaLang/julia · GitHub](https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/33591)

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