Julia v1.6.0-beta1 is now available

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BTW, is the version for Windows something special? :joy:

julia> versioninfo()
Julia Version 1.6.0-beta1.0
Commit b84990e1ac (2021-01-08 12:42 UTC)
Platform Info:
  OS: Windows (x86_64-w64-mingw32)
  CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8565U CPU @ 1.80GHz
  WORD_SIZE: 64
  LIBM: libopenlibm
  LLVM: libLLVM-11.0.0 (ORCJIT, skylake)

julia> VERSION == v"1.6.0-beta1"
false
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Are you maybe just missing the “.0” in VERSION == v"1.6.0-beta1.0"?

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Yes, but it’s more that the VERSION seems to contain a gift.

Edit:

julia> Base.GIT_VERSION_INFO # Linux 64-bit
Base.GitVersionInfo("b84990e1acee72ea3c3b05487996f9bb8be0db2f", "b84990e1ac", "refs/pull/39149/merge", 0, "2021-01-08 12:42 UTC", true, 107, 1.607504458e9)

julia> Base.GIT_VERSION_INFO # Windows 64-bit
Base.GitVersionInfo("b84990e1acee72ea3c3b05487996f9bb8be0db2f", "b84990e1ac", "release-1.6", 0, "2021-01-08 12:42 UTC", false, 107, 1.607504458e9)

tagged_commit? :thinking: