# Julia v1.6.0-rc1 is now available
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-v1-6-0-rc1-is-now-available/54775
**Category:** Announcements
**Tags:** release
**Created:** [February 7, 2021, 6:36am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-v1-6-0-rc1-is-now-available/54775 "2021-02-07T06:36:14Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
**Page:** 2
### Author:  [@kristoffer.carlsson](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/kristoffer.carlsson)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2021, 6:21pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-v1-6-0-rc1-is-now-available/54775/21 "2021-02-09T18:21:42Z")
Mac? I think the RC was updated for mac since the previous one accidentally had asserts enabled. Perhaps the checksums haven’t been updated yet…
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### Author:  [@ctkelley](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/ctkelley)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2021, 6:22pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-v1-6-0-rc1-is-now-available/54775/22 "2021-02-09T18:22:25Z")
Thanks. Should I wait until tomorrow before I try again?
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### Author:  [@carstenbauer](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/carstenbauer)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2021, 6:41pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-v1-6-0-rc1-is-now-available/54775/23 "2021-02-09T18:41:31Z")
You might try again now. @ararslan just mentioned on Slack that he has updated the checksums.
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### Author:  [@ctkelley](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/ctkelley)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2021, 7:00pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-v1-6-0-rc1-is-now-available/54775/24 "2021-02-09T19:00:14Z")
Just failed again. Same message.
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### Author:  [@zhangliye](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/zhangliye)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2021, 7:15pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-v1-6-0-rc1-is-now-available/54775/25 "2021-02-09T19:15:39Z")
Some packages cannot be installed with v1.6.0-rc1, such as GDAL.jl. As explained as follows, this is not caused by packages themselves.
[https://github.com/JuliaGeo/GDAL.jl/issues/113](https://github.com/JuliaGeo/GDAL.jl/issues/113)
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### Author:  [@joa-quim](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/joa-quim)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2021, 7:51pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-v1-6-0-rc1-is-now-available/54775/26 "2021-02-09T19:51:37Z")
If you install this [GDAL.jl](https://github.com/joa-quim/GDAL.jl) version it works. It doesn’t depend on any \*\_jll but on the other hand it requires having GMT installed.
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### Author:  [@ctkelley](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/ctkelley)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2021, 8:14pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-v1-6-0-rc1-is-now-available/54775/27 "2021-02-09T20:14:13Z")
Do github actions take longer than Travis for this kind of thing (checksum updates)?
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### Author:  [@visr](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/visr)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2021, 8:17pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-v1-6-0-rc1-is-now-available/54775/28 "2021-02-09T20:17:31Z")
> [@zhangliye](#):
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> Some packages cannot be installed with v1.6.0-rc1, such as GDAL.jl
I updated the issue with instructions on how to resolve it, would be great if someone could pick it up before the 1.6 release.
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### Author:  [@ctkelley](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/ctkelley)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2021, 2:49pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-v1-6-0-rc1-is-now-available/54775/29 "2021-02-10T14:49:47Z")
Still no joy one day later
Checksum of downloaded file does not match the expected checksum from versions.json. Expected: dafa3431861b8aa4a82f0885f84b21a39332f1e931c09660af70ad25a716eec8 Got: 7e6a0298eebe48d408279c6f99cb5df575b39097c44846971e5851a4daf25f0a
Julia ^1.6.0-0 - macOS-latest - x64: .github#L1
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