# Julia v1.7.0-beta3 is now available

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-v1-7-0-beta3-is-now-available/64319>\
**Category:** Announcements\
**Tags:** release\
**Created:** [July 9, 2021, 4:26am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-v1-7-0-beta3-is-now-available/64319 "2021-07-09T04:26:31Z")\
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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:** [July 9, 2021, 4:26am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-v1-7-0-beta3-is-now-available/64319/1 "2021-07-09T04:26:31Z")

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The Julia developers are pleased to announce that the third beta release for Julia v1.7.0 is now available. You can download binaries at [https://julialang.org/downloads](https://julialang.org/downloads) in the “upcoming release” section for macOS (x86-64 and—making its debut—AArch64!), FreeBSD (x86-64), Windows (32-, 64-bit), and glibc Linux (i686, x86-64, AArch64, PowerPC). Check out the [NEWS file](https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/v1.7.0-beta3/NEWS.md) to see what will be new in 1.7.0.

As a beta version, this should **not** be considered production-ready. Rather, it’s intended to give users, especially package developers, a chance to try our their code with 1.7.0 prior to a full release. Note that 1.7 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 1.7.0-beta3.

Let us know in the [issue tracker](https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues) if you run into any issues. Please note that any bugs you may encounter should be posted there rather than being discussed in this thread to ensure visibility to the developers.

And a note to ARM-based Mac users: x86 macOS binaries should still work on ARM-based Macs with Rosetta, but the new AArch64 macOS binaries do not require the compatibility layer.

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**Author:** ![lbilli](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/59ef9b/32.png) [@lbilli](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/lbilli)\
**Post date:** [July 9, 2021, 10:31am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-v1-7-0-beta3-is-now-available/64319/2 "2021-07-09T10:31:53Z")

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Not sure if it’s intended, but in the Linux x86-64 glibc download the root folder is called `julia-e76c9dad42` instead of `julia-1.7.0-beta3`.

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**Author:** ![davidanthoff](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/davidanthoff/32/223493_2.png) [@davidanthoff](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/davidanthoff)\
**Post date:** [July 9, 2021, 4:22pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-v1-7-0-beta3-is-now-available/64319/3 "2021-07-09T16:22:51Z")

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Yes, same in the Windows archives, the sub-folder has a different naming pattern than in previous downloads, and that breaks the auto-update in `juliaup`…

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**Author:** ![davidanthoff](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/davidanthoff/32/223493_2.png) [@davidanthoff](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/davidanthoff)\
**Post date:** [July 9, 2021, 9:20pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-v1-7-0-beta3-is-now-available/64319/4 "2021-07-09T21:20:51Z")

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Fixed this on the `juliaup` end.

So, as a bit of advertisement: if you are using `juliaup` on Windows (see [here](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-juliaup-preview-julia-version-manager-and-windows-store-installer/61920) for an intro), then you can just get the `beta` channel by running `juliaup add beta` and it will install this beta version. To start it, you can then run `julia +beta`. If you already have the `beta` channel installed, you’ll do `juliaup update beta` and it will update it to this beta 3 build for you.

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**Author:** ![marius311](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/marius311/32/3953_2.png) [@marius311](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/marius311)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2021, 7:19am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-v1-7-0-beta3-is-now-available/64319/5 "2021-07-10T07:19:48Z")

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I notice that 1.7 seems to have lost about 10% package loading time across a small set of packages I just tried. Here’s one example which is typical of what I saw:

```julia
# 1.6.1
julia> @time using Zygote
  4.690558 seconds (8.42 M allocations: 556.164 MiB, 3.56% gc time, 0.14% compilation time)

# 1.7.0-beta3
julia> @time using Zygote
  5.522239 seconds (9.62 M allocations: 579.262 MiB, 2.91% gc time, 0.20% compilation time)

```

This isn’t huge, but its a little disconceting to see this go the wrong direction after 1.6 was such an improvement. Is any of this known / being tracked anywhere?

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**Author:** ![amrods](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/amrods/32/2543_2.png) [@amrods](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/amrods)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2021, 11:33pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-v1-7-0-beta3-is-now-available/64319/6 "2021-07-19T23:33:25Z")

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> [@ararslan](#):
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> for macOS (x86-64 and—making its debut—AArch64!)

Does that mean that macOS AArch64 will be moved up the [tier system for supported platforms](https://julialang.org/downloads/#currently_supported_platforms) at the time of release?

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**Author:** ![Hassan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/hassan/32/27443_2.png) [@Hassan](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Hassan)\
**Post date:** [July 23, 2021, 5:34am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-v1-7-0-beta3-is-now-available/64319/7 "2021-07-23T05:34:42Z")

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**Author:** ![jzr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/eb9ed0/32.png) [@jzr](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/jzr)\
**Post date:** [July 23, 2021, 6:09am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-v1-7-0-beta3-is-now-available/64319/8 "2021-07-23T06:09:01Z")

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**Post date:** [July 23, 2021, 6:18am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-v1-7-0-beta3-is-now-available/64319/9 "2021-07-23T06:18:34Z")

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