# JuliaBox Update

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/juliabox-update/14688>\
**Category:** Community\
**Created:** [September 8, 2018, 12:46am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/juliabox-update/14688 "2018-09-08T00:46:04Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![avik](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/avik/32/17_2.png) [@avik](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/avik)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2018, 12:46am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/juliabox-update/14688/1 "2018-09-08T00:46:04Z")

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We plan to release a major upgrade for Juliabox next week. The primary benefit will be to support 1.0. But we’ll also take the opportunity to roll out a few new features, the big ones being support of GPUs for eligible users, and the ability to easily change the resources allocated to the notebook and worker processes. We are also tweaking the UI a bit to accommodate these new features.

We’ll write more about the new features in the coming days and weeks, but for now, here is a preview of how it will look: [The New Juliabox - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8Bbw3tfvM0)

This update will occur in the morning of Wednesday, the 12th of September, around 0400UTC. Downtime should brief, but might extend to a couple of hours if necessary.

Note that all 0.6 functionality and notebooks are expected to continue working as-in after the update, so disruption to existing users should be minimum.

Regards

Avik

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**Author:** ![mbauman](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/mbauman/32/31082_2.png) [@mbauman](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mbauman)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2018, 10:44pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/juliabox-update/14688/2 "2018-09-11T22:44:17Z")

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**Author:** ![raminammour](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/raminammour/32/13572_2.png) [@raminammour](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/raminammour)\
**Post date:** [September 13, 2018, 5:04pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/juliabox-update/14688/3 "2018-09-13T17:04:47Z")

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Looks great!

I could install some packages on `v1.0.0` but some others I couldn’t:

```julia
Pkg.add("DistributedArrays")

The following package names could not be resolved:
 * DistributedArrays (not found in project, manifest or registry)
Please specify by known `name=uuid`.

Stacktrace:
 [1] pkgerror(::String) at /opt/julia-1.0.0/share/julia/stdlib/v1.0/Pkg/src/Types.jl:121
 [2] #ensure_resolved#43(::Bool, ::Function, ::Pkg.Types.EnvCache, ::Array{Pkg.Types.PackageSpec,1}) at /opt/julia-1.0.0/share/julia/stdlib/v1.0/Pkg/src/Types.jl:895
 [3] #ensure_resolved at ./none:0 [inlined]
 [4] #add_or_develop#13(::Symbol, ::Bool, ::Base.Iterators.Pairs{Union{},Union{},Tuple{},NamedTuple{(),Tuple{}}}, ::Function, ::Pkg.Types.Context, ::Array{Pkg.Types.PackageSpec,1}) at /opt/julia-1.0.0/share/julia/stdlib/v1.0/Pkg/src/API.jl:58
 [5] #add_or_develop at ./none:0 [inlined]
 [6] #add_or_develop#12 at /opt/julia-1.0.0/share/julia/stdlib/v1.0/Pkg/src/API.jl:29 [inlined]
 [7] #add_or_develop at ./none:0 [inlined]
 [8] #add_or_develop#11(::Base.Iterators.Pairs{Symbol,Symbol,Tuple{Symbol},NamedTuple{(:mode,),Tuple{Symbol}}}, ::Function, ::Array{String,1}) at /opt/julia-1.0.0/share/julia/stdlib/v1.0/Pkg/src/API.jl:28
 [9] #add_or_develop at ./none:0 [inlined]
 [10] #add_or_develop#10 at /opt/julia-1.0.0/share/julia/stdlib/v1.0/Pkg/src/API.jl:27 [inlined]
 [11] #add_or_develop at ./none:0 [inlined]
 [12] #add#18 at /opt/julia-1.0.0/share/julia/stdlib/v1.0/Pkg/src/API.jl:68 [inlined]
 [13] add(::String) at /opt/julia-1.0.0/share/julia/stdlib/v1.0/Pkg/src/API.jl:68
 [14] top-level scope at In[14]:1

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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:** [September 13, 2018, 5:15pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/juliabox-update/14688/4 "2018-09-13T17:15:32Z")

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Ran into the same issue with `BenchmarkTools` - something I would have considered to be quite crucial, especially in a teaching environment.

@avik is there an explanation somewhere on what packages are expected to work on JuliaBox on 1.0?

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**Author:** ![avik](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/avik/32/17_2.png) [@avik](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/avik)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2018, 10:44am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/juliabox-update/14688/5 "2018-09-14T10:44:37Z")

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Yes, we are doing this slowly, to ensure packages are tested to work before being made available.

BenchmarkTools should now be available.

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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:** [September 14, 2018, 10:45am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/juliabox-update/14688/6 "2018-09-14T10:45:14Z")

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Perfect thanks - is there some sort of status tracker somewhere that shows which packages currently work and which are planned to work in future?