Julia 1.6 was released on 24 March 2021, but wasn’t declared LTS until Dec 2021 (previous LTS, 1.0, was LTS for just over 3 years). Should we go for 18 month LTS support as node.js? There has never been a promise for how long long-term support means for Julia (and I’m not even sure how desirable an…

Barring bad (thus far unseen) problems with the release, Julia 1.10 is very likely to become the new LTS once we’ve gotten a couple of point releases out for it. So far there’s a bit of a kerfuffle about artifact hash mismatches making 1.10.0 unusable for Windows users not using Developer Mode, but …

[image] stemann: Keeping the LTS status for 3+ years No, 3 years of support for 1.6 doesn’t really help, if it means to 24 March 2024, then less than one year, less than the 1 year to be expected for 1.9. For those adopting Julia LTS NOW, for some project, it’s very unlikely 1.6 will be suppo…

While Julia 1.0 was an exception, the policy going forward (if I understand correctly) is that the LTS is declared only after the next release is out: 1.6 became LTS only when 1.7 was released. Paraphrasing/mangling something that I believe @StefanKarpinski has said, you only know how the cake turns…

How do you feel about becoming a release manager? :grin:

He he - not sure what that implies, but not sure I have time - too busy keeping packages compatible with Julia 1.0 :slight_smile:

Out of curiosity, why do you want new versions of packages with old versions of Julia? Julia is much more stable than the package ecosystem. I’m personally much more comfortable updating Julia than I am package versions.

It has just been a strive to not break 1.0 compatibility unless required (e.g. JLLs). Definitely a good thing that Julia is as stable as it is - and which it should be.

[image] tim.holy: If we’re not declaring 1.9 the LTS now, what’s the other best candidate? Answer: 1.6. […] 1.9 may well become a new LTS, but we won’t know that until 1.10 is entering final stages of development. Is it entering final stages? I see: “Set VERSION to 1.10.0-DEV (#47222) 6 month…

1.10 is likely to be feature frozen within a couple months, and hopefully will be faster to release than 1.9

Not sure whether they are things that would delay a release, but two potentially important features of 1.10 I’ve heard people talking about are work on load time (which I think has already borne fruit on master) and the integration of JuliaSyntax into base.

Those sound like worth waiting for, if we are concidering the next LTS.

New Julia LTS? Are many using the current (Julia 1.6) LTS?

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Next Julia LTS; when? General Usage	17	2004	October 19, 2021
Is there a good reason to have an LTS version of Julia? Internals & Design	22	2523	September 29, 2023
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Is 1.10 going to be the next LTS? Community	7	629	August 26, 2024
Proposed release process and schedule Internals & Design proposal , releases	40	9176	January 25, 2019

New Julia LTS? Are many using the current (Julia 1.6) LTS?

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