Julia 1.6.4 and 1.7-rc2 releases seem imminent, both have 0 issues on their milestones. I know it’s been stated Julia 1.6.x will be the next long-term support version (LTS), but it’s not yet declared such officially (at the download page). And at least I would rather want 1.7 as an LTS (or both). T…

Still, nothing has changed in regards to the LTS plans in the past month. 1.6 will become LTS when 1.7 is released. This hasn’t changed since this thread. [image] What are the current plans regarding a new LTS Julia version? Internals & Design The plan is still for 1.6 to…

Nothing has changed from the last time you asked this a month ago. [image] The future of Julia, 1.6, 1.7-rc1, 1.8, 1.9, 1.10 and 2.0 and LTS Community Julia 1.7-rc1 [EDIT: is done, 1.7-rc2 is coming]. Julia 1.6 has been approved as LTS, while not yet announced (I would ra…

That question (and most answers) was about a possible Julia 2.0, and general future of Julia. Julia 1.7 is a non-breaking release and wasn’t discussed really in any answers there.

This feels like it’s been answered an awful lot of times. The new LTS will be 1.6. When? When 1.7 is released. Why? Because that’s the documented procedure and the logic is that the current stable release and the LTS should not be the same release. If people want to start acting on Julia 1.6 being t…

Thanks for answering/clarifying when, it was puzzling why not already. I see it now in the procedure: Realistically, however, we don’t really have the capacity to maintain more than a few active backport branches at a time. […] A long term support (LTS) branch (currently release-1.0): an older r…

[image] Palli: Those people may be stuck at 1.3 or older, and want to upgrade to 1.7 rather than 1.6. Nothing is stopping them from doing so when 1.7 is released though? Always wanting the newest features is very much contradictory to having to stay on LTS from my POV. [image] Palli: So …

[image] Sukera: LTS means “this version is stable and will have backports when you find bugs in it, even 2 years or more after the version was originally released”. No, it doesn’t, on neither count. The length of long-term support has never been stated as far as I know, and that’s a separate …

[image] Palli: Julia 1.6 as LTS, is basically a mistake in my view, might lead to questions like why do I get inconsistent (floating point) results between stable and LTS (reason, because of the different RNGs), why doesn’t this are that syntax that works in 1.7+ work, such as x√y , .&& and .|| …

I have the impression that all your points will apply to whatever pair of versions 1.x and 1.x+1, no? When 1.8 gets an exciting feature we will be asking the Julia maintainers to not declare 1.7 as LTS and instead wait for 1.8? Personally I don’t read much into “LTS” more than “release that will ge…

[image] aramirezreyes: I have the impression that all your points will apply to whatever pair of versions 1.x and 1.x+1, no? Not really, there are many special situations with 1.7. We’ve had one RNG before and now a new one (and I fell responsible since I suggested it). That’s a change since …

[image] Palli: Julia 1.6 as LTS, is basically a mistake in my view, might lead to questions like why do I get inconsistent (floating point) results between stable and LTS (reason, because of the different RNGs), why doesn’t this are that syntax that works in 1.7+ work, such as x√y , .&& and .|| …

Next Julia LTS; when?

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Sukera October 19, 2021, 1:09pm 4

Still, nothing has changed in regards to the LTS plans in the past month. 1.6 will become LTS when 1.7 is released. This hasn’t changed since this thread.

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