# Nighty builds for release-1.1 instead of master available?

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/nighty-builds-for-release-1-1-instead-of-master-available/18858>\
**Category:** Internals & Design\
**Created:** [December 20, 2018, 4:56pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/nighty-builds-for-release-1-1-instead-of-master-available/18858 "2018-12-20T16:56:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![fingolfin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/fingolfin/32/6033_2.png) [@fingolfin](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/fingolfin)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2018, 4:56pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/nighty-builds-for-release-1-1-instead-of-master-available/18858/1 "2018-12-20T16:56:09Z")

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Our CI testing is currently using Julia nightly builds, as we are relying on a GC extension that was only introduced after 1.0 branched. Now that the `release-1.1` branch was created, we’d ideally like to use builds based on that instead (esp. since apparently Julia `master` recently introduced a change that causes segfaults in our tests; I’ll investigate this separately). Well, of course only until 1.1 is released, then we’ll hopefully be able to switch to the release version.

Now it seems [https://julialang.org/downloads/nightlies.html](https://julialang.org/downloads/nightlies.html) only provides links to nightly builds for master, e.g. [https://julialangnightlies-s3.julialang.org/bin/linux/x64/julia-latest-linux64.tar.gz](https://julialangnightlies-s3.julialang.org/bin/linux/x64/julia-latest-linux64.tar.gz).

My question: Do their also exist “generic” URLs for that “latest build on release-1.1”? If there are no such links: Would it be possible to add them (only if it does not require too much effort; I have no idea how the nightlies are created, and was unable to find any documentation for that, so I have no idea on what’s required to do so).

Looking at [https://julialangnightlies-s3.julialang.org](https://julialangnightlies-s3.julialang.org) there are build paths that contain `1.1` and `1.2`. E.g. this is a valid URL: [https://julialangnightlies-s3.julialang.org/bin/linux/x64/1.1/julia-b55b85cd99-linux64.tar.gz](https://julialangnightlies-s3.julialang.org/bin/linux/x64/1.1/julia-b55b85cd99-linux64.tar.gz). Based on this, I tried [https://julialangnightlies-s3.julialang.org/bin/linux/x64/1.1/julia-latest-linux64.tar.gz](https://julialangnightlies-s3.julialang.org/bin/linux/x64/1.1/julia-latest-linux64.tar.gz) but this does not exist.

For now, I’ll just hard code an older nightly build, and once 1.1 is out, we’ll switch to that. But I imagine the same question may become relevant for us when 1.2 is released; and perhaps others also would like to have nightlies of the release branch?

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**Author:** ![kristoffer.carlsson](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/kristoffer.carlsson/32/22_2.png) [@kristoffer.carlsson](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/kristoffer.carlsson)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2018, 10:27pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/nighty-builds-for-release-1-1-instead-of-master-available/18858/2 "2018-12-20T22:27:48Z")

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There are currently no nightly build for anything but the latest master.