# Older builds

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/older-builds/51100>\
**Category:** Internals & Design\
**Tags:** question\
**Created:** [December 2, 2020, 10:28am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/older-builds/51100 "2020-12-02T10:28:40Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![sambitdash](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/sambitdash/32/1377_2.png) [@sambitdash](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/sambitdash)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2020, 10:28am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/older-builds/51100/1 "2020-12-02T10:28:40Z")

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Hi All,

I will be interested to know if the older binaries are archived anywhere to be downloaded and tested for debugging purposes. I find it useful to see if there is any feature that has changed or there has been any bug fixes btw releases. I fully understand that maintaining the previous dot releases is discouraged due to support policies and only latest should be allowed to be downloaded from the [julialang.org](http://julialang.org) web site.

regards,

Sambit

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**Author:** ![sambitdash](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/sambitdash/32/1377_2.png) [@sambitdash](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/sambitdash)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2020, 10:29am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/older-builds/51100/2 "2020-12-02T10:29:58Z")

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Ok. Got the answer myself so please ignore post. [Julia Downloads (Old releases)](https://julialang.org/downloads/oldreleases/) refered from the download page itself.

But this is only the latest patch build of the release. For example, for `1.4` release it will only have `1.4.2` and not `1.4, 1.4.1`.

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**Author:** ![SaschaMann](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/saschamann/32/2852_2.png) [@SaschaMann](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/SaschaMann)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2020, 10:42am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/older-builds/51100/3 "2020-12-02T10:42:06Z")

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There’s also a JSON file that lists them all, including the patch releases and RCs: [https://julialang-s3.julialang.org/bin/versions.json](https://julialang-s3.julialang.org/bin/versions.json)

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**Author:** ![Tamas\_Papp](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/tamas_papp/32/25949_2.png) [@Tamas\_Papp](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Tamas_Papp)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2020, 11:55am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/older-builds/51100/4 "2020-12-02T11:55:25Z")

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Alternatively, you can always just check out the relevant release from the git repo and build.

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**Author:** ![sambitdash](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/sambitdash/32/1377_2.png) [@sambitdash](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/sambitdash)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2020, 7:40pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/older-builds/51100/5 "2020-12-02T19:40:01Z")

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Thanks for the suggestion @Tamas_Papp. Generally avoid building myself and prefer picking up the released one.