# PSA: use Julia 0.7 if you are upgrading

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/psa-use-julia-0-7-if-you-are-upgrading/13321>\
**Category:** Announcements\
**Tags:** psa\
**Created:** [August 12, 2018, 8:05pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/psa-use-julia-0-7-if-you-are-upgrading/13321 "2018-08-12T20:05:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![stevengj](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/stevengj/32/71_2.png) [@stevengj](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/stevengj)\
**Post date:** [August 13, 2018, 8:44pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/psa-use-julia-0-7-if-you-are-upgrading/13321/5 "2018-08-13T20:44:39Z")

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I would tend to say that almost no one should use 1.0 day-to-day for the next month or so, until most packages have fully upgraded.

There is zero advantage to using 1.0 over 0.7 right now (except for testing), just more non-functioning packages, because 1.0 is just 0.7 minus deprecations.

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