Status of Julia 1.12

Internals & Design
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What is the current status of Julia 1.12?
When can we expect a feature freeze?
Which larger new features are to be expected?

If I look at 1.12 Milestone · GitHub not much happened in the last 4 weeks. Is that misleading?

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1.11 just came out; it’s usually like 8 months between releases, give or take a few.

The 1.12 release notes are in julia/NEWS.md at master · JuliaLang/julia · GitHub.

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Most work doesn’t happen based on milestones. The main items that have gone into 1.12 are

  • parallel compilation (and making it so that inference uses heap memory rather than stack memory preventing the possibility of stackoverflow during inference)
  • Compiler excision from Base (basically making it so that in the future the compiler can be upgraded independently from Julia)
  • a bunch of Juliac stuff (small binaries)
  • 80% of the work to make global variables understand world age (@Keno is hoping to finish that for 1.12).

Feature freeze is soon™.

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Do you mean into 1.12 ?

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yes

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Will this reduce the pre-compile times?

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