# Status of Julia 1.12

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**Created:** [November 17, 2024, 6:32am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/status-of-julia-1-12/122731 "2024-11-17T06:32:18Z")\
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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](https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/milestone/47) not much happened in the last 4 weeks. Is that misleading?

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**Author:** ![jar1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c0e974/32.png) [@jar1](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/jar1)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2024, 6:46am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/status-of-julia-1-12/122731/2 "2024-11-17T06:46:17Z")

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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](https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/master/NEWS.md).

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**Post date:** [November 17, 2024, 5:14pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/status-of-julia-1-12/122731/3 "2024-11-17T17:14:27Z")

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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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**Post date:** [November 17, 2024, 5:18pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/status-of-julia-1-12/122731/4 "2024-11-17T17:18:29Z")

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> [@Oscar\_Smith](#):
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> The main items that have gone into 1.11 are

Do you mean into 1.12 ?

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**Post date:** [November 17, 2024, 6:27pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/status-of-julia-1-12/122731/5 "2024-11-17T18:27:31Z")

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yes

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**Post date:** [November 17, 2024, 6:36pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/status-of-julia-1-12/122731/6 "2024-11-17T18:36:04Z")

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> [@Oscar\_Smith](#):
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> parallel compilation (and making it so that inference uses heap memory rather than stack memory preventing the possibility of stackoverflow during inference)

Will this reduce the pre-compile times?