# The State of the Julia Ecosystem

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/the-state-of-the-julia-ecosystem/18650>\
**Category:** Community\
**Created:** [December 14, 2018, 9:18am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/the-state-of-the-julia-ecosystem/18650 "2018-12-14T09:18:23Z")\
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> [@sherrinm](#):
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> I have been told in a private communication that v0.6 is dead and should not be used, so downloading older versions of J-Pro (v0.6) seem to have little merit.

Sorry, I don’t understand what your point is.

Of course _now_ that the package ecosystem has more or less caught up, using 1.0.2 (and soon 1.1) is the recommended solution. But at the time of the 1.0 release, while a lot of packages were still in the process of being upgraded, continuing on 0.6.x, with or without JuliaPro, was a perfectly viable solution. Nothing was taken away, and everyone who was more sensitive to the disruption of upgrading could wait it out.

Post 1.0, the release process is now more formalized (see especially the “Risk Tolerance Personas” part).

> [@Proposed release process and schedule](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/proposed-release-process-and-schedule/15623):
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> Now that we’ve released Julia 1.0 and are [close to 1.0.1](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-1-0-1-testing-period/15534) and have added some [new features](https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pulls?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3Apr+label%3Aenhancement) and [minor changes](https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pulls?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3Apr+label%3A%22minor+change%22) to the 1.1 development branch (i.e. master), it seems like time to talk about the future of the Julia release process. After various discussions in person, on Slack, and on this week’s triage call, it seems like there’s fairly solid consensus behind the following plan. Patch releases Patch releases increment the last digit of Julia’s version number, e.g. going from 1.0.0 to 1.0.1 curre…

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