# Typestability in matrix multiplication, intended behaviour or bug?

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/typestability-in-matrix-multiplication-intended-behaviour-or-bug/19969
**Category:** General Usage
**Tags:** question
**Created:** [January 23, 2019, 9:56am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/typestability-in-matrix-multiplication-intended-behaviour-or-bug/19969 "2019-01-23T09:56:48Z")
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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: [January 24, 2019, 7:59am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/typestability-in-matrix-multiplication-intended-behaviour-or-bug/19969/10 "2019-01-24T07:59:39Z")

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Note that there is no commitment to backporting every bug fix (see the “Long term support” 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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