# What is Julia 0.7? How does it relate to 1.0?

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**Category:** Internals & Design\
**Created:** [March 26, 2018, 3:56pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/what-is-julia-0-7-how-does-it-relate-to-1-0/9994 "2018-03-26T15:56:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![StefanKarpinski](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/stefankarpinski/32/24_2.png) [@StefanKarpinski](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/StefanKarpinski)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2018, 8:07pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/what-is-julia-0-7-how-does-it-relate-to-1-0/9994/3 "2018-03-26T20:07:00Z")

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> [@1.0 progress/status](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/1-0-progress-status/9762):
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> I figured I’d write a post updating people with where we’re at on getting Julia 1.0-alpha ready. We’re several months overdue at this point, so people may be getting impatient. I know that I am and I feel confident that I speak for all Julia core devs – we can’t wait to get this release out the door. The major work item that’s holding things up at this point is a significant rewrite of the optimizer that @keno is working on. It’s already fairly far along, but still not done. Why is he rewriting…

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