# What's new in v1.13?
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/whats-new-in-v1-13/134497
**Category:** General Usage
**Created:** [December 11, 2025, 5:14pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/whats-new-in-v1-13/134497 "2025-12-11T17:14:43Z")
**Posts on this page:** 13
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### Author:  [@sylvaticus](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/sylvaticus)
#### Post date: [December 11, 2025, 5:14pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/whats-new-in-v1-13/134497/1 "2025-12-11T17:14:43Z")
Small question, what’s important new feature in v1.13?
As the freezing period has passed, I had a look at the NEWS file, but I couldn’t get the feeling of what - if any - “big” new feature is landing in the next upcoming release..
Of course, not all new releases need to bring new “big”, “cool” features… I am just asking in case I didn’t grasp the importance of stuff in the NEWS file..
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### Author:  [@Mason](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Mason)
#### Post date: [December 11, 2025, 5:30pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/whats-new-in-v1-13/134497/2 "2025-12-11T17:30:49Z")
My understanding is that there’s very little “big” stuff in 1.13, basically because the release cycle for 1.12 was **so** long that everything big either ended up going into 1.12, or was pushed back into into 1.14.
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### Author:  [@adienes](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/adienes)
#### Post date: [December 11, 2025, 5:38pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/whats-new-in-v1-13/134497/3 "2025-12-11T17:38:03Z")
quite a long backlog of bugs and edge cases in integer arithmetic functions, as well around indexing behaviors of some array types has been cleaned up!
few to none of those are individually worthy of a NEWS entry but I find it to be a pretty satisfying aggregate.
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### Author:  [@nilshg](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/nilshg)
#### Post date: [December 11, 2025, 6:11pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/whats-new-in-v1-13/134497/4 "2025-12-11T18:11:55Z")
What’s important differs for everyone I guess, but if you work in the REPL a lot you might like the fancy new history search which @tecosaur put together.
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### Author:  [@Oscar\_Smith](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Oscar_Smith)
#### Post date: [December 12, 2025, 3:44am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/whats-new-in-v1-13/134497/5 "2025-12-12T03:44:21Z")
Pretty sure that’s 1.14 not 1.13
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### Author:  [@nilshg](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/nilshg)
#### Post date: [December 12, 2025, 5:48am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/whats-new-in-v1-13/134497/6 "2025-12-12T05:48:07Z")
I thought I’d checked it on 1.13alpha2 before posting? (on phone now so can’t easily say whether my eyes deceived me)
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### Author:  [@simsurace](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/simsurace)
#### Post date: [December 12, 2025, 7:29am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/whats-new-in-v1-13/134497/7 "2025-12-12T07:29:48Z")
There has to be _some_ new feature, otherwise it would be a patch release, right?
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### Author:  [@cstjean](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/cstjean)
#### Post date: [December 12, 2025, 8:01am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/whats-new-in-v1-13/134497/8 "2025-12-12T08:01:39Z")
Patch releases are very conservative. Even refactorings and straight-forward performance improvements are excluded.
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### Author:  [@nilshg](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/nilshg)
#### Post date: [December 12, 2025, 8:55am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/whats-new-in-v1-13/134497/9 "2025-12-12T08:55:13Z")
I don’t think my eyes deceived me:
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### Author:  [@ianshmean](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/ianshmean)
#### Post date: [December 12, 2025, 9:03am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/whats-new-in-v1-13/134497/10 "2025-12-12T09:03:28Z")
There’s quite a few Pkg improvements
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### Author:  [@adienes](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/adienes)
#### Post date: [December 12, 2025, 2:03pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/whats-new-in-v1-13/134497/11 "2025-12-12T14:03:54Z")
new features mandate a new minor version but not vice versa
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### Author:  [@jlapeyre](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/jlapeyre)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2025, 4:19pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/whats-new-in-v1-13/134497/12 "2025-12-14T16:19:42Z")
> [@adienes](#):
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> quite a long backlog of bugs and edge cases
If you promote this as a release that focuses on bug fixes and edge cases rather than new features, you’d probably do more for adoption than if it were the other way around.
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### Author:  [@kristoffer.carlsson](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/kristoffer.carlsson)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2025, 8:13pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/whats-new-in-v1-13/134497/13 "2025-12-15T20:13:08Z")
> [@Oscar\_Smith](#):
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> Pretty sure that’s 1.14 not 1.13
That is incorrect.