If yes, how would I do this most easily, without losing list of installed packages? I use Julia in conjection with Juno in Atom. Kind regards

What do you mean by rename? Just install the new version and change the JuliaPath option inside Atom to the new directory. Typically on Windows it looks like: C:\Users\your_username\AppData\Local\Julia-1.1.0\bin\julia.exe And should be changed to C:\Users\your_username\AppData\Local\Julia-1.1.1\b…

When Julia 1.1.1 comes, should I upgrade from 1.1.0?

New to Julia

Tamas_Papp May 10, 2019, 8:30am 2

See

especially the “risk tolerance personas” part. TL;DR: probably yes. The packages should not be affected.