# When Julia 1.6.0 will be officially released?

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/when-julia-1-6-0-will-be-officially-released/51961>\
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**Created:** [December 17, 2020, 5:27am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/when-julia-1-6-0-will-be-officially-released/51961 "2020-12-17T05:27:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![bigdataman2015](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e99b99/32.png) [@bigdataman2015](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/bigdataman2015)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2020, 5:27am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/when-julia-1-6-0-will-be-officially-released/51961/1 "2020-12-17T05:27:09Z")

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Anyone know when Julia 1.6.0 will be officially released ? Thanks !

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**Author:** ![Oscar\_Smith](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/oscar_smith/32/25343_2.png) [@Oscar\_Smith](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Oscar_Smith)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2020, 5:33am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/when-julia-1-6-0-will-be-officially-released/51961/2 "2020-12-17T05:33:36Z")

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The short answer is “when it’s ready”.  
The slightly longer answer is that we will put out a release candidate once there are no known problems with the release. A final version will be released 1 week after a release candidate if no issues are found.

My guess is 1.6rc1 by new years, but that is only a guess.

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**Author:** ![bigdataman2015](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e99b99/32.png) [@bigdataman2015](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/bigdataman2015)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2020, 5:37am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/when-julia-1-6-0-will-be-officially-released/51961/3 "2020-12-17T05:37:27Z")

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Good! I’m looking forword to 1.6.0 LTS.

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**Author:** ![Oscar\_Smith](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/oscar_smith/32/25343_2.png) [@Oscar\_Smith](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Oscar_Smith)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2020, 5:38am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/when-julia-1-6-0-will-be-officially-released/51961/4 "2020-12-17T05:38:54Z")

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Note that 1.6 won’t be the LTS branch until 1.7 is released. LTS is meant to be very stable, and no release is until it’s had a patch release.

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**Author:** ![heliosdrm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/heliosdrm/32/3851_2.png) [@heliosdrm](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/heliosdrm)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2020, 10:13am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/when-julia-1-6-0-will-be-officially-released/51961/5 "2020-12-17T10:13:11Z")

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But that is a subtlety that has no big practical consequences, isn’t it? I mean, making 1.6 the LTS version means that it will keep receiving bugfixes (1.6.x), even if there are later minor releases around (1.7, 1.8…). But 1.6 may be expected to be updated with bugfixes also before 1.7 is released. So, even if the official declaration of LTS does not come before 1.7 is live, that event won’t change the lives of 1.6 users, right?

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**Author:** ![giordano](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/giordano/32/2166_2.png) [@giordano](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/giordano)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2020, 10:19am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/when-julia-1-6-0-will-be-officially-released/51961/6 "2020-12-17T10:19:35Z")

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There has been an identical thread last week:

> [@When (likely) Julia 1.6 will be released?](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/when-likely-julia-1-6-will-be-released/51605/3):
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> There have been 3 months between [branching of v1.5](https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/commit/ddf7ce9a595b0c84fbed1a42e8c987a9fdcddaac) out of master and the [release of v1.5.0](https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/commit/96786e22ccabfdafd073122abb1fb69cea921e17). You should expect something of this order of magnitude