# When (likely) Julia 1.6 will be released?

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/when-likely-julia-1-6-will-be-released/51605>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Created:** [December 10, 2020, 1:01pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/when-likely-julia-1-6-will-be-released/51605 "2020-12-10T13:01:21Z")\
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I have a colleague that asked me help to install Julia, and I wanted to know when Julia 1.6 is likely to be released (I am afraid he get scared with the infamous time-to-first-plot issue).

I understand that the correct answer is “when it is ready” or “when the blocking issues count goes to zero”, but as an educated guess, is it likely to be in the next few weeks or is it rather a matter of several months ?

Cheers !

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**Post date:** [December 10, 2020, 1:32pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/when-likely-julia-1-6-will-be-released/51605/2 "2020-12-10T13:32:27Z")

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> I wanted to know when Julia 1.6 is likely to be released

1.6-Beta - is Work in progress

- [https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/38795](https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/38795)

And  
[https://twitter.com/KenoFischer/status/1336749476967493634](https://twitter.com/KenoFischer/status/1336749476967493634)

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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 10, 2020, 1:53pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/when-likely-julia-1-6-will-be-released/51605/3 "2020-12-10T13:53:11Z")

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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

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**Post date:** [December 10, 2020, 2:20pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/when-likely-julia-1-6-will-be-released/51605/4 "2020-12-10T14:20:12Z")

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Am I right that there are no julia 1.6 binaries available now? Before branching the “nightly” downloads were 1.6, but currently they are of 1.7 version.  
This seems a bit strange, to have 1.5 and 1.7 binaries, but not 1.6…

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**Post date:** [December 10, 2020, 2:31pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/when-likely-julia-1-6-will-be-released/51605/5 "2020-12-10T14:31:22Z")

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> [@aplavin](#):
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> Am I right that there are no julia 1.6 binaries available now?

You’re right, but note there isn’t a huge difference at the moment between the `master` branch and the [`release-1.6`](https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/tree/release-1.6) branch.

> [@aplavin](#):
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> This seems a bit strange, to have 1.5 and 1.7 binaries, but not 1.6…

Binaries from the release branches aren’t published on a regular basis, but I think that when there will be an “alpha” or “beta” release there will be a new official binary to play with. It has been always this way, at least as far as I could remember.

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**Author:** ![aplavin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/aplavin/32/222056_2.png) [@aplavin](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/aplavin)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2020, 2:54pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/when-likely-julia-1-6-will-be-released/51605/6 "2020-12-10T14:54:37Z")

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Thanks, I just don’t think I ever used nightlies before 1.6.  
I understand that currently there is basically no difference between 1.6 and 1.7, but it will accumulate over time. And 1.6 is likely to be more “stable” in this case, right?

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**Post date:** [December 10, 2020, 3:08pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/when-likely-julia-1-6-will-be-released/51605/7 "2020-12-10T15:08:06Z")

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> [@aplavin](#):
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> I understand that currently there is basically no difference between 1.6 and 1.7 now, but it will accumulate over time. And 1.6 is likely to be more “stable” in this case, right?

More or less, yes. Broadly speaking, the development continues as follows:

- `master` is now the basis for the development of Julia v1.7
- Julia v1.6 will be cut out of the `release-1.6` branch
- most pull requests will continue to be opened against `master` branch. They will include both bug fixes and new features. Bug fixes necessary for v1.6 will be backported in the `release-1.6` branch. At this point no new feature can be added to v1.6, so changes which introduce new features will only stay in `master`

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**Post date:** [December 10, 2020, 3:10pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/when-likely-julia-1-6-will-be-released/51605/8 "2020-12-10T15:10:39Z")

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> [@aplavin](#):
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> And 1.6 is likely to be more “stable” in this case, right?

A bit, but in practice that should not matter before the release. See “Risk Tolerance Personas” in

> [@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 curren…

If you are using `master` or `release-X.Y` around alpha/beta, you are “high risk tolerance” for practical purposes.

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**Post date:** [January 3, 2021, 4:03pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/when-likely-julia-1-6-will-be-released/51605/9 "2021-01-03T16:03:01Z")

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Are there any info about the release of 1.6? 🙂

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**Post date:** [January 3, 2021, 4:43pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/when-likely-julia-1-6-will-be-released/51605/10 "2021-01-03T16:43:59Z")

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You could monitor the [1.6 blockers](https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/milestone/36) milestone.

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**Post date:** [January 3, 2021, 5:05pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/when-likely-julia-1-6-will-be-released/51605/11 "2021-01-03T17:05:01Z")

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> [@sylvaticus](#):
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> I have a colleague that asked me help to install Julia, and I wanted to know when Julia 1.6 is likely to be released (I am afraid he get scared with the infamous time-to-first-plot issue).

While the immediate next step is a 1.6-beta soon, I should point out that that 1.5 solves the time to first plot greatly. It will be slightly better in 1.6, but the big improvements in producing a plot in a new Julia session went into 1.5.

What 1.6 does is that it precompiles packages on download rather than on first use, that greatly improves the perception - and it also parallelizes the precompilation.

-viral

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**Post date:** [January 3, 2021, 6:02pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/when-likely-julia-1-6-will-be-released/51605/12 "2021-01-03T18:02:10Z")

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> [@giordano](#):
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> You’re right, but note there isn’t a huge difference at the moment between the `master` branch and the [`release-1.6`](https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/tree/release-1.6) branch.

It depends on the time , I guess. Current 1.7 is slightly faster than last 1.6 to precompile my package but it makes VSC language server crash and broke Revise.

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**Post date:** [January 3, 2021, 6:14pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/when-likely-julia-1-6-will-be-released/51605/13 "2021-01-03T18:14:41Z")

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> [@joa-quim](#):
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> It depends on the time

Yes, that’s the meaning of “at the moment”

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**Post date:** [January 3, 2021, 6:17pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/when-likely-julia-1-6-will-be-released/51605/14 "2021-01-03T18:17:12Z")

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Yes, except that “at the moment”, there is a significant difference 🙂

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I read there a new ClearStacktrace.jl like improvement on the stacktrace. That would be great to see too! 😊

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**Post date:** [January 27, 2021, 6:23am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/when-likely-julia-1-6-will-be-released/51605/16 "2021-01-27T06:23:51Z")

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In Julia blockers, number of items (open issues) sometimes drops to 2, rises suddenly, and drop again. I even saw it was zero. What is the stop criterion? Is there a predefined future or todo list besides the blocker issues?

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**Post date:** [January 27, 2021, 6:28am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/when-likely-julia-1-6-will-be-released/51605/17 "2021-01-27T06:28:39Z")

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The number of blockers rizes when me issues are found that prevent release. We’ll release a rc1 once we have a short period of 0 blockers. 1.6 final gets released when we have a week with no issues that block us from releasing the most recent rc.

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very satisfied. thank you for the answer!

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Perhaps this blog post is useful to point people to: [Julia’s Release Process](https://julialang.org/blog/2019/08/release-process/)