# When (likely) Julia 1.6 will be released?

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**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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> [@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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