# Will any Julia 1.x contain substantive breaking changes?

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**Category:** Internals & Design\
**Created:** [October 23, 2022, 11:48am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/will-any-julia-1-x-contain-substantive-breaking-changes/89138 "2022-10-23T11:48:32Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 24, 2022, 12:18pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/will-any-julia-1-x-contain-substantive-breaking-changes/89138/7 "2022-10-24T12:18:00Z")

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> [@PSA: Julia is not at that stage of development anymore](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/psa-julia-is-not-at-that-stage-of-development-anymore/44872/1):
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> we would just call it Julia 1.x for some value of x.

I previously misunderstood Stephan’s original quote to mean that “there will someday be a version called 2.0 which will contain breaking changes, or maybe we’ll just call that breaking version 1.x instead”.

Thanks for the clarification.

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