# Would slowing Julia's release cadence improve ecosystem quality?

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**Created:** [August 22, 2023, 8:24pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/would-slowing-julias-release-cadence-improve-ecosystem-quality/103114 "2023-08-22T20:24:20Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 22, 2023, 10:58pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/would-slowing-julias-release-cadence-improve-ecosystem-quality/103114/7 "2023-08-22T22:58:23Z")

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> [@odow](#):
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> Do you have examples? This is not my experience.

The most recent large breakage is that earlier versions of SortingAlgorithms.jl don’t work on Julia 1.9. SortingAlgorithms package has absolutely lots of dependents, and its earlier versions just don’t load on 1.9 at all.  
This is exactly breaking existing user code, the same packages + versions that worked before now don’t.

For more examples, see [Forward compatibility and stability of Julia vs. Packages - #42 by aplavin](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/forward-compatibility-and-stability-of-julia-vs-packages/97968/42) (and the whole tread, btw).

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