Julia v1.4.0

ararslan March 22, 2020, 1:16am #1

The Julia developers are pleased to annouce the release of Julia v1.4.0, the fourth minor release in the 1.x series. Binaries are available for all of your favorite platforms (Linux, macOS, Windows, and FreeBSD) at https://julialang.org/downloads .

As a minor release, v1.4.0 contains no breaking changes, only new features, performance improvements, and marginal, undisruptive changes in behavior. The best reference for the changes in 1.4 is the NEWS file for 1.4.0.

Note that 1.4, like 1.3, 1.2, and 1.1 before it, does not have long term support. As of this release, 1.3 has been effectively superseded by 1.4, which means there will not likely be any further 1.3.x releases. Julia 1.0 is still currently the only long term support version.

We encourage everyone to give it a try. Packages can test with 1.4.0 on CI by specifying 1.4 on Travis, AppVeyor (with Appveyor.jl ), and Cirrus (with CirrusCI.jl ). As always, let us know in the issue tracker if you run into any issues.

Enjoy!

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Ronis_BR March 22, 2020, 1:15am #2

Excellent! Congratulations for this amazing work.

Is it a typo or we really need to specify 1.3 ?

Albert_Zevelev March 22, 2020, 5:42am #5

dilumaluthge March 22, 2020, 6:29am #7

The problem you were experiencing was due to some issue with your local environment, as evidenced by the fact that it was fixed by rm -rf ~/.julia .

In general, when people experience an issue with packages, my first advice is always to rm -rf ~/.julia . I know that it seems extreme, but it really does fix the vast majority of problems.

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Tamas_Papp March 22, 2020, 6:58am #8

Note that this could lead to work lost in packages checked out for development. May not be an issue for new users though.

I think that the manual should contain advice about this, cf

dilumaluthge March 22, 2020, 7:12am #9

rm -rf ~/.julia