Software Update: Julia 1.6.0

Julia is the name of a high-level, high-performance dynamic programming language for numerical mathematics. It includes a powerful compiler, among other things, distributed parallel execution and an extensive library of mathematical functions. The core of Julia is released under the MIT license, while several libraries other licenses such as gpl, lgpl, and bsd. For more information, please refer to this page† A few days ago version 1.6 came out and the announcement of that release looks like this:

Julia 1.6 Highlights

Julia version 1.6 has been released. Most Julia releases are timed and hence not planned around specific features, but this release was an exception since it is likely to become the next long-term support (LTS) release of Julia. Because of this, we took extra time developing the release to make sure that features which are needed for the future health of the ecosystem made it into the release. Also, the release was tested for regressions against all registered open source packages and issues were tracked down and fixed. The final decision about whether Julia 1.6 will become the new LTS will be made after it has been battle-tested in the field, around the time of the 1.7 release enters stabilization. The full list of changes can be found in the NEWS file†