Software update: Julia 1.9.0

Julia is the name of a high-level, high-performance dynamic programming language for numerical mathematics. It includes, among other things, a powerful compiler, distributed parallel execution and an extended one library of mathematical functions. The core of Julia is released under the MIT license, while several libraries use others licenses such as gpl, lgpl and bsd. For more information please refer to this page. Version 1.9.0 has been released and extensive information about it is available this page here are the highlights in brief:

Julia 1.9 Highlights

After 3 betas and 3 release candidates, Julia version 1.9 has finally(!) been released. We would like to thank all the contributors to this release and all the testers that helped with finding regressions and issues in the pre-releases. Without you, this release would not have been possible. The full list of changes can be found in the NEWS filebut here we’ll give a more in-depth overview of some of the release highlights:

• Caching or native code
• Package extensions
• Heap snapshot
• Memory usage hint for the GC with –heap-size-hint
• Sorting performance
• Tasks and the interactive thread pool
• REPL
  • Contextual module REPL
  • Numbered prompt
• DelimitedFiles – first stdlib to be upgradeable
• –math-mode=fast disabled
• Pkg
  • pkg> up Foo will now try to only update Foo
  • pkg> add will only auto update the registry once per day
  • pkg> add can now try to only add already installed packages
  • pkg> why to tell you why a package is in the manifest
  • pkg> test –coverage (the default for CI) is now faster
• Apple Silicon Achieves Tier 1 Status
• LLVM Update to v14
• Native half-precision floating-point arithmetic