Julia v0.4.0-rc1 released

[Elliot Saba]

The first release candidate of the 0.4 series is available for download from the usual place.  Please test extensively, report issues to the issue tracker for base Julia problems, and report issues with packages to their respective issue trackers.  The 0.4 series will undergo a period of stabilization in anticipation of a final release as soon as feasible, while new breaking development will continue to occur on the master branch which will target a 0.5 release further down the line.

Many thanks and congratulations to all the contributors that have come together for this release; we have volunteers from all over the globe working in concert to create the best environment for technical computing available.  Onwards and upwards!

-E

[Jeffrey Sarnoff]

[catc...@bromberger.com]

Congrats to all the Julia devs on this great milestone, and thanks for all your hard work on this amazing project.

[David Anthoff]

Fantastic, thanks a lot for the great work of the team!

 

I just ran most of my code base through the RC candidate on Windows x64, and everything works. A bit difficult to tell say how much stuff it is, but about 5-6 medium sized projects, I would guestimate a couple thousand lines of code in total.

 

Cheers,

David

[Sisyphuss]

Thanks for your hard work!

[Tony Kelman]

Note that you can use

julia:

  - 0.4

in your packages' .travis.yml files and it will start using the most recently available RC. "nightly" is now 0.5-dev, which is not yet much different than the release-0.4 branch but will start diverging over time. "release" will still use the most recent 0.3 release until the final 0.4.0 version gets tagged. I would recommend you replace "release" with two separate entries for 0.4 and 0.3 if you intend to continue supporting 0.3 in your package.

P.S: There's now a julia-news google group that announcements like this one should also go to. Announcements can probably skip julia-dev?

On Thursday, September 10, 2015 at 10:21:52 AM UTC-7, Elliot Saba wrote:

[Nitin Arora]

Congrats all !