We are pleased to announce the immediate release of Julia 0.3.0. This release contains numerous improvements across the board from standard library changes to pure performance enhancements as well as an expanded ecosystem of packages as compared to the 0.2 releases. A summary of changes is available in NEWS.md <https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/021d87dc7290ef2804a01660c561c8a6ce522d02/NEWS.md> in our main repository, and binaries are now available on our main download page <http://julialang.org/downloads/>.
We are now transitioning into the 0.4 development cycle, and encourage users to use the 0.3.X line if they need a stable julia environment. Many breaking changes will be entering the environment over the course of the next few months, and to denote this builds will have use the versioning scheme 0.4.0-dev. Once the major breaking changes have been merged and the development cycle progresses towards a stable release, the version will shift to 0.4.0-pre, at which point package authors and users should start to think about transitioning the codebases over to the 0.4.X line. The release-0.3 branch of the codebase will remain open for bugfixes during this time, and we encourage users facing problems to open issues on our GitHub tracker <https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues>, or email the julia-users mailing list <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/julia-users>. Happy coding.
