Hans, like John said in the OP, v0.4 is really unstable right now. I would 
not expect them to publish updates to NEWS.md for new things that could get 
reverted a few days later. If you want to monitor updates, Github provides 
some really nice tools, like the Pulse 
page: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pulse/weekly

There are a number of ways to monitor something in flux like v0.4 without 
requiring manual updates to a changelog.

On Friday, September 26, 2014 6:30:48 AM UTC-4, Hans W Borchers wrote:
>
> Ivar,
>
> thanks for this clarification; I was really under the impression that -- 
> like 
> for Perl and other projects -- I might never ever again hear from a Julia 
> 0.4 
> version.
>
> A question I asked got buried in another thread and never answered, so I'd 
> like 
> to repeat it here:
>
>   Will the NEWS.md file immediately document the (disruptive or 
> non-disruptive)
>   changes? That would be very helpful, even if the change is withdrawn 
> later on.
>   Also, every NEWS entry could include a date to make it easier to follow 
> the
>   development.
>
> By the way, I am a bit worried about some of the names that seem to come 
> up in a 
> next version of Julia. For example, 'Nullable' or 'NullableArray' sound 
> strange 
> for me in a technical computing environment.
>
>
> On Friday, September 26, 2014 9:19:37 AM UTC+2, Ivar Nesje wrote:
>>
>> I think this is a too strong statement. There are definitely happening a 
>> lot on the master (0.4-dev) branch, but it should be quite usable even 
>> without reading the majority of Github issues. The more users we have, the 
>> earlier concerns is raised, and the earlier we can fix them and prepare for 
>> the final release. You should definitely avoid master on any project with a 
>> deadline tough.
>>
>>
>>

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