Hello all! The latest bugfix release of the Julia 0.4.x line has been released. We've been a bit distracted with 0.5 release candidates so this also took longer than our usual monthly target. This may be the last release of the 0.4 line, unless new issues are brought to our attention that need backporting to the release-0.4 branch. Binaries are available from the usual place <http://julialang.org/downloads/> (however the links for 0.4.7 will be moved to the old releases page very soon), and as is typical with such things, please report all issues to either the issue tracker <https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues>, or email the julia-users list. If you reply to this message on julia-users, please do not cc julia-news which is intended to be low-volume.
This is a bugfix release, see this commit log <https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/compare/v0.4.6...v0.4.7> for the list of bugs fixed between 0.4.6 and 0.4.7. Bugfix backports to the 0.4.x line may continue if necessary. If you are a package author and want to rely on functionality that did not work in earlier 0.4.x releases but does work in 0.4.7 in your package, please be sure to change the minimum julia version in your REQUIRE file to 0.4.7 accordingly. If you're not sure about this, you can test your package specifically against older 0.4.x releases on Travis and/or locally. This is a recommended upgrade for anyone using previous releases who intends to keep using Julia 0.4 even after Julia 0.5.0 gets released, and should act as a drop-in replacement for prior 0.4.x releases. If you find any regressions relative to previous releases, please let us know. -Tony
