On Tuesday, September 20, 2016 at 6:30:46 AM UTC, Tony Kelman wrote: > > 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/> >
"For Julia 0.4, only bugfixes are being supported. Releases older than 0.4 are now unmaintained." while http://julialang.org/downloads/oldreleases.html says (is this contradicting?): "v0.3.12 (critical bugfixes only)" should it say similar to "v0.2.1 (unmaintained)"? I made a PR to that effect, some time ago. [I see 0.3 is now "frozen" for packages.] Maybe it's a conscious choice to keep that language (no need to rule out critical [security] bugfixes?) but it is some promise we want to keep? I've noticed there haven't been any updates to 0.3.x in a while. For any release, can you think of any security updates? [At least I will be moving to 0.5, maybe for some good to have 0.4 supported for a while, I doubt anyone is stuck on 0.3 (or older)..] -- Palli. (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 >
