In case people missed the announcement in the 0.6 release timeline thread, Julia 0.6-alpha has been released:

0.6 alpha has been tagged and binaries are available. You can now use “0.6” on Travis, or “0.6-latest” on Appveyor, and it will use the most recently tagged pre-release or release candidate. We haven’t branched release-0.6 off of master yet though and probably won’t until we go through a beta and a few release candidates, whenever there are enough blocked feature PR’s to make it worth branching. So for now the nightlies will be more up-to-date with bug fixes but should be functionally equivalent. Please report anything that regresses between this alpha and nightlies. https://s3.amazonaws.com/julialang/bin/checksums/julia-0.6.0-pre.alpha.sha256

https://s3.amazonaws.com/julialang/bin/winnt/x86/0.6/julia-0.6.0-pre.alpha-win32.exe

https://s3.amazonaws.com/julialang/bin/winnt/x64/0.6/julia-0.6.0-pre.alpha-win64.exe

https://s3.amazonaws.com/julialang/bin/osx/x64/0.6/julia-0.6.0-pre.alpha-osx10.7+.dmg

https://s3.amazonaws.com/julialang/bin/linux/x86/0.6/julia-0.6.0-pre.alpha-linux-i686.tar.gz

https://s3.amazonaws.com/julialang/bin/linux/x64/0.6/julia-0.6.0-pre.alpha-linux-x86_64.tar.gz

https://s3.amazonaws.com/julialang/bin/linux/arm/0.6/julia-0.6.0-pre.alpha-linux-arm.tar.gz

https://s3.amazonaws.com/julialang/bin/linux/ppc64le/0.6/julia-0.6.0-pre.alpha-linux-ppc64le.tar.gz

Maintainers of projects and packages:

Please update your packages now and report any issues you encounter

Now is a good time to upgrade your projects too if it works now, it should work in 0.6 final if it doesn’t work, now is the time to report an issue so that we have a change to address it



There should be a 0.6-beta out in about a week or so, at which point it’s really time to upgrade.

Thanks!