The Julia developers are pleased to announce the release of Julia v1.2.0, the second minor release in the 1.x series. Binaries are available for Linux, Windows, macOS, and FreeBSD at https://julialang.org/downloads.

As a minor release, v1.2.0 contains no breaking changes, only new features, performance improvements, and marginal, undisruptive changes in behavior. The best reference for the changes in 1.2 is the NEWS file for 1.2.0.

Note that 1.2, like 1.1, does not have long term support. As of this release, 1.1 has been effectively superseded by 1.2, which means there will not likely be any further 1.1.x releases. Our good friend 1.0 is still currently the only long-term support version.

We encourage everyone to give it a try. Packages can test with 1.2.0 on CI by specifying 1.2 on Travis, AppVeyor (with Appveyor.jl), and Cirrus (using CirrusCI.jl). As always, let us know in the issue tracker if you run into any issues.

Happy coding!